Your average commute can be pretty rubbish...
Unless you get to drive one of these!
In the city of Hyderabad, India, you’ll find the ultimate motor head.
But he is not just a collector.
Sudhakar makes the world's craziest cars.
From everyday objects
like a computer, tennis ball or burger
to a toilet and a Christmas tree.
He’s made just about anything you can think of.
This is the only handmade, wacky car museum in the world.
Well, I've created about 700 different types of makers.
At the age of 14, I started.
Growing up near local junkyards, Sudhakar was always finding something to build.
But it wasn't always cars.
His love of wheels started with bicycles,
and after that, I want a lot of motorcycles.
Vintage cars.
Vintage double decker busses for the tourism.
The first wacky car I made is the shoe shape car
and then I made a camera car.
But Sudhakar did not stop there.
He went on to make hundreds of wacky designs.
A cricket bat shaped car...
A cricket ball shaped car...
Football...
Basketball...
Golfball...
A Christmas Tree shaped car...
Mug shaped car...
He's even made a drivable snooker table
As a child to tell him to make something that I'd see around,
probably like a sharpener car, or a pencil bike or, you know, eraser.
Those are the things that would interest a child.
I am taking the legacy forward with the museum,
not only the designing part, I also assist him with the management.
We sit together, design it, we flesh it out and give it a good structure.
I help him with the technical aspect of it aswell.
Lots of people call him mad.
He believed in it. He believed in himself.
And look at where the museum is right now he's in touch with his inner child
He is in touch with his inner child
and he does whatever makes him truly happy.
Even Sudhakar’s office is on brand.
It might come as a surprise,
but from 9 to 5, Sudhakar runs his family's printing business.
Making wacky cars is not his full time job.
My hobby is not expensive.
My hobby is quite time consuming
at least 4 to 5 hours every day.
and still working.
We see that how big it should be for the wheel placement.
Then I go to the junkyard and how much power we need.
Every car is a challenging job.
Each wacky car his team creates is totally unique,
and they're always designed from scratch.
So to build one car can take anywhere from three months to a whole year.
It's no surprise he's earned his place in record books.
With his most impressive achievement being the world's largest tricycle.
And it's not just the Sudhakar with the big ideas.
It struck me that we don't have anything specially designed for women.
And I said, you know, we have to have an entire series,
an Indian traditional bridal car, a handbag and a stiletto.
All of these have been designed by me.
So I bring a little bit of femininity into the entire museum.
When I started the museum with a small shed,
I kept on adding the cars because I don't like to sell them.
Since then, Sudhakar has built a pretty big extension on his shed
and his collection has caught the attention of all the locals...
especially on the road.
I used to have roadshows organized by the government of...
Andhra Pradesh.
and then we give free rides to the children and they love it.
If you can get to Hyderabad,
it might not be long before there's a museum on your doorstep.
So we have a museum coming up in Lonavala, which is close to Bombay.
And before moving westward, we want to tap into Far East countries
like Singapore, Malaysia, and we want to expand it to the rest of the world.
If they can come down to India, we'll bring it to them.
In the beginning, people used to call me mad.
A circus guy.
I love doing it. I enjoy doing it.
And that is more important.
So that excitement is still there.