The $5 Million Learjet Limo | RIDICULOUS RIDES

the limo jet is a Learjet fuselage that has been retrofitted into a vehicle and street-legal and one of the only ones on the planet so I tell people all the time I was either smart enough for dumb enough to kind of jump headfirst into the project [Music] my name is Frank D'Angelo I'm one of the owners of jetsedder incorporated and behind me I have the limo jet I've always had a passion for cars it really started when I was in the limousine business I own the company called exotic coats and we would custom and create some of the craziest limos on the planet and then when I was approached with this idea it's made logical sense it's 42 feet long you know it's 11 feet six inches high it's about eight feet wide and it's about 12,000 pounds so we'll start on this side one of the most popular things that people look at right away are the wheels and tires so we have a set of Diablo rims and tires 28 inch with the custom fenders that were fabricated from fiberglass made for the jet so there's a little bit of a lot of different vehicles not just engine wise but suspension wise a lot of the parts that we made were custom so you know the springs were custom made a lot of the suspension came from the one-ton pickup truck that we had some of the lighting came from Jeep and other lights came from you know we were custom-made so it's probably three or four different types of vehicles that have been married into this one we spent well over a million dollars to get it to where it's out you would start it like a regular car so you put in the key start it crank it up and you drive it like a regular car you got your gas you got your brake these four panels here is the video system that we have so we have cameras on the fenders front left we have kandar's in the back on the engine so you can actually see everything that's going on in the back and then we have all the toggle switches and give it a little bit of an aircraft feel so all the light disco lighting disco floor all the exterior lighting everything is controlled from here just like you would a regular aircraft the interior was a lot more difficult so so we manufacture limousines is what we did for a living we knew it was going to be a little tricky because this was unique and the everything's curved so we couldn't use any template so we couldn't go up anything we had to hand make everything we start with the disco ceiling over here we did it this way so that when people riding it can see that you're really in a jet fuselage so we put some custom plexiglass pieces we lit it up with some LED lighting people really get a kick out of that and keeps the feel of the limo jet we have the big-screen TV in the back with the sound system we have the Infinity floor which was a nice touch people loved it right so if you look down inside of it you can come and step inside it looks like your old school married with new school eight passengers is the capacity in the back plus the driver so we kind of say nine passengers people can drive in it but we're using it more for promotional I'm gonna go ahead and raise these flaps over here on this side with you over here so if you take a look in the back we're gonna show you some of this sound we have two separate sound systems so we have an interior and we have an exterior and it it booms pretty good you have your 12 inch subwoofer in here inside this is basically just a giant speaker box at the end of the day we integrated these flaps over here to open up you have speakers subwoofer speakers speakers subwoofer speaker so we wanted a little bit of afterburner look in here without putting the real fire inside of it so they can either blink to look like a real afterburner or you just keep them on straight with nothing on over here a regular gasoline right so we've got a gasoline engine goes in right there we have a regular tank from our donor vehicle that goes right into the back same thing around this side and our engine fits right under there so I guess we haven't hit top speed maybe we'll do that today top speed is probably a little bit over a hundred I mean you know any any v8 engines gonna hit 140 150 but this weighs over 12,000 pounds so you know my goal probably is not to reach top speed to be honest with you but it can go pretty fast [Music] it's like driving something I've never drove before I mean it's like driving the coolest semi-truck ever built [Music] like you ready for takeoff can't go too far on this runway but you get the point it is you know everything's for sale I mean our whole ultimate goal with this one this is our prototype so for me to reproduce more it's all based upon this one right our goal is to make more of them we'd love to manufacture more on a custom so somebody wanted one we're pretty sure they're gonna want it done their way you know if they wanted this one all the research and development that went into this somebody would have to offer me over five million you know ultimate goal is to build more and we'd like to make them you know a unique type of experience right there won't be many of them because it takes so long to produce but it's definitely something that that we're are targeting for and I don't have any regrets even though it took a long time I'm happy that we're here now you

Channel: Barcroft Cars

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Keywords: Ridiculous Rides, Learjet limo, airplane, airplane transformation, limojet, Dan Harris, Frank DeAngelo, limousine, car creation, Learjet fuselage, Barcroft Cars, 241482, January 2019

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Length: 6min 6sec (366 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 29 2019