Poll: What would you like to see in a car museum?

We have just opened up a new musuem in San Marcos and I was wondering what you would like to see on display or events we could have. We want to make this a fun and unique as possible and would love to hear from everybody.

 

cars that are actually running and not just covered in dust

 

Couple vintage floppers, some g***ers, some straight axle rides, just a bunch of vintage drag stuff.

 

Can you post some photos of the museum?

 

late 50's to 60's show cars, and 70's show cars and vans...I think that would be a fun museum...

 

HAMB cars...you see them here and at a few shows but all in one place would be cool.

 

linda vaughn's bra. a fine piece of engineering that must be! i'd say jungle pam's, too, but we all know she didn't own any ...

 

I agree it is really nice for the cars to be in runnin order.
Dale who owns Wheels thru Time mostly Vintage Motorcycles - every motorcycle runs and some Dale even continues to race.

Items that match the era of the auto to create a backdrop of the time makes for a lot of additional / interesting eye candy and education for all.

Good Luck with this adventure, sounds like a lot of fun to me There are a lot of folks that have museum quality rides that will store their car there to help add to your collection, the one museum in Daytona did that as I am certain so do all the others.

 

I second that!

 

get your checkbook out and go get this stuff.....http://www.rmauctions.com/Default-RW.cfm?SaleCode=RW09

 

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When I read the ***le this was the first thing that I thought off.
Museums are usually stuffy places full off static items with signs next to them explaining their part in history. Not much wrong with that last bit, but I would personally try and bring the place into the modern days a bit more with screens with continuous video-footage and audio available about the item shown.
I think mainly kids would really be more interested and pick up and remember the historic info shown more easily.

 

LIVE WIRE...

 

Interactive displays, video, sound, guest speakers of historical note. Cruise-in/special events.

 

A tour guide with keys to EVERY CAR/TRUCK in the facility who would start anything you wanted to see run....

The one thing i wish i could have heard is the Porsche RSR at the IP in vegas...

 

I'm with monster flake.The bra would be good but how about having a display of what it was covering.

 

I don't want to see any cars in a museum!

 

Monsterflake, you are so bad!

I'd like to see my name on the ***les of all the cars.

 

All the famous show cars and famous race, land speed and drag cars when they aren't being driven. Cuz no car should live in a museum, just sleep there.

 

I second that!

 

Here are a few pictures of what we have on display. Over 98% of all of our cars are running and we regularly exercise the ones not on display.

 

nice rides. you need lots of vintage signs for your bare walls. what about some old duke boxes and car related stuff? looks like you got a fun job!

 

Good luck, just covering the rent will be a huge effort. The only car museums worth seeing are the collections that were built my men with a p***ion for the hobby, WELL FUNDED guys, with corporations they founded covering the losses. Will a family of four get into your collection for under $50.00? How many people coming through the door per day will keep the lights on? The AACA Museum is a drain on the club and only 1/4 from the Hershey flea market in October, I still haven't seen a need to see it.

 

i always loved the museum in pomona. things that make it great are the historic hot rods like the isky roadster and wally parks car, barris cars, along with a bunch of others. they also have cool memorabilia such as photos timing tags old trophys, old car club plaques and jackets.

 

it should operate like this.

http://www.auburnheights.org/

 

gas pumps, vintage diner, lots of old race cars and hot rods. Interactive displays....The NHRA Museum had a cool one that showed how much fuel is used during a Top Fuel run.....was pretty *****in'

 

A Tucker.

 

Got that right.plus some interactive stuff to teach these youngsters what the sights and sounds were in the day, Me I would like to see more show rods saved...or hire me to work on this,Im looking for a gig

 

I like to see the car as if it were in a scene from the past. Lots of other stuff to bring out the era the car is from.

A 50's or older mechanic's garage would be great, or a same vintage custom shop working on a wild custom. (A scene from pre-WWI auto racing would be really cool.)

A scene of a crew working on a dragster of the 50's-60's at the track would be sweet.

Everything needs lots of info to watch on TV's and read about.

Allow people to sit in select cars and get some pics of the experience. Just figure the upholstry will need to be replaced after so many people tearing it up with keys and junk hanging out of their pockets, and getting food residue all over the inside of the car. It is all easily fixable on more common cars, like a '57 Chevy.

Have rides available to go through town in the p***enger seats of a really neat old car, maybe a prewar 4 dr convertible. Have a small limo service bringing people to the museum from their hotel or airport in a 30's Checker Cab or something just as cool.

have guests who lived the hotrod/custom/dragster life etc, have a storytelling session, or record a bunch and let people push ****ons on a TV to listen to them. That way, the stories will never disappear when the storytellers eventually do.

Just a few ideas I had. And I agree, a Tucker helps.

 

It would be nice to see RARE stuff we don't see at all the car shows we go to.
A Tucker, Vintage Exotics like a Bugatti, Rare vehicles of extreemly low-production run build numbers like a Hemi Cuda convertible, maybe a Baldwin Motion Corvette,
A ZL-1 Yenko Corvette,..Vintage Salt-flats race cars,...Vintage rare motorcycles
like a Henderson or a Black Knight,...cars from the Stars like famous TV. or Movie personality vehicles with a blown-up copie of the original ***le by it...
I could go on forever!

 

These suggestions would require a tremendously LARGE-Budget and very deep pockets to obtain, store, maintain, insure, and or course a high tech security system and climate controlled environment...BIG-MONEY-STUFF!!!
ie. it takes money to draw attention and money to a museum, and a forture to produce a great one worth going too.