"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile) 06/21/2018 at 10:06 • Filed to: None

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Longcar is looooooooong.

OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 06/21/2018 at 10:13

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I’m pretty sure the 75 is for how many feet long it is. 

Nibby > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 06/21/2018 at 10:19

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dat rear overhang

Matt Nichelson > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 06/21/2018 at 10:19

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I could totally see you driving this. 

KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 06/21/2018 at 10:21

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Longwagon is Looooooooonng

or you could go full Limo

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > OpposResidentLexusGuy - USE20, XF20, XU30 and Press Cars 06/21/2018 at 10:22

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It would be 7.5 yards long if there was a carrier in the trailer hitch. This motherfucker was in regular production, and it’s longer than an S600 (not the 2017+ Maybach, though) . This year, 249", two years later it topped out at 252.

It is as long as this RV:

It is marginally (just barely) longer than an F-150 crew cab.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Nibby 06/21/2018 at 10:24

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Also this:

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Matt Nichelson 06/21/2018 at 10:26

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I *do* have an established penchant. Also, I *would* rally this.

Fun trivia: this thing has ottomans for the rear seat passengers, onto which fold jump seats. This is a 7+ passenger sedan.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 06/21/2018 at 10:27

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If the 75 had a wagon version with rear jump seats, it would be a 10-11 passenger. It has jump seats in the rear row already.

Chariotoflove > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 06/21/2018 at 10:39

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More incredible as a coupe.

ranwhenparked > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 06/21/2018 at 10:45

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These were really factory built limousines, from the era before “limousine” meant obnoxiously long stretched party bus for proms and bachelorette parties.

The Fleetwood Sixty Special for owners that preferred to drive themselves was a more modest 234 inches long. 

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Chariotoflove 06/21/2018 at 10:46

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True, but just shy of 228 " long isn’t just shy of 249".

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > ranwhenparked 06/21/2018 at 10:48

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True. A limousine in the classic mold a la Packard and Imperial in-house offerings of years earlier. I just like that it’s even longer than a 600, and yet made in-house at Cadillac in the thousands.

Matt Nichelson > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 06/21/2018 at 11:06

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# projectrallyyacht

This needs to happen. 

ranwhenparked > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 06/21/2018 at 11:11

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Hey, small cars were for plebes and German luxury cars were for eccentric weirdos. 

WilliamsSW > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 06/21/2018 at 11:19

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The f i r s t o n e i s n ’t even based o n a f u l l s i z e d c h a s s i s.

A d s k e t c h e s a l w a ys had a t e n d e n c y t o m a k e cars l o o k l o n g e r, l o w e r, a n d w i d e r than they re a l l y w e r e, though that i s a f a i r l y b i g car. 

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Matt Nichelson 06/21/2018 at 11:22

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Look at it this way. It’s coils all around, which means swapping to harder coils, chopping a set of existing ones, or installing a bi-mode concentric air spring with adjustable height and hardness is very doable. Put in magne-ride shocks with a controller, switch the factory wheels for wider ones and put on better tires, get beefy “universal” sways ...

I’m not saying >.7G roadholding is possible, but I’m not saying it isn’t. That and unemfucken the smog controls and compression on the 500 or upgrade to 572 ...

Wheelerguy > KingT- 60% of the time, it works every time 06/21/2018 at 11:25

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My jaw’s dropped. I want one, badly, and will modify it until I can use it as an old cruise missile. Like Green Hornet, but longer.

Chariotoflove > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 06/21/2018 at 11:27

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But that’s more than made up for by the ridiculousness of a car that long being two-door. 

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Chariotoflove 06/21/2018 at 11:29

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True... but this is actually longer:

Chariotoflove > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 06/21/2018 at 11:33

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First thing I saw in my mind was this.

Duck Duck Grey Duck FTMFW! > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 06/21/2018 at 12:25

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I know where a guy is that has 3 of these. I am super jealous of him.

MiniGTI - now with XJ6 > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 06/21/2018 at 12:44

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I think I might have ridden in one of these to my Grandfather’s funeral in 1987, I remember there being jump seats. 

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > MiniGTI - now with XJ6 06/21/2018 at 13:05

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Here’s the inside of a ‘76 that has the limo divider:

Here’s a ‘79 with a seat down:

The ‘79 is a little smaller than the ‘71-’76 body, but set up similarly.

I have another burner, try to guess it! > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 06/21/2018 at 14:18

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U niversal magnetic sho cks are a thing?

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > I have another burner, try to guess it! 06/21/2018 at 14:32

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The answer is, “sort of”.

http://www.magneshocks.com/

The option being to go to that guy, or to strip control parts off a donor, buy new units (because they go bad) and just deal with it doing weird things. Hideously expensive, regardless how it’s done.