Not sure why you are being downvoted so severely, as what you say is plainly and verifiably true. JFK and Truman's old jalopies being in museums do not count.

Not sure why you are being downvoted so severely, as what you say is plainly and verifiably true. JFK and Truman's old jalopies being in museums do not count. They were lightly modified production cars that were not much different than their mass produced counterparts. The Beast is a custom made tank with a Cadillac badge on it and weighs over 20,000 lbs. JFK got shot in some old convertible, which probably did not even have seatbelts. The security technology of those antiques is to The Beast, as the power of a TRS-80 is to a spanky new AMD Ryzen. BTW, they are not just destroyed. They are destroyed in a series of tests of the vehicle's countermeasures and protective devices against an array of potential weapon systems, boom boom kaboom. I got to see some components installed on the gun shock test rig at NTS in Fullerton CA, while I was there doing some unrelated vibration and shock testing on an aircraft system. Unfortunately I did not get to see the kaboom.