Скачать с ютуб 1933 Ford V-8 stolen by John Dillinger on display in Auburn (RARE HOOSIER HOODLUM MEMORABILIA) в хорошем качестве

1933 Ford V-8 stolen by John Dillinger on display in Auburn (RARE HOOSIER HOODLUM MEMORABILIA)

AUBURN, Ind. (WPTA21) - On a mid-October day, a notorious bank robber and his gang brought chaos to a small Northeast Indiana town. “The Hoosier Hoodlum”, Indianapolis-native John Dillinger and his crew, robbed the Auburn Police Department, arming themselves a Thompson submachine gun, ammunition, and bullet-proof vests. Items like the very same gun, a newspaper, and police cap from that era, are displayed at the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile Museum. But a companion piece, among the rarest of them all, is available for public viewing for the very first time. “This is the Lake County Police car that John Dillinger escaped from the Crown Point Jail on March 3, 1934,” Mark Love said to a crowd of over 60+ people on the exhibit’s opening night. Love, who bought and restored the car, traveled from his home in Arizona, to give a presentation on the infamous gangster. One of the leading experts on Dillinger, Love and his father amassed what they describe, as the largest Dillinger collection in the world. “My dad had been doing this since the early 40′s,” Love told us. “I kind of just grew up with it my whole life.” Like his father, he was also a wealth of knowledge for producers and directors of major Hollywood films, most recently Michael Mann’s 2009 movie Public Enemies. But the stolen 1933 Ford V-8, to date, was his most challenging and time consuming artifact. “I spent a little over 10 years of my time, trying to track down this car,” Love said. He was uncompromising when it came to restoration — everything had to be original. Only then, would it be ready to return to the public eye once again. “The car runs just as good today as it did back in the day when Dillinger took it,” he explained, “It will do 80 [miles per hour] flat.” “This steering wheel has never been restored,” Love added. “This is actually the steering wheel that John Dillinger held while he was driving.” Nearly 90 years ago, the car would have cost its owner, Lake County Sheriff Lillian Holley, about $605. Today, the one of a kind piece is insured with a value of $3 million. Holley’s career as Indiana’s first female sheriff, was scarred by her run-in with Dillinger. According to the February 1, 1934 issue of the Lowell Tribune, Dillinger and three gang members were arrested in Tucson Arizona. Dillinger faced a charge in the shooting death of an East Chicago police officer. Love says that’s around the time the 1933 Ford enters the story. Dillinger was flown back to Chicago, and escorted to Crown Point, Indiana — in the very same car he would soon steal. The gangster was locked up in jail, described by those who guarded it as “escape proof”. But the Hoosier Hoodlum fashioned a wooden gun he whittled, tricking guards, stealing their firearms, and fled — taking Sheriff Holley’s car with him. Lillian Holley was so disturbed about this, she didn’t want the car back,” Love told us. “She said, ‘If I ever see John Dillinger again, I will shoot him in the head with my own gun’.” Dillinger, would make one crucial mistake with that Ford. He crossed state lines, violating the Dyer Act, and giving the FBI grounds to join the manhunt for “Public Enemy #1″. Months later, three agents would shoot and kill John Dillinger in the alley next to a movie theatre as he ran away from law enforcement for a final time. According to the FBI, officials declared Dillinger dead on July 22, 1934. Love explained why he believed the public was so enamored by the anti-hero. “People weren’t living at a very good standard in the early 30′s,” he said. “Here, you got this guy who would go into this bank and rob it. It was a little take-back.” “I guess they just felt good about it, somehow inside, that the banks — the people that actually took their homes and things they owned, that they worked very hard for, because of The Depression,” he continued. Dillinger’s grave remains at the Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis, and is perhaps the most famous in Indiana. One of his gang members, Homer Van Meter, is buried in Fort Wayne at Lindenwood Cemetery. Before his death, Dillinger abandoned the car on Chicago’s north side. It was later sold at a police auction, and disappeared for decades. “After my father passed away, I had all his research and all the research I could do on the car,” Love shared. “It just seemed like after 10 years I was no closer to finding it than when I started.” But Love did find it, in what he can only describe as “an act of God”. When the man who purchased it so many years ago died, his son attempted to restore it. In that process, he registered it in Maine, and a private investigator was able to finally track it down. 87 years after the historical theft, as reported by the Chicago Tribune, Love returned the car back in front of the Old Sheriff’s House in Crown Point. Today, it’s safe and sound at the museum in Auburn, where it will remain through September 2022.