Acquisition and Trunk Contents

>> Well, I got this car from the Imperial Palace in Las Vegas. The gentleman's name that owned it was uh Ralph Engelstad. And he went and sent people all over the world for world leader cars, presidential cars through the United States for them, but he got a heck of a collection cuz he liked that kind of car. But he become terminally ill in '98 and decided to sell off the collection, so I uh I purchased 12 various cars. >> Do you know how he got this car? Like what happened to it after the government let it go? >> The government sold it direct uh to a gentleman and then that gentleman ended up selling it to Ralph Engelstad. >> I wonder how you get on that list to buy a surplus presidential car from the government. >> could kind of tell you that. >> Yeah. >> Uh cuz the guy that bought the car, he was a large Cadillac dealership man and he had a an in with the with the GM and the government. >> Well, that makes a lot of sense. Hey, let's let's see what's back in here. >> Okay, for instance, see these grab handlebars here? >> Mhm. >> See these steps here? The Secret Service would stand here, hold on these, and all this time the top would be down. And if the president was aboard, he'd always usually sit in the right rear corner. And then we have a photo of it up front that uh you can uh get a nice look of Roosevelt sitting in it. >> Is there a reason he used the right rear corner? >> I don't know. That was just standard where the president always sat.