Vintage treasures wheel across city

LUCKNOW: A cool Sunday afternoon was made colourful by history cruising on Lucknow roads in deep red, yellow, olive green and dark gray. Seventy cars from the bygone era took part in a vintage car run organized by the Vintage Car & Motorcycle Club of Lucknow and State Bank of India.
His clothes in colour coordination with his yellow and blue 1947 MG TC, Dr Tarun Sehgal said he had heard words of awe and amazement for his vintage possession.
The caravan passed through Hazratganj and towards Gomtinagar through Lohia Park, crossing GPO and back to SBI head office from where it had taken off.
“Obtaining original parts is next to impossible. The mechanics too are not much adept with vintage engines and styles to be dealing effectively with them,” says Ravi Shankar Rajput, whose three generations have been into vintage cars. He now owns a 1935 Fiat Balilla.
Seldom taking out the 1934 Dodge owned by the police force, DGP Anand Lal Bannerji has to take another car for safety reasons. “It is a Dodge that dodges everyone and I need advice from experts for maintaining it,” he said.
“My father owned a two-seater Austin that he had to sell off, so when in 1944, I got hold of this second-hand four-seater Austin 7, I bought it and have been maintaining it ever since,” said Dr Sadiq about his deep red ‘baby Austin’.