How It's Made: Stretch Limousines
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I'm pretty surprised how janky this process actually is. Cut the car in half, measure and weld some beams on. This is like a backyard project.
Im pretty sure you can do this with some good welding skills and electrical
Yeah and looking at how cheap the interior is makes it that much more surprising that this is considered "luxury"
Yeah!
Looks so cheap... And what about the sound insulation??? I bet the inside is very noisy
The only pricy part is the seats, and the bar
I cut the car in half to show you the strength of flex tape
He sawed the car in half and then added a boat and a limousine was born
THAT'S ALOTTA DAMAGE!
Phil Swift entered chat
Lmao!
Billy Mays would have been perfect for Flex Tape 👌
Looks like a fun DIY project, gonna give this one a try
Please don't, pretty please
Please do
Try it, it’s gonna give you Spain but without the s
Oh no 🤣!
People do this with Volvos in Sweden all the time
i don't know what i was expecting, but cutting a regular sized car in half is the last thing i would have guessed lmaoo
Right?
Yeah they just grab the back of a car and stretch it into a limo, kinda like a looney tunes episode.
John Snow
That's what Jeremy Clarkson used to do on (old) Top Gear. I don't think I'll get in one of those stretch limos again.
*limo
Lol after I watching this James May, Jeremy Clarkson and Hamster legitimately are engineers
Whole time I was thinking of that limousine episode where three of them build one themselves. Lol
i love hamster
hes my fav gear topper
Wait galvanized steel and screws borrowed from your aunt 😂
im gonna commit
I make the story last time lol
I didn’t see any eco friendly wood veneers unfortunately
@@pineapplegamer6986 Wood veneers ain't disco.
If the flimsy construction of a stretch limo scares you, don't ever look into how most RVs are built. They're essentially a commercial truck frame with a wafer thin aluminum and plywood body bolted on top.
I remember the first time I saw one tipped and ripped by high winds. It looked like thick paper and cost more than my house new. I won’t ride in one.
Yet there's still more there than is on an aeroplane. Don't read more if you fly a lot and are easily scared. :)
Yep, only 1 mm of aluminium and some rivets protects you from falling thousands of feet with no parachute, and if 1 of those rivets is not properly secured, the air can rip that entire section off.
@@EnsignLovell There’s a hell of a lot more inspection and engineering work on airplanes than there is on RVs
And according to an RV salesman I met, they depreciate so fast you won't even have TIME to cry... Seriously. That's why I would never buy one.
A WHIPPLE WING SH1THOUSE
Best quote. “Workers wheel the back half away from the front half.” Never could have guessed that’s how it all started.
Very true my friend
Feels like we got the "audio descriptions for the blind" audio track...
now I know why my project failed , I wheeled the front half away from the rear half
"They place the back half on the exact spot where the limousine will gradually be assembled", but then they roll the back half up to the frame rails.
I owned an '89 Town Car limo for a few years privately and worked on it myself. They're not made to last very long; no rustproofing, sloppy welds, lots of leaks. This was a California car but you could easily identify every piece of custom metal because it was covered in surface rust - next to rust-free factory panels. They used a two piece driveshaft and a single carrier bearing for mine (a 72" stretch). Limos are a lot like RVs... there are a couple of companies that make parts for a multitude of limo manufacturers. Mine had a secondary HVAC box behind the driver's compartment with a second heater core and AC evaporator. It had air shocks, but otherwise looked like the original Lincoln coils in the rear. Two batteries and a 200A alternator - may have been an option from Lincoln. The rear compartment solenoid looked the same as one used for a 1950s Ford starter. The biggest issue was glass, lots of custom, curved glass. Once some kids broke the rear door glass. The doors were stretched about 8" and had custom glass. I had to have a polycarbonate window custom made because the original supplier was out of business. They literally spliced the original wire harness going to the back of the car to extend it. There are a surprising number of circuits going back there. It was a remarkably reliable car though, easy to work on too.
even in the video the welds are very sloppy
I own a stretched range rover 5.0 supercharged, and since it's a range rover, the limo parts have been the most reliable parts 🤣 but seriously, luckily mine was done by one of the largest conversion firms in the country, so mine is built very well...12 years later, the bondo just developed a slight crack. The problem with limos is, you can have the worst backyard job possible, or a very high quality build, and if you dont know who built it,, you'll only have two ways of finding out: let it get old and see, or worse...crash it
Edit: I should also mention that the hack job backyard limos are pretty much mainly just Town Cars, Cadillacs, and Excursions. Most of the more exotic type of limos, BMW sedan limos, Mercedes limos, stuff that isn't usually stretched in america, have a better chance of being a higher quality build. Hackjob 1980s-2011 stretched Lincolns are a dime a dozen
Hiiiiiii can you see my comments????
