Stretched Limos

[Chris Perkins 228]

I've been selling British stretched limos in Germany recently.

Here's a link to a basic website I've put up:

Stretched.de

I've basically put it there so that search engines find it (am spamming my own forum so to speak!).

And, for the search engines, it's hosted in this webspace:

Another link to same thing.

[azda 979]

Loving the little German touch on the Volvo lol

[Chris Perkins 228]

I drove it across Germany with the DDR flag on the front. People thought I was Honniker or Gorbechov and they were hanging out of their cars on the motorway with their camera phones! Such fun.

It didn't help sell it though :-(. A Dutch fisherman Volvo freak bought it in the end and it broke even financially. Said Dutch fisherman had actually previously owned a real GDR communist Volvo Limo.

[scottishmoney 29]

I drove it across Germany with the DDR flag on the front. People thought I was Honniker or Gorbechov and they were hanging out of their cars on the motorway with their camera phones! Such fun.

It didn't help sell it though :-(. A Dutch fisherman Volvo freak bought it in the end and it broke even financially. Said Dutch fisherman had actually previously owned a real GDR communist Volvo Limo.

Das ist gut hier:

Now that is an auto I would love to be driven around in.

[Hussulo 6]

I drove it across Germany with the DDR flag on the front. People thought I was Honniker or Gorbechov and they were hanging out of their cars on the motorway with their camera phones! Such fun.

It didn't help sell it though :-(. A Dutch fisherman Volvo freak bought it in the end and it broke even financially. Said Dutch fisherman had actually previously owned a real GDR communist Volvo Limo.

Das ist gut hier:

Now that is an auto I would love to be driven around in.

Ye I like that one and i also like the:

Daimler DS420 Limousine

[Chris Perkins 228]

Oh yes, granddad there. Couldn't look more cooler if he tried. The Horatio Caine of 1950s London!

At a time when there were only about 3 cars in the road and probably about 100 in the whole of Lewisham, he used to take that Bentley home every night and park it outside! It belonged to his boss who was an important WWII scientist, so I'm told.

The white Daimler is available. I've not seen it yet, but I'm hoping it can be MOTed and driven a long distance.

[scottishmoney 29]

Can you imagine the nerves of steel you would need to drive such a piece around all the time? Just today I nearly was clobbered by a elderly lady driving through a stop light.

[Chris Perkins 228]

He was a Bus driver before that and drove a bus during the General Strike of 1926 (very dangerous job, google it). He never had a 'proper' driving licence and learnt to drive during WWI.

[Peckris 579]

I've been selling British stretched limos in Germany recently.

Here's a link to a basic website I've put up:

Stretched.de

I've basically put it there so that search engines find it (am spamming my own forum so to speak!).

And, for the search engines, it's hosted in this webspace:

Another link to same thing.

Moooove on

[Peter 615]

Best of luck in your new venture Chris.....you've got some nice stock.

I would like a stretched Porsche Cayman (with 4 seats & room for a Springer).

Are you hiring them out for special occasions until they sell?

[Chris Perkins 228]

No, that would be too complicated I expect, as most of them aren't taxed when they sit around. And in Germany I couldn't hire them out with GB registrations. Also, I like to sell them ASAP and not have them sitting around at all.

I've got plenty of stretched Omegas if you want to borrow one of those. Some in Bolton, a couple on Northampton.

[Peter 615]

No, that would be too complicated I expect, as most of them aren't taxed when they sit around. And in Germany I couldn't hire them out with GB registrations. Also, I like to sell them ASAP and not have them sitting around at all.

I've got plenty of stretched Omegas if you want to borrow one of those. Some in Bolton, a couple on Northampton.

Let me know of your (bargain rates)I would love to take Mrs Peter and friends away for a supprise weekend....next year its my big one (50) cough cough splutter but I still party as a 21 year old.

[Chris Perkins 228]

Remind me where you live Peter? And you mean next year as in 2011? That's a way off yet.

[Red Riley 2]

Remind me where you live Peter? And you mean next year as in 2011? That's a way off yet.

I don't know about Germany, but you can actually get reasonable money hiring out cars. Years ago I used to charge £175 per day for a wedding which has now got to be a lot more than that and I hear the Rolls Royce boys are now charging nearer £1000. The acme for stretch limos has got to be Ladies' Day at Ascot. Good for the driver too carrying around a lot of over/under dressed lovelies in varying stages of inebriation...

[Chris Perkins 228]

I've done a little bit of Chauffeuring over here for friends and friends of friends. One was a Wedding in Summer, I also took an old couple to their 65th Wedding Anniversary meal and a couple of nice young ladies to a 30th Birthday bit of cake. 2 Jobs in the Bronze Rolls that you can see on the stretched.de website and the last one was in a stretched Granada. I had all the Chauffeur gear and looked by far the smartest!

I'm always open to doing jobs like that if I have time and have a good car here, which I often do. But I think it can just be 'privately' though because I could never legally do it in Germany in a UK registered car without paying a hefty fee for insurance which would render it pointless.

If someone wants to borrow a RHD Omega, for self drive (either in UK or Germany) then they certainly can. Many people seem to have a mental block about trying out a RHD over here.