Kolkata: sixty strange vintage cars, about 100 years old, put together outside the city hall on Sunday to run the winter to Eco Park, to bid 2021 early farewell.
The event, goodbye 2021, organized by the East Indian Motor Group (EIMG) – Congregation of Vintage Car Fans, led by President Shrivardhan Kanoria, who has struggled to preserve and showcase every vintage car owned by the city.
Among the cars participating on Sundays, there are several with lineages that deserve imitated.
The oldest at the event was the 1913 priest owned by Ananda Chaudhury, who was the great grandfather Ishwar Chandra Chaudhury, a Zamindar from midnapore, went to Germany to order a car made specifically for families.
“Stoewer made a road roller and that’s why my great grandfather thought the cars they made would be quite sturdy to run on the streets of the middle hole in the middle of midnapore.
It took a two-year company to make a car and when it was delivered at the port.
Company Has sent a crane engineer to dismantle and assemble it for us, “Chaudhuri said.
The side lights run on kerosene and headlamp running on carbide gas.
Another attraction was Rolls Royce 1938 which was originally owned by the Barron of Glossop who had been with Brother Karnani for more than 40 years.
They still have a selling deed.
“The beauty of Rolls Royce is that spare parts are still maintained with them in England,” Vasant Karnani said.
Special Deluxe Blue Plymouth owned by singer Hemanta Mukherjee stood head-and shoulders on the baby Austins on his wings.
“He sold it to my father and since then, this beauty has become a family eye seed.
During a celebration of a hundred of singers, the state asks us to display the car,” said the owner L Kahiri.
The 1932 Ford V8 red-rimmed at the event was first owned by HC Judge Justice J P Mitter.
This car is now owned by his grandson Rajiv which is recommended for maintenance by Kanoria, who is a friend.
Kanoria 1931 Chevrolet from 1931 was the head of Turner on Sunday.
“It was owned by a Maharaja and was found by my father, the late Shashi Kumar Kanoria, in a dilapidated state before he brought him back,” Kanoria said.
“EIMG is trying to take a vintage car to the inheritance level