Vintage cars start Borneo tour

Vintage cars start Borneo tour

JAKARTA (JP): Thirty nine vintage cars are currently on a
Bornean tour. It started yesterday and will end on July 3.

The journey, called "a tour across the nations of the Malayan
ethnic group" by the organizer, the Indonesian Vintage Car
Association, starts from Pontianak, the capital city of West
Kalimantan. It runs across Malaysia's Sarawak and Brunei
Darussalam before returning to Pontianak.

During the tour, the club's team of mechanics and support
vehicles will stand by to combat any gerontic symptoms shown by
the eldery four-wheelers.

There are 129 drivers and co-drivers participating in the
tour. They come from West Java, East Java, Bali, Lampung, Medan,
Jakarta and Central Java.

Imam Effendy, the tour coordinator, said that the event is
intended to help the participants learn more about the regions
they are crossing and the life of the communities living there.
The participants are also expected to learn and obey the traffic
regulations of the neighboring countries. (arf)