CAIRO – The afterlife clashes with supply in Cairo, with traffic rumbling alongside ancient sites.
Cars in the city can take a hit, between maximum temperatures, insidious desert dust, and crowded streets. Classic models are not uncommon, but they languish in dusty alleys or garages. However, one man made the decision to check to keep a portion of Egypt’s four-wheeled history.
Car collector Mohamed Wahdan says he has accumulated more than 250 antique, antique and antique cars. He discovered most of them within the country.
A fleet of this length would place it among the most productive antique car creditors in the world. Experts classify cars as old, old or old according to their year of production.
Wahdan, 52, runs a tourism business that takes him to Egypt’s highlights. But he is true to his hobby. It has several other garages to protect them all and employs a team of full-time mechanics for maintenance.
He says one of the demanding situations is getting the license plates of the cars. Government workers don’t know how to classify them.
Wahdan’s oldest, a 1924 Ford Model T that belonged to Egypt’s last monarch, King Farouk, is a museum piece, with a velvet rope to mark its parking lot in its garage.
The country’s stratified history makes it a treasure trove of antiquities. Egypt, a former British protectorate, a destination for Europeans in the past nineteenth century and the early part of the twentieth century. Italian, Greek, and Jewish communities once flourished in Cairo and the Mediterranean city of Alexandria. Its historic markets, or souks, sell many souvenirs from past eras, replicas and authentics.
Wahdan collected many. He is fascinated by disc telephones, gramophones, old newspapers and stamps.
Recently, their cars also made a call for themselves, one of them appeared in a TV series set in the 1930s. He detected that interest in the car collection is developing among Egyptians, as more and more Egyptians flock to ancient car shows where their cars are on display.
One of his most beloved parts is his first purchase, a Mercedes from the 1970s. Like his other cars, he doesn’t drive it often. But he says he would never sell part of his collection.
“Anyone who is passionate about those cars can’t do without them,” he said.
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