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A dose of nostalgia for the old India! Everyone remembers their HM Ambassador cars spending half their lives in the workshop, in the company of repairmen! The India that had still not been robbed of its innocence, back in the 1970's... Repairing an Ambassador car from Hindustan Motors, painting an old Ambassador and filling petrol in an old scooter at a Indian Oil petrol pump in the Andaman Islands, India. And then watch an old CRT television set being repaired - where did those days go, oh where or where did they go? The Hindustan Ambassador is a car manufactured by Hindustan Motors of India. It has been in production since 1958 with few modifications or changes and is based on the Morris Oxford III model, first made by the Morris Motors LImited at Cowley, Oxford in the United Kingdom fro
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