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Pope Paul VI’s BLACK Popemobile is up for auction!
We’ve grown accustomed to white Popemobiles. That wasn’t always the case. The Popemobiles were once black.
After the Holy Father’s visit, the 1964 Lincoln Continental popemobile was shipped back to Chicago. While in Chicago, it spent some time chauffeuring astronauts from the Apollo 8 and 13 missions (including Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong), during ticker tape parades.
This same Popemobile-Continental was shipped to Bogota, Columbia for Pope Paul VI’s visit there in 1968.
HT: Christopher Stainbrook
PS: Did the Swiss Guards once travel with the Holy Father? If so, this custom should be restored. I also wouldn’t be opposed to Swiss Guards wearing secret-service ear pieces and holding AR-15s. I’m just sayin’.
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