Post '69 Big Block Yenkos???

[bbdon]

You have shaken loose some old memories for me. It might be impractical to retrieve it, but I was in Saudi arabia in the early 80s, and I clearly remember seing a mid 70s Motion Camaro running around the streets of Riyadh. I saw a Macho T/A as well. Everybody drives like a maniac over there, and the cars don't last long, I doubt if the car is still running. On the plus side, I doubt if it has rusted away though. Having seen one of each, I would suppose that there were more of both as well. Used cars were cheap over there, I remember looking at a BMW 735, selling for $4000 if remember correctly. It was only a couple of years old. The used cars were all parked on a sand lot with no buildings anywhere around, and no fences, it was strange. You could run a dealership with really low overhead. The new car lot next door, also had no fences or buildings of any kind. If you know the penalty for stealing over there, then you know how they can get away with that. The new car lot had a half dozen brand new Panteras lined up, for sale.

[COPO]

I lived in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in the mid 90's. Wish I would have looked around more for muscle cars as there were no rust problems there. I would guess most cars ended up in Jeddah or Riyadh. My brother-in-law lives in Kuwait and frequently travels to Saudi and happens to speak fluent Arabic. I'll tell him to ask around. Super Leaded gas was 25 cents a gallon full serve when I was there and outside of town there were no enforced speed limits with outstanding highways. I regularly traveled in the 100 - 120 mph range and saw 150 mph once. Agree on the crime consequences, "Chop Chop Square" as we called it was 2 blocks from my office. Public executions were a weekly event after the noon prayers on Friday's. No problem with repeat offenders.....