Maruti Gypsy: How I found my dream SUV by coincidence

Days and months passed and during a casual Whatsapp chat with him, he happened to share pictures of his Gypsy and guess what, it's the very same white Gypsy which I saw that day in Wayanad that sort of reignited my dreams.

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Warning: A long post.

The Gypsy has always been a dream car for me since my teenage days. It only stayed as a dream for various reasons till 2021. The last I came close to buying one was in 2019 or so, but then it didn't materialize either. While I was visiting Wayanad in Kerala in the latter half of 2019, I happened to see a modified soft top white Gypsy. It looked in pristine condition and had a lovely sports exhaust. The way it moved, it was such an enthralling sight. I literally drooled over it for some time. The next day I was trailing the very same Gypsy in my Omni. And for a moment I felt it was bearing a similar registration number as my friend's Gypsy in Wayanad itself, so I overtook the car and made them stop and asked the guy behind the wheel if it was X's car to which he replied NO, and I said sorry indicating I mistook the car and moved on. In fact that white Gypsy reignited my desire to own a Gypsy soon.

Fast forward to 2021 Jan, and I finally bought a Harvest Green hard top Gypsy from a fellow BHPian right on my birthday. A long pending dream had been fulfilled and my Gypsy life took wings. Before zeroing in on this green one, I had hunted for Gypsies in Wayanad too. Our D BHPian Dhanushs (he hails from Wayanad) had suggested a few Gypsies there, and I couldn't travel there owing to travel restrictions across the border. I've never met him in person and interacted only over chats and calls. Days and months passed and during a casual whats app chat with him, he happened to share pictures of his Gypsy and guess what, it's the very same white Gypsy which I saw that day in Wayanad that sort of reignited my dreams. And then it dawned upon me that it was Dhanush who was behind the wheel of that Gypsy on that day when I mistook it for my friend's car, and he vaguely remembered the instance of a guy in an Omni stopping him.

Hold on! For those who now think this is the coincidence I'm narrating, the story doesn't end here.

I've been planning to convert my green Gypsy to a soft top and also install AC and power steering too, but the pandemic wave 2 and multiple lockdowns in Bangalore played spoilsport. Again, fast forward to September 2021, another casual chat with Dhanush and he tells me his Gypsy is up for sale. It had AC, power steering, Iron Man suspension, soft top and many other off road equipment I was planning on my green Gypsy. I wasted no time and literally zoomed off to Wayanad from Bangalore the very next day morning despite all travel restrictions. We had sort of agreed on the price the previous night itself if I end up liking the car after test driving it. I went there and Dhanush was under the weather, so couldn't meet him hence. His friend handed over the Gypsy, and I used it for a day. Took it to my farm there and few other known routes, got convinced with the car and decided to buy and the deal was done. All this without even paying a single penny as advance. How about that for trust between Team BHPians? Not just that, I couldn't transfer the funds even after formally taking possession of the car owing to amount capping in my bank ac for new payees. The funds were transferred only late in the day by alternate means. I take this opportunity to immensely thank Dhanush for letting me test the car for a day and also for parting with his prized possession, which his friends later termed as his second wife.

Now I'm the proud owner of the very same Gypsy that captivated me at first sight, reignited the Gypsy love and now it's parked down in my garage. Wasn't that a worthy coincidence? Yes, I'm yet to meet Dhanush in person. Today I'm the proud owner of two Gypsies, albeit temporarily. And yes, I would part with my green Gypsy as soon as I find a worthy Gypsy enthusiast.

Now don't roast me for dawdling. There's another coincidence too, again with the Gypsy. After having used the green Gypsy for 8 months or so, I realized that if there ever be a need for an upgrade job for theGypsy it has to be with it's suspension since the ride quality is spine breaking. I learned that Iron Man and OME are the two options. Stumbled upon BHPian cool_dube's ( Rahul) post as well about him installing ARB' s Old Man EMU suspension on his now sold relatively new Gypsy and had strongly recommended OME over Iron Man and my mind was moving towards it too. I pinged him and had a chat, and he kindly provided the present owner's number and put in a reference, so that I could meet him and test drive the Gypsy with it's OME suspension. I rang up the guy only to know that he's upgrading the suspension to Iron Man and the car is slated to go to the garage the very next day for the work and he's looking to sell the OME (used only for 5k kms or so). Do I need to say I jumped in and struck the deal (a win:win one) then and there and went to the garage and got it fitted to my green Gypsy . That's another Gypsy coincidence. Incidentally, it's Rahul again who gave me the contact number of my green Gypsy's ex owner (a BHPian too), after which I struck the deal and bought it. Rahul says I strike gold whenever I reach out to him. Thanks cool_dube, you are indeed cool.

Now please don't curse me for the long story. If you've read this far, thank you for reading.

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