Driving on Two Wheels � The Riders of City Hail

Throughout the world, young people are different propensity for extreme driving, but young drivers in Saudi Arabia in this respect is very difficult to beat. A few years ago it was fashion to upload videos on YouTube, where the boys on skateboards drove through the streets, clinging to passing cars, but this is a dangerous game quickly pall. Now there is a new feature - the driver keep the car balanced on two wheels, while friends get up to all sorts of manipulation - climb to the roof or even change on the fly wheels hanging in the air. Other members of the dangerous maneuvers are trying to get their kicks by lying on the asphalt in the middle of the road and allowing the car to zip past in a few inches. 06 more images after the break...

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Mega Model

On the way to Liwa it is only a short detour to Sheikh Hamad bin Hamdan al Nahyan's or the Rainbow Sheikh's car museum. I can clearly remember Jermey Clarksons Motor World some 10 years ago and being in awe at the collection that the Sheikh had put together. As you drive through the desert the first thing you notice is the top a pyramid glistening in the distance. Not what you might expect in the UAE but certainly not surprising for this country. It turns out this pyramid houses the car museum. Checking in the UAE off-road guide it is suppose to be open 7 days a week � but when our convoy of cars arrived it was decidedly closed. Carol (a British expat who has been here for 17 years) used her jedi mind trick and powers of persuasion on a bored looking Indian chap to let us in. To be honest he would never have been able to disappoint the children we had along for the ride. We were kindly let in and basically had our own private tour of the car museum. It was just great. Here is the largest pick-up truck in the world which actually contains a house and even is able to be driven short distances, 17 more images after the break...

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Vert A Pac � An Unusual Way to Transport Automobiles

Until the early 1960s, automobiles that were moved by rail were carried in boxcars. These were 50 feet long with double-wide doors. Inside were room for four full-sized sedans on a two-tier rack - two raised up off the floor on a steel rack and two others tucked in underneath them. This protected the cars during transport but wasn�t very efficient has the weight of four vehicles was far less than the maximum weight a boxcar that size could carry. When 85-foot and 89-foot flatcars came into service, it was possible to pack a total of fifteen automobiles in one car on tri-level auto racks. But it still didn�t exceed the maximum allowable weight for each flatcar. 04 more images after the break...

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