Customs STARBIRD MUSEUM CLOSED?

Was just thinking about a trip down to Starbird's museum and it says permanently closed.... Any one know whats going on???

 

It has now merged/combined with the Museum of American Speed (Speedway Motors museum) in Lincoln Nebraska.
Starbird Rod and Custom Show - Speedway Motors Museum of American Speed
I know there have been a couple threads on here about it as well.

 

So is it closed in Afton OK and moved to Speedway in Lincoln?

 

Yup

 

Yes. It is my understanding that EVERYTHING has been moved out of the Afton location.
I have also heard that Speedway is adding on to their existing museum.

 

Yeah it’s like another 5000 square foot foot print. It’s fucking massive

 

That's my understanding. If you click on the link in my post above it should take you to the Speedway website that has the info. Or I'm guessing you can contact the Museum of American Speed directly and they can fill you in.

 

Really glad I was able to see it all in Afton a few times. I don't get to Nebraska very often. I think the last time was in the last century.

Every time I stopped in Afton, I always would ask his wife in the giftshop if Darryl was around, and she'd say, "yeah!, he's out in the shop working, go ahead back there and see him". I'll bet you can't do that at the Speedway Museum. I need to find my "pre-smart phone pics" of what he was building the last time I was there.

Not knocking it, just it won't be the same.

 

Yep, glad we stopped on our way by while it was still open there in Afton. I have seen the signs on I-44 for years and years traveling that road up to see relatives east of St. Louis. I was actually planning to catch the Speedway museum on our way back from Bonneville, but we diverted straight home and will have to do that one another time.

 

The place at Afton was amazing! So many incredible cars in one place, almost hard to take it all in.

 

Thanks guys I knew you all would know. Wait.... where is Micky he's late to the party

 

If anyone has not been to the museum in Lincoln , you are really missing something special , the collection well worth a trip just to see it .. I've been multiple times

 

I know Mickey is disappointed that we didn't get to go over there as a group one last time.

 

I know I really enjoyed the trip over but then again I’ve enjoyed all of his trips!

 

So was I . But I will be at the Speedway Motors Museum Cars and Coffee in Lincoln the last Saturday of October.

 

It already takes two days to see everything at the Speedway Museum. Now I'll have to plan for a week!

 

Darryl Starbird is 89 years old now, so it's understandable he'd want to combine with Speedway.

 

I am tremendously thankful that both Darryl and Speedy Bill didn't just sell up the items in their museums like so many others have and that their collections are still able to be seen.

 

I still have a bunch of the 1/8th scale model kits that he did for Monogram.....

 

Is the new addition at the Speedway Museum completed yet? I would like to plan a visit but it only makes sense to wait until the addition and other updates are completed so I can spend a couple of days taken it all in.

 

Maybe I`m mistaken. But I thought it was an 80 thousand square foot addition.

 

I think it’s probably more than one story, that’s why I said foot print.

that being said I’d believe 80,000 it’s enormous. I’ve seen a crane inside the building putting up walls and it really messed with my sense of scale of what I was looking at.

On the star bird note, when I went threw this summer they entire collection was housed together. Was quite a thing to see rounding the corner!