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In 1952, a man in Chicago built a motorhome so large it needed a special government permit to drive through almost every state in America. It was 65 feet long. It weighed 18 tons. And it came with a fully functional collapsible swimming pool and a diving board. This is the story of the 1952 Mid-States Executive Flagship, the most ambitious motorhome ever constructed in the United States and, almost certainly, the world. Designed by company president William B. MacDonald and built in California by his design team, the Executive Flagship was meant to be the flagship of a new era in American luxury road travel. It never found a single buyer. The numbers alone were staggering. A 128-horsepower International truck motor. Ten forward speeds. A 26-foot front tractor wheelbase permanently joined to a rear living section that housed a seven-foot bird's-eye maple bar, two refrigerators, a wine cellar, wall-to-wall carpeting, a 21-inch television, an intercom system, a radiotelephone, and two separate bathrooms. The upper rear deck was reinforced heavily enough to serve as a helicopter landing pad. The collapsible steel swimming pool, stored in the rear during travel, could be erected at any stopping point with its own diving board extending from the vehicle roofline. The price tag in 1952 was $75,000, roughly ten times the cost of a new family home. MacDonald took the Flagship on a promotional tour across the United States. Arizona was the only state that let it pass without a special oversize permit. Towns along Route 66 knew it was coming before it arrived. Lines of fairgoers stretched into the street to walk through it. Popular Science called it the most exciting mobile home in the world. No one wrote a check. The story of the Executive Flagship is also the story of a dream that arrived in exactly the wrong decade. The postwar American dream was a ranch house and a new washing machine, not a 65-foot articulated land yacht with a swimming pool. By the late 1950s, the Flagship had gone into storage. Mid-States was sold to aircraft manufacturer Vought in 1960. By 1965, a young man named Ronald Heilman found the Flagship decaying in a St. Petersburg, Florida storage lot, its roof caved and its interior stripped, the curved steel sections of the collapsible pool still stacked in the rear. He walked away. A few months later, the Flagship was gone. Only photographs remain of the most extraordinary motorhome America ever built. If this story reached you, please subscribe to Old Camper Stories USA and leave a comment below telling us where you are watching from. Your support keeps these stories alive. #oldcamper #vintagecamper #oldcamperstoriesusa #classicmotorhome #1950sroadtrip #historicalcamperdocumentary #americanroads

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