"Party-vi" (party-vi)
06/19/2018 at 08:06 • Filed to: None
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"Party-vi" (party-vi)
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I keep seeing the Beasts but I can’t imagine they’re kept anywhere but the White House. A few weeks ago I saw them getting put through their paces around a coned parking lot. Presidential autocross, anyone?
Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire
> Party-vi
06/19/2018 at 08:14 |
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One of those cones was probably trump.
OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars
> Party-vi
06/19/2018 at 08:15 |
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There’s a few. They get flow in a C5/C130 with a few other vehicles ahead of everyone else.
pip bip - choose Corrour
> Party-vi
06/19/2018 at 08:15 |
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for some reason i think there is three.
but i could be wrong on that, for some reason i seem to recall that number written in an article somewhere.
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> pip bip - choose Corrour
06/19/2018 at 08:16 |
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Backup and decoy?
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pip bip - choose Corrour
> 404 - User No Longer Available
06/19/2018 at 08:18 |
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take 2 on journeys, one leaps ahead ready for when he gets there.
one stays behind in the White House for his return i guess?
i could be completely wrong too.
Ash78, voting early and often
> Party-vi
06/19/2018 at 08:23 |
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Trump’s autocross course is 80% left turns, then a few very sharp rights at the end.
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Party-vi
> Ash78, voting early and often
06/19/2018 at 08:27 |
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whoarder is tellurium
> Party-vi
06/19/2018 at 09:00 |
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From my observation there are two current generation limos (beasts). I could be completely wrong, but they’re so expensive I doubt there are more than two. You’ll see the prior generation limos being used as extras for the VP/other ViP.
I notice on trips involving terrain or the potential for offroad, the Secret Service switches to the armored Suburbans and Tahoes for the Pres and Vice Pres. I presume this is for 4WD, ground clearance and anonymity.
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Party-vi
> whoarder is tellurium
06/19/2018 at 09:03 |
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I haven’t seen the DTS-based limos yet. These are really hard to mistake for anything else as well, and typically I see both of them at the same time. I wonder if they keep them wherever I’m at for servicing/updates.
ranwhenparked
> Party-vi
06/19/2018 at 09:46 |
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The last order was for 12 cars, so there’s a dozen of the current generation, plus at least a few of the prior DTS generation still in use as backup/decoy vehicles.
BrianGriffin thinks “reliable” is just a state of mind
> Party-vi
06/19/2018 at 09:47 |
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There may be as many as 12? Sorry for the Fox News link. Are you seeing the new CT6 based ones?
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Party-vi
> BrianGriffin thinks “reliable” is just a state of mind
06/19/2018 at 10:01 |
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No - just the ones used by the previous administration.
ITA97, now with more Jag @ opposite-lock.com
> whoarder is tellurium
06/19/2018 at 10:14 |
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I would guess there are probably around a dozen of them. I’ve seen a couple of presidential motorcades, and there were always 3-5 of them with only one having the prez and the rest being decoys. At minimum, I would assume the logistics to be no fewer than 3 in a motorcade at a time, probably the same number back with the C-17 at the nearest airfield as backups, and at least the same number back East being serviced/inspected/used for training at any given time.
Tristan
> OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars
06/19/2018 at 10:20 |
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C-17.
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OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars
> Tristan
06/19/2018 at 10:22 |
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^that one
I knew it was bigger then a C130 but thought the C% was too big and there are too few but couldn’t remember the Globemaster for some reason. Now that I think of it, I’ve seen 2 Globemaster flyovers at Football games and woof, those are still big, loud, planes.
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Tristan
> OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars
06/19/2018 at 16:53 |
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130s are too small and too slow. C-5s are too big and have a terrible MC rate. C-17s are fast, reliable and sized just right.