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Saturday, May 21, 2011

The car museum website guide (1091 museums so far)

0 comments Posted by korekore at 10:34 AM

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/

Worlds largest Model A museum opens this summer

0 comments Posted by korekore at 10:19 AM

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

Grand Opening of the LaMay museum is 363 days away

0 comments Posted by korekore at 9:32 AM

photo from http://automuseums.info/

the operators of the LeMay Museum, ACM, informed http://marque1.typepad.com/ that the Tacoma, Wash., project, built mostly through philanthropic funding, will have its grand opening on May 19, 2012. True, that's more than a year away but this is really more than a car museum. Starting with the cars that Harold LeMay had collected for his own amusement, and then for the public to visit on special occasions, the 9-acre campus will have 15 galleries housing up to 500 cars, trucks and motorcycles from private owners, corporations and the LeMay collection, which amassed a Guinness Book of World Records total of more than 3,500 vehicles in the mid-‘90s.
from http://marque1.typepad.com/marque1

Sunday, May 8, 2011

The Mendanhall's Museum of Petroliana

0 comments Posted by korekore at 8:44 PM

I think, but didn't verify, that this license plate collection has one California plate from each year

There is a story about the above outdoor phone booth... it was knocked off it's foundation after a birth of a baby celebration got a bit inebriated behind the wheel.... anyway, the next day the phone company man was smooth talked and he told them about the below indoor wooden phone booth that was taking up space in the phone company basement... and they got it to add to the collection!