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In pics: Convoy of Bengaluru BHPians go on a monsoon day drive

10th October 2024, 08:03 by Dev Shah

We got a lot of glances from the public wherever we pulled up owing to the sheer numbers and the variety of machines at one place.

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It was a plan proposed by ishan0278 and it quickly caught on and became a sizeable number. The idea was to do a day drive and meet the forum members and their cars. The plan was discussed and the the final decision was to meet at 7am and start the drive after a general round of introductions. The drive had three kinds of participants.

Ones who were doing the full drive
Others who were returning after breakfast
Yet others who were returning after meeting and greeting at the start

The meeting point on that Sunday was nothing short of spectacular with a huge number of cars and a lot of enthusiastic car talk. It was a pleasant surprise seeing the faces associated with the Team BHP handles. That we were slightly behind schedule was expected owing to the large turnout and the relatively short drive we had ahead of us. There were all types of cars in the lineup with the popular Thar, the rare Fiesta 1.6S, a stage 2 Polo GT TDI, immaculately kept Linea Tjet, a 2.4 Grand Vitara. a 3.2 Mitsubishi Montero AT, Bavarian powerhouses etc being some of them. We started the drive to our breakfast point about 70kms away and the sight was incredible to see. We got a lot of glances from the public wherever we pulled up owing to the sheer numbers and the variety of machines at one place.

Breakfast was a quick affair and the conversation ranged from mods to work to travel and other topics. Before I forget, we had a bike amongst the group too.

The plan now was to continue the drive, while the ones returning back from breakfast were taking the route back home. So we veered off the main road and landed up on some country roads eyeballing the scenery in awe. The roads were a mix of good and bad. Our stop was a lovely hillock with the countryside extending for miles all round. This was a rather popular place with the group and a lot of photos got clicked here. Some curious villagers assumed that a shoot was going on and hung around to look at the proceedings.

Thereafter, we proceeded to the next leg of the journey, that was Horsley hills. Its a popular hill station near Bangalore. The climb was short and the drive up was a nice one although being a weekend meant that there were tourists. We parked up and proceeded to one of the restaurants for lunch. This also served as a nice break after the morning drive.

We still had quite some distance to go before we got back home and decided to start the journey back from Horsley hills but not before we got some shots of the convoy taken on the beautiful ghats. We have to thank turboNath for the drone shots. He was simply superb in finding out places and planning and nailing shots. Thanks for all the great work Atreya.

We got some good tarmac to drive on the way back and speeds picked up. It was great to see a variety of cars effortlessly eat up distances. After driving for close to an hour and more, we took a break for tea and were greeted by a light drizzle. Had our break and decided to say byes as the next leg would involve some traffic and madness. The attendees and their cars