# Obama's new ride **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Automotive\ **Created:** [January 11, 2009, 10:45am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/obamas-new-ride/61106 "2009-01-11T10:45:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![02svtfocus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/02svtfocus/32/7318_2.png) [@02svtfocus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/02svtfocus)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 10:45am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/obamas-new-ride/61106/1 "2009-01-11T10:45:13Z")
I searched and didn’t find anything, so figured I’d share. Mods please move if this thread is posted in the wrong spot. ![http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/01/cadillac-one_01.jpg](http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/01/cadillac-one_01.jpg) “Nigga ridin’ da 2G 'lac on dubz” ---
**Author:** ![2TurboZ](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/2turboz/32/7577_2.png) [@2TurboZ](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/2TurboZ)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 10:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/obamas-new-ride/61106/2 "2009-01-11T10:46:29Z")
Getting driven around by the white man…I see how it goes… I watched a thing on how they build armor cars and trucks like that…Its insane. ---
**Author:** ![tpgsr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/tpgsr/32/7374_2.png) [@tpgsr](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/tpgsr)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 10:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/obamas-new-ride/61106/3 "2009-01-11T10:48:23Z")
The gas tank and the wheels are manufactured in buffalo at a place called rodgard. ---
**Author:** ![justa4door](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/justa4door/32/7259_2.png) [@justa4door](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/justa4door)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 10:49am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/obamas-new-ride/61106/4 "2009-01-11T10:49:09Z")
cool ---
**Author:** ![JEG](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jeg/32/7246_2.png) [@JEG](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JEG)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 11:28am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/obamas-new-ride/61106/5 "2009-01-11T11:28:17Z")
lol nice ---
**Author:** ![02svtfocus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/02svtfocus/32/7318_2.png) [@02svtfocus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/02svtfocus)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 11:31am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/obamas-new-ride/61106/6 "2009-01-11T11:31:54Z")
I love how there’s a pump in the passenger seat lol ---
**Author:** ![Beck](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/beck/32/28683_2.png) [@Beck](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Beck)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 11:50am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/obamas-new-ride/61106/7 "2009-01-11T11:50:08Z")
Matt Lauer made the comment “atleast we know GM sold one car this year” :lol: ---
**Author:** ![livin4hockey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d2c977/32.png) [@livin4hockey](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/livin4hockey)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 11:55am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/obamas-new-ride/61106/8 "2009-01-11T11:55:22Z")
> “Bottles of the President’s blood kept on board in case he needs an emergency transfusion” Now that’s legit! ---
**Author:** ![02svtfocus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/02svtfocus/32/7318_2.png) [@02svtfocus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/02svtfocus)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 11:56am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/obamas-new-ride/61106/9 "2009-01-11T11:56:10Z")
Isn’t this the first custom built presidential limo? ---
**Author:** ![Nikuk](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/nikuk/32/7254_2.png) [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 12:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/obamas-new-ride/61106/10 "2009-01-11T12:07:05Z")
they’ve pretty much all been custom built since before kennedy. IIRC. :gotme: ---
**Author:** ![boxxa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/boxxa/32/5045_2.png) [@boxxa](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boxxa)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 12:09pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/obamas-new-ride/61106/11 "2009-01-11T12:09:12Z")
I would love to go through the CIA driving school. That would be some pretty sweet stuff I think ---
**Author:** ![Nikuk](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/nikuk/32/7254_2.png) [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 12:09pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/obamas-new-ride/61106/12 "2009-01-11T12:09:41Z")
> **[Presidential state car (United States)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_State_Car_(United_States)#Previous_presidential_limousines)** > > The United States presidential state car (nicknamed "the Beast", "Cadillac One", "First Car"; code named "Stagecoach") is the official state car of the president of the United States. > United States presidents embraced automotive technology in the early 20th century with President William Howard Taft's purchase of four cars and the conversion of the White House stables into a garage. Presidents rode in stock, unmodified cars until President Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration bought the Su... > In 1938, two Cadillac convertibles dubbed the “Queen Mary” and “Queen Elizabeth” were delivered to the U.S. government. Named after the great ocean liners of the time, the 21.5 ft (6.55 m), 7,660 pound (3,470 kg) vehicles were equipped with a full ammunition arsenal, two way radios, and heavy duty generators. and, lol at: > On December 8, 1941, the day after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Secret Service used an armored limousine, _ **originally belonging to gangster Al Capone** _, to transport the President to the Capitol to deliver his “Infamy” speech. The car had been confiscated by the Treasury Department following Capone’s arrest and had been stored in an impound lot until its ironic final duty.[10] ---
