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It's extremely rare and very hard to restore,&quot; Mr Harborne said of the car.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle looks like a mixture of a hearse and an ambulance and it's safe to say he will stand out when driving down the road, as he has installed four light bars on top and 158 miles of wire to power them.<\/p>\n<p>It is not the first time Mr Harborne has taken on a project of this size, as he previously updated an A-Team van.<\/p>\n<p>Posted by Mark Wilkins<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-2867-ID-801354766-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=2867&amp;itemid=801354766\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Harborne spent over &pound;50,000 rebuilding a Cadillac so it resembles a Ghostbusters car. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lads-mag-for-armed-forces"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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