Midstate man selling Hillary Clinton’s car
GETTYSBURG, Pa. (WHTM) – File this one under “sort-of-politics.”
An Adams County man is ready to sell a piece of history. He’s had it for years but now wants his life to roll on without it.
For sale: “It’s a 1986 [Oldsmobile] Cutlass Ciera Brougham with 33,000 miles on it,” Mike Lawn said. “It’s 30 years old. It’s no longer made.”
Lawn said Clinton took good care of the car, but the engine needs a little work.
“I think one of the fuel injectors is clogged because it still has the fuel from like 16 years ago,” he said.
Lawn said it’s not what’s on the outside of the car or how it runs that makes it so special, it’s who once sat behind the wheel.
“It was last owned, prior to me,” he said, “by Hillary Clinton.”
Yes, that Hillary Clinton. “Former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton,” Lawn said.
Inside his Gettysburg home, Lawn pulled out a red folder containing a number of documents. He removed the original bill of sale from the dealership, from March of 1986, sold to Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The address on the bill is listed as 1800 Center Street in Little Rock. That’s the address of the Arkansas governor’s mansion where she and then-Gov. Bill Clinton lived in 1986.
Sixteen years ago he bought the car. Lawn was a gardener at the White House at the end of Bill’s second term.
“They were leaving the White House and she no longer wanted to take it with her,” he said. “She put it up for bid among the 90-or-so staff. Lawn took it home for around $2,000.
“I originally bought it for my daughter, who was turning 16 and needed a car for school,” he said. “She looked at the car and said, ‘Man, that’s an old lady’s car. I don’t want that car.’”
So, it sat in the garage and he brought it to Gettysburg when he retired.
“I mean, my daughter’s now 32 and she’s like, ‘Maybe I should have kept that car.’” Instead she’s helping him auction it on eBay (he’s also taking emailed offers at thelawns5@gmail.com).
“It is certainly a conversation starter if nothing else,” lawn said.