**Author:** ![02svtfocus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/02svtfocus/32/7318_2.png) [@02svtfocus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/02svtfocus)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 12:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/obamas-new-ride/61106/13 "2009-01-11T12:10:25Z")
This fully advanced customly built? I was listening to Shredd and Ragan the other day when they were talking about this limo but I don’t remember all the details of history. I can see some add ons for a presidential limo, but this almost seems like it was built from scratch. ---
**Author:** ![jt76](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jt76/32/5100_2.png) [@jt76](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/jt76)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 12:11pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/obamas-new-ride/61106/14 "2009-01-11T12:11:07Z")
> [@Nikuk](#): > > [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential\_State\_Car\_(United\_States)#Previous\_presidential\_limousines](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_State_Car_%28United_States%29#Previous_presidential_limousines) > > and, lol at: lol Kennedy’s bubble top: your doing it wrong! ---
**Author:** ![2TurboZ](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/2turboz/32/7577_2.png) [@2TurboZ](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/2TurboZ)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 12:11pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/obamas-new-ride/61106/15 "2009-01-11T12:11:11Z")
Too bad it wasnt raining that day in Dallas… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![02svtfocus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/02svtfocus/32/7318_2.png) [@02svtfocus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/02svtfocus)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 12:12pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/obamas-new-ride/61106/16 "2009-01-11T12:12:30Z")
Its gonna be hard to get him while he’s in that limo lol I kid I kid ---
**Author:** ![Nikuk](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/nikuk/32/7254_2.png) [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 12:14pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/obamas-new-ride/61106/17 "2009-01-11T12:14:54Z")
> [@02svtfocus](#): > > This fully advanced customly built? > > I was listening to Shredd and Ragan the other day when they were talking about this limo but I don’t remember all the details of history. > > I can see some add ons for a presidential limo, but this almost seems like it was built from scratch. All limos, whether bound for the president or the prom are custom built to order. In the last 70 yrs of POTUS history what possibly makes you think that the 44th president would’ve been the first to have a “fully custom” limo? They’ve been armored for generations; they’ve come with top of the line location & communication technology for decades; they’ve had impact resistant rubber for many many years. Whats so specifically amazingly special about this one? The viles of blood? You think he’s the first for that too? The air supply system? Not exactly news…Ever heard of Howard Hughes? ---
**Author:** ![2TurboZ](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/2turboz/32/7577_2.png) [@2TurboZ](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/2TurboZ)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 12:18pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/obamas-new-ride/61106/18 "2009-01-11T12:18:05Z")
> [@Nikuk](#): > > All limos, whether bound for the president or the prom are custom built to order. > > In the last 70 yrs of POTUS history what possibly makes you think that the 44th president would’ve been the first to have a “fully custom” limo? > > They’ve been armored for generations; they’ve come with top of the line location & communication technology for decades; they’ve had impact resistant rubber for many many years. Whats so specifically amazingly special about this one? The viles of blood? You think he’s the first for that too? The air supply system? Not exactly news…Ever heard of Howard Hughes? That howard hughes car is insane…kinda like he was. I remember it from a barrett jackson auction last year. ---
**Author:** ![02svtfocus](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/02svtfocus/32/7318_2.png) [@02svtfocus](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/02svtfocus)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 12:18pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/obamas-new-ride/61106/19 "2009-01-11T12:18:55Z")
> [@Nikuk](#): > > All limos, whether bound for the president or the prom are custom built to order. > > In the last 70 yrs of POTUS history what possibly makes you think that the 44th president would’ve been the first to have a “fully custom” limo? > > They’ve been armored for generations; they’ve come with top of the line location & communication technology for decades; they’ve had impact resistant rubber for many many years. Whats so specifically amazingly special about this one? The viles of blood? You think he’s the first for that too? I understand all limos are custom since you can’t buy a new limo at dealerships, but I meant custom as in all the reinforcements in the chassis, gas tank, windows, doors, and tires. I was interested in this limo for obama since I never actually researched limos for presidents and this caught my attention, thats all. ---
**Author:** ![Nikuk](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/nikuk/32/7254_2.png) [@Nikuk](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Nikuk)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2009, 12:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/obamas-new-ride/61106/20 "2009-01-11T12:26:36Z")
> [@02svtfocus](#): > > but I meant custom as in all the reinforcements in the chassis, gas tank, windows, doors, and tires. Been around for the last 14 or so presidents. :fyi: [Next page](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/obamas-new-ride/61106.md?page=2)