Transports of Delight from Yesteryear

Touring America in 1957

Historical Footage

Flying Car! 

Wave of the Future

 

This is the car that in 1954 could have “killed” the Corvette.
So, Chevrolet, being GM’s big sales and profit division, campaigned to GM to “kill” this car.When Chevy was coming out with its 6-cylinder. sports car with its 2-speed “powerglide” transmission and side curtains, here was a sports car from Olds with a big old V-8 and power windows. So, GM said no to Oldsmobile on building this car.The world’s rarest automobile: a 1954 Concept Old’s Rocket F88 – the only one in existence. John S. Hendricks, (Discovery Communications founder) paid in excess of 3 million to acquire this1954 Oldsmobile F-88 Convertible Concept Car . After spending decades as a collection of parts stuffed into wooden crates, the F-88 was reassembled.In 1954, the F-88 was a Motorama Dream Car, and was one of only two, or an unconfirmed possible three, ever created. The F-88 seen here is literally the only car left of its kind,and was sold to John and Maureen Hendricks at the prestigious Barrett-Jackson Auto Auction in Scottsdale ,Arizona, for an unbelievable $3,240,000.This acquisition made automotive history, and is the cornerstone of the Gateway Colorado Automobile Museum, in its own special room in a rotating display,worthy of the F-88!
Rare Car

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Capone’s car
HERE IS A BIT OF HISTORY.. Hours after Pearl Harbor was
bombed on December 7, 1941, the Secret Service found
themselves in a bind

President Franklin D. Roosevelt was to give his Day of Infamy
speech to Congress on Monday, and although the trip from the
White House to Capitol Hill was short, agents weren’t sure
how to transport him safely.

At the time, Federal Law prohibited buying any cars that cost
more than $750, so they would have to get clearance from
Congress to do that, and nobody had time for that.

One of the Secret Service members, however, discovered that
the US Treasury had seized the bulletproof car that mobster
Al Capone owned when he was sent to jail in 1931.

They cleaned it, made sure it was running perfectly and had
it ready for the President the next day.

Al Capone’s 1928 Cadillac V-8 “Al Capone” Town Sedan
became the President’s Limo in December 1941 .



Mechanics are said to have cleaned and checked
each feature of the Caddy well into the night of
December 7th, to make sure that it would run
properly the next day for the Commander in Chief.

And run properly it did. It had been painted black
and green to look identical to Chicago’s police cars
at the time.

To top it off, the gangster’s 1928 Cadillac Town
Sedan had 3,000 pounds of armor and inch-thick
bulletproof windows.


It also had a specially installed siren and flashing
lights hidden behind the grille, along with a police
scanner radio.











“Previous Owner.”


Footnote: The car sold at auction in 2012
for $341,000.00.