Pune set to witness Vintage and Classic Cars Rally on April 9

Vintage and Classic Cars, Motorcycles and Scooters Rally have been organized in Pune on Sunday 9 April.

Chairman of Vintage and Classic Car Club of India Nitin Dossa (Mumbai) informed during the press conference that the rally will commence from Turf Club at Race Course at 9.00 am and the 15 km rally will go through Golibar Maidan – Saras Baug – Dandekar Pul – Lal Bahadur Shastri Marg – Garware Bridge – Agriculture College Flyover – Juna Bazar Road – Zila Parishad – Hollywood Gurudwara Road and will end at Turf Club. Additional Commissioner of Police and Ex. Commissioner of Police from Pune will be the chief guest. 

Subhash Sanas of Subhash.B.Sanas Vintage and Classic Car Museum, members of VCCI and owners of vintage and classical cars were present during the press conference.

A prestige cup has been instituted in the memory of Late Baburao Sanas, Pune’s first mayor, and will be awarded to the best vintage car.

Nitin Dosa further said that, recently a rally was held in Mumbai and it was a great success. There are 125 entries in the rally wherein it will feature 70 to 80 very valuable vintage and classical cars and around 30 to 40 vintage scooters and motorcycles. Like Mumbai, Pune vintage and classic car rally has received a great response.

This rally will showcase vintage and classical cars of Bollywood and Hollywood stars, along with vintage and classical cars owned by Subhash Sanas like Dodge Kingsway used by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and family, Convertible Impala used by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Mercedes Benz by Hollywood star Al Pacino, White Mercedes by Amitabh Bachchan, 2 door silver color Mercedes by Vinod Khanna and other celebrities, as well as ‘Bobby’ fame Rajdoot motorcycle among others. Additionally, Pebbles Beach USA winner Elvis’ 1933, oldest car 1919 Over Land of Shekhar Chavarekar, 1956 Dodge, oldest motorcycle Norton 500 of 1938 etc. will be displayed. 

Austin 7 will be driven by India’s oldest rally driver, Dr. Prabha Nene from Pune during the rally. The vintage and classical cars include Rolls Royce, Bentley, Mercedes Benz, Chevrolet, Morris Convertible, Austin, Ford and other foreign cars.

These are vintage and classic cars collected by many like Dhananjay Badamikar, Dahanukar, Evan Poonawala, Zaheer Vakil, Sabale family etc. Puneites should come and enjoy this vintage and classic car rally appealed Nitin Dosa.