Classic cars flex their muscle in Dubai. Classic car owners from around the UAE and abroad have parked their vintage rides on Mohammad Bin Rashid Boulevard in Downtown Dubai for the 2016 Emirates Classic Car Festival. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv
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00:00When it comes to cars, Dubai is no stranger to the weird and the wonderful.
00:08It's perfectly normal to walk past rows of Italian supercars and luxury SUVs.
00:13They really are ten a penny.
00:15But if you're the kind of person that's really into their cars, you want to see the real
00:18stuff.
00:19Where the cars of today came from, then you need to come down to the Emirates Classic
00:23Car Festival here at Mohammed bin Rashid Boulevard.
00:25One of the criteria is to have at least an original car, paintings of the years where
00:32the car was built, not necessarily modern paintings with metallic colors which are not
00:37suitable for these cars.
00:40The history is important.
00:42If someone can provide, and should eventually provide, the history by pictures of how it
00:48was restored in case of restoration.
00:50So those are among the main criteria.
00:52While the interior, of course, is as important, and then definitely if the car is running.
00:57What have we got here?
00:591969 MG B. Wow.
01:02Now this was one of the last cars made by MG that featured the chrome bumper before
01:06American laws came in that say all cars had to have a plastic front bumper, which of course
01:10looked much uglier.
01:12They also said that headlights had to be a certain height off the ground.
01:16So what MG did was, as opposed to redesigning the front, they simply put blocks on the suspension,
01:21which ruined the car's handling.
01:23So it just lumbered around in the corners.
01:25This Ferrari 308 GT4 was actually built and designed to fit Enzo Ferrari himself.
01:31However, it was to be a mixed honor as the car's name, Dino, was actually given to it
01:36after Enzo Ferrari's son was tragically killed.
01:39Back in the 1970s, European motorists would wake up to a soundtrack of flat batteries
01:43and cars that wouldn't start.
01:45However, when this came along, the Datsun, that opened everyone's eyes to the Japanese's
01:50penchant for reliability.
01:52Now if you're from Britain and you're wondering where the 70 mile an hour speed limit came
01:55from, here's your reason.
01:57The AC Cobra.
01:59Back in the 1960s, the engineers wanted to see how fast it could go.
02:02So what they were doing was taking it up the M1 motorway late at night.
02:06The government was so enraged by this, it compelled them to impose the speed limit.
02:10The Emirates Classic Car Festival was taking place between March 24 and March 27 at Mohammed
02:15bin Rashid Boulevard, downtown Dubai.
02:18The city's free and the cars are on display all day and all night.
02:21It's something that no petrolhead should miss out on.
02:24Martin Fulard, Golf News.