Vintage Stuff

There’s a 1958, silver-blue Mercedes 190SL convertible in town, and it’s turning heads. In a country where new, shiny and expensive can be a brash entrée into the smart set, what better way to offer an riposte with a dash of elegance and a bit of old money charm with a glorious vintage sports car, rippling with Connolly leather and spoked hubcaps.. There is a small and determined band ofLebanese who see a vintage car as a superior, more refined expression of motoring pleasure. There are currently around 300 vintage cars purring around Lebanon’s roads with an air of distressed gentility. But be warned; beauty and elegance come at a high price in a country where the market is still underdeveloped, services histories are opaque and the majority of mechanics simply are not up to the job of maintaining these beauties of a bygone age. To many it is all