Rann of Kutch (8th – 16th February 2020) The Federation of Historic Vehicles of India in association with FIVA, official partner UNESCO , with support from GVCCC (Gujarat Vintage and Classic Car Club) organised their most recent event where a group of 13 Vintage and Classic cars, drove over 1400 kilometers spread over 7 days through the state of Gujarat and Rajasthan. The participants included children as young as 4 years and grandparents as old as 80. It even included woman

For enthusiasts of historic vehicles, the recent letter from the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has spelled good tidings. Of course, the letter raises more questions than answers them, but at least the thinking in the government seems to be heading in the right direction. The fact that there are more than a billion automobiles on Planet Earth, contributing to almost 75 percent of carbon monoxide emissions, is a piece of data, which cannot be denied. In congested citi

You might say today was an Eddie day. Not only did we celebrate Eddie’s happy times with us, but the weather too was Eddiesque; cool, comfortable, and kind. Whitefield is not the place that old timers remember it to be; the latest quip is that you need an overnight bus service to get from the western side of the city, to Whitefield. But our friends from the other side of the Bangalore planet did make it in time for our rally today. Whitefield residents, put on our customary s

It was another sunday well spent as KVCCC had organised a drive to Taneja aerospace for the VROOM 2019 drag race event. The plan was to meet at Narayana Hrudayala on Hosur Road at 8am and Proceed to A2B near Electronic city for breakfast. Mr.Suresh in his Morris woody followed by Mr.Srinivasan in his Morris eight ,me in the Fiat super select and Mr.Karthi Kumar in his Citroen were the first to arrive at the Hotel . The other cars joined us quickly and we all had a sumptu

Here is a great story of a KVCCC member car restoration. This story is about the amazing guts shown by the owner to get into this project and the tenacity of the restorer to take up the project. This car significantly lifted the profile of the KVCCC member cars, beyond Bangalore. In 1991-92, Mr. Papanna a successful business man had been bitten by the vintage car bug having witnessed the resurrection of his 1947 Riley car by Mr. Sripathi, which incidentally won an award in a

The Karnataka Vintage and Classic Car Club (KVCCC) was formed in 1979. This was a brainchild of a few friends driven by Shri Anand Rao and Shri Balram Kandige. Joining them was Shri Premanth P S, Shri Prithvinath K G, Shri Nataraj Shetty, Shri Anil Kumar Lakhani, Shri Ganesh Rao and others. The primary object of the Club was to "Promote and encourage collection, preservation and use of vintage cars in India". The Club remains one of the oldest and premier vintage and classic

The Historic Vehicle Movement in Karnataka, India is in full swing. The Karnataka Vintage and Classic Car Club (KVCCC) is one of the oldest clubs in the country, established in 1979. In order to appeal to a young audience in a country that has more than 50% of it’s population under the age of 30, the club recently elected an entirely new committee under the guidance of its senior members. What is special about this committee is that, it not only has a large youth repres