Abandoned exotics. Use the search feature on your favorite forum and you’re bound to find a thread already dedicated to this douche chilling topic. Pictures of Uday’s 575 surfaced about four years ago. Beat to hell, stripped and abandoned, some say U.S. soldiers pillaged the 575, others say it was just a casualty of war. In any case it’s a sad end to one of Maranello’s finest.
If you don’t know by now the Hussein family (Sadam,
Reminds me of WWII stories about classic Mercedes-Benz coach cars, among other incredible machinery that were destroyed in the war.
Interesting color choice...def not a factory paint job. Who knew that Saddam, a ruthless and brutal dictator would pick bubble gum pink as a custom color for his Ferrari. Perhaps he had a deeply hidden sensitive side? or maybe this was a red Ferrari faded by the sun. In the David O Russell film "Three Kings" (about the first gulf war) there is a scene when American soldiers (George Clooney, Spike Jonze and Ice Cube) must buy cars from Iraqi rebel freedom fighters. The rebels take them to one of Saddam's garages that they had captured, flick on the lights, and there are literally rows of Jags,Mercedes, Rolls, Bentleys, Lincolns, Cadillacs and an Infiniti G20 convertable. Fortunatly we have good guys like Jay Leno, Billy Joel and Jerry Seinfeld who buy all the cool cars too.