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This Is Hitler's Gift Mercedes to Nepal King, the First Car in the County

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This Is Hitler's Gift Mercedes to Nepal KingThis Is Hitler's Gift Mercedes to Nepal King
You know what they say, you never look a gift Mercedes in the mouth, especially if it's from a very dangerous dictator.
This classic Mercedes is said to have been gifted by Adolf Hitler to the king of Nepal back in 1940. The only problem was that Nepal had absolutely no roads for this beauty to be driven on, so the Nepalese did like the Egyptians and brought it to the capital on the backs of tens of men. The journey took several days.

The king in charge of the country at the time was Tribhuvan, grandfather of Nepal's last king, Gyanendra, who was deposed in 2008.

The king used the car on several occasions until his death in 1955.
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Mihnea's favorite cars have already been built, the so-called modern classics from the '80s and '90s. He also loves local car culture from all over the world, so don't be surprised to see him getting excited about weird Japanese imports, low-rider VWs out of Germany, replicas from Russia or LS swaps down in Florida.
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