I was poking around on the net and found a list of Museums, that some of you might be interested. Museums: America's Packard Museum 420 S. Ludlow St. Dayton, OH 45402 513-226-1917 www.packardmuseum.org Auburn-Cord Duesenberg Museum Auburn, IN 46706 219-925-1444 www.acdmuseum.org The Automotive Hall Of Fame 21400 Oakwood Blvd. Dearborn, MI 313-240-4000, ext. 229 www.automotivehalloffame.org The Blackhawk Collection (formerly the Behring Automotive Museum) 3700 Blackhawk Plaza Cir. Danville, CA 94506 510-736-2280 www.blackhawkauto.org The Buffalo Transportation Pierce- Arrow Museum 263 Michigan Ave Buffalo, NY 14204 716-853-0084 www.pierce-arrow.com Canton Cl***ic Car Museum 555 Market Ave. SW Canton, OH 44702 330-455-3603 Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum 10825 East Blvd. Cleveland, Ohio 44106 216-721-5722 www.automuseum.com/CRAWFORD.html Elliott Museum 825 N.E. Ocean Blvd. Stuart, FL 34996 561-225-0505 www.elliottmuseum.goodnature.org Forney Transportation Museum 1416 Platte St., Denver, CO 80202 303-433-3643 www.forneymuseum.com Gilmore-Cl***ic Car Club Museum 6865 W. Hickory Rd. Hickory Corners, MI 49060 616-671-5089 www.gilmorecarmuseum.org Harrah National Automobile Museum 10 Lake St. S. Reno, NV 89501 702-333-9300 www.automuseum.org Henry Ford Museum And Greenfield Village 20900 Oakwood Blvd. Dearborn, MI 48124-4088 313-271-1620 www.hfmgv.org Heritage Plantation Grove and Pine St. Sandwich, MA 02563 508-888-3300 www.heritageplantation.org H.H. Franklin Foundation 1405 E. Kleindale Rd. Tucson, AZ 85719 602-326-8038 www.franklincar.org/body.htm Imperial Palace Auto Collection 3535 Las Vegas Blvd. S. Las Vegas, NV 89109 702-794-3174 www.imperialpalace.com/auto.html Indianapolis Motor Speedway And Hall Of Fame Museum 4790 16th St. Indianapolis, IN 46222 317-484-6747 www.indy500.com/museum Kl***ix Auto Attraction 2909 W. International Speedway Blvd. Daytona Beach, FL 32124 386-252-3800 The Museum Of Automobiles 8 Jones Ln. Morrilton, AR 72110 501-727-5427 www.museumofautos.com Museum Of Transportation 15 Newton St. Brookline, MA 02146 617-522-6547 www.mot.org National Corvette Museum 35D Corvette Dr. Bowling Green, KY 42101 800-538-3883 www.corvettemuseum.com The Nethercutt Collection Museums 15200 Bledsoe St. Sylmar, CA 91342 818-367-2251 www.cl***ics.com/nthct.html Oberhaus Enterprises State Rd. 66 Archbold, OH 43502 419-446-2773 Owlshead Transportation Museum PO Box 277, Rt. 73 Owls Head, ME 04854 207-594-4418 www.ohtm.org Petersen Automotive Museum 6060 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90036 213-964-6356 www.seeingstars.com/Museums/Petersen.html R.E. Olds Transportation Museum 240 Museum Dr. Lansing, MI 48933 517-372-0422 S. Ray Miller Museum 2130 Middlebury St. Elkhart, IN 46516 219-522-0539 www.millerautomuseum.org Stone Mountain Antique Car & Treasure Museum Stone Mountain Park Stone Mountain, GA 30087 770-413-5229 www.protsman-antiques.com Swigart Museum Museum Park Huntington, PA 16652 814-643-0885 www.swigartmuseum.com Volo Cl***ic Car Museum 7582 Volo Village Rd. Volo, IL 60073 815-385-3644 www.volocars.com Walter P. Chrysler Museum 1 Chrysler Dr. Auburn Hills, MI 48326 888-456-1924 www.chryslerheritage.com Yankee Candle Car Museum 5 North St. South Deerfield, MA 02146 413-665-2020
Here's another one I had the opportunity to see several weeks ago: Tupelo Automobile Museum 1 Otis Drive Tupelo, Mississippi 662-842-4242 www.tupeloautomobilemuseum.com The Roth Wishbone is part of the collection.
I have no idea how up to date the list is. I was looking for a specific one near me and that came up on my google search. We went to the Oberhaus one today. The have cars as well as a bunch of other antiques. If you are in the area it would be a good one to go to but I wouldn't make a special trip.
