Heritage on Wheels: Vintage Car Exhibition at Nehru Science Centre, Mumbai

Heritage on Wheels: Vintage Car Exhibition at Nehru Science Centre, Mumbai

The Vintage car exhibition is back again at the Nehru Science Centre, this year with completely different models of cars and bikes of yesteryear’s. The exhibition, which opened on the 19th of March will conclude on the 7th of April to make way for yet another fascinating and state of the art Mega Science (विज्ञान समागम) exhibition which is slated for its opening on the 8th of May.

Automobiles of yesteryear’s have always attracted huge eyeballs, no wonder why lots of our visitors throng to this exhibition. These artistically crafted, elegant beauties, painstakingly restored and maintained by their respective, passionate owners have no parallels. Even while most modern car manufacturers announce new range of cars every year, the craze for ageless beauties of yesteryear’s cars remains unparalleled. The Nehru Science Centre, in collaboration with Vintage and Classic Car Club of India (VCCCI), is organising the "Heritage on Wheels: Vintage Car" exhibition at the Nehru Science Centre second year in a row.

On display are some 40 plus ageless beauties (cars and motorcycles) manufactured during the period from 1900 to 1950s. The assortment of cars on display include the Rolls Royce, Bentley, Humber, Daimler, Ford, Packard, Chrysler etc. These cars belong to the period referred to as the golden age of design in which some of the cars are so artistically designed and exquisitely engineered that they transcend mere transportation to become works of art. The vintage cars on display can be considered as rolling sculptures, and to see them is to think, “That car belongs to an art gallery.”