They writing a book 😂
I rode in a limo when I was 8 years old. I was a cheerleader at that time, and the limo was hot pink. We were going to our banquet at a pizzeria. It was so much fun.
I never knew that limousines are just normal cars cut in half and extended! I’m gonna go build a Yugo stretch limousine. After that, the Reliant Robin stretch limousine!
You should watch the Top Gear episode where they all built limousines. The British top gear. Not the American one.
A Lamborghini limo
Nice plan. But I'm sure a Robin limo will be even more prone to tipping over...🥴🥴🤨🤨🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@theduke7539 there is no American top gear. Don’t be daft. It doesn’t exist. No such thing.
@@MrE_ they already have plenty of those. Kinda a stupid reply to the OP’s comment lol. Bringing up a car that actually does exist as a limo.
POV: Little John saved a lot of money to buy a small car, but doesn't have enough space, so he expands it with galvanized steel.
I made this car all by myself when I was 11 years old with my dad's panoramic camera.
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What about showing the modifications to the suspension that handle all the extra weight?
Good video 👍
Why don't you just work there and find out
@@Cory_Peters512 Ha! Good luck with that! I can't imagine how many years of automotive manufacturing experience *that* would require!
they didnt show t right?? that means the suspension is the same
They probably just upgrade the struts to a heavier duty strut. Or if its a nice limo itll ride on airbags. I think most of the lincoln town cars ride on bags and was one of the reasons they were used
@@Ruben9505 you’re assuming they didn’t do any of that post weld and build. Plus everything they had to do to the undercarriage. Just cuz the video didn’t show it, doesn’t mean it didn’t happen
Surprising how all the measuring is done by hand with simple tape measure and level and not computers. Shocking that it could actually drive straight down the road
i feel like it doesn't.
You would be surprised how many measurements are still done by hand using simple but effective tools
Yeah they're only meant to be driven slow in cities. Still, this look really filmsy and unsafe. Wouldn't be a fun time if someone crashed into it.
We build nuclear ☢️ power house for electricity generation with just simple tape measures. As Union Pipefitters 👷🏻♂️
im guessing this is one of those shops that allowed them to film them doing their work haha, I doubt this is a car filthy rich use, but for proms etc for a few years.
2:11 "...which is made of galvanized steel..."
and they're just welding that without any breathing equipment? good way for your employees to get metal fume fever
_"Don't breath this!"_
Same tought lol
nahhh just hold your breath and breathe out sharply when you're done with a bead, just like working with asbestos!
I was looking for this comment. Galvy is coated with zinc. Zinc fumes is toxic when welding.
"Do not breathe zinc fumes- Metal fever not covered by workingman's comp!"
-Sign in a shop I worked in briefly. Apparently around a month after I left, someone got metal fume fever, took it to the union and then to OSHA. Metal Fever was, in fact, covered by workingman's comp.
This is so simple, I cannot believe they literally *_stretch_* an already complete sedan!
I remember first seeing this as a kid and showing my mom this.
For over a month I asked her if we could turn our car into Limo.
Good times.
I always had something in my mind i wanted to watch but couldnt rememenber and boom there i got this vid on my recommandation 🤣🤣🤣
Top 10 Weirdest _How Its Made_ episode nominee! “Let’s just _stretch_ an existing vehicle.”
It seems so... flimsy? Plus as others have said don't they need to completely redo the suspension and wheel bases? You just added hundreds of kilos of weight??
Maybe it's built like an airplane - strong but as light as scientifically possible.
It's the same material made out of cars your floorboards are made out of that in the car
Pounds * (LBS)
Kilo's ? Fuck outta here with that metric crap !
@@TowMater603 you do realise it's only America which uses lbs
@@TowMater603 oh that limo weighs as heavy as 1 million bald eagles
Never in a million years would I expected a limo to be built this way.
