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World's longest car is found, restored, and made even longer

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The American Dream: the longest car in the world, at over 100 feet
Guinness Book of Records
The American Dream: the longest car in the world, at over 100 feet
Guinness Book of Records
Built out of Cadillac El Doradoes, the Dream rocks V8 engines in the front and rear
Guinness Book of Records
The minigolf course, pool with diving board, and helipad are not for the faint of heart
Guinness Book of Records
Not a car to ride in if you don't have many friends
Guinness Book of Records
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We will never complain about finding a parking spot again. The "American Dream," now stretches to more than 100 ft (30.5 m), seats more than 75 people, and has its own pool, diving board, jacuzzi, bathtub and mini-golf course. Oh, and a helipad.

It was originally built in California circa 1986 by custom wizard Jay Ohrberg, out of a series of Cadillac Eldorado limos although he wimped out at just 60 feet (18.3 m) with 26 wheels, a V8 engine in the front and another V8 in the back. Quickly understanding the error of his ways, Ohrberg later extended it to 100 ft, putting a hinge in the middle to give it a chance to get around a corner.

Strangely enough, it didn't prove very practical as a daily getabout, and after a few movie appearances the Dream was left to languish and rust out the back of a New Jersey warehouse for many years. The colossal project of restoring it was too much for the fellow that found it, and he eventually sold it to its current owner, Michael Dezer, in 2019.

Not a car to ride in if you don't have many friends
Guinness Book of Records

Dezer owns the Dezerland Park Car Museum and Tourist Attraction in Orlando, Florida, so he had the expertise to get the Dream rebuilt, as well as an immediate use case for it and the "well over US$250,000" it cost to rebuild it, a project that took more than three years. The cabin, for example, was completely trashed, so Dezer cut it out and replaced it with a cabin from another donor car, as well as replacing the entire drive train.

In the process, he made sure to add an inch and a half to its length, allowing it to re-take its own Guinness World Record for the longest car.

The cavernous interior, built to seat more than 75 people, stretches comically off into the distance behind Dezer as he sits toward the front. The built-in swimming pool has its own diving board, although you'd need some cojones to use it, and likewise the helipad can support up to 5,000 lb (2,270 kg), so it's functional. Indeed, Dezer has a small chopper land on it in the video below, but judging by how close the right skid is to the edge of the pad, you'd want a crazy-talented pilot on the job.

The minigolf course, pool with diving board, and helipad are not for the faint of heart
Guinness Book of Records

It's pure silliness; those American flags along the front are about as redundant as any we've ever seen. Dezer has no plans to take the thing out on the road any more, it's just going to sit and be an attraction at his museum.

Have a much closer look in the video below, which also details the horrendous state the thing fell into before it was restored.

Source: Guinness World Records

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9 comments
Aermaco
A perfect symbol of Intensely absurd and intentionally useless yet high art Kitch technology,,, ugh,,,;-)
KurtCannon
Al roads lead to Rome.
noteugene
Why? Can somebody just tell me why?
robertswww
No U-turns for that bad boy of a limo! I guess the helicopter purposely landed close to the right edge, so the pilot would have some space to exit the copter. I counted 3-wheels in the front, 4-wheels in the middle, and 5-wheels in the back for a total of 12 each side x2 = 24 wheels, but in the video he said that it has 26 wheels... where are the other 2 wheels (underneath)?
Grunchy
I always imagined "Guinness records" was conceived for people to have something to B/S about in Irish pubs.
ljaques
Nuckin' Futz! I love it. Bravo to Michael Dezer for doing this restoration and making it a new award winner.
My buddy and his dad were machinists and took a 1968(?) Cadillac Sedan deVille apart, beautifully fitting a 12' cabover camper onto it. We cruised it from the Sandy Eggo area up to Vegas a couple times and were doing 70mph up the grades while other cars and trucks were pulled over overheating. It was a blast to ride in, and the triple-takes from drivers was a constant laugh.
@noteugene Why? JUS'CUZ.
HoppyHopkins
I would just love to see them drive his down Lombard Street in San Francisco LOL
Nelson Hyde Chick
Just a waste of time, money and materials.
Rsm
They said it was hinged in the middle to turn, and I wanted to see that. But it looks like all they did was drive a few feet forward, and didn't even talk about the hinge in the video.