Sultan Of Brunei Car Collection Rotting

Recent visitors to the collection report seeing rotting in many of the cars and even mold growth in some of the interiors.

Sultan of brunei car collection rotting. His car collection is legendary in asia. Imagine seeing hundreds of high end ferraris lamborghinis and mclarens many with hardly any miles on the odometer rotting away in tropical heat and humidity. This 1993 cizeta v16t. When bolkiah collected 300 cars many people thought that he garnered an impressive collection but bolkiah continued to spend his money to quench his thirst for cars.

It has been reported that much of the collection actually belongs to the sultan s 3rd brother prince jefri and various nephews and that most of the collection is unused and decaying. Among other things he has a bunch of replica 1960 mercedes gullwings that the factory built for him at vast expense with new mechanicals including air conditioning of course but otherwise indistinguishable from the original article. Unfortunately many of the cars are currently no longer drivable due to neglect. The sultan of brunei s car collection may be infamous for slowly rotting in a humid garage but one of his most incredible cars escaped that fate and will soon be up for sale.

Never before seen photos reveal sultan of brunei s luxury car collection as it rots away thousands of cars including rare and unique ferraris mclarens and porsches revealed in newly found photos. Another few hundred more pedestrian mercedes have been given to brunei locals but the bulk of the collection is still there and will die there rotting into oblivion a massive example of wretched. Some have even stayed unused with zero odometer readings. The sultan s lavish spending spree resulted in the purchase of 7 000 cars that pundits have estimated the net worth to be 5 billion.

With massive reserves of oil and natural gas at their disposal members of the brunei royal family are among the richest people in the world and sultan hassanal bolkiah and his brother jefri spent.