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Old 23rd July 2022, 16:08   #1546
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Re: Maruti Gypsy Pictures

From recent excursion

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Old 23rd July 2022, 19:21   #1547
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Somewhere in Zanskar- June 2022
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Today was a great grey day for golf and for riding.
So it was a good opportunity to give the Gypsy a run and photograph it in its natural element with some beautiful horses and the green golf course in the background.
Wish I had more opportunities to drive it.
It is such a light vehicle and so narrow its almost like riding a 4 wheeled motorbike especially nowadays in a sea of modern Hatchbacks and SUVs and Sedans all of which seem fully pumped up on steroids. The Gypsy feels like a real fit slim jim amongst all of these.
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Just wanted to record here the only two essential modifications that I have carried out on my absolute bone stock Gypsy.
1. A Mild Steel Fuel Tank Guard
2. A Pair of Hella Comet 500FF Foglamps
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Gypsy spotting .. nice ray of light from the top

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Old 1st August 2022, 14:34   #1551
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Just wanted to record here the only two essential modifications that I have carried out on my absolute bone stock Gypsy.
1. A Mild Steel Fuel Tank Guard
2. A Pair of Hella Comet 500FF Foglamps
Thanks Shankar.Balan for the excellent pics.

Where do you suggest the MS fuel tank guard be picked up?

Secondly, does the position of the fog lamps affect the ram cooling for the vehicle? You may not face this problem but I stay in Chennai and use the gypsy as a daily drive. In traffic the engine heats up and cools down by the ram effect of driving on a relatively open road.
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For the first time in my life, I got to experience a 4WD vehicle, thanks to my brother-in-law who acquired a 2009 MG413W Gypsy King. He happens to be an offroading guy who had a vintage Jeep until recently for such pursuits. Owning a Gypsy was his dream and my dream to drive one came true with that! The vehicle has ~60k km on the odo with the previous owner being the Indian Armed Forces.

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Having always driven 800 cc vehicles - Alto 800 and occasionally Omni, I got to see some real power with this! The ride quality felt meh on good roads at speeds > 60 kmph but once I got off the road, the vehicle felt at home. I cover some of these stretches with my Alto while visiting in-laws and on monsoons, it's a painful ride for the car with the underbelly scraping and all. But with Gypsy, I could drive without worry and the steep climb was easy peasy. While 2WD was sufficient, I tried out 4H as well!

Some pictures of the vehicle -
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2010 Gypsy King
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From a recent weekend trip to Sakaleshpura.

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The Gypsy is now back at my friend's garage undergoing cosmetic makeover. It has been 6 years of ownership - a little pampering was much deserved.
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Sunday outing with Gypsy
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Thanks Shankar.Balan for the excellent pics.

Where do you suggest the MS fuel tank guard be picked up?

Secondly, does the position of the fog lamps affect the ram cooling for the vehicle? You may not face this problem but I stay in Chennai and use the gypsy as a daily drive. In traffic the engine heats up and cools down by the ram effect of driving on a relatively open road.
Hello SJ410. Sorry for the late reply. But I was locked out of the system for a month for making back to back posts.

(Unintentional I assure you)

The Mild Steel Fuel Tank guard can be bought from Swastik Fabs Bangalore or similar.
I live in Bangalore where the climate is much more temperate than in Madras. Hence I do not face cooling issues. Also, I rarely ever drive my Gypsy in bumper to bumper traffic on a warm day or indeed, ever at all.
The best solution for making sure the Gypsy stays cool is to install an auxiliary cooling fan inside the engine bay. This helps massively keeping the vehicle temperature in check and most rally Gypsys tend to do this as an essential modification.

To avoid the said back to back posts, I am taking this opportunity to put up a few recent pics of my Gypsy. I did a solo drive last Friday to Ooty and returned to Bangalore on Saturday - about 36 hours with a comfortable night halt.

I wanted to basically prove to myself that I haven’t gone ‘soft’ and Im still capable of driving a non ac, non power steering soft top gypsy over a long-ish distance. Of course, it helped a lot that the weather is comfortable. But the. I had also done a similar trip in March this year to Coorg and back. Again wanting to prove to myself that I m still able to do it without much ado.

The Gypsy is a lovely thing. And I truly enjoy re-living my younger days by driving it on these trips. This particular Gypsy is a real delight, because it is an untouched Civilian one.

(As you can see, I’m a little bit obsessed with my Gypsy…)

The first lot of 5-6 pics was on my solo drive to Coorg in March 2022.

The rest are of last week’s 26-27 Aug solo drive to Ooty and back.
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Just outside Bangalore, took a little detour while out on some work.

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@Shankar, nice pics !
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@Shankar, nice pics !
Am very happy you also got your much awaited Gypsy. Do pop by sometime and we’ll do a ‘car compare’.
Meanwhile, I was very lucky I think last Sat because I escaped the Kengeri/ Kumbalagodu River/ Lake overflow fiasco completely.
En route back from Ooty there were a smattering of Army Gypsys from our very own ASC Bangalore. The soldiers driving them told me they were out on some exercises in the Nilgiris region.
And one more good thing was that the Police guards at Ooty were kind enough to let me drive down Sigur. They dont normally do that for everyone. But I guess the ‘Green Gypsy factor’ kicked in for me, plus the fact that I spent all my growing up years up there.
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Some more pics of the Gypsy at the Army area today.

I was happy to see one of the officers Gypsys with his pet Labrador in the back. 8 years old but surprisingly not a very friendly lab.
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Am very happy you also got your much awaited Gypsy. Do pop by sometime and we’ll do a ‘car compare’.
Thanks, Shankar. There was a reason to get this, and this pic should explain .. it's about being able to carry stuff:

Gypsy on Duty:
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We had trimmed the branches of a couple of trees outside our house. Here's the Gypsy on duty, taken away for disposal. Cant do this in a Storme.
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