Praveen Asthana’s 1979 Mercedes-Benz 300 SD evokes the ‘Wa Benz’ cars of his childhood in Zambia
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https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/cars/from-africa-to-america-a-vintage-mercedes-never-left-his-mind-a79af3faPraveen Asthana, 58, a co-founder of Accelsius, a startup specializing in liquid cooling technology for data centers, who lives in Austin, Texas, on his 1979 Mercedes-Benz 300 SD Turbo Diesel, as told to A.J. Baime.
My father was a teacher from India, and he moved to Africa when I was a year old. I grew up in Zambia, in a town called Mufulira. It was a calm, decent place, and there were social strata. All the businessmen and politicians drove Mercedes-Benz cars, and most others drove more affordable cars like the mustard-yellow Toyota Corolla my father drove. There was no Porsche or anything like that. Mercedes was the only fancy car you could buy.
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