The Ford A 1930 Model Vintage Car of the Border Security Force will be participating in the 41st Statesman Vintage and Classic Car Rally to be flagged off from statesman house, New Delhi on Sunday, 11^th Feb 2007.

This Maroon Beauty Vintage four – wheeler has a 14 horsepower, four-cylinder in-line engine, which runs at average speed of 35 km per hour and consumes one liter of petrol for every four kilometers.

The car was acquired by the erstwhile Provincial Government of Madhya Bharat sometime in 1930. The car was used by the then British Governor of the Province and on attaining independence, by the state Police Chief. Besides erstwhile British Governors of the province, many British Viceroys including Lord Wavell and Lord Louis Mountbatten graced this car. India’s famous freedom fighters like Mahatma Gandhi and Dr Rajendra Prasad traveled in this car to meet the Governor of Madhya Bharat between 1933 and 1935. It was last officially used by Shri K F Rustamji when he was Police Chief of Madhya Pradesh. Around 1965, it was given to Central School of Motor Transport at Sagar, Madhya Pradesh for training purposes. In 1971, when Border Security Force took over the Central School of Motor Transport from Madhya Pradesh Police at Sagar, the car came as a gift to the BSF.