For sale: 1986 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera Brougham with 33,090 miles and blue crushed-velour seats.
Owned by a lady from Little Rock who moved to the White House in 1993 and no longer drives.
A retired White House gardener said it may be a good time to sell Hillary Clinton's last car.
Mike Lawn of Gettysburg, Pa., bought the dark-blue four-door sedan in 2000 at an auction for White House staff members.
The appropriately named Lawn was head gardener at the White House before retiring in 2008. He worked there for 28 years as an employee of the National Park Service.
Lawn said he thought he would give the car to his daughter when she turned 16, but she didn't want it.
"She wasn't interested in 'an old woman's car' she said. She didn't want a car that had window cranks in it," Lawn said.
Since then, Lawn has kept the car in a garage. It still has an Arkansas license plate and 1993 inspection sticker. It also has a "Clinton Governor 1990" sticker in the back window, referring to Hillary's husband Bill, who was governor of Arkansas for 14 years and president for eight.
With Hillary Clinton doing well in the race for the Democratic nomination for president, Lawn thinks the car may have gone up in value. He's not sure whether it would be better to sell now or wait until November, in case she's elected president.
But that could be risky. If she loses, does the car's value take a dive?
According to National Automobile Dealers Association guides, the four-cylinder car sold new for about $11,303. The retail price now would be between $872 and $3,273, depending on mileage and condition. But that doesn't take into consideration the Clinton factor.
"It would probably go up tenfold if she becomes president," said Al Oussoren, a Gettysburg real estate agent and car collector who tried to sell the car for Lawn in 2011.
Hillary Clinton bought the car from Balch Motor Co. in Little Rock on March 20, 1986, according to text that accompanies a video Oussoren posted on You Tube in 2011.
"It has not undergone any restoration," Oussoren wrote under the video, stating the obvious. The video was still on You Tube on Monday at youtube.com/watch?v=UrbVqkI6HlM.
Apparently, when Hillary Clinton arrived at the White House, the Secret Service told her she didn't need to be driving anymore, Oussoren said. They would have somebody do that for her.
So, for eight years, while Bill Clinton was president, the car sat most of the time on the south roadway of the White House covered with a tarp, said Lawn. The car was moved only occasionally.
It's still got dings.
"My guy with a Tennant sweeper kept running into it," said Lawn, referring to a motorized, three-wheel street sweeper that has to swing wide to make turns.
The car may look timeworn, but Lawn said it's in good running condition.
When Lawn bought the car, he found two pair of sunglasses in the vehicle -- "big, round sunglasses, Jackie Kennedy style."
When they tried to sell the car in 2011, the top offer was about $2,000, Oussoren said.
That wasn't enough, said Lawn.
"I would rather keep it for myself at that price and drive it in the inaugural parade," he said.
Lawn said he would most likely be allowed to drive it in Hillary Clinton's inaugural parade, if any.
Lawn said he remembers seeing Chelsea Clinton driving the car on the south roadway of the White House while preparing to take the test for her driver's license.
While the Clintons are known for their drive, driving is apparently one of the things they miss most. Hillary Clinton has said she hasn't driven a car since 1996.
"I have to confess: One of the regrets I have about public life is that I can't drive anymore," Clinton said in 2014 at a meeting of the National Automobile Dealers Association in New Orleans.
It's apparently a family affliction.
"Whenever I'm on the golf course, I always make them let me drive the golf cart," Bill Clinton told Ellen DeGeneres in 2012.
Metro on 04/12/2016