Royal Gems have never been shinier! Take a virtual tour of the vintage car garage in Jodhpur to get up close to the 1934 Rolls-Royce Phantom from Octopussy, the Cadillac convertibles with iconic histories and even take a short city tour of Jodhpur in one of the vintage cars from the Blue City’s royal garage.
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00:00 Welcome you to the vintage and classic car collection of Udaipur.
00:18 I am Anu Vikram Singh, I am the keeper of this collection.
00:23 And these all cars belong to the royal family of Mewar.
00:27 This is India's first car museum, which was opened in 2000.
00:33 In all we have 23 cars here, starting from 1924.
00:40 This is a part of a heritage, so we have started restoring these cars.
00:46 This is our workshop where we undertake all the restoration of the cars.
00:52 We have local skilled people who look after all the restoration work here.
00:58 Right now we are working on one of the horse carriages, this is being restored here only.
01:10 This is one of the first Mercedes cars which was introduced with a diesel engine.
01:14 This car still has original paint, original upholstery and still in running condition.
01:22 This is the first Indian car to win an award in Pebble Beach, Concourse d'Elegance.
01:28 There are two lights on this car, there is one blue light and another is a red light.
01:32 So the significance of these lights is when the car is moving without the royal family,
01:36 the blue light will come on.
01:38 And if the car moves with the royal family members, both the lights will come on.
01:42 From inside it looks like in the cockpit of the aircraft.
01:46 These are all the original tools which were supplied with the car.
01:51 It is saying that when Rolls Royce is around, it means the king is around.
01:57 This car was used in the James Bond film Octopussy.
02:04 This is called a Zanana car, used for the ladies, especially the queens.
02:08 This has tinted glasses, curtains inside and as you can see this is a closed car.
02:16 This was actually a limousine car, later it was converted to accommodate a cricket team
02:22 of Miwad.
02:23 So it was literally chopped off from the hub.
02:32 These cars are almost 100 years old and these are all specially customized right-hand drive
02:37 cars which are very rare.
02:38 So the generation which is coming now, they haven't seen these type of cars.
02:44 So it is a very attractive thing to come and see all these cars which have been restored
02:49 and something new to see from them.
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