I believe you found the list of museums that belong to the National ***ociation of Automobile Museums or NAAM for short. It is a healthy group of car/bike/auto related museums nationwide. Here is their website: http://www.naam.museum/ I know they are in the process of upgrading their site as I type this. The Canton Cl***ic Car Museum is two blocks south of my office. It is a great place to visit. Even though I have been there tons of times I still enjoy stopping by now and then. In addition to cars they have tons of auto, historical and local memorbilia. Plus they have a really fun woman director! In addition to the Canton Cl***ic Car Museum I would also strongly encourage visiting the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum in Auburn, IN (the architecture rocks), the Petersen in LA, the Nethercutt Collection in Cali, the AACA museum in Hershey, PA (it also has the National Bus Museum in the ba*****t), and the Lane Motor Museum in Nashville. I have learned so much by visiting these museums. Even though you might not be into what kind of cars are on display chances are you will learn something neat about the industry.
... the one listed in daytona closed 5 years ago. Is the little Birthplace of Speed museum still open in Ormond Beach? I went there about 15 years ago.
When I was about 8, my parents took me to the Natural history museum in cleveland. After we noticed the Historical Society was open and walked in which was kind of like a tour through an old hu****ous house. Looked around for awhile and just as we we're leaving we saw a dinky little door and a small sign saying Car display, and pointed to the ba*****t. We figured what could be down there. WOW, let me tell you it was a great display and was WAY larger than we thought (think maybe LARGE warehouse size?). Funny thing the only ways really in were an employees door, the door we entered, and a garage door for obvious reasons. I believe that is what they calling the Crawford Museum, and I highly recommend going. I imagine now its gotten bigger, and maybe changed some, but its definitely worth checking out. There were some really rare rides in there.
The Packard museum isnt worth the bother to find it, not very many cars in it. I guess if you went during the Packard meet it would be worth while. Did the Reno museum this year and it was excellent along with the Ford Museum
Speedway Motors' museum belongs on any list like that.....or is it considered a collection ? I've been to the National Sprint Car Hall of Fame and Museum in Knoxville, IA several times too.
I was going to say these are some great museums too. There is also the Stanley Steamer Museum 40 School Street P.O. Box 77 Kingfield, Maine 04947 Tel. (207) 265-2729 Fax (207) 265-4700 http://www.stanleymuseum.org/ The Lane Motor Museum 702 Murfreesboro Pike Nashville, TN 37210 http://lanemotormuseum.org/links.htm Pioneer Village Museum 138 East Highway 6 Minden, Nebraska 68959 http://www.pioneervillage.org/
The Museum of Automobiles at Morrilton, AR is 40 minutes from my house. They host a large swap meet every June, Father's Day weekend (starting the Tuesday before) and ending with a Saturday car show put on by MOTAA (Mid-America Old Time Auto ***ociation). It's on top of Pe*** Jean Mountain, right near Pe*** Jean State Park. They have some pretty nice cars in the museum.
The ACD Musem in Aburn,IN is the best museum of any type I have ever been in-well maybe for an art museum in Paris, or so. But it has spectacular architecture ,knock your eyes out cars, a knowledgible but not in your face staff and well explained exhibits. The Swigart museum in PA was cool-lots of unique old cars including two Tickers and was started in the 1920's, but sadly, greed by the heirs reportedly has decimated the collection and I don't know if it is still open. By luck, we went this summer before BJ auctioned off the best cars. Sigh
I love the ACD museum in Auburn is well. It is located in the old Auburn factory that actually made some of the cars it now houses. Those old Cords and Duesies are really something, talk about hot rods! They are the brightest and most beautiful colors as well. For more info on the ACD museum visit here: http://acdmuseum.org/ Now the Swigart Museum... The cars that were auctioned off this fall by RM at Hershey, not BJ, belonged to the children of the estate. It wasn't about greed, more like the settling of estates and legal issues. The museum is still alive and well. And the two cars aren't Tickers, but Tuckers! To see the amazing auction results (including a $1.6 million dollar 1911 Olds!)from the RM Swigart collection at Hershey this year see here: http://www.rmauctions.com/AuctionResults.cfm?SaleCode=HF07 To see info on the Swigart Museum see here: http://www.swigartmuseum.com/ I can't say enough how valuable car museums are. They truly are great places of learning.
I am a volunteer reasearcher/archivist for the Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum. You must have been there before the cars were placed in the rotunda. They also have a seperate restoration facility as well. There is quite a diverse collection of cars and airplanes. About half of the collection are makes that wer built in and around Cleveland, Ohio. I personally helped on the restoration of a Mclaren M-10-B that won the 1970 International Formula 5000 championship and 1971 US Formula 5000 championship driven by David Hobbs. We reunited him with the car at Amelia Island ConCourse de Elegance in March 2005. There are some muscle cars in the collection too ,GTo, Hemi Belveder, Yenko Camaro clone etc. Check out the website www.wrhs.org click on Crawford link in the top toolbar. Currently I am looking for any technical info on a 1908 Firestone-Columbus and I am helping in the rebuild of a 1925 Sterling-Knight sleeve-valve that has been stuck since 1978. When I started volunteering on about 20% of the collection was running now it is about 80-85% all done with volunteers. I also help with an Offy-Stevens Indy car that last ran at Indy in 1949 and was int the Clark Gable movie "To please a Lady". That was frame up except for paint. Has a Conze quickchange and one of the first Hilborn injectors on it. I think the injector was added a couple years after the last Indy because it had run in the "Big Car" series into the early 50"s
The Forney Museum is a great place lot's of Kool stuff to look at. Lotta gearheads from Denver,Co have never been there or heard of it! Here's some pictures to have a reason to go when your waiting for parts or taking a break from working on your own stuff. P.S some of these pics are from back area's and have never been seen by pubilc i feel special to be a one of the few that has.
