On the way back from Lothal we decided to peep into the Vintage Car Museum without too much expectations. Turns out that it is almost a 100 years old. Pranlal Bhogilal started the Auto World Museum in his private estate in Dastan in 1927 and earned a Guinness Book of World Records listing in 1987 as the owner of the world's largest private museum. Of the 204 cars he collected, 104 are in Ahmedabad. Pranlal passed away in 2011.
In the collection are a car that was used in the movie Gandhi, the first ever Maybach ever made. Rare cars from Rolls Royce, Bentley, Cadillac, Mercedes, Jaguar, Sunbeam, Buick, Packard, Citroen - names we just read about in novels or seen in movies suddenly came alive.
Entry ticket is 100 bucks and we can pay another 100 to take pics. I took pics of almost every car. Frankly it is overwhelming to see so many cars, so many models, from 1900s onwards. I saw a Herald like the one we used to have, a Contessa as well.
I loved it. For any car enthusiast this is absolutely worth making a trip to Ahmedabad just for this. I used to draw car models when I was young, collect those mini cars, loved those models. These looked like them - I wish they had miniature models, I would have bought a few.
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