In 1994 Sheikh Hamad bin Hamdan Al Nahyan created this Goliath Dodge Power Wagon as a monument to his favorite automobile.. Inside it contains a fully furnished 4 bedroom apartment with a bathroom, kitchen, and living room.. The best part about this massive vehicle is that it actually drives!!

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phlebonaut@reddit

Looks like cult headquarters from the 80s.

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The_Nabisco_Thing@reddit (OP)

That is definitely an aesthetic I get!... my wife said the interior shots really creeped her out lol!

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Especially Heaven's Gate, culminating with their mass suicide in the late 1990s. I remember the media being able to tour it and air videotape foot they took during the tour. Every bedroom was packed with as many military surplus bunk bed sets as each could fit, all on industrial carpeting in neutral colors.

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Total_Feedback1676@reddit

is there a photo of the drivers seat anywhere?

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cinesota@reddit

Spends a fortune building the thing then furnishes it with literally the ugliest, cheapest looking furniture known to man.

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bmk37@reddit

It ain’t good if it doesn’t look like a 1980’s Econolodge

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80degreeswest@reddit

Lots of people had furniture that looked like that in 1994, just 30 years later it looks pretty ugly

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Queerbunny@reddit

Ya looks like where I’ve eaten many a church luncheon lol

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RogerMiller6@reddit

He definitely covered any possible ‘bathroom use’ preference anyone could have, though…

Western toilet, squat toilet AND a bidet!

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MikeTheNight94@reddit

Where do it go though?

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jabbadarth@reddit

Poor servants walked below it and caught it in buckets.

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MikeTheNight94@reddit

They just leaving a trial of turds through the desert at 8mph

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MonolithicBaby@reddit

Out the tail pipe

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The_Nabisco_Thing@reddit (OP)

Sand..

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RogerMiller6@reddit

Eh… just ‘out’. They’re in the desert. It’s basically just a giant litterbox, right?

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jabbadarth@reddit

Yeah that was what stood out to me too.

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55pilot@reddit

Squat pot!

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iammonkeyorsomething@reddit

I thought those were drinking fountains

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CanaveralSB@reddit

No one’s stopping you.

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FetusExplosion@reddit

Wow it looks like a really cheap air bnb.

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MagnaVoce@reddit

Don’t forget, it was 1994 in the Middle East.

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Lexa-Z@reddit

Middle eastern aesthetics in a nutshell

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bmk37@reddit

Imagine seeing this roll up in a mad max world

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MRDR1NL@reddit

I thought tha small one was an RC haha

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Starchaser_WoF@reddit

So where does the driver go?

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Poagie_Mahoney@reddit

Look closely at the first photo. There's a window behind the grill, on the same side as the license plate. It looks like there's some sort of tinting with the windows, but in a light grey rather than a dark black—compare to the windows for the main bedroom where the upper cab is, how they're also greyed-out.

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CabinInWoofs@reddit

I saw it in person at the museum and it's so massive. I'm shorter than the wheel's height. But unfortunately they don't let you go up to the rooms

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Major-Tourist-5696@reddit

The apartment was based on a motel 6

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asromatifoso@reddit

It's amazing, even if it only gets 9 feet to the gallon!

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Sgt-Pumpernickle@reddit

To be fair, if has a lot of gallons…

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55pilot@reddit

With gobs of money, a person can buy........ ANYTHING.

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kelsobjammin@reddit

In the Middle East gas is cheap right?

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The_Nabisco_Thing@reddit (OP)

This 1996 segment from Jeremy Clarkson's Motorworld S2E6 showcases the truck.. It's a great video and has a killer soundtrack...definitely worth the watch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8GdadQzMeo

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willisit@reddit

Glad you posted that. He's in picture 2. :)

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FlyThink7908@reddit

Thanks for sharing all these links. What a rabbit hole!

Man, I‘d love to see some images of the cockpit though

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marssaxman@reddit

Wow, I really love the lifted Mercedes with monster tires - straight out of Fury Road, that one.

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HurryOk5256@reddit

I have never been as pleasantly surprised with the soundtrack of a YouTube clip as I was with this. When they’re going over the power wagon, and welcome to the machine kicks in it’s just perfection. 🙏 I forgot just how great music can make you feel, to caught up with other nonsense.

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jefftatro1@reddit

Inconceivable wealth. When someone gets named "richest man in the world" these people smile and say "good for you, splendid achievement".

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PetraFriedChicken@reddit

Typical truck driver energy

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andersaur@reddit

Between the Jeeeeeeep, this thing, and generally tacky taste in all things absurd-expensive, there’s an honesty in this exclusive niche culture. I don’t get it, I’m not invited anyway, but I sure do see it. It’s like handing a small kid $50k at LegoLand and they have one hour to spend it all. Feels kinda like that, just with oil money up to the gills.

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TERRAVEX_357@reddit

Okay, holy shit, I never thought this day would come that that one timy tidbit of information in my brain would be useful. Those tires are the exact same tires used on Kenworth 963 ultra heavy duty oilfield trucks. Look them up if you don't know about them. Those trucks are my favourite and I got way too excited when they were added to snowrunner, one of my favourite games.

