Girish's car, or more popularly known as "Vada Vandi" gets really moody at times. The old Maruti Esteem VX has taken us to a lot of garages in and around Coimbatore but nothing was as exciting as this one. It all started when Sachin said that he knew a garage where they deal with all kinds of vehicles. And sure enough, this really turned out to be an "all the kinds" garage.
They had a sizeable amount of cars inside. But what caught my eyes (and then the lens of the Pentax in my hand) were some BSA motorbikes carelessly parked in the corner.
I was not able to make out the model, they looked like they had a 250cc engine.
Walk in and a little to the left you will find a couple of bikes from a british company called AJS.
The AJS looked like a vintage bike. They had a couple of these and all of us took turns to sit on the bike and have our photos taken. They even let us kickstart one 500cc monster.
The speedometer of the AJS is caliberated in "miles per hour" and has a maximum reading of 120mph. The odometer inside had not registered much distance. Anyways, the workers assured us that the bike is in good running condition.
This last bike that I came across was sitting a little towards the end of the garage. The workers had just finished a paint job. There were no markings on the bike with regards to the model or the manufacturer. It could well have been an old Rajdoot or Enfield. I decided to call it "Spirit of Tamil Nadu".
After about one hour, they suggested that we take the car to a Maruti workshop nearby. Apparently, after laying hands on everything from the first bicycle ever made to the second world war machines, a 98 model Esteem seemed a little too advanced to work on.
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