There weren't many cars around in 1958 that had room to haul all of Chet Champion's kids, and the cavernous 1949 Cadillac Series 75 Limousine was one of the few.
Somehow, the Champion family wound up with one of the rare limos in their Iron Range town of Hibbing, Minn. The monstrous Caddy didn't have to serve as daily transportation for the family all that often, but it had to be ready when all 10 Champions — and sometimes a few extras — wanted to travel together. The big '49 was always up to the task and 67 years later, it's still in the family and looking as good as ever.
"Yeah, we could fit the whole family in this thing, all 10 of us. There were times I stood up between Mom and Dad in the front seat," recalls Mike Champion, of Roseville, Minn., who now shares custody of the limo with brothers Jon and Dennis. "And sometimes we had a couple of neighbor kids who would come along, so we've had 12 in there! I remember [my brother] and my sister, who is a couple years older than I am, used to argue over who got to sit on the armrest, because as a little kid, you couldn't see out of the windows otherwise."
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