04
February
2010

Abu Dhabi – car Museum today the pink Benz times

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The original condition of the vehicles is usually important in a car Museum. Not so with Sheikh Hamad, Hamdan Bin Al Nahyan. He has compiled a collection of extremes – by massively grandiose tasteless.

Is it a mirage? In the middle of the endless Stupc of the Arabian Desert, a pyramid from the haze has suddenly surfaced, surrounded by Palm trees. A huge aircraft parked in the sand, close is a Willys Jeep, the army, but he is so large that an adult male hardly reaches him of the hub. The bizarre collection of superlatives is not hallucination in the shimmering heat of desert sand, but one of the most fascinating car museums in the world.

Emirates National Auto Museum has thanks to the Emirate of Abu Dhabi a man, who became world famous through his car craze. Sheikh Hamad bin Hamdan Al Nahyan is a member of the Royal family and his cars as other people change their socks. He intended to have hundreds of vehicles, and there are not only sports car or luxury cars. “Cars are me very much,” so the Sheikh in an interview, “they belong to the good stuff on Earth.” “It depends on only that we can properly deal with them”.

The car fan called because of his fondness for the colors of the Rainbow “Rainbow-Sheikh” constructed even special all-wheel drive buggies and tests them in the desert sands. And while other people be satisfied with an ordinary camping trailers, the Rainbow Sheikh has the greatest caravan of the world course. The camper built in 1990 is 20 metres long and higher than a House. The 120-ton vehicle offers eight rooms and just as many bathrooms on two floors and has four garages can cause a water capacity of 24,000 litres with it – so it records the Guinness Book of world records.

Appropriate vehicle has Hamad bin Hamdan Al Nahyan also on offer. It attracts all glances in the huge windowless metal pyramid, which houses the Museum. The high-fidelity copy of a Dodge power wagon on a scale of 4: 1 is 15 meters long, nine metres high and brings 50 tons on the scales. The monster car has so much ground clearance, that real pick-ups can easily go under him through. And it has even a motor, with which it can – move only in the creep speed. A complete mobile home equipment is located in the Interior, and the giant imitated grille openings you can see the air conditioners.

When all the superlatives, you lose the other 200 cars in the Museum almost from the eye, but also are more than a second look worth. As all-wheel fan, the Rainbow Sheikh has collected various all-terrain vehicle. So, the history of the Jeep of the pattern can be as well admire G models, Land Rover, Suzuki Kraxler in all shapes and colors to various license dwellings. Many cars are fitted with rainbow colored ornamental Strip, and also with gold is not saved. A real eye catcher for friends of combative taste is a Mercedes 450 SEL with gold-plated grille, and leather in Rainbow colors.

Who has digested this sight, the collection of seven Mercedes S class can are no longer the. Because the Rainbow Sheikh has let also of course painting in all colours of the Rainbow, namely including wheels, Interior and Mercedes Star: for every day of the week another car. The high-profile collection of American Landyacht and muscle cars faded almost, however, although the perfectly restored Cadillacs, Chevrolets and Pontiacs offer a nice counterpoint to the wild Rainbow tuning.

The Rainbow Sheikh, who opens his Museum for visitors free of charge, has not only eyes for thick slides and monster trucks. On a pedestal, a faithful replica of the first Benz Motorwagens, Park and if it is then, can Hamad bin Hamdan Al Nahyan even in the own Trabi crossing through the desert. The two-stroke mixture should be difficult to get in the Emirates, but it lies dormant still enough oil under the desert sand.


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