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Sultan of Brunei houses his fleet of 7,000 cars in most unique parking space

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An airplane hanger? That is not unique. Clive Cussler has done that for decades.

Yeah, it must be nice to be able to show a photo of one of your collector cars on the back cover of each of your books, thus turning each car into a tax writeoff. Wish I'd thought of that...:rolleyes:

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:) never heard of the guy,and I could only see one page, but all those cars and I didnt see a single Ford or Chevy.
Yeah, it must be nice to be able to show a photo of one of your collector cars on the back cover of each of your books, thus turning each car into a tax writeoff. Wish I'd thought of that...:rolleyes:

When you own a country you do not pay tax (nor does anyone if I recall) There is a lot of oil & gas in Brunei

From Hassanal Bolkiah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Motor cars

The Sultan is famous for his vast automobile collection. In 1998, the British car magazine Autocar published undercover photographs of the Sultan's cars, which included unique modifications of Ferraris and Bentleys. It has been said that he has at least 7,000 cars[citation needed] and has bought over U.S.$789 million worth of high-performance cars[citation needed].

The number purchased by his business interests and the number actually used by himself and his family differ greatly. According to Guinness World Records the Sultan's personal private collection has more than 600 Rolls-Royces, more than 450 Ferraris, and 134 Koenigseggs — the largest collection of that marque in the world.During the 1990s, his family accounted for almost half of all Rolls-Royce purchases, bulk buying slightly modified vehicles for diplomats and adding unique cars to their own collection. He also owns the very last Rolls-Royce Phantom VI, a 1992 state landaulette.

Among his collection are the Porsche Carrera GT, Lamborghini Diablo Jota, Porsche 959, Bugatti EB110, Bugatti Veyron (regular and Pur Sang edition), Lamborghini Murcielago LP640, Maybach 62, Jaguar XJR-15 and six Dauer 962s. He is also the owner of six models of the Ferrari FX, the original red show model of the Bentley Continental R, the only Porsche Carma made so far, the only Koenigsegg Agera CC GT, two fully operational versions of the Ferrari Mythos concept car, both of the Ferrari 456 GT Sedans, the only right hand drive Mercedes-Benz CLK-GTR in the world, five McLaren F1s including both black LM models and three Cizeta-Moroder V16T cars, 10 out of 77 made Aston Martin One-77s, the only convertible Aston Martin DB4 GT Zagato, and the only Cicero BDB Maestro ever built. He also possesses a Formula One car as driven by every Formula 1 World Drivers Champion since the 1980 Formula One season, particularly the ones driven in the last race for each season. A prime example of this is Jacques Villeneuve's Williams FW19. The Sultan is the principal sponsor of the collision damage courtesy of Michael Schumacher in the 1997 European Grand Prix. The Sultan also spend lavishly on Michael Jackson's concert - Live in Brunei in 1998 which costs US$16.2 billion dollars.

He has a special interest in buying one-of-a-kind didjo cars, including the Bentley Java and Bentley Dominator 4x4, whilst leaving slightly more common race cars such as the Aston Martin AM3 or the modified Mercedes-Benz 300SL to his brother Jefri. The collection of vehicles was for the most part stored and serviced in five aircraft hangars, where specialist teams from the various manufacturers would maintain the collection and they were paid a large sum of money.

The Daily Mirror (UK) reported on 26 October 2007 (Updated on 30 June 2010) that the Sultan owned 130 Rolls Royces, 531 Mercedes-Benzes, 367 Ferraris, 362 Bentleys, 185 BMWs, 177 Jaguars, 160 Porsches, 20 Lamborghinis.

Other assets

For personal use, the sultan has two Boeing 747-400s furnished with gold plated furniture with an estimated value of $233 million including $3 million on furniture each. He also owns six smaller planes and two helicopters. The Sultan also had his private submarine which named after him, "BDS Bolkiah" for his own private use in case of emergency.

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Favorite quote:

Great minds discuss ideas;

average minds discuss events;

small minds discuss people.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Don't know anything about the Sultan, but glad you like the quote!

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Peter, this is just plain wrong. You need to fess up and let everyone know this is YOUR collection!

BUSTED!!

I just got a super low mileage car out of long term storage to add to my 7,000 cars. I take the wraps off of it tommorrow. Wish me luck! :)

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BUSTED!!

I just got a super low mileage car out of long term storage to add to my 7,000 cars. I take the wraps off of it tommorrow. Wish me luck! :)

Peter, Do you have any idea how close you came to having to come to W. Va. to clean the oatmeal off of my computer screen :eek:? :D

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That is absolutely amazing - must be nice to have that kind of money haha. Now ive gotta get this <a href="http://www.bcduplication.com" style="color: rgb(51, 47, 42) ! important; text-decoration: none ! important; cursor: default ! important;">cd printing</a> project done and go find the <a href="http://www.winnipesaukee.com/forums/showthread.php?p=143317#post143317" style="color: rgb(51, 47, 42) ! important; text-decoration: none ! important; cursor: default ! important;">wife</a> a new car........sigh :rolleyes:

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These?

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Look again. Those are the same Mercedes G-wagens that you can (or could) buy here.

G-wagens or whatever, they still look like Brinks trucks to me.

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BUSTED!!

I just got a super low mileage car out of long term storage to add to my 7,000 cars. I take the wraps off of it tommorrow. Wish me luck! :)

It's funny you show the buried Belvedere. I was just thinking about that car the other day.

It's been quite a while since the car was unearthed, and the whole status of that car quickly dropped off of the radar screen.

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Even if I had the money to afford all of them it would be a pain to keep up them all running.

I am pretty certain that if you had that guy's money, you could afford minions to keep the vehicles running.

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How many of these cars do you really think the Sultan has actually driven; or had at least one ride in ?

Who knows ~~~ He may change cars everyday like the old Emperor of China changed his clothes & underwear . The Emperor never wore the same article of clothing twice !

The Sultan may do the same thing with his cars !

And I thought that late billionaire class-action lawyer in Texas had too many cars ~~~

Heck~~~ He only had 1200 or so !

And from my point of view he had far more interesting Antiques & Classics !

We should all be glad that the good Sultan does not collect these type of cars !

A guy like that Texas lawyer wouldn't have any chance of collecting at all if the Sultan did like the Antiques & Classics !

As for most of the rest of us~~~

We are still a few dollars short ; And still out of luck ! ; )

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Possibly he hopes to make back five times his initial investment at the next Barrett~Jackson Scottsdale Auction like everyone else ! ; )

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Even if he picked a different car every day... it would take over 19 years to experience them all. Seems kinda silly. To paraphrase another poster... 'If you don't drive 'em you might as well collect clocks'.

And it would take that long just to change the clocks in the vehicles back and forth with the time changes twice a year. :eek: :D

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