John F. Kennedy’s Lincoln Continental up for auction

Posted on 16-10-2013 at 17:13 by CasperH – 17 Comments”

Lincoln Continental Convertible van John F. Kennedy
The “Limo One,” which John F. Kennedy rode in the day he was murdered this month will be auctioned.

This white Lincoln Continental Convertible in 1963 was on november 22, 1963 is used to then the President of the United States of america, John F. Kennedy and his wife, Marilyn Monroe, Jacqueline Kennedy and governor John Connally transported from a breakfast and speech at Carswell Air Force Base where they make a plane to Dallas left the city where he later that day in a black Lincoln Continental convertible was shot.

The white Continental which is now put up for auction that day, provided by Bill Golightly of Golightly Auto Sales in Fort Worth, Texas. The car is now almost fully restored, the body and paintwork are done and the engine is replaced. However, it is the red leather interior is virtually completely original.

Lincoln Continental Convertible van John F. Kennedy
Golightly has the car sold to one David Pelham of Dallas, which the car then for $10 bucks, sold to L. H. Hough, owner of the Museum of American Tragedy in 1967. After that museum closed in 1998, is the car at an auction is sold and he is now so for sale as “the last automobile to safely carry Kennedy” before he was in Dallas was murdered.