[anjan_c2007]

Still some more to go from the Judgement Day (27/01/2018)

[V.Narayan]

Thank you for sharing these photos and bringing the event alive to us. KartikeyaL might bop me on the head but the Bongs are giving some very stiff competition to the Rajputs I have gazed and gazed at this thread from the 110 year old car, to the wild lilac pink Beetle VW to Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw's Austin Sheerline when he used when headed the Eastern Command (titled Sheerline in post 9). His biography talks about how he pulled it out of the garage dump and had it restored for his use as Army Commander of the Eastern Command in 1967. It used to be the official car, in the late 1940s, of the last British Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army, General Roy Bucher*. He once once joked with Manekshaw that he (Sam) could never ever become senior enough to drive in an Austin Sheerline! Its original colour was silver.

*This gentleman was responsible in 1948 from ordering Carriappa not to launch an attack on the southern salient in Kashmir thus preventing India from reoccupying the western areas of Kotli, Punch, Mirpur, Domel etc. Otherwise the entire piece of the Valley of Kashmir would have remained with India. A bit off topic but what to do -national pride pops up!

[anjan_c2007]

Some more images from the event. The top nine pictures are from Judgment Day, while the others are from the Rally Day (28/01/18).



















The above nine pictures are from the Judgment Day

[sdg4wheels]

Please excuse me if I am providing some wrong information in this forum. I regularly visit THE STATESMAN VINTAGE & CLASSIC CAR RALLY that happens every winter in Kolkata. Every year in the Rally a DODGE is seen to take part along with a Blue Beacon on Top and I came to know from one of the organizers of the rally that, that car is still the Official Vehicle of the Police Commissioner of Kolkata, however it is not used regularly but the Bengal Government do spend money on maintaining it. During the Rally the Police Commissioner does travel in the car for a certain distance.

I am a newbie here so not sure if this post of mine is relevant here. Request you all to please let me know if I need to delete/merge/put it somewhere else.