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(To see his son’s motorhome, click here).

“The whole reason I do it is because I want to create things that he and I can do together, and continue to be best friends and grow together.

The motorhome engine has 500 horsepower and 2,450 foot pounds of torque.

The interior has 350 square feet of space, in which are a master bedroom, brazilian wood cabinets, a bunch of TVs, 2 satellite systems, and as you might guess a lot of custom furnishings throughout the unit, and all interior functions and slides are run by a computer — an Apple-based Savant system.

Those computers also allow Shane to monitor the vehicle when friends or family borrow it, and he can communicate with them through it when he sees the speed go up too high.

The motorhome is towing a 28-foot trailer that weighs around 20,000 pounds loaded with a custom ATV.

Luxury Motor Home

This luxury motor home is a Prevost diesel pusher with some features that you won’t find in most motorhomes, like glass tile (not just glass tile, but hand blown glass tile), a computer that comes up out of the counter in the kitchen, and a trap door that leads to a hidden room below.

Actually, tablet computers operate the slides and everything else in the motor home, and there are intercom systems so the door can be answered from the master bedroom, for example.

This RV cost a lot — a million dollars approximately, and belongs to a young man who was only 18 when he first had it.

Ashton Guidry got this RV for high school graduation. His dad Shane owns a Gulf Coast shipping company, and has another motorhome now.

The custom luxury coach’s storage bay — one of them — was converted into a lower-level room. Obviously, it’s not a tall-ceilinged room, but there’s a door to it from the exterior (as a normal bay) and from the floor of the motorhome interior.

The interior of the motorhome is 300 square feet in size, and as you might expect has all custom luxury fixings, like hand-blown glass tiles, custom upholstery, and a lot of electronics. Besides the master bedroom and lower-level room, the couch turns into a sofa bed for more sleeping space. The trailer on the back is an 18 wheel one, and is 28 feet long.

Classic Emeryville

This “letter” comes to us from a fellow by the name of Tony, who’s a member of the Plains, Trains page. We don’t feature too many of these old classics like this, but maybe we should feature more. Here Tony talks about the classic International pictured above:

“I saw you had old cab overs. Here’s my Father’s 1st truck and an owner-operator. Its a ’65 Emereyville.

“It started as a full screw my father had the last axle cut off it had a 220 Cummins an a 10 sp r/r this truck made him the most money over 800,000 miles before he had to go into to the motor he then bought not year it was but he called it a Japanese Frieghtliner it came with a new 270 Cummins and had a 3-way Eaton.. wish i had pictures of that truck

“We saw many of these old 65s redone down in fla years ago..I rode in the that truck with my baby seat bolted to the dog house… I was born a year later.. he wished he never sold it.. 4 years before the old man died we were going across the G.W.B in my car we saw it still running loads my old man went nuts he was 75 an screaming like a young school girl that’s my old truck that’s my old truck when it went out of site going the other way he sat there an cried telling me I should’ve never sold it… that’s my little story sorry for taking up your time.

Thanks, T…

Streets of Monaco Yacht Design

This luxury yacht, or luxury city on board, would be the most expensive personal yacht ever constructed… if anyone wanted to build it bad enough to put up what the designers, Yacht Island Design, think it would cost to build: around 700 million pounds (1000 million dollars). That is an enormous amount of money. Most people prefer a boat that is cheaper, smaller and fits on a dry stack! Although, I must admit having a yacht this size would certainly have some perks. The owner of a yacht this big would have to make sure that their yacht crew tax was perfect! There would be a giant crew to support at a single time! If you are looking for yacht crew tax advice, visit marine accounts for more information.

The yacht is designed to look like the city of Monaco, and features a number of things Monaco city is famous for: a Monte Carlo racetrack, Monte Carlo casino, Hotel de Paris, La Rascasse, Loews Hotel, Cafe de Paris.

Besides the Monaco-themed structures, it also has typical luxury yacht features, like swimming pools, tennis courts, observation decks, helipad, smaller pleasure craft boats, sun patios.

The racetrack on the yacht has go-carts instead of cars, but it has a tunnel complex that circuits around the yacht’s deck.

The yacht is planned for 16 guests and 70 crew. Why so few guests? Well, the bedroom — the biggest bedroom — would be 4,800 square feet in size. In addition to the up-front price tag, running the yacht would be expected to cost tens of millions per year.

