The other day I had the unique opportunity to purchase a 1987 Caddy Fleetwood stretch Limo, complete with bar and sunroof.
This is the style limo every bad guy on Miami Vice ended up getting shot in.
Or for the gamers in the readership, it's the Limo in Vice City.
It was pretty rough, having spent the last few years shuttling drunks from a local club. I had it repainted Artic White with so much pearl in the clear coat it looks like it's frosted. For the proper look I went with super wide white wall tires and 100 spoke gold trim wheels. Getting the electronics right has been the most challenging and now I'm debating on replacing the old 6 inch TV with a couple of 5 inch LCD monitors and a DVD or Playstation. Whatever I decide the old boomerrang antenna will stay on the rear.
With the holidays fast approaching, this is the perfect mode of transportation. No DWI / DUI worries, all I have to do is slip the broke son a little gas money and I have instant Chaufeur, hell, if I paid him more than $50.00 for the night he might even wear the little hat.......
It'll be a cool toy, and then maybe I'll sell it before prom season.....

Now the next plaything I ran into was a toy in progress. There really is no better deal then when someone runs out of desire, or money, or both. I had a friend tell me about this customized truck some guy wanted to sell cheap. I have always had an attraction for the unusual so I checked it out.
It seems that locally there used to be a weekly Mud Bogging Race, until some idiot ran out of the mud pit and crushed a spectator, now there's no place to sling dirt competitively, and this truck was built to be competitive,or had been started to be built for competition.
It's HUGE, picture a full size, long bed 1979 GMC with the bottom of the doors 4 foot off the ground!!!
For the serious 4 wheeler it has a 8inch body lift with another 6 inch suspension lift sitting on top of 38 inch
Muddtrac tires. It hums rolling on asphalt, and bounces like a radioflyer pulled over corn rows until the tires warm up. It has heavy duty everything, BIG OL' V-8, and what looks like 3 shocks on each wheel.
It was a beat up old body so we hammered out the big dents, removed all of the molding and painted it flat black. I wanted a desert camo scheme but the paint man wanted too much.
I CAN'T WAIT FOR SOME SNOW TO PLAY IN !!!!! Unfortunately we tend to get more ice than snow around this latitude, if it ever gets below freezing. I could go to the mountains but it would cost a small fortune in gas to get it there ( I think this beast may get 5 miles to the gallon, and it's 250 + miles to Ashville)
Maybe sandblasting on the dunes of the Outer Banks, but that's still 150 + miles away, damn, stuck in the coastal plain with no place to play, maybe that's why the truck was so cheap........
My wifes opinion of these latest aquisitions ( oh there's more out in storage ) is its a mild form of therapy, I'm reliving my childhood with bigger Tonka Toys, she says. She also says the Limo is cool, the truck is too damn big, and she wouldn't be caught dead in the Pacer I'm restoring ( save that for another post, just think Garthmobile of Waynes World fame, only this one is pumpkin orange ).
Hey, it's a cheap habit at worst, I tend to not lose any money when, and if, I sell them.
I have less invested in all of the toys than if I bought a Porsche 911( had one, not built for anyone over 6 foot ) .
Now, if I could just find a nice Lincoln convertible with suicide doors to get ready for the summer........