Is that on a LIST? Or did you just add that because it is nearby? My guess is that somebody dropped the ball and didn't bother to list it.
Timmey Z, been there twice, my son lives in Denver. I'll go back again. The Forney is from the Forney welding equipment connection. They have four Kissels, including Amelia Earhart's {sp?}. They also have a Big Boy for the train guys, 1.3 million lbs. The cars aren't prissy or perfect, but very nice to see. Thanks for the pics to remind me.
The BEST CAR in that collection IMO was sold 5-10 years ago, the 1908 Mercedes GP car, that the factory sold to Spencer Wishart who drove it to 4th in the FIRST INDY 500. Later had a HISSO V8 and ended its racing career on the dirt tracks in Pennsylvania. Very cool early Hot Rod that I got to sit in before it was shipped home the Germany to be restored to its as new appearance. Not all restorations are a good thing.
Anyone been to Lee Hartungs " museum" in Glenview Il? Ihavent in years and dont know if he is still with us. Loads of early Fords and motorcycles in original condition. Not a one for sale so dont ask. That just pisses him off. He has good stories, worth an afternoon there.
Guys old sprints and midgets, not huge but awesome collection of cars, do***ents, even a whole shop of a local dirt ace : http://www.emmr.org/index.htm in York Springs, PA Gary
The Volo museum in IL is nice. What I liked most is that a lot of the cars are for sale. They are restored, or checked over, and put on "the lot" - I was surprised that the prices were so reasonable. Gary
Stopped in Murdo SD for gas on Friday. And went to a great auto museum. Pioneer Auto Show 1-90 exit 192 Murdo SD (605)669-2691 www.pioneerautoshow.com
The Kansas racing museum is a very Kool place to stop!!! You might be supirized what you find there talk to the owner on a slow day and he might fire up the old VCR and show you a flick that shows the first NHRA sanctioned drags on an old airstrip in kansas. And then if he really likes you he show ya the first offical NASCAR and NHRA TROPHYs. Kool Stuff. They also produce or machine small block v-8 heads tofit on diffent engine combos like a v-8 head with all the tricks to fit on a modern six banger. <TABLE cellSpacing=4 cellPadding=7 width="100%" bgColor=#ffffff border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top align=left>The Kansas Auto Racing Museum - A Nice Place to Visit!!</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top align=left><TABLE height=1238 cellSpacing=2 cellPadding=2 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top align=left height=1232><TABLE height=1216 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top align=left bgColor=#ffffff height=1216>The Kansas Auto Racing Museum is located at the base of the beautiful Flint Hills of Central Kansas and is Kansas’ newest tourist attraction. <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD><TABLE height=218 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="98%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top align=left width="50%"> Kansas Auto Racing Museum</TD><TD vAlign=top align=left width="50%"> One of the cars in the museum</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>The museum is located one-half mile south at Exit 286 off Interstate 70 in the middle of Kansas at the small town of Chapman. The 21-acre museum complex is the doorway into the local community. The museum is also the launch point for the Joe Engle Chapman Historic Trail Walk. The trail walk enables visitors to enjoy a combination nature walk and scenic walk that can extend for over 3.6 miles and includes visits to two historic sites on the National Registry. <TABLE height=218 cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="98%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top align=left width="50%"> Some more race cars in the museum</TD><TD vAlign=top align=left width="50%"> Race cars everywhere!</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD cl***=menu vAlign=center noWrap align=left></TD><TD cl***=menu vAlign=center align=left></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>The Kansas Auto Racing Museum is open Monday through Saturday from 9 to 5 and Sundays by appointment only. Tel: 785-922-6642 The museum is home to the first NASCAR trophy. The first NASCAR event was won by Jim Roper of Halstead, Kansas on June 17th, 1949 at Charlotte Speedway. The museum is also home to the first NHRA trophy which held its first national event in Great Bend, Kansas in 1955. The first NHRA trophy is also on display at the Kansas Auto Racing Museum. The first NHRA event was won by Paul Flynn of Abilene, Kansas. <?XML:NAMESPACE PREFIX = O /><O></O> The Kansas Auto Racing Museum also features restored race cars from seven different eras, video Play Stations, rare film footage, photographs and its own private viewing theatre for race film highlights throughout the Midwest. <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=250 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top align=left></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD><TD> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top align=left>Come and see us!</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
Gotmark, thanks for picking at that scab!! On my one time visit to S.D. we had time to either go to Wall Drug OR the Pioneer museum. I lost and no I'm not over it yet! BTW, welcome to the HAMB.
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