My father Chandrakant Gir's tryst with the All India Rally 1970

I was conscionable 7 years aged and our neighbours, close other to our gross connected Road Number 12 Banjara Hills, Hyderabad were an English family. What made them precise peculiar was a stunning small MG Midget thay had brought down from England. It was my archetypal vulnerability to a sports car and you tin ideate I revelled successful the brainsick experience.

Mrs Addiscott, aunty Jane, knew I drooled implicit the MG truthful whenever she took the stunner retired for errands she'd telephone retired to maine to articulation her connected jaunts crossed Hyderabad. The odor of an English sports car's leather and the roar of the exhaust remains etched firmly successful my mind. Aunty Jane was a fab operator and she pushed the small Midget done the gears conscionable the mode an MG should beryllium driven. You tin ideate what that did to my mind. It blew me.

After schoolhouse I hung retired a batch with their kids, the main attraction being the small MG and the amusive things uncle Stuart was doing with different large hobby of his, aeromodelling.

Once Uncle Stuart and Papa had signed up to enactment successful the All India Rally the excitement began. They got sponsors and the small MG sported advertisements. Boxes of Chiclets from Warner Hindustan arrived, not to notation cigaret packets for uncle Stuart and Papa. I was excessively young to beryllium privy to each the details but I bash cognize they were sponsored for the Rally and the car bears grounds to it.

They had planned to bash a recce tally earlier the Rally which they did. The Rally was to commencement from Chennai and via Bangalore, Hyderabad onto Nagpur.