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-Akshay-
07-06-2005, 04:54 PM
Sultan of Brunei's possesses an Airbus 340 aircraft which was "remodeled" in Waco. The sinks are solid gold and one of them is Lalique crystal. The Sultan bought the aircraft for roughly $100M; had it flown to Waco, brand-new, had the interior completely removed; and had the folks at E-Systems (now Raytheon) install $120M worth of improvements inside and outside.

Have a look:

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/2351/image0015oa.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/2050/image0027nl.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/8223/image0035lr.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/2718/image0045lf.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/2636/image0052bb.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/2290/image0069xt.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/2463/image0076af.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/2992/image0088so.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/3618/image0092lu.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/7476/image0102eu.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

SFDMALEX
07-06-2005, 05:08 PM
Holly shit, useless but impressive.

Z3uS
07-06-2005, 05:08 PM
Holy shit! It must be so good to be billionaire :shock:
Although, i think this is too exagrated.

TT
07-06-2005, 05:27 PM
Just too much I guess :bah: but the last picture rocks!

marktak
07-06-2005, 05:35 PM
Had these posted before (http://www.motorworld.net/forum/showthread.php?t=18097&highlight=brunei), but you have some new pics with it Akshay, nice ones man! Thanks!

-Akshay-
07-06-2005, 05:38 PM
Had these posted before (http://www.motorworld.net/forum/showthread.php?t=18097&highlight=brunei), but you have some new pics with it Akshay, nice ones man! Thanks!
wow in 2004?
my bad

callen
07-06-2005, 05:42 PM
That is an awesome conversion! I love the leather couches! the wood in the plane is top notch too, great stuff :D !

MIHALS
07-06-2005, 05:45 PM
:shock: I wouldn't want to polish all that stuff... :mrgreen:

ARMAN
07-06-2005, 06:08 PM
Indeed useless crap, he should by himself an Enzo or F40 instead of this :mrgreen: jk

graywolf624
07-06-2005, 06:17 PM
Indeed useless crap, he should by himself an Enzo or F40 instead of this
As we all know he has both..;)
The plane is a bit extravagent, but hey, its his money.

SFDMALEX
07-07-2005, 12:48 AM
/\/\/\ But you have to understand that he has enough money for that plane and his own race track, and one more of these planes, and one more race track. :wink:

If I had so much damn money Id prolly do the same....Well actually Id try to help thrid world countries and help clean up corrupt east european countries.

SilviaEvo
07-07-2005, 12:52 AM
wow that is nice!!! hell id be happy with a lear jet

mclaren_Gt
07-07-2005, 01:02 AM
that detals are in gold?
http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/2992/image0088so.jpg

Sir_GT
07-07-2005, 02:15 AM
Ummm... maybe it's because to him, there's no such thing as "wasting" money? That term is only relevant to those who have a certain supply. Such as the rest of mankind.

He's a bloody king. It's like those kings in medieval times, except instead of ornate horse carraiges and whatnot, this guy is doing it the modern way and doing it to planes and cars.

Also, it's good to work for the sultan. He pays handsomely, and when he's tired of certain cars, he gives them away to staff.

Wutputt
07-07-2005, 01:01 PM
I don't like such vast amounts of gold. If I would be customising my Airbus - not that I will ever own one - I would be using more materials as titanium, carbon fibre, and brushed aluminium to give my Airbus interior a personal exclusive touch. I never really liked the colour of gold. In small amounts it looks fine. But in such huge amounts it looks a bit ugly to me.

Toronto
07-07-2005, 01:16 PM
meh, but does he have real friends :D not ones that are just in it for the money?

davide
07-07-2005, 04:06 PM
if i had that much money i would atleast made it good looking and not repulsive.. gold sinks? cmon..


still, I envy him.

graywolf624
07-07-2005, 05:33 PM
At least he keeps plenty of people employed creating and maintaining that monstrosity.

ARMAN
07-07-2005, 05:59 PM
I think noone of us now is in a position he is in so at our level we would choose somethingelse but in his level we'd probaly waste money... even worse :lol:

dutchmasterflex
07-08-2005, 06:08 AM
man i always wanted a golden remote control to match my gold private airbus!

komotar
07-08-2005, 06:35 AM
ugly inside, but impressive...

Sir_GT
07-08-2005, 10:57 PM
meh, but does he have real friends :D not ones that are just in it for the money?

He maintains a harem of women. Reportedly over 3000. He and the other royal men simply choose a room every night.

I would rather have that than friends. ;)

bmagni
07-08-2005, 11:03 PM
really impressive, it has some hideous stuff, but anyway, i guess he doesnt find anything to spend money in so he buys stupid shit like gold sinks

Wutputt
07-09-2005, 03:23 PM
He maintains a harem of women. Reportedly over 3000. He and the other royal men simply choose a room every night.
So, if he would have sex with a different girl of his harem every 3 hours of the day, it would take him over a year to have sex with the first girl again :shock: That's kind of cool :D

yg60m
07-10-2005, 01:35 PM
Impressive but not very good taste :wink:

dangerously_cool
07-16-2005, 04:37 AM
Am I the only one who would opt for seatbelts there?

MartijnGizmo
07-16-2005, 05:05 AM
Am I the only one who would opt for seatbelts there?

Only if they come in gold.....

dangerously_cool
07-16-2005, 05:28 AM
Well, the buckles can, I"m sure that he could find a way to make the belts themselves gold...

Skaala
07-23-2005, 11:00 AM
looks kind of like donald trumps appartment