6/21/2006: Stretch SUV limo beached in San Francisco
 

http://cellar.org/2006/stretchlimobeaching.jpg

I had seen this one before axlrosen sent it along, but I'd seen it out of context. axl includes the link to The Consumerist, whose snarky take points out that this is a stretch SUV limo, and this is none other than anti-vehicle San Francisco.

"Taken in front of Goat Hill Pizza at 18th and Connecticut, in the Potrero Hill," they point out. "Proof that San Fran actually has structural defenses to debilitate encroachment by machines which don't run on the most efficient fuel of all: Love," they say. Yup, this additional level of irony pushes it over the edge, so to speak, and makes it your Cellar Image of the Day.

It's funny that an Excursion(I think) got stuck there, I guess they don't make 'em like they used to!

Ha Ha!

They should have taken a plane!

(Edited for more better grammer)

Nice. I'm surprised I hadn't seen that yet. "Professional Drivers" out here are always inexperienced immigrants. Also, this shows how SF is a delightful mix of people types; here the flakes and nuts get to laugh at the chic and corporate.

Good thing that beast never made it down to Lombard St.

"...they plant flowers there where they bury people..."

I think it's the understated sign that makes the picture. "Um, dude... hill..."

Too bad it wasn't a hybrid. ;-)

From the gouges in the pavement, I'd say it wasn't a first but that wouldn't have stopped Steve McQueen. :D

Even in an urban SUV, ground clearance is everything. What a bunch of doofuses.

Ahh, but the wealthy passenger was probably "Do as I say and take that street, knave!" Immigrant driver, not knowing half the words in that sentence would have noted the anger and done as told.

Hmm. Somebody should make a documentary about the beaching, lol.

Looks like an overkill to me anyway. How the hell can they drive that thing through the inner city?
It's funny as hell to me that the dudes at each end of the vehicle look like they actually BELIEVE they can move this monster. "Don't sweat it, Hobson.... We'll just give you a little push...." SHEESH.

If they lift on the front and push down on the back, the drive wheels might get enough bite to pull it off the hump. :smack:

I assumed it was a front wheel drive. You think they put an extra long driveshaft into it when they do the conversion?

Good point. :redface:

Oh, rich people! They're so stupidly, stupidly rich!

I live 1/2 between Tampa and O' Town right off of I-4 and can say with conviction that NY and LA have nothing on the crazy limos we have. (lived in LA and spend a great deal of time in NY)

I'm sure it would be harder to corner one of these things than a semi. We'll have to ask brianr.

Plant City does have some wild stretch tractors. ;)

His gouges are at the bottom of the hill.

Or...siphon the contents of the front hot tub to the one in the back. Water's heavy, y'know.

Was my old sales area, they like the stretch Hummers.

And the skid marks are in his underwear. :D

Good night!

these poor creatures are beaching themselves and are now on the endangered species list

http://www.dealsonwheels.com/database/cars/81176big.jpg

And once they beach themselves, they're practically impossible to get back onto the highway.

fuck a highway.... they need a runway.

:D Now that's irony. Ra, Kagen.

Well, here in the Silicon Valley (40 miles south of SF), there are many stock-options Jeans-to-Riches stories. So, there isn't a rich-people stereotype here. In the valley, 1 out of 20 of us are millionaires -- we still wear the same clothes, drive pick-up trucks, smoke weed, go to football games, and so on. You can't pick us out in a crowd and we like it that way. We wouldn't be caught dead in a stretch limo, but spend $60 taxi to drink and NOT drive.

You know, half those folks helping to rock it are standing *directly in front of the vehicle*!

So, if I charter a bus with nineteen homeless people to your neighborhood, can I be the millionaire on the bus? I'd happily foreswear all future limo rides to drive a pickup truck to the ballgame. :)

That's the problem with the Silicon Valley. I'm house poor. I could cash in and move to Idaho, but then I want a life too. So, I stay here.

Hehe, all the rich folk make it interesting up in the North Bay. Going down a street near me you can totally tell the white trash who grew up here from the ones who just bought their house for a quarter million.

a quarter million? Where are houses so cheap?

Down payment, maybe...

Would have been REAL interesting to see this thing go UP the hill...

Yeah, Jebediah is not paying attention.

In my neighborhood, little 3 BR houses sold for over $1MM this month. Where he lives away from jobs and such, $500,000 gets you a little 2-3 BR starter home.

What I did with my stock option money was to pay off my mortgage and start my own company. Well, I sold the company for half my $400,000 investment and my house doubled in value. Whatever. At least I have no debt at all.

And now I have stock options in play with three privately held companies.

Yep. Actaully probably several shafts supported by hanger bearings.

$750,000 = rich to me :(

that's $3/4 Million, which is more reasonable. Though where I am that would get you a small single family house in a reasonably nice neighborhood, not a mansion. A quarter million would get an efficiency, or maybe a one bedroom condo!

On the other hand, my area's housing market is insane.

After glatt mentioned it, I remembered reading that some of the stretch makers, start with 4 wheel drives and just use the fronts for the long ones.
It's a tradeoff because they have to get the 4x4 front end low enough for a limo.
The same article said they don't do much with the brakes.:eek6:

Heh. I don't actually know anything about limo conversions, other than they need to stiffen up the frame so they don't fold in half. I just assumed that putting in a big long driveshaft would have no advantage for most limos but would be an extra cost.

Oh shoot, I see my mistake. I mean $750,000, not $250,000. Stupid 100° temps pickle my brain.

Yea, that's better. "Efficiency Townhouses from just $399,000"

little known fact about pickles: refrigerate after opening.

Not to put a damper on this thread drift by bringing us back to topic, and also well who the f am I kidding? I am a buzzkill. Listen, the correct term would be "running aground", beached is something different.
/nutkin

youre a beach

Bringing back to topic, back in the "Web 1.0" bubble, my good friend, D wanted to buy a certain sports car but wanted to be sure if it would be able to climb his driveway into his home gargage well. So, he got a three day free trial and it worked out well for him.

I did a similar thing this month for a much cheaper used car Camry and they granted us a short term lease free. We drove it, had it inspected by our mechanic and it passed well. Mrs RS loves this car.

If the qualities of the vehicle in question were being allegorized as an ocean- going vessel my achene eating friend you would be correct. Unfortunately, the vehicle has been transformed metaphoricly into a semi-sentient ocean dwelling mammal capable of beaching himself for reasons unknown us who bath openly in schadenfreude. /UG

OK so we've anthropomorphised the landark into a landshark, I'll acceed your point. However the reason the thing beached itself was that the driver was a pussy and choked. Anyone who has seen "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", knows the way to take those hills is with the pedal on the far right mashed all the way to the floor. Momentum would have helped him clear the crest.

Granted, he'd probably not be driving shortly after his landing, but he'd not have made an IotD either probably. And in either case, I doubt he got a tip.

Actually, I met a guy that did just that in SF. He told me that it was not like in the movies where you go up in the air, land and keep going, no, you land, crunch and stop. And get a DUI.

Ed Zachary: Granted, he'd probably not be driving shortly after his landing,

Which is one reason why Silly Valley is a crappy place to site a tech company. The only people who think "that's where all the talent is" are the ones already stuck living there.

ha, I saw that the other day whilst 'stumbling' web pages. I didn't read to the 'love' part. I guess love isn't going to get it unstuck. So much for efficiency.

Valley Envy is not attractive. I moved here from Pittsburgh as you know. There is plenty of software engineering talent in that city. There is virtually no high-tech sales, marketing, and mangement.

An early-stage tech company in the Silicon Valley can get a critical mass of people with relevant experience and good track records.