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Vintage Wheels of Mumbai

February 27, 2008
Also on display Sunday was:

Car enthusiast S S Dabholkar's 1933 Austin Harley. Peter Travasso's 1919 Fiat (that appeared in Richard Attenborough"s Gandhi). Mumbai-based entrepreneur Fali S Dhondy's 1929 Rolls Royce (one of the few of its kind in the world that was restored by Dhondy over five years from a bag of parts. He has driven it from Delhi to Mumbai once for a rally). Sameer Kadam's 1929 Ford A. Media magnate Vivek Goenka's 1933 Packard. Industrialist Hemant Ruia's Chrysler 1957 De Soto (a family heirloom; a wedding gift to his grandmother).

Mumbai Samachar owner Hormusjee Cama's 1937 Buick. Industrialist and stud farm owner Yohan Poonawalla's Rolls Royce Phantom 3 (he owns about 30 vintage cars; he is not sure of the exact number. And eight Rolls Royces). A convertible formerly owned by the Maharaja of Kota who imported several cars in the early 1900s. Two Rolls Royces from Pune builder Ramesh Thakkar's collection (that once belonged to the Maharaja of Banswada in Rajasthan and the Nawab of Sachin, Gujarat). And impeccably preserved Buicks belonging to Zaheer Vakil (who once raced motorcycles)

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