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Re: Beirut port explosion damage
« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2021, 07:10:43 »
Superspotting!

They don't seem to have got very far with the rebuilding. It's difficult when you are broke I guess, and the rest of the world has other priorities.
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Re: Beirut port explosion damage
« Reply #2 on: February 06, 2021, 12:07:07 »
That's a sad sight indeed.  In addition to the white Pagoda, there might be another more mangled darker one, at least half a dozen R017s, some C3 Corvettes, a mid-60's S-Type Jaguar, and the remains of what was once a very large 6-window formal saloon or limousine from the 20's or 30's.
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Re: Beirut port explosion damage
« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2021, 13:31:07 »
I visited Beirut for a few weeks in early 2017. I was surprised by the large number of Porsches, Lamborghinis and such, while villages 20 minutes away looked like they were from 250 years ago and extremely poor.
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Re: Beirut port explosion damage
« Reply #4 on: February 06, 2021, 20:55:54 »
My eye was initially drawn to the upper left, white with red interior.
The other side of the black SUV (below it) is a blue one, though not sure if that’s not a 107.
Over on the right edge is a red car with a yellow something in the driver seat. Immediately behind (grey) and above (burgundy), are they all 113s?
In the middle is a baby blue thing that could be a 113 but has a circular air filter
Very bottom left corner... is that another 113 in black?

Interesting but in the scheme of things, wholly unimportant compared to the rebuilding that’s not happening and devastation caused.
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