Donald Trump’s business acumen is often punted by those endorsing him at the polls. Well, that and his overt racism that seems to resonate with so many.

Of course one of the many things we have learnt about Trump during his run at president is the sheer number of failed business ventures that paved the way to his modern-day riches.

We touched on five back in the day, you can check those out HERE.

What we never mentioned is the first thing that Trump actually put his name to, which happened to be a pair of Cadillac limousines known as the Trump Executive Series and the Trump Golden Series. Jalopnik describes them as follows:

The limos were pretty much exactly what you’d expect from a 1988-era Donald Trump, or today’s Donald Trump: luxurious, over-the-top, and with gold slathered over everything that stayed still just for a moment.

These limos had rosewood interiors and were equipped with a fax machine, TV and VCR (so you could tape Dynasty and watch it at your leisure), a paper shredder, writing desks, a pair of early NEC cell phones, and a cabinet with glasses and the delightfully-named Perm-a-Pub liquor dispensing system, for keeping everyone nice and liquored up while deals are getting done.

The exteriors were also suitably Trumpified, with larger grilles with vertically-oriented slats, sort of vaguely Rolls-Royce-ish, an enlarged greenhouse for more headroom (likely to provide arm/equipment clearance for the intense hair maintenance Trump requires), a large stainless-steel B-pillar panel, and, on the Golden Series, gold plated trim all over the place, including gold-stripe tires by Vogue.

It seems that Trump had promised to buy 50 of these limos from Cadillac, with those first two serving as prototypes. That never went to plan, Trump buying just one of the two Cadillacs made before walking away happy with his side of the bargain.

You’ll never see this one get much media attention, but given the fact that he writes international headlines every day with his mouth that’s no surprise.

[source:jalopnik]