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19-05-2005, 06:26 PM
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Fairmont Ghia
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From the vaults of www.eurofordclub.com, and in my interest of sharing amazing aircraft, I present:
Sultan of Brunei's personal Airbus A340 Modified in Waco, Texas, by Raytheon, at a modification cost of $US 150 million! Yes, the aircraft has sinks of solid gold, although one is made of Lalique Crystal!     
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19-05-2005, 06:27 PM
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Fairmont Ghia
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    Incredible! Tim |
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19-05-2005, 06:31 PM
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Automotive Photographer
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Unbelieveable. :sm_drool:
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19-05-2005, 06:32 PM
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BLOODY HELL! Talk about loaded!
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19-05-2005, 06:35 PM
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Yeah ill have me one of them !
Chris
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19-05-2005, 06:39 PM
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19-05-2005, 06:42 PM
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Afterburner + skids =
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Nice one! So much GOLD!
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19-05-2005, 06:45 PM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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**** me thats nice. PIMPN
Q: So what do you drive sultan? A: I dont drive i fly baby lol |
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19-05-2005, 06:47 PM
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they call me Tibbo
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hmmm 5000 cars hey,, you'd have to take the picture from space.... That is plane is opulence at the finest...
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19-05-2005, 06:52 PM
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19-05-2005, 06:58 PM
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FF.Com.Au Hardcore
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19-05-2005, 07:09 PM
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Lane HO
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Wow.. Better than most homes, I could surely live there the rest of my life. Learn to fly and go anywhere you like.. Looks like something of Star Trek, or even better.
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19-05-2005, 07:11 PM
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Giddy up.
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What an absolute waste of money, he obvesiouly has more money than sense, I agree he can enjoy his wealth and good on him but there is so much wasted money spent by people like him that could be better spent elsewhere.
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19-05-2005, 07:12 PM
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Thats fricking awesome! but where would you park it? you'd have to get your own parking place at different airports.
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19-05-2005, 07:35 PM
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No longer driving a Ford.
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Maybe I'm weird, but the first thing to come to my mind when I saw those pics was "Titanic"...
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19-05-2005, 07:43 PM
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19-05-2005, 07:45 PM
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19-05-2005, 07:45 PM
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a foot note should be had too that due to all the solid gold that it can only carry 1 passenger as it is too damn heavy to take off!   :
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19-05-2005, 07:53 PM
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Hmm, "Tropical Brunei" sign in the first pic... could it all be written of as "advertising"...
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19-05-2005, 08:09 PM
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Blueprint Beast
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Now that's what i call luxury
Cheers John
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19-05-2005, 08:27 PM
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mmm mirrors on the roof above the bed. bit of a player eh?
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19-05-2005, 08:40 PM
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Where can i get one of them?!
BLOODY AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!
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19-05-2005, 08:56 PM
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Meanwhile a great many of his subjects live in abject poverty,for a country so small he could quite easily fix that with the gold plated dome off his palace.
Personally I don't have to much time for ppl like that and I have met one of his sons...during the Cannonball Run,not one word of english or so he had us believe.
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19-05-2005, 09:32 PM
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GT4.
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WOw that is just so bloody cool! I wish i had it! theres not much more to say really... Its awesome!
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20-05-2005, 12:08 AM
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Lane HO
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Let's not turn this into a political thread.. Many countries could spend their money elsewhere without having to name anyway.
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20-05-2005, 12:16 AM
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LPG > You
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What a show off.
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20-05-2005, 12:20 AM
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Shoot.
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Whoooooooooooooooooa!
I am pretty positive a while back I read back that he has many CUSTOM cars.. But when I say custom, I mean station wagon variants of Ferraris etc!
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20-05-2005, 12:21 AM
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I just look at it and think what a ***** it would be to clean...
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20-05-2005, 07:53 AM
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U think thats awesome, check this out: !!!
ABOUT REAL ESTATE: Bill Gates' spacious mansion beats president's living quarters May 13, 2005 Dear David: Is the White House the largest private residence in the United States? Dear Reader: No, not by a long shot. The 132-room residential portion of the White House is dwarfed by many other U.S. homes, including Microsoft founder Bill Gates' 66,000-square-foot lakefront compound in Medina, Wash. (replete with a 60-foot-long pool with underwater sound system and reception hall that can accommodate 150 for a formal dinner), and the 18,000-square-foot, 25-acre waterfront estate in New York's Hamptons that pharmaceutical magnate Stewart Rahr purchased for about $45 million. Yet even the properties owned by Gates and Rahr seem modest when compared with the home of the Sultan of Brunei. His palace has a staggering 2.15 million square feet of floor space -- roughly the same as the entire Empire State Building -- and 1,788 rooms. The sultan's property is known as the Istana Nurul Iman Palace. Guinness World Records lists it as the largest residence in the world. |
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20-05-2005, 08:54 AM
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Back Seat Driver
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Well I love a bit of luxury and there's something so inpiring about great aesthetics but I honestly don't think all that gold would make me any happier than if it was all sterling silver. You can make a place look great without covering it in gold. Seems to me its solely for the purpose of showing off how rich he is. And really, how sad is that.
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Inside the Sultan of Brunei's personal Airbus A340
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