Harry Truman’s NYC Presidential limousine

As the story goes, when Harry Truman was operating for President, his team asked Common Motors to financial loan numerous motor vehicles for use on the campaign path. Apparently reluctant to offer the expected loser, GM declined. 

Of training course, Truman gained the election and the White Dwelling leased a fleet of 10 limousines for his use. These vehicles were being Lincoln Cosmopolitans, each modified by coachbuilder Henney and security specialist Hess and Eisenhardt. 

A person of individuals automobiles, a 1950 Lincoln Cosmopolitan Limousine that Truman employed when checking out New York City, is the Decide of the Working day on ClassicCars.com. It is available by a broker in Pennsylvania on behalf of the car’s Fort Really worth, Texas, owner, apparently a collector of these types of “professional” cars.

“Own a piece of record of the President that, regardless of the push back again from conservatives, was equipped to employ not just NATO but the Fair Deal, an bold strategy which bundled national health-related insurance policies, federal housing plans, a increased least wage, assistance for farmers, raises in Social Protection and civil rights reforms,” the broker proclaims.

“Remember when Presidents have been Presidents and bought items finished. Have on this man’s memory in just one of Truman’s tremendous-exclusive, personalized-built, oversize Lincoln limousine’s — one particular of a fleet of ten created for lease to the White Home. This big car or truck has distinctive running boards for Key Service guys, and a shiny, padded leather leading with ample headroom for higher silk hats.”

The broker notes that the Cosmopolitan’s 125-inch wheelbase was stretched 20 inches and that Lincoln coupe and sedan entire body sections ended up employed to produce the stretched shell atop that lengthened chassis.

“Only a person limousine was not delivered to the White Property,” the broker adds, “Edsel Ford set apart that automobile for Chaim Weizmann, the president of the freshly shaped State of Israel.”

The Truman Lincoln remaining made available was the New York Town auto, which underwent restoration in the 1990s and experienced been shown in a museum in Florida until eventually 2001, when it was acquired by a collector. 

“The Presidential car’s leather-trimmed chauffeur compartment is divided from the luxuriously appointed fabric-upholstered rear cabin by a division window,” the broker notes. “There are two refreshing-air heaters, the typical beneath-hood unit up front for the driver, and a trunk-installed custom unit for the rear-passengers. A exclusive air inlet on the rear deck channels exterior air to the rear heater.”

The advertisement notes that the vehicle has been authenticated by the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library. The automobile is becoming supplied for sale for $160,000. 

To view this listing on ClassicCars.com, see Decide of the Day.