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Bristol Evening Post

November 3, 2007 Saturday

Custom-made stretch limo is pretty in pink

It is the only limousine of its kind anywhere in the world - and it has just arrived in Bristol.

It is 34 feet long, has its own bar and it is painted bright metallic pink. And it cost a staggering £75,000.

The stretched Excalibur, was custom built in America for Bristol's Book-A.Limo.com.

Managing director Byron Coke said: "Believe me this really does turn heads and I mean 360 degrees."

Byron, who has run his own limousine company for the past seven years, said: "It's about competition. I wanted something completely different, something no one else had.

"There is not another one like it anywhere in the world. It was built exactly to my design."

Byron, from Kingswood, sat down and drew up a list of all things he wanted in the car. Then he ordered an Excalibur limousine from its makers in the United States, had it sent to a specialist to have it stretched and converted and finally had it shipped across the Atlantic.

He said: "The first time I saw the car was when the container was opened in Felixstowe."

There was barely room for Byron to squeeze beside it in the giant container. Minutes later he was behind the wheel heading back to Bristol.

The luxury limousine with its dazzling pink metallic paint, white roof, four exhausts and white walled tyres is a stunning sight.

Byron said: "I wanted it to look really classy. Even if people don't turn as I pass I can see them turning around when I look in my mirrors."

The limousine may have classic looks on the outside but inside it is packed with up to the minute features, including CD and DVD players, TV, surround sound, mood lighting strobes and a fibre optics.

It can manage about 18 miles per gallon and reach a steady 70 mph.

He said there had already been a lot of interest from people wanting to hire the car for parties and weddings.

Byron said he had a lot of bookings and was planning to do a number of charity events before Christmas.

Byron, who has another Excalibur, this time finished in pearl white, arriving in Bristol in the coming weeks said: "I'm just passionate about cars."
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I wounder if it has a coif or he is self drive hire cowboy

The Excaliburs that I have seen have only been able to seat 8 passengers so it will need an SVA and not a COIF. I wonder if he used trade plates to drive it home from the docks?

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Grandad,

I wonder if he has a liquor license, let alone a PH/PSV one.

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IDFIMH

Can you get a license to serve alcohol if your premises are mobile ?

To obtain a drinks license for a limousine it is the operating center that is licensed and all drinks must be ordered from that address. You can't sell drinks in the vehicle itself. The drinks are bought in advance and are then put in the vehicle.

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Grandad,

I think if the booze is supplied by the Limo man, then it's illegal IMO.

Even if it's in the price.

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IDFIMH

You are wrong. If the company has a license at their operating base and also the operator has a personal license, the same as a pub would have, then providing the drinks are sold at the premises and not in the car, this is the correct and legal way to do it. If however the limo company "give" a couple of bottles of bubbly with the hire and they don't have a license, this is illegal. Some operators give a couple of bottles to the person making the booking as a personal gift but I would not like to say if that is ok or not.

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Grandad,

How many limo firms do you know that have liquor licenses for there vehicles?

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IDFIMH

There are loads of them. If they are licensed company's then it is reletivly easy to obtain the drinks license afterall it is the same department that issues both licenses.

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Grandad,

What happens when that vehicle is no-longer in the area for which it has a liquor license?

Yet it is still allowing booze to be consumed.

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IDFIMH

It is not the vehicle that has the license. It is an off sales license from the premises that the company operates from.

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Grandad,

This could be a bit of a grey area as i was led to believe an off licence only sells alchohol for consumption off the premises.

Having said that people buy alcohol on aeroplanes.

Oh well my heads in the clouds again

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=z07K29Fc15U

How many times, The drinks are consumed OFF THE PREMISES. The premises is the place where the business is run from, NOT THE VEHICLE.

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Grandad,

Seems clear enough to me.

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