we think of him as being elegant, modern, forward looking as he laeted us to the new frontier. so a perfect match. everything about the car changed after november 22nd, 1963 when the president was assassinated. it was a roof like the one we saw on the earlier bubble top, just acrylic protecting from weather and snow and rain, no weapons. the car kwuz in the convertible configuration in dallas. after the assassination, the car was sent into the white house and conducted a thorough investigation and documented what they needed to for evidentiary purposes. after that the car was sent back to the modifyiers in cincinnati to be completely rebuilt as an armored vehicle. people are astounded that it was put back into the service you would think it was destroyed or locked away. the president needed to have a vehicle. president johnson and there wasn't time to go back to the drawing board and build something from scratch. so they thoroughly rebuilt it, strip it had down to the bare frame and reguilt it with titanium armor, steel plating to protect from a land minor grenade, a special fi