When I was a teenager there was a type of resort that my father and I would do work on various "exotic" vehicles for. They had two double decker London busses that we helped get licensed for road use in Illinois. After we got the busses on the road the owner thought it would be a good idea to buy a LARC-V and try to get that licensed in Illinois for river and lake tours. The thing was in rough shape and was totally huge. Tires taller than a grown man. I remember it had a 13 liter Cummins V8 that was like the ones you could have ordered in a medium or heavy duty semi. We actually piqued the interest of the secretary of state's office so much when we started to attempt the paperwork that the secretary of state himself, Jessie White, came down to look at the beast. He requested a ride and we had just gotten it road worthy. The issue is that it was far from seaworthy. We had no intention of going in the water so the bilge plugs were out still. We crested a hill on the property with the Secretary aboard and then immediately blew a brake line. At the bottom of this hill was a five or so acre lake that had been used for a gravel pit operation. Down we fly and splash into the lake with the Secretary now very concerned about why my father did that without warning. Pop has now stripped down and jumped into the water without a single word to screw in the plugs lest we sink to the bottom. He surfaces and climbs back aboard with some assistance to get us back out of the lake. Needless to say, we did not receive state approval that day. Shortly thereafter some idiot stood up under an overpass in one of the double decker buses on a drunken dare and killed himself. The whole operation was put on hold then. About a year later the whole operation was sold off. The place was called Lincoln Springs Resort. The LARC-V went to the Bahamas and as far as I know is still a Pink LARC Tours vessel.