Classic cars
The 10th edition of the Mercedes-Benz Classic Car Rally (MBCCR) on December 3, 2023 saw 81 cars spread across 77 different model variants. Ten percent of the vehicles that glided from Taj Lands End in Bandra to Worli Sea Face and back were Parsi owned, according to details furnished by curator Perseus Bandrawalla.
The rare models owned by community members were: 230 (W 123) bought for the event by Farzad Palia; E220 (W124) by Bandrawalla, the car that started MBCCR; 190SL (W121) by businessman Yohan Poonawalla that was originally Maharani Gayatri Devi’s car; 170V Roadster (W 136) by Freddy Turel,......