Dhoni has over the years bought these cars and motorbikes and added them to his collection. Recently, according to some reports. Dhoni has added another vintage car to his big collection. It said that Dhoni won the bid for a 1971 land Rover series station Wagon at an online auction that was held by none other than Big Boy Toyz. The cost of the car wasn't revealed but according to the reports, the car is supposed to be quite a catch and Dhoni is well aware of it. The Land Rover Series 3 station wagon is a very rare vehicle and it has a yellow and white dual-tone finish. It is also said to be one of the most popular and rare cars built by the British automaker in the Land Rover series. As the Land Rover Series, 3 station wagon was so popular and loved by many, the automaker built around 440,000 units of the series between 1971 and 1985. Also, during this period, customers even had the option to buy the car from a variety of variants like the 2.3-litre four-cylinder petrol engine and 3.5-litre V8.
The Land Rover series 3 station wagon which now belongs to Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the former captain of India is one of the rarest vintage cars in India. The car is beautifully finished in a shade of yellow. This car is extremely well known and popular when it comes to the Land Rover series range with over 440,000 examples built between 1971 and 1985 and Dhoni is extremely lucky to own it now. The breathtaking vintage and classic car come with an engine ranging from a 2.3-litre four-cylinder petrol engine to a 3.5-litre V8 with a four-speed manual transmission and a 2-speed manual transfer case. Even though a vivid picture of the car is given, the engine features that the car Dhoni owns is not given clearly. Jatin Ahuja, the founder of Big boy Toyz is the one who held the online auction from where the car was bought by Dhoni.
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It was furthermore said that BBT (Big Boy Toyz) revealed that the auction started with the Volkswagen Beetle for as low as Rs. 1 lakh and went up to Rs. 25 lakh. It is to date very unclear whether the other vintage cars on the list found celebrity homes but more can be heard from BBT maybe soon. On the other side, the company, BBT says that they want to strengthen the vintage and classic car division and they are aiming to expand the same into a Rs. 100 crore vertical in the coming years. Also, they have said that the firm plans to come with fresh online auctions of vintage and classic cars every two months. Last month, February 2020 should have witnessed another auction for such vintage cars and motorbikes by BBT.
According to the history of this amazing vintage car, we get to know that this car has seen some dark days in the British car industry and the broader UK and global economics. Between 1971 and 1985, the British car industry faced a lot of problems and difficult times. But this series had sold quite well and this made the car industry get better in economic times around the 1960s. The two major changes that happened at once in 1979 was the stage one 109 offered a V8 engine borrowed from the Range Rover but detuned from 135 bhp to 91 bhp and also the second was that Land Rovers were becoming extremely popular as leisure vehicles bought by private owners.
