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The Chetak, Super, Priya Bajaj are a thing of the past 
WSN Bureau

How many of our NRI readers across United States, Canada, United Kingdom and the rest of the world would have memories of scooter rides back home in Punjab? Well, preserve those memories and those sepia tinted photographs even more carefully now because your children will never get to have a feel of the same fit-fit-fit sound of the two-stroke engines of Bajaj scooters.

In March 2010, the last of "Hamara Bajaj" scooters will roll out of the Bajaj factory at Waluj, Aurangabad. The firm has decided to shut down its line of scooters alogether and focus on motorcycles.

Bajaj was the legendary scooter manufacturer and products like the Chetak, Super and Priya were ubiquitous on Indian roads and a coveted possession in the average Indian household of he 1980s.

"My father booked a scooter for me when I was in college and we got the delivery after I had landed a job seven years later," recalled one of our readers in Fremont. He said he still has pictures of him riding the scooter. Those pictures are clearly more worthy of preservation now.

16 December 2009
 

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