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thekrebscycle@reddit

No way. They're definitely something from heavy machinery but that Kenworth isn't that big. The tires on this thing are like 8 feet

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TERRAVEX_357@reddit

Yeah, upon further research online, I found out they're from moving land oil rigs. I edited my comment and also put a video with one of those oil rigs.

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thekrebscycle@reddit

No worries, that's a sweet video, thanks for posting it!

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Your_Spirit_Animals@reddit

They could be a custom tire from one of companies that make monster truck tires.

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Big-man-kage@reddit

I literally just commented and asked if those were the same tires and didn’t look far enough down in the comments to see your comment haha

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TERRAVEX_357@reddit

Yeah, but the ting is, they're not from the 963. The 963 ones are like half the size. These are from mobile land oil rigs. I put a video and pic in my comment, but I originally thought the same thing. Compared to these tyres, the 963 looks tiny lol.

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dirtiestUniform@reddit

I was looking and wondering what tires are actually that huge, I glad you knew this so I didn't have to spend any time looking it up, Thanks!

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TERRAVEX_357@reddit

Hey, I just wanted to let you know that I made a major mistake. They're not from the Kenworth 963, rather from a moving land oil rig. I'll admit that I didn't even know they existed until now. I have edited my comment and put a video of one there and the tire size matches up. Since the oil rig in the video is newer, the tread pattern doesn't match sadly.

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TERRAVEX_357@reddit

Glad I could help lmao.

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adam1260@reddit

Same tread pattern but nowhere near as big as the ones on this power wagon

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TERRAVEX_357@reddit

Yep, moving oil rig wheels. Researched further online and found an article stating that and, comparing them to images I've seen online and the video I attached to the edit of my comment, they're definitely from moving land oil rigs. Thanks for the heads up, for some reason I misremembered the size of the Kenworth tires.

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Big-man-kage@reddit

Are those the tires from those massive oilfield trucks?? For example: a Kenworth 963

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carlosdsf@reddit

Thank you for this post! :)

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The_Nabisco_Thing@reddit (OP)

No prob!

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MlackBesa@reddit

Incredible to think dude had all the interior furnished and probably used it once or twice, or maybe never. I doubt anyone’s ever slept in those smaller beds or used the kitchen at all.

Truly a « for the man who already has everything » moment.

Also, didn’t some dude from the region do the exact same with a Hummer H1 ?

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The_Nabisco_Thing@reddit (OP)

He's the same guy that did the Hummer!

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ashzeppelin98@reddit

He made an equally humongous Hummer H1 as well.

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TrailerPosh2018@reddit

What is this? A truck for titans?

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spideyghetti@reddit

All that money and the bedrooms look like dankass hostels

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RearAdmiralP@reddit

The dankass hostel looking bedrooms are probably for the help.

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ImaginaryPresence852@reddit

Do all the weird wheels come from fucking Saudi Arabia?

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redbiteX1@reddit

I’m disappointed with the decor, there’s no gold toilet

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jon_hendry@reddit

Man cooking a rat over a fire insurance companies a cave, talking to scruffy children in rags

“Well kids, life was great until uncontrolled use of fossil fuels caused the climate disaster and ended civilization. But a guy made a giant useless truck, so it’s not a total loss.”

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Viharabiliben@reddit

When you have too much money and don’t know what to spend it on.

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ro9ce@reddit

They really didn’t spare any expense on that interior /s

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55pilot@reddit

At dinner time, where do they kill the goat?

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Spocks_Goatee@reddit

So technically this would count as the world's biggest monster truck?

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996forever@reddit

would love to see the driver seat

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CreativeBuilds23@reddit

iv went to the place since its a few minutes away from where i live and its just a normal seat and steering setup inside Infront of the grille

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Euhn@reddit

CAAANYONARRROOOOOO

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TomDreyfus@reddit

I had to scroll way too far to find this. Thanks for saying exactly what I first thought when I saw this!

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nau_lonnais@reddit

God bless ppl with money and imagination. Why not. Very cool story.

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hankjmoody@reddit

I love that I can recognize Clarkson, even that blurry, just from his hair in photo #2. Haha.

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Horror-Raisin-877@reddit

Cost millions but looks like some cheap s- - t fishing shack on the inside. Amazing.

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CO420Tech@reddit

Pretty wicked. How rich and bored do you have to be to commission this? This guy level, apparently.

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b16b34r@reddit

TIL Arabs are tiny people/J

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Moist_Arm_7860@reddit

Living out of a car went to new levels

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Erection_unrelated@reddit

I just want them to put some better tires on it. Maybe from a big mining dump truck?

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Queef-Supreme@reddit

Jesus that furniture is gaudy even by 90’s standards.

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Shatalroundja@reddit

The tacky interior is incredible.

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WhiskeyMikeMike@reddit

I love power wagons

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hollandaisesawce@reddit

Hi!

I’d like to book the entire RV park.

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rockercaster@reddit

Man is playing Minecraft creative mode IRL

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SedanDevil@reddit

It is a fun afternoon to go and visit the Rainbow Sheikh's pyramid and see all his vehicles.

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djscoots10@reddit

Neat

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DirtyDoucher1991@reddit

He built a humvee too!

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Whole-Debate-9547@reddit

That is beyond cool. He murdered the interior with some terribly cheesy color schemes but I imagine with his kinda money it wouldn’t be too much to update it to a more modern style. I can’t imagine the amount of time and fabrication it took to create this behemoth.