Hi Guys,

Got back from Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates) last week. Been visiting my dad and my brother who are both working out there.

Whilst there, we went to see a car museum which stores some of the cars belonging to Sheikh Hamad bin Hamdan al Nahyan, also known as the 'Rainbow Sheikh' - a member of the Abu Dhabi ruling family. The museum is out in the desert in the middle of nowhere, about 30 minutes drive from Abu Dhabi. Unfortunately when we went the museum was closed, but we bunged the guard a few dirhams and he let us in anyway - but the main lights were not on so sorry for the shite/dark pictures.




























And a few pics of us out in the desert on a camping trip. My brothers car is the Jeep Wrangler... 3.8l V6. Very good in the desert!! We hired the two Toyota Landcruisers... and spanked them a bit! LOL hire cars, gotta abuse 'em.






steve

 

Awsome mate!!! wtf is that big Dodge thing?


What are prices like to hire the 4x4s?

Im off to Dubai soon and thinking of hiring a 4x4 for 2 days to use and abuse in the desert. Is it easy from Dubai you know to get out into the desert and have a laugh?

 

love the last two lol

 

Normal car hire is dirt cheap.... from £10 a day.
4x4 hire is quite a buit more expensive. Around £75 a day. My brother booked the two Landcruisers locally, but you can get ok prices if booked online in the UK too, I looked and found Hertz was ok.

You need an international driving permit to hire cars out there. Get it from the post office.
Yeah, easy to get into the desert, there is desert everywhere! You'll have to get away from the urban sprawl of Dubai though. Maybe towards Abu Dhabi then out inland towards Al Ain.
Sure that there are companies that do 'desert driving' expeditions, but if you want to go off properly into the dunes though, you really need 3 cars minimum. You will get stuck (we did, many times!!) which is fine if you have ppl and cars to dig/tow you out. But if something goes wrong, or you breakdown or get stuck, you'd be in big trouble if you were just one car. We had two GPS's too which is quite essential if your going far, as it doesn't take long to lose your bearings out there.

steve

 

what in hells name is that dodge thing! LMFAO!

 

If you've seen Clarksons Motorworld from absolutely yonks ago he met that bloke, and it showed you his entire collection, he has something stupid like a Mercedes S600 in every colour available. And IIRC Mercedes stop production for x time to make him what he wants? That giant truck is a camper, the bedrooms are in the bed, and it actually drives, albeit slowly, as there is a drivers seat near the front somewhere between the front wheels.

He also has a normal sized one, a miniature one, and that huge fuck off one. I believe that this was his favourite vehicle of all time.

And that globe is a caravan also.

 

SteveT
Steve good point about about 4x4 getting stuck, its prob best we dont then. Yeah looked at that desert Safari thing, looks awsome. Though i want a go at driving! lol.

Hmmm will have to look into whats needed...

 

Just goes to show that no matter how much money you have it doesn't buy you taste!!!

 

great thread mate

 

loving the lamborghini LM002
quite rare machines

 

Awesome pics

 

Top pics

Loving the desert ones

 

nice pictures

 

What a cool collection!

 

if you go to this video 10 minutes in there is a bit about the rainbow sheikh
http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...334169&q=dubai

clarksons in a red escort cos at the start

 

FPMSL at.. Rich People.. Me, I'm not rich... lol

 

cool pis mate

im sure Sheikh Hamad bin Hamdan al Nahyan had merc stop a production line and produce just his S classes for the day, everyone in a different colour for a wedding?

 

Gareth,
it says in that video that mercedes stopped production to spend time making his cars specially for him

 

ahh cool, i didnt watch the video

 

See some of the vids about Dubai I cant wait now!! lol

 

cool pics!

 

SteveT Snap..except I got back this week. Wish I'd known about that museum tho. Some weird looking stuff in there. Good pics mate.
Here's my pics: https://passionford.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=265467

 

col photos dude

 

Cool pics