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    Default Land yachts

    I saw one of these recently. I remember then from when I was a kid. My neighbor who was a doctor had one.

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    Ahhhh yes, the once popular land yacht. I wonder how many Spyders could be made from one of these once recycled....

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    Those were the days. The closest I ever got was a 1960 Buick Invicta with a 440 WildCat V8. Four door with that big back window.

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    That's a nice looking Cadillac...


    But these were the real land yachts!


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    i had a '74 & a '76 eldo, the best cars i ever owned

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    Default Now this, is a land yacht



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    Actually saw this going the other way down the Interstate one day.

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    I actually had a red one, great car, I had a 67 Eldo too, great cars.


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    Quote Originally Posted by SPECTACUALR SPIDERMAN View Post
    i had a '74 & a '76 eldo, the best cars i ever owned
    I had a 78 Eldorado Biarritz in Sapphire Blue Firemist. Most beautiful car I ever owned. I bought it used with 120,000 miles and and put another 150,000 on it over the next 10 years. Great car.

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    That was my company car when I worked in the Pharmaceutical business! Loved it, mine was all black!
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    I had a '68 Buick Wildcat (Tarpon Green color) that was a real car... wish I still had it.. but unfortunately an uninsured driver crashed into it .. insurance company totaled it ..

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    Back in the mid-late 90's I flew a redeye into Denver on business and the only car the rental agency had that time of night was some kind of Cadillac boat. Wow, getting into a sea of corinthian leather, with a column mounted shifter, and floating down the highway ... or wallowing, more like. I felt I needed some gold chains and a couple of ho's .. pimping.
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    No that's what I call A LAND YACHT


    Quote Originally Posted by asp125 View Post


    Like these? This is an actual house in Encinitas CA

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    Quote Originally Posted by WA5VHU View Post
    Actually saw this going the other way down the Interstate one day.

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    Now that takes "land yacht" to a whole new definition.

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    Quote Originally Posted by asp125 View Post


    Like these? This is an actual house in Encinitas CA
    Pretty cool. On the road east from Ocho Rios, Jamaica, some guy built an entire house out of concrete block in the shape of the cruise ship where he earned all his money. You just ride along and you see this huge white ship coming out of the mountain in the middle of a rich (but normal) neighborhood. Wish I had snapped a picture of it but it is on YouTube:
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    Quote Originally Posted by WA5VHU View Post
    Actually saw this going the other way down the Interstate one day.

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    wonder if that was his father's Oldsmobile?



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    Quote Originally Posted by Chupaca View Post

    I had a 74 Monte Carlo, brown with the "Rally Sport" interior with high back swivel buckets ....

    Loved that car ....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Orange Spyder Man View Post
    I had a '68 Buick Wildcat (Tarpon Green color) that was a real car... wish I still had it.. but unfortunately an uninsured driver crashed into it .. insurance company totaled it ..

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    My father had the same thing happen to his Mercury. It was one of the last land yachts.

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