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Photos: Cuomo Takes Important Action FDR's Old Packard
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David Colon
Published Mar 29, 2017
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Published Mar 29, 2017
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As you all know, Governor Andrew Cuomo is a real man's man. A motorcycle riding, prisoner interrogating, shark murdering ass kicker who'll take you for a ride in his muscle car while playing you some loud as hell Billy Joel. True to his everyman roots, Cuomo is fixing to roll up his sleeves and (pay someone to) restore noted fellow non-political dynasty member Franklin Delano Roosevelt's 1932 Packard so that he can drive it around during official state events. Well well well, look who's getting presidential with a little vroom vroom!
According to the News, Cuomo will be restoring the 1932 Packard Phaeton with the hopes of using it to stage a series of Depression-esque bank heists. Sorry, correction: Cuomo will be restoring the car because according to him, "to leave it sitting there, I don't think is what FDR would do. FDR was very much a man of action. A man of energy." Sure, okay. The car will be used, after it gets fixed up in Connecticut, "for ceremonial opportunities" and parades in which Cuomo wants to ride in the president's car like a big boy.
Showing off his normal guy bonafides, Cuomo told reporters gathered around the car's home on the fourth floor of the New York State Museum that the Packard was "a cream puff. Standard shift, 40,000 miles, good on gas. What more could you ask for?" according to the Post. For what it's worth, this discussion of old Packards on a message board shows that the owner of a '32 Packard got eight miles per gallon, which is well below the current average fuel economy of 24.8 miles per gallon.
What more could you ask for, though? Besides maybe fewer mechanical and other subway problems. And more pandering photos of Cuomo humping an old car like a cool suburban dad.
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