1965 Lincoln Continental Limousine
It’s a Friday afternoon, and photographer Greg Jarem and I stand in the sun at the White House steps. In the distance, the well-known front end of a pitch black 1965 Lincoln Continental limousine appears slowly and takes a wide turn towards us. It stops right in front of Greg and we expect that any second a Secret Service agent will run to a rear door and open it for the President.
A 1965 Lehmann-Peterson Executive Limousine in and of itself is a very rare sight – only 78 were built that year, before a big change to a suaver 1966 design – but this black behemoth is exactly what you’d think it is: the President’s personal State Limousine.
Long before American State Limousines got names indicative of their underlying nature such as ‘The Beast’, and were essentially trucks built on huge ladder-frame SUVs, American presidents rode in much tamer – and significantly more elegant –
