8th January 2007, 12:29
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| Senior - BHPian  | Vintage Car / Bike Show. Chennai Jan 7th 2007 Hi team, Yesterday, Chennai hosted a vintage car n bike rally at Besant Nagar beach, Chennai. Sat nite : nitrous, headers and myself decide to go and check it out. Sunday, Jan 7th: Day started for me very very early!!! 6.30 am...  i usually am asleep till 10 am... lazy sunday mornin types u know LOL....anyways nitrous picked me up and we drove to header's place which is around 20 mins away (considering sunday mornin traffic).... Parked nitrous's car outside the apartment and headed to Besant nagar beach via Marina in headers' 4X4 Jeep... beautiful drive i must say... driving along the beach in a convertible tank (seriously) was really cool and relaxing... we reached the venue and there was a band playin... more like a marriage band... would have preferred something more melodious though...  Islero was a plesant surprise at the venue... headers' jeep gang assembled just as the vintages were being lined up.... i guess they are called jeepers creepers or somethin... there were also some old bikes like triumph, BSA, matchless etc... highlight of the day were the SBK's... lotsa honda's and R1's... there was an '06 R6, MV Augusta, Repsol Honda, 2 RD's and some very loud bullets.... The SBK's made a grand entry.... all revv happy and attracting drones of people instantly from the vintages.... LOL..... the sound was way too addictive and orgasmic..... LOL!!! we wound up at 1030 hrs after the SBK's sprinted on the besant nagar beach road twice... much to the enjoyment of the public... P.S. the beach road was cordoned off by the police.... (not entirely though....) pics are in the next post... hope you all like 'em as much as I did clickin them... Enjoy!!! |
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8th January 2007, 12:38
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| Senior - BHPian | This is a CJ-5... my favorite Jeep... She is American and has lovely curves and nice rubber... LOL...  The CJ-5 alongside a Mahindra Classic...  A chevy vintage... unusual purple color...  The Morris Family... Sisters i guess... Both colors were beautiful and i couldn't make up my mind which was better....  The Austins....   The Citroen...  Fiat...  Continued... |
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8th January 2007, 12:47
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| Senior - BHPian | Continued with more pics... The Chevy Impala...  From L-R : Headers, Nitrous, the owner of the CJ-5 and his buddy who also owns a jeep... Sorry i can't recollect the names... and Islero....  The Paratrooper's Bike... It still runs... Standing next to another vintage.  A nice red Convertible...  An MG Convertible... with Islero posing next to it...   The Triuphm TR-3...  Contd... Last edited by n_aditya : 8th January 2007 at 13:07. |
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8th January 2007, 13:05
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| Senior - BHPian | Another Vintage Chevy...  And now... The most awaited... the SBK's....   The 2006 Yamaha R6....  One Gleaming Blue Immaculately maintained Vintage.... had been restored beautifully and had lovely leather seats, wooden running boards, carpets, etc...  The ZR-12R....  And thats me next to the 2 beauties.... hopefully i shall own an SBK someday...   The MV Augusta and the R6....   An old VW... Oops.. I forgot the model name...  Now for some more fun.... We hopped into Header's Jeep and went skimming on the sand... was awesome !!!  Nitrous at the wheel...  Well i have some videos of the SBK's doing a few runs on the beach... will post them soon... Hope you all enjoyed... The event had a very good turnout and was surprising as we were expecting only a handful of auto enthusiasts.... P.S. Dear Mod's.... this event was covered by the media. Thats why I havent blanked out the regn nos of the vehicles... Hope this is posted in the appropriate section. Thnx. Last edited by n_aditya : 8th January 2007 at 13:11. |
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8th January 2007, 16:01
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8th January 2007, 16:26
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8th January 2007, 17:01
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| Senior - BHPian | ok here goes... the 3 best video's IMO... R6 Burn Out : The SBK Lline up : The Sprint : Hope y'all like 'em. |
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8th January 2007, 18:54
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8th January 2007, 23:16
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8th January 2007, 23:18
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its nice to know that there were 'some' BSAs and 'some' triumphs. the whole point of a vintage show was so that people see and admire these carefully preserved/restored beauties, maybe appreciate them and know a bit about them. it was a pity to see the glory taken away from the oldies in one fell swoop, the moment a more modern and expensive machine fired up. the one day that these vintages could shine in pride, they sure wouldnt have gone back home feeling on top of the world. @n_aditya, good of u to upload the pics so patiently man. @slipstream: yeah man, i sure did.   | |
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9th January 2007, 10:23
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| Senior - BHPian | [quote=the_trooper;350967]the Jeep Club's called Jeep Thrills...not jeepers or creepers. Oops... My bad... Apologies...  P.S. Vcash, Generally these vintages are not up for sale IMO.... at least at shows... maybe someone can throw more light on this. |
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9th January 2007, 13:38
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9th January 2007, 14:08
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| Senior - BHPian  | there is an old standard 10 parked outside my colony, rusting. we could just tow it off.  |
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14th January 2007, 13:04
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