In November of 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated while riding in a 1961 Lincoln 74A and the event remains one of the most famous assassinations in an automobile to this day. The car had been modified by Ford’s Advanced Vehicles Ground and was code-named the “SS-100-X.” Even though the government put about two hundred thousand dollars worth of work into it, not one part of the car was bulletproof. After the assassination, it remained in the government’s service but was given a hard top and bulletproof glass. While this car was on the receiving end of the crime this time, the bootlegging legacy of the Kennedy family keeps this criminal car firmly in the grey zone.
Photo of a parked Ryder Truck in Daytona Beach, Florida. Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons @Noahcs
While not as flashy as some of the other cars on this list, Timothy McVeigh used a Ryder Truck to haul a combination of diesel fuel, agricultural fertilizer, and other deadly chemicals to kill almost one hundred and seventy people in the Oklahoma bombing. McVeigh was pulled over approximately ninety minutes after the explosion by an Oklahoma State Trooper who noticed the vehicle was missing a license plate. Before declaring the case closed and bringing McVeigh to justice, the FBI reportedly conducted twenty-eight thousand interviews.
