it not every day namma coimbatore gets a royal visitor so when the maharana of barwani indore manvendra singh descended coimbatore for the inauguration of the city s museum car a field day throwing volley of questions at him vintage and classic cars the too unwearyingly answered each and every query addressed to him it s 40 years i been restoring cars i no other hobby i am privileged to have been in a maharaja household where i was exposed to cars from a very young age i set up an ordinary car workshop in and worked with many other car companies the fixation with vintage and cars began when i asked to restore vintage car i do historical research on cars have developed a for automobiles i even went on to write a book about the automobiles of maharajas says the maharana who owns 20 vintage and classic cars back in indore when quizzed about the difference between vintage and cars he explains as far as india is any car came out between 1900 and 1939 are considered vintage the that came out after second world 1947 1959 are considered classic have restored around 300 cars in says well known curator of vintage cars interestingly maharana has a car for the museum as well i restored a i at museum as precedes as it talks a lot about the technological aspects the automobiles association with coimbatore goes back the days when i was employed by a coimbatore company on a prototype of an suv s always a pleasure to be coimbatore and the of people here any city in the country there is something to learn every time i come here he the maharana now contemplating on his second book collected so much information about the cars during my research for the first book that i have enough material for second the history of india and its cars is unique and they need to forth to the world on a parting note we maharana that we to him in his royal attire and he laughs i do call myself a maharaja my father hh rana devi was the last maharana to rule barwani a small state near indore i am a maharaja by but have had live in both the british era and the current