“A luxurious sedan” 😂 riiiight. Either way it’ll break down before 50k miles….it’s a Chrysler after all
Spot on
Shut your bitchass up. The Chrysler 300 is the last TRUE American Luxury Sedan. I owned 2 of these, best cars I ever purchased!
Calm down Cledus......
“I just cut this car in half, but with flex tape, I’m arriving in style.”
The first stretch limousines usually transported bands and their musical equipment; currently they transport bands and their erm...other equipment.
Da BITCHES
wait how do they extend the fuel lines, brake lines, sensors, wiring, etc? they skipped a lot lol
Tbh i imagined only fwd cars could be made into limo's thanks to ease of not having to extend the drive shaft
They just replace everything.
@@kapishss5540 The Lincoln Town car, the scale model they show at the beginning, was one of the most prominent stretch limos while the town car was in production. It's based off the panther platform produced by Ford, (Crown Vic, Grand Marquis, etc), and was RWD,
It's all wireless, Bruh!
@@philsherrer breaks work via bluetooth
i like how they welded it back together at 1:05 but cut the weld to get that shot haha
So glad someone else saw that
I didn't get it?
@@thecodinglad6830 it’s in 1:00
only 1% people saw that
it happened at 0:59
Galvanized steel😂
😂😂😂
i dont get it
@@cyberdemon6517you shouldn’t weld to it it lets off bad gas
galvanized steel !!!!!!!!!!!!
Thin single sheet support rails that are only tack welded. Looks strong and safe to me 😒
I was surprised, too, that the frame rails are so thin and flimsy. Under all the paint and vinyl tops, they're really crap vehicles.
Only parties happen in Limos, Bruh!
They're stronger then you might think. I saw a video of one getting hit dead-center by a train. It obviously wasn't driveable afterwards, but everyone inside survived the accident.
They are tack welded until they are certain the piece is where it’s supposed to be. You don’t start laying down beads until everything is tacked in place. If you start welding seams before tacking it in place. The welds would pull the metal in one direction. So if you weld one side first, the metal rail will have shifted by the time you get to the other side. If you pull the rail back into place and weld you would introduce stress into the work piece. Therefore you tack the pieces together then go back and seam weld. They just didn’t show them finishing up the seams, but you can see the finished welds if you look close enough.
tbh this video was pretty lackluster. i would be watching and after one cut theres already seats framed in the car
Thanks How It's Made, you never fail to answer questions I didn't have.
No wonder accidents are catastrophic in these death trap, never been in one and never will.
I mean it's not like you even have the choice to drive one
In my 35 years of life I’ve never thought about how limousines are made until CZcams recommended this video. I watched it and was surprised and educated.
Use to work at great lakes limo in Michigan! Fun job forsure and this is exactly the process missing a few 100 little things tho! My job was 100% underneath, had to weld, seal and undercoat then extend brake lines, wire harness, fuel lines and drive shaft! Pretty much all day lying on a roller!!
obviously they weren't going to include every individual step. the video would be too long and TBH would get boring after too long
GALVANIZED STEEL
I'm pretty sure that's why this video is in my recommended lmaooo
GALVANIZED BALLS
I’ve always thought limousines were a sign of no class, rather than luxury. 🤣
ANd now you know for sure
look at the seats at 3:55, this so cheap
blows my mind to see that some ppl didnt assume this is how limousines are made
I always thought of these vehicles as glamorous but now... seeing this video.
GALVANIZED (SQUARE) STEEL
you are my galvanized square steel and my eco friendly wood veneers
I drove a Lincoln stretch limousine for many years in Southern California. They are a lot of fun to drive! I believe my company purchased their limos from a custom builder in Las Vegas.
After watching this, I realize Red Green was way closer than expected when constructing stretch vehicles.
Ahahaa! You're right, I forgot about that!
Yeah, not gonna disagree with you there!
To show you the power of flex tape... I SAWED THIS SEDAN IN HALF!
Watching this I realized that Jeremy Clarckson with his Panda limo trully is a genius.
As he himself says,"My genius knows no bounds!"
The new season of the Red Green Show looks great!
The steel-frame rails are used to attach the middle of the limousine.
I saw that part already watching the video.
@Sentinel He's obviously trying to DIY and posted that part to not forget
Everything ok over there buddy? Did you put the steel-frame rails yet?
