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Classic cars find life after rust in Ramallah

A Palestinian mechanic in Ramallah collects and restores classic cars, bringing relics of the past back to life.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank — Omar al-Saadi has turned his Ramallah backyard into a garage for repairing classic cars. He currently has 26 vehicles, many of them decayed by the years of disuse and abandonment.

Saadi’s family is originally from the city of Lod, southeast of Tel Aviv. They were displaced to Ramallah in 1948.

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