Dubai: Man Decorates Car with 33,000 UAE Coins


(Pic: Gulfnews)

Dubai, Dec 2 (IANS) A Dubai resident hopes to set a new Guinness record by decorating his car with 33,000 UAE coins as a tribute to the country on its 40th National Day.

Tariq Javaid, a former Pakistani, who works in the UAE's automobile sector, used a 1998 Chevrolet Camaro car to "express his love for the country he has resided in" since 1999, Gulf News reported.

Javaid said decorating the car took 3,000 hours to complete.

Apart from the 33,000 coins together weighing 160 kg, it took around 10 kg of glue to complete the task.

Javaid has documented every step of the decoration process, in preparation for his Guinness bid.

He glued the first coin on to the car Oct 15, 2010, while the last piece was pasted a week ago just ahead of the national day celebrations.

The National Day, celebrated Dec 2, marks the UAE's formal independence from Britain and the eventual unification of the seven emirates in 1971.

  

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  • Sk khan, dubai

    Tue, Dec 06 2011

    with respect to all of ur comments
    if you cannot comment good
    don't discourage people like him :)
    and yes tariq great job ^_^

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  • Wilson, Udupi, Muscat

    Sun, Dec 04 2011

    Congratulations Javaid ! I don't from which country but what u hav done shows your effort. People talk lots telling you have wasted and u cud hav spent this 33000 coins sending to your home country. People expect only when they c people like u but they won't give anything instead keep the money in their bank accounts. If every rich or middle class person give money to the poor there will be no poverty in this world.

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  • Ted, Mangalore

    Fri, Dec 02 2011

    At the Onset i would like to correct ur statement"Tariq Javaid, a former Pakistani( Pakistani's are not entitled to receive UAE Citizenship for decorating a AED Nil Value 1999 Chevrolet Camaro with 33,000 coins together weighing 160 kg and around 10 kg of glue

    Second why this False Prestige , Mr. Tariq Javaid seems to be in a world of so called Fools Paradise ,he should be Real and the place where he comes from 60.3% of Pakistan's population lives on under $2 a day.Javaid Bhai Aap Pehle Darti pe Aajao.

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  • vasant raj, udupi/Abudhabi

    Fri, Dec 02 2011

    Total National waste. Instead, he would have sent that money to his county where the people are starving, in need of money.

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