So essentially.. they take apart a car and put it back together lol
I never questioned why I thought the fronts of limousines were the same shapes of normal cars, and now I don't have to.
I miss my Dad, we’d always watch how it’s made every evening
For some reason this made me motivated lol. I thought the process of building a limo would be very diificult, but seeing how they did it, like just start doing things step by step and you'll end up with great results haha
Ironic that, while the car was lengthened, the information provided to the viewers was reduced. How could you omit the mechanical additions to the vehicle? Where’s the info on the suspension? There no way all that extra weight is being supported by the original suspension.
I'm shook. I thought they were made in a factory, not it a garage. And I'm pretty I'm not the only one curious on how they removed the major components of the car before cutting it in half
I’m sure the high end ones are factory made to order, but it’s was just likely a simple cheap one.
@@g.williams2047 Possibly factory modified, but most likely a similar process just with better materials and more careful craftmanship. Making changes to a few vehicles on a production line is incredibly expensive, cheaper for them to build the complete vehicle and disassemble it again to modify it.
I'm in the automotive industry, and we have a department that takes our product directly off the production line and converts it for a different use.
every "major component" is still just a bunch of metal and wiring. Screw off the same way they are screwed on. Not rocket science.
I was thinking of doing this to my '97 Corolla.
Awesome!!! Best five minute craft video ever, you guys really outdid yourselves this time!
Am I the only one wondering about how many driveshaft carrier support bearings are needed? Additional suspension? Secondary HVAC installation? Second alternator installed for additional current draw? And otherwise the litany of other details that were beyond cutting a car and half and welding some sheet metal between the two?
Realistically the extra current draw is negligible; LED lighting, a midgrade stereo, and maybe a fridge. Even a compressor-driven fridge/freezer can draw as little as 45 watts -- Ford offered it as an option on some of their crossovers and was capable of keeping ice cream frozen.
Front wheel drive cars don't have a driveshaft that needs carrier bearings.
@@dchawk81 chrysler 300 is not a front wheel drive vehicle
there was so much content left out of this video from the actual build
Easier way to obtain a Stretch Limo.
Step 1: Find car
Step 2: Stea.. Obtain two scrapyard magnets
Step 3: Drive car between both fully powered magnets
Step 4: .................
That's Troll Science you're thinking of.
@@dolopdieren Problem?
@@wilhufftarkin8543 matter can't be created
Step 5: Profit
@@Mayank-tm2km Neither can extra brain cells but you keep struggling to understand a joke.
Losing my mind over the fact that the first step in this process is “cut a car in half”
Seems fairly straightforward I’ll give it a go on my car tomorrow
Dont forget to reattach the driveshaft!
Oh I always thought they were just manufactured stretched like that.
I never knew they were preexisting cars cut up and put back together! :o
Respect! 👍
I thought it's like.. pre made in a factory not made by cutting a normal car in half lmao
This video was oddly soothing to watch lol
never knew building limos was so skuffed lmao
I really wanted to see the drive shaft. I wonder how many support bearing's it would need?
Front wheel drive doesn't require a drive shaft. A typical sedan is front wheel drive, while a typical SUV is rear wheel drive. That's why we don't see a single SUV stretch.
Try to find a Lincoln Town Car limo being built or a full sized SUV like Cadillac Escalade.
Looks like an easy DIY project! I'm going to totally do that.
Update: Um, not so easy.
Update 2: Now I no longer have any vehicle.
Funny
You now have 2
Amazing! I had always wondered whether the manufacturers originally build a few of those...turns out its a modification of the ordinary ones
Now the amazing question. Do they buy the original car beforehand off a lot XD
There should be more variety of Limo vehicles based on how arts and crafts this is.
*"Car is cut away in half"*
Tesla battery pack:-
_"You can't do this here."_
boom no more EVs!!!!!! gas cars will last!
@@catgaming2210 yes EVs. In the future gas cars will end up just like manual transmissions.
@@TellCookie nah i think war will happen. city people, tree huggers and others vs country people and car people
@@catgaming2210 gas cars and greenhouse gasses will last longer than you or your family ever will with that mentality
😎It is cool to see a luxury car, but it's cooler to see how it's made😎👷
So cool, I can make one with my friends as soon as possible.
Okay, this is the only (how it's made) video that surprised me.
I thought they are manufactured in the companies.
