The ultimate limousine a record-breaking ride
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Oct 7, 2024
Dive into the restoration of the world's longest limousine, a true engineering marvel.
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26 wheels. It could probably hold up to
about 75 people if we want to put them in it
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It has a putting green, it has a pool. This was the original
record holder for the longest car slash limousine in the world
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The original design was by Jay Oldberg
out of Burbank, California in the 80s
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And today we've beaten the record by a fraction,
but it is still longer than it was originally
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I found a car in New Jersey. It was riding behind
a warehouse, and I put a bit on it and I wanted
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It was completely rusted through to the ground, basically a piece of
junk. We started the restoration project about two and a half years ago
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It was August. It was hot here
in Florida. We set a game plan
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So we took three donor cars. We cut them up. We
replaced the whole cab of the car so we could drive it
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The engine was replaced. All the tires
were replaced. Helipad was redone
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The pool was redone. done on the inside of the vehicle. We
have seating for passengers. We have carpeting, we have
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leather, we have vinyl, we have LED lighting.
This can be configured for any type of party
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any type of design that you'd want, but it
could hold up to 75 people any day or week
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Six El Dorados, each one of them weighed just a
little over 5,000 pounds. So we use six of them
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but we didn't use every part of them. So when
you add the steel in, I would say 25,000 pounds
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would be a good guess Maybe we wait it one day and we really find out There are pictures of this limousine
with a helicopter but there is no actual footage of that helicopter landing on it And we going to do it today
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here at Desert Land. The main difficulty in
driving this car is finding straight road
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For it to turn, you need a real wide
radius because of the length of it
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Similar to what the president does, he has to map out his
route to where he's going. That's what we would have to do
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We would have to map out a route and know where we're
going to turn. It's not for everyday driving, obviously
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People react to the car like they
can't believe that it's even real
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They think it's like a model in a magazine. But when they see it,
even in the condition before it was restored, it was an attraction
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The vehicle is 30.538 meters long, which is 100 feet and one
and a half inches long for everybody that doesn't use meters
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Congratulations. This is officially amazing. You know, you kind of
see something that's almost impossible to do, and it's a challenge
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And you say, I could do it. People say
you're crazy, but we did it, and here it is
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