Scooter '72

The first scooter in our family and probably the first in the neighbourhood as well since it wasn't long before scooters were launched. So it was an object of pride and something to be flaunted. Light green colored and 150 cc engine with 3 gears, its name was Bajaj 150, though not many people wud know that Bajaj Priya was initially known as Bajaj 150.

If I remember correctly my Grandpa never drove it, but almost everybody in the next 2 generations learnt scooter driving on that. And I tried my hand on that when I was in class 6th. But as we grew old we bought new bikes and scooters and we(me and my brother) as young men were ashamed of driving that outdated and not so "Kool" vehicle.

Since nobody was using it for years, recently my aunt gave it to a poor man, we knew, for free, beacuse everybody felt that it was unsaleable. Though i dont remember when i drove that scooter last, but after that news i somehow felt that something precious was lost, it felt like that our legacy was bequeathed to somebody else :(

No doubt that scooter didnt look stylish but its voice was amazing as robust as it wud have been when it was first taken out of the showroom and that sound is still clear in my mind. I still have a clear image of how i started driving that and got stuck in mud on my very first drive.

Now that thing no more belongs to us and for me the leagcy has become a sonorous sounding memory.