KFARDEBIAN, Lebanon: Perhaps the only thing more intriguing at Faqra’s classic-car show than Michael Jackson’s Rolls Royce was its current owner.
Hamad and Edwin Mouawad are 15- and 21-years-old respectively, and they were far and away the youngest vintage car collectors among the cigar-sucking businessmen and eager-eyed fanatics at the Red Carpet Classic Auto Festival at Le Clos de Faqra over the weekend.
The show featured around three dozen cars from post-World War II onward, all of which have been painstakingly restored by Lebanese vintage-car enthusiasts bolt by bolt. And the open-air exhibition space included even older relics than ’50s cars, as the location up in the mountains of Faqra faced ancient Roman temple ruins.
Standing by their star in show, the Mouawad brothers happily chatted about their collection – the older brother still sporting a shiny row of braces.
The “King of Pop” owned the black 1980 Rolls Royce Silver Wraith II and later gave it to his mother, Katherine Jackson, as a gift. The young brothers recently bought the car at an auction in the United States.
For now, the two say their interest remains collecting and restoring – not selling – the cars they find.
“It’s just a hobby,” Hamad said. Jackson’s car was their second in a collection that has grown to three classic cars. The pair has plans to restore the Rolls Royce in the coming weeks with a new paint job and a reupholstered interior.
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