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When Obama was in Berlin today, he used the cadillac with the plate 800-002. How did this car make his way to Berlin? -- JMS ( talk) 19:51, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
On December 8, 1941, after the Pearl Harbor attack, the regular Presidential limo was still not armored, and at the time, there was a rule that a government car could not be bought for more than $750, not allowing the quick acquisition of an armored limo. This lead to the requisitioning of Al Capone's armored car, a 1928 Cadillac V-8 Town Sedan, confiscated for his tax evasion, for use until a proper armored limo was available. This allowed the Secret Service to protect the President on the way to his famous address to Congress. Al Capone's car would be the first armored car used by the President of the United States, predecessor to armored beastly limos of modern presidents. [1]
-- 65.94.168.229 ( talk) 05:21, 20 December 2016 (UTC)
References
On 7 November, VeenM64 ( talk · contribs) changed references to President Kennedy's state car from "X-100" to "SS-100-X" citing no reliable sources, but instead leaving in-place the reference to Popular Mechanics. 43 minutes later, I reverted them saying, "- different Secret Service code name for the X-100 IAW sourcing". An hour or so ago, the same editor replaced their edits, saying "Wikipedia has an actual article with that name."
We do have an article located at SS-100-X. It has three reliable sources (that I'd like to mine for future inclusion in this article). Only one of the four content sources refers to an "SS-100-X", and Old Cars Weekly bears no hallmarks of being a reliable source. Furthermore, Google Searching for "'SS-100-X' Kennedy" and "'X-100' Kennedy" finds 4.6 times as many results for the latter.
I've reverted VeenM64's most recent edit, and pointed them to this discussion. If they or anyone else would like to discuss the matter, I'll be happy to reply here. — fourthords | =Λ= | 23:11, 8 November 2017 (UTC)
Article currently reads in part The new version of the executive limousine was expected to debut at the inauguration of Donald Trump on January 20, 2017. In view of this being a fairly active talk page, I'm hoping there's someone (probably American) who can fix that more easily than this Aussie can. TIA Andrewa ( talk) 04:40, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
@ Andrewa:@ Fourthords: Trump haven't received the new car yet. -- Yomal Sidoroff-Biarmskii ( talk) 21:33, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
What is this? http://imperialclub.org/Yr/1956/Limo/Richard/index.htm -- Yomal Sidoroff-Biarmskii ( talk) 21:34, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
What is the history behind the DC license tag with the "800 002"? Does "800 002" have any special meaning? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.96.221.240 ( talk) 22:24, 1 February 2020 (UTC)
I tweaked... (The limo) that transported President Ronald Wilson Reagan to the hospital after the attempted assassination thereof in March 1981 where the bullet from John Hinckley's gun ricocheted off 'The Beast'.<ref name="1993-01 Popular Mechanics" ] 2603:3020:BB8:D000:A01A:C32F:7B13:3210 ( talk) 16:49, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
What does the DC license plate have to do with the "Presidential (S)tate (C)ar"? (missing title case, by the way) The entire paragraph at the end of the "2009–2018 custom Cadillac" section needs to be stricken as it's an obvious ADHD moment (we all have them :) ) jrn-hsv ( talk) 18:28, 22 February 2023 (UTC)
With
this edit on 6 October 2023 at 23:37 UTC,
Savers Liner (
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contribs) added prose about license plates.
Larry Hockett (
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contribs)
reverted the edit,
saying, this is about the plates on the presidential state car
. I think Savers Liner's addition was actually about plates on the presidential state car: specifically which plates may or may not need to be affixed when the cars travel abroad (e.g. W's trip in 2007 as mentioned in the article). Now it certainly wasn't wrong to remove the information—it was
entirely unsourced, but I just wanted to bring it up here in case somebody (perhaps even Savers Liner) could find sourcing for the initial claims. —
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00:47, 7 October 2023 (UTC)