M Supong Longkumer, a much respected and well-known senior citizen of Mokokchung, who has been in the forefront of many things and has seen many changes in the community through the years, says that it’s nothing like how it was before. He is a well-known collector of antique cars and bikes in Nagaland and has a number of them in his garage. The 78-year old M Supong Longkumer says he was the first among the Ao community to ride and own a bike.
Of all the vehicles in his collection, we wanted to focus on one of his prized possessions – the Nissan Cedric Special, launched in the year 1960. The Cedric Special is a 3-gear manual fitted with 6 cylinder engine with a 2800 cc.
Longkumer bought it through a friend in Jorhat for an amount of Rs 55,000 in the early years. He recalls how Rajiv Gandhi, Indira Gandhi and Mother Teresa sat in his car during their visits to Mokokchung.
