The first 1000 Miglia Experience UAE is in the books, and the event attracted an impressive array of cars from 26 countries. The rally saw 93 of the 100 registered cars begin and 72 finish. Many were the popular classics you might expect to see at a gathering like this, but also among them were 11 cars that were either unusual in their own right or arrived with interesting stories to tell.
1964 Lincoln Continental Popemobile
Vintage European sports cars are by far the most common vehicles you see at an international road rally—a suicide-door 1964 Lincoln Continental Convertible is about as far from that as you can get. As if a Continental in Dubai isn’t unusual enough, this one has an incredible story, to boot: It’s a former Popemobile.
Purchased in the U.S. by Notre Dame students for the occasion of Pope Paul VI’s visit to India in 1964, the car features a custom T-handle between the front seat backs for
