Other Museums
- Sabarmati Ashram
- Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Museum
- Auto World Vintage Car Museum
- Sardar Patel National Memorial
- Hussain Doshi Gufa / Ahmedabad Ni Gufa
- City Museum Ahmedabad
- The Calico Museum of Textile
- The Kite Museum Ahmedabad
- Shree Swaminarayan Museum
- N C Mehta Gallery
- Kavi Dalpatram Chowk / Dalpatram Memorial
- Adivasi (Tribal) Museum
Auto World Vintage Car Museum
Auto World Vintage Car Museum – Dastan Farm Car Museum
This is an ideal place for vintage car lovers. Auto world vintage car museum in Ahmedabad showcases the largest and biggest collection of automobiles in India. The museum has an antique collection of vehicles including cars, buses, motorcycles, buggies, etc. The total collection of the museum has more than 100 finest cars in the world including Rolls-Royce, Bentleys, Langodas, Jagur, Cadillacs, Austin, Mayback, Buicks, Chrysler, Cadillac, Lincon, Ford, Daimlers and many more from the different part of the world. And the most wonderful story is that each one of these cars is into perfect driving condition. The museum is been developed and managed by the Shri Pranlal Bhogilal Patel family. Not only limited to seeing but you can have a short ride into vintage cars by paying a hefty fee of Rs. 500.
The late Pranlal Bhogilal Patel was one of the earliest and India’s finest car collectors. His unique collection includes more than 200 cars collected and maintained across the country, including 36 Rolls Royce cars! However, his biggest collection is parked at the Ahmedabad’s Dastan Farm, The Auto World Vintage Card Museum. It is one of the unique museums that one can find very rarely anywhere else. Auto World Vintage Car Museum Ahmedabad is not only about the cars, but it has collectibles from bikes, horse carriages and trucks as well. This entire collection is spread across the different pavilions. The collection of Rolls Royce includes an earlier version of 1922 and 1923 with 20 HP and unusual shooting brake. Also, it has 1927 Phantom I with a boat tail Roadster Body by Barker. To celebrate the 50 years of independence, Bhogilal painted Phantom I with Indian tricolor and named it Azad. Late Bhogilal was fond of giving his collection of cars an Indian name like Dary – i – noor, Durga, Chamunda, Chetak, Shahenshah, Pushpuk, Cleapatra, and Caesar. From the car of rare brands and few models to ceremonial limousines and antique convertibles, sports cars; Dastan Farm – The Auto World Vintage Car Museum has it all to showcase. Many of these cars and other automobiles belong to the Indian Maharajas and rulers of the particular time parallel or before the British regime.
The vintage car collector Shri Bhogilal Patel was also associated with prestigious ASSOCHAM; the prestigious trade association in India. His collection of cars at Vintage Car Museum Ahmedabad also received Guinness Book of World Records for his incredible collection of vintage vehicles.
Auto World Vintage Car Museum Collection
- 1906 Make Mors
- 1906 Make Minerva
- 1909 Make Fiat
- 1910 Make Ford Motel T
- 1911 Make Daimler
- 1914 Make Minerva
- 1935 Make Hotchkiss Type 968 with coachwork by Figoni & Falachi
- 1931 Make Auburn V12
- 1935 Make Auburn 851
- 1926 Make Lagonda 2 litre
- 1936 Make Lagonda LG6
- 1940 Make Lagonda V12
- 1934 Make Bentley 3.5 litre with coachwork by Gurney Nutting
- 1934 Make Bentley 3.5 litre and a 1952 Bentley Mark VI.
- 1926 Make Lancia Lamda
- 1931 Make Lancia Dilambda
- 1929 Make Packard
- 1937 Make Packard 120
- 1940 Make Packard 110
- 1940 Make Packard 120
- 1937 Make Hudson with coachwork by Brougham
- 1931 Make Buick Tourer
- 1935 Make Buick Eight
- 1938 Make Buick
- 1947 Make Buick Eight Super
- 1924 Make Fiat 509
- 1924 Make Morris Cowley
- 1931 Make Ford Model A
- 1933 Make Chrysler
- 1937 Make Alvis 3.5-litre
- 1932 Make Studebaker Roadster
- 1954 Make Studebaker Champion
- 1935 Make Chevrolet
- Cadillacs from 1939, 1947, 1949 and 1958
- 1947 Make Desotta
- 1947 Make Daimler
- 1947 Make Chrysler New Yorker Town & Country
- 1947 Make Lincoln Continental V12
- 1947 Make Dodge, 1950 Jaguar Mark V
- 1955 Make Armstrong Siddeley
- 1960 Make Vanden Plass Princess 4-litre
- 1954 Make Plymouth Belvedere
- 1972 Make Lincoln Continental Mark IV
Sports Vintage Cars
- 1937 Make Riley Sprite Sports
- 1931 Make MG Magna
- 1937 Make AC
- 1946 Make Sunbeam Talbot
- 1934 Make Chrysler Imperial Airflow
- 1936 Make Cord 810
The Auto World Vintage Car Museum showcases the golden era of history when the cars and other automobiles were not the only means of transport but an icon of wealth and power as well. This Ahmedabad Vintage Car Museum has a wide range of all those cars – the prestigious limousine, the speedy and stylish convertibles, and zooming sports cars, horse-drawn buggies, cars built like railway compartment, bikes, wooden speedsters, and cars specially build for rich buyers. There are some of the cars that hand build with the specifications of the buyers. Visitors can also see some of the cars like Limousines and Grand Open Tourers specially designed for ceremonial occasions. Some cars fully built with wooden bodies. You can also see one of the most celebrated cars from the land of America – Ford’s T Model.
Most of these cars in the Ahmedabad Vintage Car Museum also known as Dastan Farm is collected from different parts of the world. This vintage car museum of Ahmedabad is spread across the 2200 acres of land. Some of them are also collected from the Royal Indian families. All of these cars demonstrate the engineering efficiency of the yesteryears and perfectly designed with beautiful curves and designs that are even tantalizing today also. You can see a car which is designed for safaris and hunting with a specially designed place for gun into it.
This museum in Ahmedabad is a great place for car lovers and history enthusiasts. Spread over the acres of land this museum also serves authentic Gujarati Thali for lunch and dinner.
Auto World Vintage Car Museum
Address: dastan farm auto world vintage car museum
Dastan Estate, Kathwada
Sardar Patel Ring Road
Ahmedabad – 382 430
E-mail : dasco@vsnl.com
Website: http://www.vccci.com/vintage-car-museum
Phone Number : +91 (79) 22820699
Timings: 9:00 am to 9:00 pm
Entry Fees: Rs. 50/-
Ride on Vintage Card: Rs. 500/-