The list of vehicles with seating for 18 people that you'd ever want to own is limited. Used buses, trolleys, and airport shuttles jump to the top of this list, but heavy duty vehicles come with heavy duty repair costs and commercial registration complications. The next best thing is to pick up a long wheelbase Ford/Chevy/Chrysler full-sized van...but those seem like you've given up on life...instead consider a converted classic limousine with more doors than the Ed Sullivan show. Find this 1962 Chevrolet Suburban Armbruster-Stageway Limousine
currently bidding for $5,231 reserve-not-met on ebay with a 5 days to go, located in Jackson, WY.
This vehicle started life as a simple Chevrolet Suburban, but Armbruster-Stageway (first established in 1880 in Arkansas to build stage coaches for pioneers heading west) added a few sets of doors and stretched the wheel base considerably. Information on the Armbruster conversions is somewhat limited on the internet, but a different ebay seller is offering a vintage sales sheet/brochure for the 1964 model year here
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The current seller of this limo has removed the original manual transmission (seen in the photo above) and outfitted it with an automatic, as well as potentially installed a "new" 350 cubic inch V8 - but the ad is skimpy on details.
Inside this thing is huge and with 5 rows of seats it will comfortably transport a large family or (you and your drinking buddies) on sumptuous scarlet velour seats from the Tickle Me Elmo skin collection.
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This thing would make a seriously awesome:
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-Trackside race support vehicle
-Bowling alley
-All of the above?
With a long enough set of ramps you could park your race car on top of it.
Deleteand with a long enough lever, you could move it... ooh, looky there, it *has* a really long lever
Deleteoh, i see... correction: *had* a really long lever
Deleteis that a second shift lever for on the right...4WD at one point?
ReplyDeleteYou sure would need a lot of stick figures for the back window.
ReplyDeleteha! comment of the week - even beats my timely and clever Taster's Choice rebuttal over in the NSX thread
DeleteSecond lever is the parking brake. These were used as airport limos way back in the day. Very cool....!
ReplyDeleteThis might be the family mans answer to having 4 kids swatting at each other that will make you insane on any long trip... now each kid can have their own row! I love it, and kind of need it, but I'd have to swap in a big blower'd LS3 for a little more fun with the family.
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