Hess & Eisenhardt (USA) stretched convertible presidential parade car dubbed either the Queen Mary II or the Mary Jane. Two of these cars were built and used during the Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson administrations, remaining in service until 1968. Car #1 spent some time in Paris before it was acquired by the late Charly de Pauw, a Belgian collector; he claimed that it was HIS car, and not Jack's, that was following the Kennedy Lincoln on that fateful day. When de Pauw died, his car was acquired by the Mahy collection, in Brussels where it was exhibited in Belgium's National Automobile Museum. In 1998, this car was sold, together with one of the 1938 former V-16 [now V-8] White House security cars (dark blue car #2), for a reported $1.6 million. In April 2001 the car was again offered for sale, this time in the Vegas Auction venue of the Imperial Palace collection. Car #2 was the White House security car which followed directly behind the presidential Lincoln on that fateful day, November 22, 1963, when President Kennedy was shot dead by one [or more?] assassins. Jack Tallman of Tallman Cadillac in Decatur, IL was its owner.
