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- From: gold@imp.sim.es.com (Bruce Gold)
- Subject: Re: Old Car Museums
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- Sender: gold@imp (Bruce Gold)
- Organization: Evans & Sutherland Computer Corp., Salt Lake City, UT
- References: <92322.164723SPOLINS@auvm.american.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 00:46:40 GMT
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- The Ford Museum is in Dearborn, Michigan. This is MUCH more than just a car
- museum. Schedule a full day to see the museum and the surrounding Greenfield
- Village. Among the myriad of things, it includes Thomas Edison's entire set of
- laboratory buildings; moved from Orange to Dearborn.
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- Briggs Cunningham Museum somewhere in the Los Angeles area, California. Race
- cars of the early 50's, mostly. Schedule a couple of hours max. Nifty pearl
- white paint job on a Lamborgini Miura.
-
- The Harrah Automobile Collection in Sparks, Nevada; industrial east side of Reno.
- While William Harrah was alive, this became by far the largest auto collection
- anywhere! Only a small fraction of the collection was ever on display at one
- time and a quick walk from opening time to closing time MIGHT get you a glance at
- everything on display. Most has been sold off, including the Bugatti Royale to
- the Domino's Pizza guy. Probably still magnificent, though.
-
- Auto museum in the old State Prison in Deer Lodge, Montana. I haven't seen it
- myself. Just noted its existence as I was passing through a number of years ago.
- I would appreciate a report on this one.
-
- The FIAT Auto Museum in Torino (Turin), Italy. Fabulous collection and fabulous
- facility for display of same. Detailed history of FIATs (of course), automobiles
- in general starting in the 1700s, Ferrari street and race cars, tire technology,
- chassis technology, and internal combustion engines. This last includes a 2
- liter V12 with about 300hp @ 7000RPM (big deal, you say...) and built in 1923!
- The signs for the exhibits are in Italian but you'll enjoy it regardless.
- Schedule at least 3 hours.
-
- Concours'd'Elegance on the 3rd Sunday of September every year at the University
- of Utah in Salt Lake City. Several hundred primo entries.
-
- Antique Machinery Show each August in West Jordon, Utah. Includes antique autos,
- steam tractors, weird and bizarre other mechanical contraptions. One memorable
- car from this show was a 20's era touring car with an engine-to-generator-to-
- wheelmotor drive train; something like a diesel-electric railroad locomotive.
-
- Antique car show on the 4th of July at Lolo Pass, Idaho/Montana border. About a
- hundred cars on display.
-
- Bonneville Salt Flats Race Car Museum in Wendover, Utah. East end of town.
- Little museum that includes 10-20 cars, Salt Flats racing memorabilia, and
- anything else that seemed interesting to the owner of the museum. Worth the stop.
- Schedule an hour or so. While you're there, catch a cheap meal at one of the
- casinos on the Nevada side of town.
-
- The Train Station in Ogden, Utah. Small auto museum (10-20 20's era cars),
- railroad museum, and the definitive Browning Firearm collection. The Browning
- Collection, rather than the auto collection, is the most significant display.
- Schedule 1/2 hour for the cars, 2 hours for everything.
-
- Jay Leno's garage. By invitation only.
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- Bruce Gold
- Utah
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