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The largest limousine in the world includes a swimming pool and helipad. Known as the American Dream, it was built by Jay Ohrberg and has just been restored.
It’s called American Dream (the American dream) and it’s anything but discreet. The largest limousine in the world includes a swimming pool and heliport, a peculiar vehicle that perfectly embodies the pretensions of the American dream, where bigger and more striking is always better. Now it has just been restored and has entered the Guinness Book of Records.
It was created by Jay Ohrberg, a quirky businessman with movie connections who also produced well-known vehicles that we get to see on the big screen, like the Dodge Charger from ‘General Lee’ (The Dukes of Hazzard), the Ford Grand Torino from ‘Starsky and Hutch’, the Pontiac Trans Am from ‘Fantastic Car’ or the legendary DeLorean from ‘Back to the Future’.
The largest limousine in the world includes a swimming pool and helipad
The world’s largest limousine is based on a 1976 Cadillac Fleetwood Eldorado Convertible to which they’ve added several feet of extra bodywork, fitted a few (quite a few) extra wheels, and outfitted it with all manner of quirky features, including the pool and the heliport.
This huge vehicle is 30.53 meters long, has 12 axles with two wheels on each (24 wheels), two V8 engines that drive it and weighs ten tons. It also features two cockpits (one at each end of the vehicle) allowing it to split into two smaller halves.
Inside the limousine can travel up to 75 passengers and has been equipped with a swimming pool, a helipad in the rear, a water bed and a golf course. All these characteristics, as well as its excessive proportions, have earned it entry into the Guinness Book of Records.
The personalized vehicle had a development and manufacturing cost of 3.5 million euros, an investment that the wealthy businessman could not make profitable. Years later, the limo would be abandoned in a New Jersey warehouse, where it was found again in 2014 and underwent a complete restoration.
The work is the work of Michael Manning, one of the restorers, who bought it through eBay and took it to his company on Long Island. This is where his partner, Michael Dezer, comes in. Together, they took more than two years and $250,000 (227,000 euros) to complete the restoration.
Source: Motor Journalism