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- From: joes@sw.stratus.com (Joseph Spriano)
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- Subject: Re: Old Car Museums
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- Date: 19 Nov 92 12:06:48 GMT
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- In article <1edrr8INNn2r@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>, cmraman@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Focused on Infinity) writes:
- |> In article <1992Nov18.012808.15770@julian.uwo.ca> wlsmith@valve.heart.rri.uwo.ca (Wayne Smith) writes:
- |> >In article <92322.164723SPOLINS@auvm.american.edu> <SPOLINS@auvm.american.edu> writes:
- |> >>In our travels we like to visit old car museums. A few years
- |> >>ago we went to the Henry Ford museum in [Dearborn], Michigan and the Auburn,
- |> >>Cord, Dusenberg Museum in Auburn, Indiana. I'd be interested to know of other
- |> >>antique/classic car museums.
- |> >>
- |> >>Susan Polinsky
- |> >
- |> >A couple of years ago, we went to the Rear View Mirror Museum in Nag's Head,
- |> >North Carolina (On our way to Key West, Fl in our 65 Polara).
- |>
- |> Of course, one of the most famous antique car collections is the Wm. Harrah
- |> collection, housed in Reno. though I have heard that it has been sold off
- |> in bits and pieces, in recent years, there is still quite a selection.
- |>
- |> Another nice one that has recently opened is the Blackhawk Museum in the
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- |> East Bay (that's the San Francisco Bay, for all you non-California types).
- |> It's in a gated community called Blackhawk, so named because the developer
- |> has a love of classic cars including (natch) the Stutz. It's supposed to be
- |> a very nice place. I was most annoyed to discover that my parents had gone
- |> without me. :(
- |>
- >>In the Northeast, there are two that come to mind. One is part of the
- >>Heritage Plantation in Sandwich on Cape Cod. They have Gary Cooper's
- >>Dusenburg, among many other lovely things. Another is the MG museum in
- >>Westminster, Vermont.
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- >>- BK
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- There is also the museum of transportation in Jamaica Plain/Brookline
- They have all sorts of classics there and run car shows between the spring and
- fall.
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- Joe
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