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Saturday, July 16, 2011
Inside, customers can relax, meet and work in a comfortable reception area or at the “Bulldog CafĂ©.” The new facility also houses the Mack Museum and Heritage Center, which will open to the public beginning November 1, 2010. http://www.macktrucks.com/default.aspx?pageid=5094
Sunday, July 10, 2011
If you love Duesenburgs, and are in Southern California, you might want to run over to the Lyon Air Museum, as 10 of the 378 known are on a short time display
0 comments Posted by st at 9:40 PMimages are just 2 of a full gallery you can look at over at Bill's blog: http://wildbillphoto.blogspot.com/2011/07/rare-deusenbergs-at-lyons-air-museum.html
If you can get over to the museum, the exhibit of ten Duesenburgs from now til July 24th
One is the 1st Model J, 1929 dual cowl body by LeBaron , another is a 1929 Murphy bodied dual cowl, a 1930 Murphy Model J speedster, a 1931 model J Weymann bodied speedster, a 1931 model SJ Murphy bodied conv coupe, and the 1935 SJ Gurney Nutting Speedster that was built for an Indian Maharaja, who wasn't keen on risking losing everything due to Japan invading so many neighboring countries, so he instead took delivery at his Santa Ana mansion. It was thought lost until 1959
the museum website http://www.lyonairmuseum.org/news/duesenberg-exhibit and it is located in 19300 Ike Jones Rd, Santa Ana
Labels: car collections, car collectors, carrozzeria, coach builders, Duesenburg, museum
If you are fortunate to be able to travel in France, and want to get to as many auto museums as possible while you see the country, Automuseums.info has now assembled and organized museum info in a Kindle e-book presentation
65 pages with museum addresses, lat and long, website and phone number, along with a description of the museum's collection and the hours of operation.
Find the Kindle book on Amazon here: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005AK0OFQ
Labels: Auto hobby books, informative, museum
Friday, June 24, 2011
If you get to Fairbanks Alaska, see the Fountainhead Antique Auto Museum (they have about 70 vehicles, one is an Owens Magnetic 1917)
0 comments Posted by st at 9:23 PMLabels: museum
I thought that the Harrah car collection was closed, I was wrong, it's now called the National Automobile Museum
0 comments Posted by st at 8:23 PM http://www.automuseum.org/index.html
I'm continuously adding to my list of auto museums in America, the full list is here: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/02/if-you-are-looking-to-visit-car-museums.html
Labels: car collections, collection, museum
Sunday, May 29, 2011
The AMX prototype, why anyone thought a rumble seat was a selling point in a car that would normally be driven over 50 mph... I doubt that anyone would enjoy that for very long.
Franklin in front, (Stanley Steamer in the back ) they look odd because they were aircooled, and didn't need the normal radiator looking front end
A 1910 Hupmobile that went around the world to prove it's durability
Owen magnetic... only 4 are said to exist, one is in this Cleveland Ohio museum, one is in the Nethercutt near Burbank Ca.
In 1900, there were over 1000 small auto manufacturers coexisting in the United States, over 70 of them in Cleveland.
The first auto sold in the US came from Cleveland's Winton Motors in 1897; the first car to make use of steel ball bearings was Cleveland's Baker Motors; and the first use of the French word "automobile" in conjunction with the US car industry was by Cleveland Plain Dealer reporter, Charles Shanks, in 1899.
The Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum was formed in 1963 with the private collection of Mr. Crawford's company Thompson Products at its core. (Thompson Products later diversified and became TRW, Inc.) The museum showcases 200 classic automobiles, among them 80 cars that originated in Cleveland. An online quick look is at http://cleveland.about.com/od/clevelandattractions/ss/crawford.htm
the above photos are from http://www.carlustblog.com/2011/04/crawford-auto-aviation-museum.html#more
Saturday, May 21, 2011
check into it for museums where ever you are, or are going, if you are glad to visit a car museum you've never seen before http://automuseums.info/
Labels: museum
all-new Model A Ford Museum, proposed as a 12,000-square-foot re-creation of a vintage Ford dealership, is slated to open this summer on the Gilmore Car Museum campus.
When completed, it will become the world's largest public museum dedicated solely to the Model A Ford.
Built on 90 acres of farm land midway between Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids, Battle Creek, and Lansing, MI, the site includes eight historic barns, a re-created 1930s service station, a small town train station, and nearly three miles of paved roads. It isn’t uncommon for guest to catch a glimpse of one of the vintage cars or the authentic London double-decker bus in motion. Besides its own collection, the ever-expanding campus also serves as the home of the Classic Car Club of America Museum; the Pierce-Arrow Museum; the Franklin Collection at Hickory Corners; as well as the Midwest Miniatures Museum and the Tucker Historical Collection and Library.
read about it here http://www.marque1.com/marque1/2010/11/worlds-largest-model-a-museum-opens-next-summer.html
photo from http://automuseums.info/
from http://marque1.typepad.com/marque1
Labels: museum
Sunday, May 8, 2011
I think, but didn't verify, that this license plate collection has one California plate from each year
Labels: dragsters, fire engine, Motorcycle, museum, Oakland, petroliana, racecar, slingshot dragster, studebaker, towtruck