when have you seen a 1921 citron a 1976 matador tempo and a 1964 triumph drive down the streets of panaji together though we spot a bunch of vintage and classic cars and bikes around goa occasionally its rare to find so many at one place at one time the recently concluded third edition of the goa vintage car and bike festival saw over 80 vintage and classic cars and over 50 vintage bikes rally around panaji until the miramar circle before they parked behind old gmc complex throughout the day car collectors restorers and automobile enthusiasts took time out to admire the exquisite beauties from different cities and interact with others who share a common interestgoans and people from outside have brought their rare cars which has added a lot of value to the show says pradeep naik the curator and founder of ashvek vintage world goas only automobile museum he was there with his 1983 mercedes benz limousine and fiats in different colours blue yellow and red goas business tycoons suraj and manoj caculo displayed their 1921 citron 1923 fiat and 1951 ford while shrinivas dempo exhibited his 1961 cadillac fleetwood and 1965 mercedes benz the riot of colours and vintage designs was truly a treat to every car loverwhile a lot of the older cars and bikes are rusting themselves out of existence here are a few people we met who are restoring and breathing a new life into them eight exquisite cars from mumbaimumbaibased restorer and collectors viveck and zita goenka got some gorgeous drives to the festival including the rare 1929 mercedes nurburg 1936 cord and 1973 ford mustang which seemed to be the crowd favourites my wife felt that we should get some of our nice cars to goa because a lot of these arent seen here like the nurburg the cord and the packard which arent easy to spot in goa these days at least the last two generations havent seen them so she suggested we take some seveneight cars to goa because she is goan we picked up a random selection of cars and got them says vivecktalking about his 1962 mercedes benz 220se he says this car belonged to the chogyals the rulers of sikkim and has changed a few hands before i became the lucky owner there are just two of these in india we restored it from complete scratch to a very high standard today in fact any time we take this one to an event the judges comment that they havent seen this type of restoration even in europe the same is the case with the thunderbird the nurburg is one of the two or three survivors in the worldfrom scrap to a sturdy truckryan braganza was there with three of his cars a 1961 volkwagen beetle vw bay window van and a hindustan 14 pickup truck talking about the truck which he himself has restored he says the truck was gifted to me in a