Luxury Island Boat Concept

Yacht Island Designs have been working on a type of yacht you might be unfamiliar with.

At least, I somewhat doubt many people have ever set foot on anything like an island mounted on top of a yacht hull. Also, who has a waterfall on their yacht as this one does (in the picture above)?

Do these island yacht designs remind anyone else of the life-immitating architecture of the community development complexes around Dubai? Like the “Palms” complex where from above the layout looks like palm trees?

The yacht design team say themselves that “they like to do things differently.”

Their yachts are designed based on “innovative floating platforms.” They say that this focus — and being releived of having to focus on the things a lot of yacht designers focus on (streamlines, light weight, and other concerns, to name a few), they can pursue their main interest: individuality when it comes to the living space. I’m sure you could find some other pretty mind-blowing yachts from a high-quality yacht charter.

They also have ones that look like little parts of cities, like the Monaco Yacht (click here). To visit the company, (click here).

Strand Craft Superyacht

This super yacht has some pretty sleek lines, I think you’d say, and quite a bit of power to boot. It’s a Strand Craft 122, designed by the Strand Designs team, who have been at it for over 10 years now.

They work in conceptual yacht design, as well as other design (recently, they have been marketing their high-powered ski-doo). Besides design itself, they also have shipyards and yacht production manufacturing facilities to build whatever they need to (within reason).

The Strand Craft 122 is a 125-foot boat (38 meters long), and as you can see from the photo above, it tapers down in the front and into an arched rear. Also in the photo you can see the all-glass covered yacht cockpit / atrium. The idea I guess is a panoramic view while motoring along. For power, the yacht has MTU 16V4000 diesel engines (2 of them, for a total combined horsepower of 9,220, although there’s also a 14,000 horsepower option). If you’re needing high-quality fuel and additives for your diesel engine (yacht or not!), Lucas Fuels offers fuel delivery.

The construction is high gloss mahogany on the foredeck. Carbon fiber for the main construction.

For comforts, there are 4 double staterooms with heads, and also areas for reception, a solon, and crew areas.

They also market these yachts with the luxury features they install in them, like 52-inch LED TVs and expensive stereo systems.

These yachts can go up to 50 knots (the 14,000 horsepower version),

And besides the yacht itself, it comes with a car garage … and a car inside the garage. The car that comes with this yacht is a Tender supercar.

Bugatti Yacht Design

This luxury yacht design is by designer Ben Walsh (currently at the Advanced Design studio of GM in the United Kingdom), and it was designed while Walsh looked at the styling of the Bugatti Veyron Grand Sport Sang Bleu. Following that hypercar, this luxury yacht design is known as the “Sang Bleu.”

It’s a 30-foot yacht design based on carbon fiber / aluminum construction for the exterior. Not only is the Bugatti yacht a modern design, it is also a reference to past times at Bugatti.

The yacht hearkens back to the 1920’s, when Bugatti founder Ettore Bugatti considered the idea of buliding exclusive, high-powered motor-powered boats.

Bugattis idea was for the boat to carry their passengers across the Atlantic ocean in speed and comfort.

The Bugatti ocean-crossing yacht idea never came to fruition, and one might expect that boat would have been longer than this 30-foot powerboat, but this Walsh design is getting a lot of attention for its lines.

Adastra Yacht

This luxury yacht design — the Adastra Yacht — is an English offering by John Shuttleworth at Shuttleworth designs, a naval architecture company that’s been in business for over 35 years.

This is an iPad-controlled super yacht, reportedly, in addition to, I assume, conventional controls.

It’s called the Adastra, and the designer said of it,” 20 years ago, I knew we’d be able to do a boat like this sometime. I started sailing very young, and that was the first sort of real freedom. You’re off. I saw a boat that was being built and I thought ‘How does somebody design that? That’s amazing.’ And it went from there.”

This super yacht trimaran was launched in 2012 for Hong Kong clients.

Some notable yacht design features:

It is purported to be faster in open ocean waters due to the slender hulls and streamlined body.

And it’s lightweight: carbon fiber lights, toilet and other features made out of the lightweight yacht material help with speed.

For comfort, there are 3 cabins and as in the picture you can see a panoramic window for what might be a great in-cabin yachting experience.

To visit Shuttleworth yacht design, (click here).