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Cruising the past with a prolific car collector
Fri, 12 August 2016
Nicky Sullivan
It began, as such passions often do, with the simple delight of a rusty Volkswagen Beetle bought for a song in 1994.
In the two decades since, Ing Samath’s pleasure has burgeoned into a full-blown romance, evidenced by his fleet of 25 or so vintage and classic cars that he keeps in Siem Reap and Phnom Penh. Objects of beauty in their own right, they also paint a story of Cambodia’s recent history.
Originally from Kampong Cham, Samath was sent to Phnom Penh at the age of nine (the schools were better, he says) to live with his uncle. It was the 1980s, and the youngster arrived in a city whose streets churned with an array of Soviet vehicles – Ladas, Moskoviches, Russian jeeps — brought in by Vietnam, the USSR’s ally, which at the time backed the post-Khmer Rouge government.
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