I didn’t see where they upgraded the brake system to handle all the extra weight from both stretching it and quadrupling the passenger capacity.
It was right after they installed the passenger airbags and gave me a pony for my birthday
It depends on who does it. Electrical upgrades are pretty common (like high output or dual alternators) but major mechanical upgrades are generally not a thing.
@@channell11 usually they are like brakes and suspension
Why would they need to do that? It is still the same car but longer.
@@42luke93 adding extra car adds weight. Adding extra passengers adds weight. If the braking system is designed for a max of 10,000 lbs of weight and it’s now 15,000-20,000 lbs of weight because of the additional car and passenger weight, the brakes will not function adequately.
The way this is make feels like what 2 best friends would do over a summer and a bet
It makes it look so easy!
What a concept.
Top gear has created an accurate tutorial on how to make limo’s without me knowing wtf!!!
Muy lindos los limosinas,que sigan adelante con sus trabajos exelentes.👍💪❤️🇨🇱
When I watched that episode of TopGear I didn’t realise they were following the actual process…
Galvanized square steel? what about the eco friendly wood veneers? and the screws borrowed from aunt?
Lol I just thought car companies built and sold limos by themselves. You learn something new everyday!
The way the host says, _"A worker blah blah blah"_ makes my week.
Woow, just took 5 minutes and 24 second to build a limousine, I just knew it, now I will made limousine from my 1992 toyota Corolla
they said 21 days
Y'all are beautiful!🦋
thanks for the vid, very insightful
this is exactly how I assumed a limousine was manufactured
How it's made is one of those shows that's mesmerizing
The fact that the limousine isn't made from the ground up like a normal car, and it's just "Dismantle a car, cut it in half, add the stretch, rebuild the interior." is amazing.
how is it any different than adding an extension room to a house or garage? Now that they can make a person taller by adding leg bone extensions, doing this with a car seems pretty simple in comparison like a Lego building project lol
Some limos are factory built. The kind a head of state might use. This one's for proms and weddings.
Awesome limousine car 👍🏻
I would like to see crash test and side impact test to see how it would hold up on an actually crash
LOL, lap of luxury? More like lap of tacky as hell.
As a limousine lover, I love limousines and yes.
stroke?
The fact they’re welding the new support beams to the existing PAINTED surfaces. Sketch
Brilliant ❤. So nice of you ❤.
TL;DW - Get car. Cut in half. Fill gap with car frame substitute. Add rich people stuff.
I did this with my daughter over the weekend! Great bonding experience. Would highly recommend!
Sorry, how do you cut an ENTIRE CAR IN HALF as a WEEKEND PROJECT with your child?!?
@@kurbbi420 LMFAOOOO
It was her plastic pedal car. they stretched it by cuttting it in half and gluing a slippery dip in the middle, its a convertible.
@@davidjulian8536 That makes a lot of sense, thank you for letting me know! :)
Nice videos they made it look so simple
love this channel
Imagine someone cutting it in half the wrong way. Like, from front to back.
That’s how they make the ford raptor, they do that and add 4 inches to the f150.
/s
There actually was a company back in the 80's that made ambulances from Chevy Vans...they cut them L ongways and made them 18" wider to fit the body they produced. Looked really strange!
I wonder where they got the windshield?
They use the original suspension, springs an all?
i wondering the same thing too, are they using original spring and break or enhanced one
Probably not. Although it would probably still work with original shocks just not as long lasting
No. you can see the car is slightly lifted in the after image and on top of that the wheels are bigger and the tire profile is higher. They probably just uipgrade the struts to a heavier duty strut.
I lived in Fort Smith Arkansas in the 80's. We had an Armbruster stretch limo plant there. Even then they made $20 an hour and up. I can't imagine what they make now ...
So nice work.
What about a Stretch Smart Car? How big would it be?
How big do you want it to be.
In case it wasn't obvious from the video; limousines are luxury items created by specialty craftsmen. So as you may have now guessed. As long as you are willing to pay the money, you can have any car you want made into a Limo of any feasible length ‼️‼️‼️💯💯👍
@@Renwoxing13 its difficult but somebody had to explain it to him🤣
@@geemanbmw No, I know. I was just being a smartass, the joke would’ve been the size of a regular car
Bout the size of a civic
@@victorsvidss This guy got the joke