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As car collections go, Saddam's was puny compared with his son Uday's. Before Uday was killed in a shootout with U.S. troops, he is said to have acquired as many as 1300 vehicles, spread out in seven garages and all over the countryside. His collection had at least five $80,000 Excaliburs, and there were Bentleys, Bugattis, Astons, and a McLaren F1. Uday's automotive menagerie was pruned in 1993, when his father accused him of disloyalty and in revenge destroyed some 50 of his cars.
Car collectors following these events no doubt chuckled at the tastelessness of the Iraqi dictator. What they were really hoping for was word on the status of the one car in all of Iraq that was a keeper:
a cream-white 1935 Mercedes 500K roadster with flamboyant, baroque bodywork by Erdmann & Rossi, one of two in the world. Its original owner was King Ghazi, who ascended to the Iraqi throne in 1933 at the age of 21 and bought the car after seeing it at a 1935 exhibition in Barcelona. The king didn't get a lot of time with it—he was killed driving another of his cars in 1939.
Saddam acquired the Mercedes and all the other royal booty when he took power.
For unexplained reasons, he is believed to have traded the 500K with the late King Hussein of Jordan for a Mercedes 770K tourwagen, which is, stylewise, a comparative lump of coal. Sometime after that, King Hussein reportedly returned the 500K to Saddam as a gift to keep friendship (and oil) flowing between Iraq and oil-hungry Jordan. The Mercedes was photographed in a subterranean garage in Baghdad in March intact but dusty. Where this prize jewel of the crown is now is anybody's guess.
