First Maruti 800 Car Sold in India

 

Harpal Singh receiving the keys to the first Maruti 800 car from former prime minister Indira Gandhi

 

India’s first Maruti 800 car, which gave its owner Harpal Singh and his wife Gulshanbeer Kaur a celebrity status, is dying a slow death outside the couple’s Green Park residence in Delhi with nobody to take care of it after they passed away.
The car, whose keys were handed to Harpal Singh by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on December 14, 1983, has not been used for one-and-a-half-years.

It now has the hallmarks of an abandoned car: rusting with weed growing around it.
Harpal Singh passed away in 2010 and two years later, his wife Gulshanbeer Kaur too died. The couple’s green park residence remain locked since then. Their two daughters live in separate areas of South Delhi with their husbands