Car show….in Riyadh Saudi Arabia

[1973Barracuda]

So, I work in Saudi Arabia. A friend told me about a car show, was not sure what I would see. The show was decent sized, lots of different makes, from Rolls Royces to VWs. Good stuff.

I spoke with the owner of a 69 Camaro and he told me they actually do Cars and Coffee here. Will hit that up next week.

 

[C2ndLTpigeon]

Didn't think you would see clean muscle cars over there! Awesome.

 

[Princess Valiant]

any 69 Roadrunners? i might be familiar with one there....

 

[1973Barracuda]

Was only one RR there.
One Swinger, a few 71-74 b bodies.

 

[1973Barracuda]

Twin turbo B

 

[1973Barracuda]

Cool Phoenix

 

[1973Barracuda]

Gas is just over 2$ here BTW.

 

[mopardude62]

Nice pics, thanks for sharing!!

 

[A56]

Any Americans own them or all Saudi's? BTW gas use to be that cheap here until 11 months ago.

 

[Joey4speed]

I remember about 4 or so years ago at the Dead Man's Curve 3 day car show in Mahwah NJ.
My family and I were walking around and all of a sudden a large helicopter circles around and lands near the food court, napkins and cups flying everywhere, what a mess.
So the door opens, and out jump two secret service looking dudes, they seem to eyeball the place and take positions. Then out comes this Shiek, in full garb, with headdress, sunglasses and sandals, accompanied by a few other people.
The entourage walks around looking at all the muscle cars.
I kinda walked away from the crowd to enjoy the show, there were hundreds of nice cars there.
Later, the helicopter took off.
One of the area security guys told us he just bought a few rare cars, and one was a Hemi. They're getting shipped out tomorrow.
Unbelievable but true.
I couldn't help but thinking, the Arabs may have the "oil", but USA got the "muscle".

 

[A56]

I remember about 4 or so years ago at the Dead Man's Curve 3 day car show in Mahwah NJ.
My family and I were walking around and all of a sudden a large helicopter circles around and lands near the food court, napkins and cups flying everywhere, what a mess.
So the door opens, and out jump two secret service looking dudes, they seem to eyeball the place and take positions. Then out comes this Shiek, in full garb, with headdress, sunglasses and sandals.
The entourage walks around looking at all the muscle cars.
I kinda walked away from the crowd to enjoy the show, there were hundreds of nice cars there.
Later, the helicopter took off.
One of the area security guys told us he just bought a few rare cars, and one was a Hemi. They're getting shipped out tomorrow.
Unbelievable but true.
I couldn't help but thinking, the Arabs may have the "oil", but USA got the "muscle".

Apparently not for long

 

[Dartnut]

Gas is just over 2$ here BTW.

Thanks for posting the pics. etc.
Is that price for a gallon or a liter?
U.S. money?
Here it's 1.45 CAD a liter for regular gas.

 

[JDMopar]

I remember about 4 or so years ago at the Dead Man's Curve 3 day car show in Mahwah NJ.
My family and I were walking around and all of a sudden a large helicopter circles around and lands near the food court, napkins and cups flying everywhere, what a mess.
So the door opens, and out jump two secret service looking dudes, they seem to eyeball the place and take positions. Then out comes this Shiek, in full garb, with headdress, sunglasses and sandals, accompanied by a few other people.
The entourage walks around looking at all the muscle cars.
I kinda walked away from the crowd to enjoy the show, there were hundreds of nice cars there.
Later, the helicopter took off.
One of the area security guys told us he just bought a few rare cars, and one was a Hemi. They're getting shipped out tomorrow.
Unbelievable but true.
I couldn't help but thinking, the Arabs may have the "oil", but USA got the "muscle".

I had my 71 Challenger convertible at The Mopar Nationals about 10 years ago, and some raghead pulled out a wad of $100 bills that would choke a horse, and was trying to buy it. I flat out told him it wasn't for sale, and he kept upping the offers. He got up into stupid money territory before he finally got mad and walked away because I kept turning him down.

 

[Joey4speed]

I guess you're car looks fantastic.
It's a good sign when you go to a car show and people are trying to Buy your car.

 

[66jim]

Screw the Saudi's and there oil money, more classic cars gone to them POS. F there car show.

 

[RustyRatRod]

Nice to see some Mopar love over there. Very cool. Thanks for sharing.

 

[1973Barracuda]

Thanks for posting the pics. etc.
Is that price for a gallon or a liter?
U.S. money?
Here it's 1.45 CAD a liter for regular gas.

about 2$ a US gallon.

 

[1973Barracuda]

In all seriousness, car guys are car guys. Cultures aside.
There are tons of cultural differences, and for all that irritates me here, the Saudis are actually good people. I know I know…..
I am retired military, so I have lots of **** go through my head daily….
Bottom line, car guys are car guys.

 

[loganscuda]

There arr a couple of Mopars over there that where restored here in San Antonio. One is a Coronet with viper motor and twin turbos that is a custom wide body. The shop here build quite a few cars a year for foreigners, big buck high dollar builds. Mostly body modifications. This is one of them.

 

[AustinGriggs]

There was a time when me and my buddies would go out cruising our Arab friends old cars through the streets of Dubai. He had a '74 Challenger with a 440 and a '66 Chevelle with a 454, we were out of place amongst all the Italian supercars, lots of fun had.

 

[Jeremiah (jd)]

Gearheads...I like all of them regardless of who what where when. I can talk cars with *anyone* lol. It's a universal language. The most caustic person can turn into Gene Autry when the horsepower talk starts to fly.

Cool pictures thanks for posting them up.

 

[MopaR&D]

Very cool! I'm half-Arab (Syrian) and have family in UAE, cousin of mine is half-Emirati (we share the Syrian side). When he was over here (USA) for college I did a good job of getting him obsessed with classic Mopars instead of the usual modern exotic crap which he had only been exposed to up to that point. Talking to him recently it seems like classic muscle cars are really taking off over in that part of the world, Arabs generally do prefer American cars when it comes to having fun. The guys who drive the Ferraris and Bentleys are just trying to show off and flex their money.

That same cousin shipped a 1971 Satellite shell from here in northern CO all the way to Dubai to restore, sadly during the body resto they found bad rot in the corner of the upper trunk/rear glass area. Funny enough he was able to find an early-70s Charger in decent shape over there and is now building that up.

And agreed on the "cars is a universal language" thing, it really brings people together from all backgrounds. And also agree regarding the culture; it's just like any group of people, you have the cool ones who understand we're all brothers/sisters to an extent at the end of the day and the others who think "they" (other people/cultures) are useless, backwards, stupid, yada yada. When you travel you realize this dynamic exists literally everywhere; the only difference is how the government of that group of people decides to go about things and which ideas to make decisions off of. Talking about the Saudi gov, now that's another discussion entirely and one I'd be fine not having at all lol.

FWIW, IMO... Americans and Arabs would mutually think of each other in a much more positive way if our governments/media didn't make the other side out to be evil heathens.