00:00 The USS Compensator handles like a cruise ship on choppy water.
00:08 Why did you choose to build this?
00:09 Why not?
00:10 Howdy, howdy.
00:11 How are you?
00:12 Can I get a large ice water, please?
00:20 This is a one of a kind rig.
00:22 Thank you.
00:23 And it was more of a challenge myself than anything else.
00:25 I wanted to see what was the biggest, most impractical vehicle I can build.
00:30 And what's bigger and longer than a limo, nonetheless, a lifted limo.
00:35 This was a massive build on a mini budget.
00:39 Jordan bought a Lincoln Town Car limo for $1,200 and set about his monster conversion.
00:45 It took me about three months to put this whole thing together.
00:48 Three months of day and year, 12 hour days, building this 99% myself with minimal hand
00:54 tools, a welder, torch, plasma cutter, a grinder, an impact, and a handful of wrenches.
01:01 I spent between $8,000 to $10,000, and that's including the price of the limo.
01:07 I was like a kid in a candy shop, every bit of the progress.
01:12 Why did you choose to build this?
01:14 Why not?
01:15 I've always wanted a limo for a long time.
01:18 I've always saw limos and thought they were really unique rigs.
01:21 Meet the Compensator.
01:23 This is unofficially the tallest Lincoln Town Car in the United States.
01:28 Come on up, it won't hurt.
01:30 So, the name's pretty self-explanatory.
01:35 The Compensator is powered by a 4.6 liter engine, has air ride suspension, and it's
01:41 sporting some pretty impressive rubber.
01:44 These are military grade spec tire.
01:47 I purchased them off of eBay.
01:49 They're a 53-inch tall by a 16 wide.
01:52 They sit on a 20 by 14 wheel.
01:55 The weight on one tire is 380 pounds apiece.
02:00 The wheel itself is 55 pounds apiece, so you're over grossing 400 pounds per wheel and tire
02:07 on each one of these.
02:08 So, I've added over 1,600 pounds of weight to this limo just in the drivetrain alone.
02:15 While it's all fun and games off-road, navigating in town is a bit of a challenge.
02:22 The car is not useful.
02:24 It's hard to park.
02:25 It's hard to drive around town.
02:27 I gotta watch my corners, watch my blind spots at all times.
02:31 Just for driving, I have a hammer mounted in the front and mounted in the rear.
02:34 I typically keep them on at all times when I'm driving down the road.
02:38 Unfortunately, I can't go through most drive-thrus anymore.
02:41 The limo barely fit as it was bone stocked through drive-thrus.
02:44 I max out the height bar, and it's not the easiest to park.
02:48 The limo itself is kind of a challenge.
02:50 I normally take up two spots, unfortunately.
02:53 Sometimes three or four.
02:54 Normally, it'll catch me at the very end of a parking lot, not up front.
02:59 The turning radius on the limo now is actually just slightly worse than it was stock.
03:05 The turn radius when it was stock was very terrible.
03:08 Now it's just a little bit worse than that.
03:12 But that's the fun of it.
03:13 I love the challenge of navigating through town.
03:16 It's like an off-road course inside city limits.
03:21 The USS Compensator handles like a cruise ship on choppy water.
03:26 This is a hobby of mine, and that's where this has started out.
03:29 Just having a passion and throwing stuff together and going, "I want to build this.
03:33 Now, how do I make it work?
03:35 How do the puzzle pieces fit?"
03:37 And so far, they fit pretty good.
03:39 There's still kinks that I'm working out.
03:42 I've already had cash offers for this thing.
03:44 I'm like, "As much as I'd like to sell this and build something cooler, I don't think
03:48 I could get rid of this one.
03:49 I don't think I could sell the USS Compensator.
03:52 It's almost too sentimental now."
03:55 I use it for just driving around, showing it off, showing off my hobby, my project,
03:59 my work so far.
04:01 It's just an impractical vehicle that can be dailied, and luckily enough, it's street
04:05 legal in the state of Oregon.
04:07 And I love the six-foot longhorns.
04:09 They are kind of my pride and joy.
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