SOLD - The World's Longest Limo (New York)

[Steam McQueen]

- This was part of Jay Ohrberg's collection, a 1976 Cadillac Eldorado. In 1986 Guinness recognized it as World's Longest car at 100 feet long ...





- www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/longest-car

A typical promo piece about the limo from the 80's ...





It was eventually left to rot and became this sad mess ...





Then a restoration shop cleaned it up a little bit ...





It looked like this 5 and a half years ago ...





Now on daBay. $1,025 9 days to go

The picture with the panoramic view is when we cleaned it up for our Museum a couple of years ago. The Limo needs someone with the means to do a full restoration, This is the real thing and it will take a team to bring it back to it's glory days.

- www.ebay.com/itm/143205393924


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Bit of a build thread here, just pics ...







- www.jayohrberg.com/American_Dream_100ft.html

[Elwood]

I think the "sad mess" picture is much more interesting. The car in it's pristine condition seems to symbolize everything that was wrong with the '80s. There's a story behind the mess....probably involving too much cocaine. 

[u1100l]

Lost a axle and window during restoration. Still make it the longest?

[Steam McQueen]

Apr 8, 2019 14:26:22 GMT -5 u1100l said:

Lost a axle and window during restoration.

So it did !! The 'middle' bank of axles went from 4 to 3. Here's kind of a before, during and after ...

Apr 8, 2019 14:26:22 GMT -5 u1100l said:

Still make it the longest?

I think so, nothing else seems to come close. Not even a stretch pick-up with a camper !





Apparently this next one is currently the largest street legal limousine in the world. It's called "Big Blue" in Vegas and holds 45 passengers.





- www.ntslimo.com/lang/es/vehicles-2/worlds-biggest-limo-big-blue/

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Apr 7, 2019 22:05:07 GMT -5 Elwood said:

There's a story behind the mess....probably involving too much cocaine.

Haha ... the good ol' 80's and mountains of cocaine. I still watch my DVD of Scarface once or twice a year every year. A big problem with "The American Dream" limo was it couldn't actually be driven anywhere. I don't know if there's any footage of it actually performing a turn. Even with the hinged middle and a second driver for the rear axles, it couldn't navigate city streets. People thought they could hire it for their weddings, in reality it was basically a static prop. Who knows how much coke was involved but those guys were building some crazy cars back then lol ...





^ The red one is a Ferrari. They even built a guitar car!

[Steam McQueen]

- It was getting bids I saw it above $5,000 ... then on Friday, "This listing was ended by the seller because there was an error in the listing." I don't believe that line, they were undoubtedly expecting it to go much higher and decided to end the auction early is more likely what happened. We'll wait and see if there's a re-list, it will probably have a huge Buy It Now if we see it again. The interior shown below was pulled out many years ago.

[Steam McQueen]

- Michael Dezer bought this car and for the last 3 years or so it has been undergoing a restoration process. It is now on display at Dezerland in Orlando and during the restoration actually became one and a half inches longer ! The project cost in excess of $250,000.





- dezerlandpark.com/orlando/the-auto-experience/