# Where is Kennedy’s car? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 4, 2003, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-kennedy-s-car/216971 "2003-12-04T17:29:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2003, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-kennedy-s-car/216971/1 "2003-12-04T17:29:47Z")
The hampsters strike again, I guess. I assume that you mean the car he was riding in when he was shot. After the assassination, the Secret Service installed armored body panels and bullet-proof glass (like you see in banks) on the car. This resulted in it being permanently converted into a hard-top. I don’t know if Johnson or anybody else ever used the car again, however. These days it’s in the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. I saw it the last time I was there. ---
**Author:** ![altor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/96bed5/32.png) [@altor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/altor)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2003, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-kennedy-s-car/216971/2 "2003-12-04T17:38:20Z")
It was used by U.S. presidents until 1977. Looks pretty different now: [http://www.hfmgv.org/museum/aal/x100.asp](http://www.hfmgv.org/museum/aal/x100.asp) ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2003, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-kennedy-s-car/216971/3 "2003-12-04T17:40:35Z")
What ever happened to Teddy Kennedy’s car… the one that went into the drink? ---
**Author:** ![Janx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Janx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Janx)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2003, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-kennedy-s-car/216971/4 "2003-12-04T18:47:52Z")
\*\* Diceman \*\* wrote… > [@](#): > > The hampsters strike again, I guess. Yup! I sent the message off and about 10 minutes later I got a time out error, I decided to forget it for now not realizing the title mad it. Weird. Any way the question should have looked like this: Where is Kennedy’s car? In reading through some JFK pages recently I saw a picture of the continental that president J.F.K. Was riding in when he was assassinated, but the shots were from the time right after. Do we know what became of the car he was in? I know it’s kind of a morbid question, but I wonder if it is in the Smithsonian or did it end up in someone collection. Thanks for the links, it does look different. I think I would be creeped out to ride it. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2003, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-kennedy-s-car/216971/5 "2003-12-04T18:52:28Z")
I first thought of Ted Kennedy’s car too, for some reason. Lot of problems with cars, that family. ---
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2003, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-kennedy-s-car/216971/6 "2003-12-04T19:51:29Z")
And, belive it or not, [you can buy it on eBay right now](http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=6304&item=2446456902). ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [December 4, 2003, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-kennedy-s-car/216971/7 "2003-12-04T20:18:56Z")
> [@](#): > > Loaned to the Secret Service after a complete examination, this is in fact the last vehicle President Kennedy rode in just prior to the Dallas motorcade. That is not the car he was shot in. He rode in it just before the motorcade. ---
**Author:** ![Striss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f07891/32.png) [@Striss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Striss)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2003, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-kennedy-s-car/216971/8 "2003-12-07T14:12:14Z")
Anyone remember when the National Lampoon was sued way back when for running a satirical ad of the old Volkswagon ads featuring a VW floating on a pond with the text “If Ted Kennedy drove one of these, he would be President today…?” Now, THAT’S a serious “ouch…”