2020 has been a difficult year. The ongoing pandemic has created havoc across the globe with thousands of lives lost, businesses hit, and major events either been cancelled or postponed. Amidst this very dull circumstances, EIMG’s Goodbye 2020 Brunch Meet was the light at the end of the tunnel that has ushered in a ray of hope among the vintage and classic car fraternity in Kolkata and saw around 35 vintage and classic cars along with their owners and guests congregate outside the historic venue of Town Hall on Sunday, December 27.
Some of the notable cars in attendance in the winter morning of the last Sunday of 2020 were A. Bubna’s 1925 Rolls-Royce 20 HP, Shrivardhan Kanoria’s 1931 Chevrolet Big 6, Sanjay Ghosh’s 1932 Ford V8, Deborshi Sadan Bose’s 1936 SS1, Azam Monem’s 1937 Rolls-Royce Phantom III, Raja Mookerjee’s 1947 Buick Super 8, S.K. Lahiri’s 1948 Plymouth, Saikat Dutta’s 1963 Triumph Spitfire and Prasun Hazra’s 1965 Hillman Imp.
The event also saw participation from five well restored Fiats from the Fiat Users Club of Calcutta among which Vinay Agarwal’s 1955 Fiat Millecento and Sanjay Ghosh’s 1968 Fiat Delight deserves mention, both restored by Shrivardhan Kanoria.
The cars were flagged off from Town Hall and drove past the Raj Bhavan before hitting the majestic Red Road. The convoy continued straight before turning left onto Hospital Road and then embarking on the AJC Bose Road flyover. The car alighted from the flyover at the Park Circus 7-Point Crossing before turning right on to Gariahat Road driving past Quest Mall, Ice Skating Rink, CCFC, Birla Mandir, Ballygunge Phari and Pantaloons before getting on to the Gariahat flyover. The convoy then took a right from the Golpark on to Southern Avenue and continued straight on the thoroughfare before arriving at S.P. Mukherjee Road crossing. They finally turned left on to S.P. Mukherjee Road from where a short drive saw the run culminate at the iconic Royal Calcutta Golf Club.
Eager onlookers were spotted catching a glimpse of these timeless beauties. And as each car, with considerable historic importance, toured the city and completed the route, you could see how the time gap between history and modernity was bridged in style and elegance.
Shrivardhan Kanoria, President, Eastern India Motoring Group said, “I started EIMG at the beginning of 2020. The objective was to create a group likeminded individuals and work towards a common cause of creating awareness about these historic cars and encouraging more vintage and classic car owners to restore and preserve their vehicles. We have already organized two events at the beginning of this year. This was our third event which has helped us sign off from 2020 in style. In the coming year, EIMG will be organizing many more events and hope to bring back the glory days when Calcutta was looked upon as the mine of the best vintage and classics cars of the country. Rajiv Ghosh and Subhajit Kumar have been inducted as the VP and Secretary of EIMG respectively”
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