Gleaming Collectors celebrate in style
The heavens opened last weekend, but that didn't deter the Collectors Club from rolling out some of the most beautiful cars in Hong Kong for two reunification celebrations. At the Yau Tsim Mong District's 10th Anniversary Celebration of Reunification Parade on Saturday, 'every owner was especially in high spirits, reminiscing of the day of the handover in 1997,' says the club's spokeswoman Connie Lau.
Forty of the club's cars filed down Nathan Road from Mong Kok to Yau Ma Tei, Jordan and past the Hotel Miramar in Tsim Sha Tsui. Dancers and drummers greeted a cavalcade led by a police escort. A 1934 Plymouth was followed by a 1926 Rolls-Royce Phantom I, a 1924 Vauxhall (above), a 1934 Rolls-Royce 20/25 Coupe de Ville and a white1954 MG TD (below bottom).
'We finally arrived at the New World Centre, the designated car show venue,' Lau says. After an opening ceremony, 30 cars were parked overnight, enabling the general public to view them. 'A real highlight,' says Lau 'was the 1953 Red Flag [below middle].'
The club's second test against the elements was in Kwun Tong, for the district's reunification carnival and parade. 'It was a stark contrast to that of the Yau Tsim Mong event,' Lau says. 'Under 33 degrees of dazzling sun, the parade took off at 1.15pm, followed by
a series of moving traditional Chinese lion dance and kung fu martial arts performances.'