Sandeep Katari has spent decades restoring vintage automobiles, and his workshop functions, in effect, as a compressed material history of twentieth-century mobility: a 1916 Ford Model T marking the transition away from horse-drawn transport, a Rolls-Royce representing aristocratic British engineering, a Dodge station wagon tracing the rise of the American family road trip, and a tailfin-era Cadillac capturing postwar American design excess. In conversation with Shweta's Talkies, Katari walks through each vehicle's specifications and story — but the conversation's most revealing moment is unscripted: asked whether he had ever badly failed a restoration, he says no, then immediately reverses himself and tells an unpolished, genuine story about a gearbox that very nearly defeated him. That kind of honesty runs through his description of the craft itself, which he describes plainly as not economically viable — restoration, for Katari, is less a business than a discipline sustained by passion in spite of the numbers. He is equally candid about what worries him more than any single project: a shrinking pipeline of people willing to take up this kind of work, a concern that places him alongside a small, distinctive category of Indians who single-handedly keep a category of physical heritage alive against straightforward economic logic. The vehicles themselves span continents and decades — British aristocratic engineering, the rise of the American road trip, postwar Detroit excess — turning a single workshop into a walkable timeline of how personal mobility reshaped daily life across the twentieth century. Recorded in his restoration workshop, this episode is part of Shweta's Talkies' ongoing coverage of custodians preserving vanishing physical heritage — automobiles, in this case, but part of a broader pattern the show has been tracking across currency, craft, and collecting.