World’s most luxurious limo is 100ft long boasting pool, putting green & helipad years after being left to rot
Two motoring enthusiasts have gone above and beyond to give the car a well-deserved makeover
THE WORLD’S most luxurious limo car has been restored to its former glory years after it was left to rot.
The American Dream is a £3.1million limo that fits 75 passengers and boasts luxury features including a putting green, a pool and its own helipad.
Built by American custom car specialist Jay Ohrberg the impressive 26-wheeled limousine set the Guinness World Record for the longest car on earth in 1986.
The car was featured in a number of films before it was sold at a salvage auction in 2012 and left to rot for years, losing its pristine and glamorous looks.
A clip showed the rusty motor before its facelift as it sat abandoned in a car park.
The old limo was rusty from inside out, with vines growing from its crevices, windows smashed and seats completely destroyed.
Motoring enthusiast Michael Manning is behind the fantastic transformation.
He owns the Autoseum technical teaching museum in , and decided to take on the task of restoring the massive car despite the huge costs involved.
Many yards of leather, vynil and carpet, and three cannibalised Cadillacs later, the American Dream was restored to its former glory – stretching to over 100ft.
“I first found the car at an autobody show in New Jersey and it was garbage,” Michael said.
“It was covered in graffiti, the windows were broken, the tires were flat, but I fell in love with it anyway.
“I said, ‘I’m going to get this car and I’m going to bring it back and restore it’.”
Along with the help of car museum owner Michael Dezer, who later bought the vehicle in 2019, the pair got to work bringing the former world record holder back to its former glory.
According to Guinness World Record company, the car is based on components from a classic 1976 Cadillac Eldorado.
It was created in two halves, with a hinge in the middle for turning tight curves, but it may also be operated as a rigid vehicle.
The new design, which may be powered from both ends, consists of three donor cars.
“We cut them [the donor cars] up, we replaced the whole cab of the car so we could drive it, the engine was replaced, all the tyres were replaced, the helipad was redone, the pool was redone,” Manning explained.
Although the superlimo is unlikely to see the road anytime soon, it is now on exhibit at the Dezerland Park Car Museum and Tourist Attractions in Orlando, Florida.
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Manning added: “You really couldn’t put it on the road because it’s too long.
“It was built to be put on display.”
It comes after Tesla founder Elon Musk made headlines after launching his very own Tesla Roadster into space.
The vehicle was clocked travelling 7.24miles per second – the equivalent 24,942mph on Earth – making it the fastest car in space.
The Roadster was manned by a mannequin dressed in a full space suit for its inaugural flight, along with a copy of popular book A Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.
Meanwhile, car enthusiast Maria Lucia Mugno owns the hairiest car in the world – a Fiat 500 is covered with 120kgs of hair.
The Italian hairstylist spent more than £71,137 (€80,000) covering her car in human hair she had sourced from India.
Even more surprisingly, the mini vehicle is still roadworthy.
And UK-born Steve Braithwaite earned a world record for the longest custom banana car in 2011, after it was measured at a incredible 22ft and 10.5 inches (6.97m).
The motor, dubbed the Big Banana, also boasts a V8 engine and is capable of a top speed of 85mph.
Fellow Brit Andy Green wrote himself into history when he set a land-speed record of 763.035mph in 1997.
The British Royal Air Force fighter pilot was even driving so fast that the vehicle crossed the speed of sound and created a sonic boom.
