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Jay Ohrberg’s World Famous Hollywood Limousine Collection Stretches the Imagination!

“King of Show Cars”, Jay Ohrberg takes his passion for automotive design to new lengths with his astounding and record-setting collection of limos. From the world’s longest to the world’s widest, if it is unique or innovative Jay Ohrberg is the man.

Author: Michiel Van Kets
Date: Jan 26, 2010 - 11:21:15 PM

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Legendary Hollywood car designer Jay Ohrberg is known for his vivid imagination and theatrical style. Perhaps those traits would have been enough to assure a position in the Hollywood arena as a custom car provider, but Jay has aspired to much more than that. Vision is a pre-requisite, surely, but is Jay’s ability to turn his dreams into functional and record-setting reality that catapulted his name to the top of every Hollywood producer’s ‘must-hire’ list.

Jay is the man behind Tim Burton’s Batmobile, Doc Brown’s Time-Traveling DeLorean, the Ghostbuster’s Ecto-1, and perhaps most famously, the car that drives itself, Knight Rider’s KITT. For decades if Hollywood needed functional while still fantastical cars Jay has been the man to turn to. Who else could make a car out of stone and tree trunks for Fred Flintstone to drive around Bedrock, or provide a durable fleet of identical ‘General Lee’ Dodge Chargers for the Duke boys to jump over the seemingly innumerable creeks of Hazard county?

Starting like many of those in his in his profession, Jay was a high school hot-rodder who got his taste for manipulating cars by starting with his own. His passion for design grew, leading him to create a company to provide custom parts for fellow auto enthusiasts, but it was design and creation where his heart remains to this day.

“From the time a vehicle first appears on the drawing board, up through building it and adding the finishing touches, I can apply am endless variety of features which make the unit unique and outstanding, usually a pacesetter.” - Jay Ohrberg

Unlike some of the more dazzling custom cars you can see at exhibitions worldwide Jay is steadfast in his belief that show cars should also be fully functional and operation vehicles. For Jay and his team the challenge of making wild designs and concepts into working and reliable cars is always part of the job.

“What better way to test innovative engineering features than through the design, development and construction of custom-built cars.” - Jay Ohrberg

Though Hollywood pays the bills Jay designs and builds cars for his own pleasure as well, with unique, specialty limousines being a special point of pride.

These aren’t the type of slightly modified stretch cars you could see being used for limo services New Jersey, but rather stunning one-of-a-kind creations that seem as though they could have been driven directly out of Jay’s fertile imagination.

The smallest of Jay’s custom limos must be his six-seater, canary yellow Lamborghini Countach, which may seem puny for a limousine but is twice the length and 3 times the capacity of the standard, gull-wing sports car.

Perhaps the most eye-catching is his eight-seater Ferrari F40. Painted the unmistakable fiery red for which Ferraris are known, this convertible sports three extra sets of wheels to keep it’s 30-foot frame at a road-hugging, sports car profile.

You may have trouble deciding who sits in which row of the Ferrari, if so you can put all of your friends shoulder to shoulder in the 15’ back seat of Jay’s ultra-wide limo. Two classic 60s Cadillacs were conjoined into one massive, sky-blue beauty that easily fills two-lanes.

If you’re looking to carry more than eight folks in the back, you can turn to one of Jay’s longer creations. There’s the 45 foot super-stylized Cadillac which looks like the kind of art-deco masterpiece you might expect to see Salvador Dali stepping out of. If you’re looking to ferry around 40 or so friends you might be tempted to splash out on Jay’s 72-foot Cadillac, if only to experience the joys of a six-person hot tub. It put’s a whole new spin on the concept of carpooling.

However, the last word in limousines (and the world record) belongs to Jay’s 100-foot pride and joy, the “American Dream”. Apart from being spacious enough to transport the teams of NCAA final four together in one vehicle, the American Dream boasts satellite TV service,  two driver’s compartments, and a private owner’s lounge with crystal goblets and candlesticks. Of course the American Dream wouldn’t be complete without the one luxury every Los Angeles commuter has wished for at least once while sitting motionless on a California highway. Yes, that’s right. The American Dream has a landing pad in back for it’s own private helicopter. Sounds like a dream come true!

Michiel Van Kets writes articles for Pinnacle Limousine, a premier New Jersey limousine service with years of experience serving New York City, Long Island and surrounding areas. The company offers a fleet comprising luxury sedans, stretch limousines, and limo party buses.  Limo services New Jersey - limousine rental NY provides comfortable, safe and reliable transfers for special events; conventions, weddings and airport transportation.

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