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Kathmandu: A car gifted by Adolf Hitler to a Nepali king is likely to be displayed in a palace museum after the Himalayan nation abolished the 239-year-old monarchy and the ousted King Gyanendra quit the palace.
Officials said a 1939 Mercedes Benz presented by the Nazi leader to King Tribhuvan, Gyanendra's grandfather, is now rusting at Nepal's main Narayanhiti palace grounds.
It is lying there for more than three years for want of spare parts to restore the antique car.
But now efforts are being made to display the car in the palace, which the government says will be turned into a museum.
"We should display it in the new museum," said Govinda Prasad Kusum, a senior bureaucrat preparing an inventory of the property and other valuables of Gyanendra, which will be in possession of the government. "The car will be a major attraction there."
The car was manually carried by scores of labourers for several days from Nepal's southern plains to Kathmandu in 1940, when the mountainous country had no roads.
Tribhuvan used the car when the Kathmandu valley had no other motor transport.
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