A 1952 article in the Toledo Blade shared the news that King Farouk had purchased 12 specially-built jeeps with red leather seats, white metal wheels, and other unique features.
Unfortunately, I cannot locate any photos for these 12 jeeps. I was able to find find this photo that shows Faourk riding in what appears to be a 1946ish CJ-2A.
Farouk collected a wide variety of cars, according to prewarcar.com. The lineup shown below are just a few of his cars and include a WWII jeep.
Just a carguy has a few pics of Farouk’s cars, too: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-farouk-car-collection.html
Dave, maybe your Egyptian followers can tell us where those special order jeeps are now.
Could it have been that the order was for Stationwagons ? As these were familiarly scene on Royal hunting trips in Egypt. Check out the image in the link bellow.
https://gate.ahram.org.eg/Media/News/2018/3/1/2018-636555269591557631-155.jpg
Ahmed Nasser my good friend and Egyptian Car Nut found it, https://youtu.be/6860imX4Ifk?si=VSR02nbqNPiIBy2-
Check out the escort Willys 🙂 The white rims and chrome grill!!