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Lot #1309  1930 FORD MODEL A COUPE "USED BY JOHN DILLINGER"
  
AuctionScottsdale 2010
ReserveNO RESERVE
StatusSold
PriceRegister to View Price
Lot1309
Year1930
MakeFORD
ModelMODEL A
StyleCOUPE "USED BY JOHN DILLINGER"
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Details
VINA2980001
Exterior ColorBLACK
Interior ColorBROWN
Cylinders4
Engine Size
Transmission3-SPEED MANUAL
Description
Lot #1309 - This car was used by John Dillinger, Hommer Van Meter and John Hamilton to get away from Melvin Purvis and 17 other FBI agents that were sent to Little Bohemia, WI on April 22, 1934 to take John Dillinger, dead or alive, by President Roosevelt and J. Edgar Hoover. This was the largest crack down in all of FBI history and most famous incident, it was reported in newspapers all over the U.S. and in other countries. When the gang had escaped, they had driven the car to St. Paul, Minnesota and had gotten into a running gun battle with police, exchanging gun fire for over 45 minutes. They finally got away, but this paid a toll on John Hamilton because he was shot during the gun battle and died in Chicago three days later from his wounds. During this incident, two FBI agents and one CCC worker were killed and eight more people were wounded. After this incident, President Roosevelt was so upset that had Melvin Purvis and J. Edgar Hoover failed to capture Dillinger one more time, it would have been the end of the FBI as we know it today. This car is considered the rarest Dillinger car, there is no other like it.
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