‘Old is Gold’, a very famous English proverb remains true in most aspects of tangible material life. The proverb was proven true by a rally ‘Classic India-2013’ of 15 Vintage cars organized by a ROARR Rallies from UK today.

Driving some of the rarest cars of early 90’s on the Indian roads, the rally was flagged off from Delhi and reached Udaipur earlier this evening. The rally would be travelling around five thousand kilometers across western parts of country covering 3 major states Delhi, Rajasthan Gujarat and some parts of MP.

The group is organizing such rallies for past 13 years exploring various parts of India and has included Rajasthan, notably Udaipur, in most of their runs held in India. This year it would be completing tour within 46 days starting from 24^th January and concluding on 21^st February. Before coming to the city, these vintage cars were in Kumbhalgarh; they would be driven to Dungarpur on 2^nd February.

In their cluster of 15 cars, some of the master pieces of engineering of mid and early 90’s include Jaguar XK150S (1958), Lanchester 40HP (1925), Mercedes 280SL (1970, 1968), Mercedes 450SL (1974), Alfa Romeo Giulia TI (1965), Langoda L645 (1937), Volvo PV 544 (1965), Chevy Convertible (1937), Jaguar XK120 (1952, 1953) which are riding around 200 km a day along Indian roads.

Conard Brich, Director and Organizer, ROARR Rallies said, “Motive behind this drive is to regain glory of engineering master pieces of its time. I was passionate about vintage since childhood. I grew up amidst these old muscular cars as they were my father’s passion too”.

Conard added that it is a non-profit making event and the amount collected is donated to the needy ones who come across their journey.

The rally is well supported by a mechanic from Udaipur Yunus Hussain Pathan aka Bunty. Most importantly he is the one among the Mechanical Squad of the group for past 12 years; he joined in the year 1999, and bore responsibility of repairing any breakdown anywhere anytime throughout their tour.