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Caption contest: top photo: "Inexplciably, engineers at Mercedes-Benz failed yet AGAIN to design and install a back seat for the pope."
Dr. Peters preempted my sentiment -- if we have to accept that His Holiness has to ride around in a car rather than be carried on a sedia, do we also have to accept as a logical necessity that the man can't sit down? Surely this would be both easier on HH and more dignified.
I'm waiting for Crayola's new "Vaticanmystic white finish" crayon.
The Plexiglass Popemobile that he uses in international visits are in fact two: a main one and a second reserve unit. The model is an adapted Mercedes-Benz ML 430, WITH backseat for him and two more persons and air-conditioning inside the "cage" as well as a special lighting setting.
The standard dictates that they will arrive about a week before His Holiness himself arrives in the US.
Excellent. Thanks RC.
very cool photo of the vintage Popemobile. I didn't know that Mercedes-Benz was the exclusive maker of Popemobiles. I suppose they could literally say, in their ads, "And featuring the Pope, brought to you by Mercedes-Benz.."
Sorry, it's a little late in the afternoon and I'm now onto my second-tier material.
Pics from the Papal Visit to Brazil and others where you can see the normal Popemobile:
http://www.agenciabrasil.gov.br/...3/
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http://carsale.uol.com.br/
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http://carsale.uol.com.br/
hotsit...a_movel_2_g.jpg
http://lh3.google.com/_XkAkDLwwn...00/
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http://jchordi.files.wordpress.c...7/05/
galvao.jpg
http://www.arqmariana.com.br/ima...niza%E7%
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/
wiki...ulo09052007.jpg
Plus Mercedes is not an exclusive maker. JPII used Fiat popemobiles also.
There is a history (with photos) of some popemobiles:
http://relatorium.blogspot.com/2...e-
papamvel.html
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