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Here are excerpts from two leading Indian automobile magazines who were kind enough to feature Autofest City in their pages. Auto India, March 2000 - "The Factory Scales", Page 74"It is rare to see many beautiful automobiles under one roof, but what is even less common is to witness a collection of both old and new cars, many of which were candidates for the 'Car of The Century' event..." "Apart from the cars, the 'Autofest City' could well qualify as a miniature town. The collection is carefully organised on tabletops and rack displays protected from dust by hand-crafted glass cases...like the scaled-down miniature city, complete with hand-built buildings, villas, work stations, etc..." "They (Neil and Clyde D'Costa) wanted to showcase what a model city should be like, with well planned roads, spaces and most important - 'drivers' with impeccable and absolute road sense! The roads, devoid of any potholes have well planned and executed dividers, signs for speed limits, parking areas and pedestrian crossings." "Autofest City now boasts of major marques in 1:18 scale like Jaguar, Porsche, BMW, Mercedes Benz, Citroen, Alfa Romeo, Maserati's 3200 GT and of course, Ferraris." "A must see is the warlord of sports utilities, the HUMVEE, in full camouflage, against a background of a desert scene created by Neil's mother, portraying Operation Desert Storm." "The 1:24 collection is also something to write home about - the Ferrari collection has the largest number of celebrities, followed by Porsche, Ford, Jaguar and Bugatti." "Alongside almost all the model cars are neat computer printouts, detailing engine capacities, transmissions, brakes and some notable highlights of the model." Autocar India, July 2000 - "Size Does Not Matter", Page 17"Neil D'Costa is a keen automobile lover. So how's he different from you? What's prompting us to write about him? It's the outcome of his passion that has resulted in a collection over 450 cars!" "This 31-year old's passion for scaled-down cars started at a very young age with the UK-made Matchbox series of car models. A full-fledged collection began with his first batch of 24 cars in the 1:40 scale range manufactured by well-know manufacturer of scaled models - Maisto. But it was the collection of plastic die-cast miniatures of Mahindra Jeeps, and Ashok Leyland and DCM Toyota trucks made by Centy Toys, Delhi, India, which gave him the required impetus to launch a larger scale collection with." "However the pride of place in his collection is occupied by a 1:12 scale 1959 Cadillac Eldorado, a classic replica of the actual car which was driven by Rock Star Elvis Presley in one of his movies." |
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