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25th Vintage Car Exhibition and Drive 2024, Jaipur

Revisit The Era of The Most Beautiful Cars

A photo and video walktrhough of vintage cars

The vintage car show has been organized regularly at Jaipur by
'The Rajputana Automotive Sports Car Club'
in association with
'Department of Tourism' (Government of Rajasthan)

Despite this popular vintage car show being regularly organized in my hometown, I could never make it to visit any of the previous event in the past. Mostly I missed because I could not get the schedule information prior to the events.

This year I got the schedule information in much advance so I could plan the visit. I got my cameras ready and reached at the venue, Taj Jai Mahal Palace, Jaipur at 9 am on 25th Feb.

The time was perfect since there was hardly any crowd that early in the morning which allowed me enough time to capture some fine details of some of the cars without disturbance. as the time kept passing, number of visitors started increasing being it Sunday. Later the venue was full of curious and enthusiastic people.

The venue, Taj Jai Mahal Palace, Jaipur:

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Video description:

The 4K video (watch time: 8 minutes) starts with visual story of a participant vintage car struggling to take off for the group drive. The story is divided in three short parts mixed with rest of the walkthrough portion which again covers three different sections.

Video:

https://youtu.be/GzTXpj8PJQI

1. The first section is about the introduction which reveals fine details of few of the participant vintage cars. Not only the exterior-interiors, but I covered mechanical details (only in the video) of some of the cars as well.

2. The second section is about the roaring motors from the past. No petrol-head would like to miss the musical notes of those V6, V8, (V12?) motors.

3. The third section is about witnessing the beautiful cars in motion. Some of the car owners were dressed in some retro styles clothings and some even felt like old film actors driving cars despite not wearing any retro styling clothing or makeup.

More than 60 GBs of high quality 4K 10bit 422 log profile video clips recorded on Lumix S5IIX are tightly edited into
this 8 minutes short video and composed with handpicked retro style music matching the mood, full credit to the musicians of those tracks. It took lot of time in editing and reediting, thats why I am posting it now after passing more than three weeks from the event.

There are lot of cars and their details which I could capture only in the still photographs so going through the still photographs is not going to be a repetitive experience.

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Prelude:

Jaipur, capital of Rajasthan - the state with rich heritage. But the heritage is incomplete if we talk only about the architecture and history of different eras. We also talk about the mode of transportation in different eras along with various other elements to call history - the heritage.

Elephant Seat at Jodhpur fort:

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Motor-cars have been key mode of transportation since the beginning of the previous century. The technology and designs of the cars kept changing over the period of time.

Today we have reached to a threshold of reliability where cars refuse to break down despite all kind of abuses we throw them in or whatever kind of regular-irregular maintenance schedules we follow. But they miss out on the wide differentiation of design characteristics of those old timers. They start feeling monotonic and boring at times compared to the classic beauties.

Old walled city area of Jaipur full of monototonic cars:

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Design difference between the cars of different generations:

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But there was an era when the cars used to be so vastly different compared to others:

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Not only in terms of designs, but in sizes as well. Notice the proportions and size with such big difference:

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Cars in that era used to be colorful. There was no space for the similarity. White, the most common colour in today's cars was a rare site in those days along with the second most popular color silver which used to be chosen as exclusivity like any other color of that time.

Spotted two vintage cars with different shapes at a fuel bunk on my way to the venue:

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I would have liked to cover all the cars (100+) but could manage to capture only a few out of so many came from various parts of the country because the drive was also scheduled in the morning hours of the second and last day of the event. The rally was flagged off by the deputy chief minister of Rajasthan Diya Kumari who is also member of the Jaipur Royal family.

Red carpet ready for the march past of the queens of the past:

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I wanted to have some words with some of the participants but found few of them already busy talking with others so did not disturb them, instead concentrated capturing the beauty of the vintage cars. Though I am willing to record interviews of few vintage car collectors in the future exhibitions.

After observing those vintage cars so closely, I could feel a fraction of how much it takes to maintain them, its a very demanding job, one has to be highly dedicated towards this passion.

Let's begin with the photos of the event cars...

Bentley - Fully aluminum built car:







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Stutz - Most predestined looking car, many fine details are covered in the video along with the exhaust note

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Rolls Royce Phantoms:

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Morris Garages - Mechanical details are covered in the video















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Buick Dynaflow: Most striking car there in the glowing yellow color in the bright sunlight











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Buick Super















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Buick Roadmaster

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What car is this? Even sticker says Dodge 1954 but the log on the car is Chevrolet











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Packard- World's first air-conditioned car

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Hudson

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Chevrolet Impala- Few generations of the wide stance car





























Spotted this one at the fuel bunk on my way to the venue:





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Chevrolet Nova SS





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Chevrolet Master





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One early days model of Chevrolet





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Alvis



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Austin 7 - The story car in the video

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Austin Healy

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Singer Nine



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Sunbeam



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The Mini









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Ford Mustang:





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Daimler model?







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Fiat

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Cadilac









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Dodge









Spotted this Dodge at a fuel bunk on my way to the venue:



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Oldsmobile

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Lagonda



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Willys Station Wagon

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Humber

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Mercedes



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Studebaker Commander









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Stubedaker Champion

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Few generations of Jaguar













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1913 Ford Model T - The oldest car at the event











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Ford Model T - few generations ahead













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Some candid shots from the event


























Audi - the co-sponsor of the event


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Thanks

[Aditya]

Thread moved out from the Assembly Line. Thanks for sharing!

[V.Narayan]

Thank you for all the trouble you have taken to click, arrange and share these photos of these beauties. Each worth a drool. Nos 8, the green car is the one that caught my eye.

[visionrider]

Fantastic pics and thank you very much for all the trouble you took to edit and present us with a such a great thread.

[W140SKlasse]

Thanks for the images! The green Daimler is the SP250 'Dart', a fibreglass-bodied car with a V8 under the hood. The car was also present at the recently-held Oberoi Concours d'Elegance.

References -
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daimler_SP250.
https://www.team-bhp.com/forum/vinta...ur-2024-a.html (The Oberoi Concours d'Elegance - Udaipur, 2024)

[KPS]

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Thank you for such a detailed report. Excellent coverage of the cars. Rajasthan is blessed with an excellent collection of cars and fantastic locations

Cheers

KPS