All Entries in the "Museums" Category
Smokey Yunick Hot Vapor Engine in Hot Rod Magazine
If you have been with us since the beginning you know that one of the first Feature Cars we introduced you to was the Smokey Yunick Hot Vapor Fiero and now it is back in Hot Rod Magazine. (You can even see our site listed as one of the “Sources” at the end of the [...]
Wellborn Muscle Car Museum in Alexander City Alabama
Since Muscle Car TV did the feature on the Tim and Pam Wellborn Muscle Car Museum in Alexander City Alabama we have been bombarded with requests for more information on the museum. First, the museum is even better than it looked on TV and you can get a preview of the entire facility on our [...]
Don Garlits Antique Car Museum
Don long ago we brought you photos from the Don Garlits Drag Racing Museum, today we are adding the Don Garlits Antique Car Museum. Either one of these museums is worth the visit but put the two on one site for one admission price and you have a Legendary Deal! I know a lot of [...]
Muscle Car TV goes to Wellborn Museum
By: Richard Fleener Mark your Calenders!
Spike TV’s Muscle Car TV will be broadcasting their visit to the Wellborn Muscle Car Museum in Alexander City, Alabama on May 22, 2010. We don’t make it a habit of telling you what is on TV but this is an exception. Tim and Pam Wellborn are friends and they [...]
Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing; Ocala Florida
We recently visited the Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing and its sister Antique Car Museum located on the same property. Both are fine museums but the real attraction are the Swap Rat dragsters in the Drag Racing Museum. Big Daddy Don Garlits is the Big Grand Daddy of Drag Racing. He has done a [...]
Muscle Car TV visits the Wellborn Muscle Car Museum
My friends over on Muscle Car TV tell me they just completed filming a great feature on the Wellborn Muscle Car Museum. It is scheduled to air on Spike TV May 22 and 23, 2010. This should be a great show you will not want to miss. You can see more on this museum by [...]
Another Great Private Car Collection
There has been an email going to car buffs for sometime now about a private collection of Chevrolet Convertibles in Ankeny, Iowa. Well, now you have an opportunity to see for yourself.
This collector has one of every Chevrolet Convertible ever built up to 1975. If you want to see more, CLICK HERE.
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Wellborn Muscle Car Museum
By: Richard Fleener
We try to check out car museums when ever and where ever we find them. The smaller ones are often little more than a few poorly restored oddball cars displayed in a dusty environment. When we visit the bigger and better venues it is a real treat.
A new museum will be opening after [...]
Tim and Pam Wellborn’s Russwood Estate Aero Car Show!
By: Richard Fleener
When Tim and Pam Wellborn invite car folks over for a visit they know how to do it right! During the 2009 Aero Car Reunion these Mopar collectors made even us humble Ford collectors feel special. The Wellborn Estate, known as Russwood, is a treasure in its own right but when you add [...]
Floyd Garrett Museum Video
You may have missed our coverage of the Floyd Garrett Muscle Car Museum from a few days ago so we have added a video you might like. This serves as a good overview of the Museum but you should go to our web page on the Museum to see all the great photos of the [...]
Muscle Car Museum Tour; Floyd Garrett’s in Sevierville Tennessee
After going through the Floyd Garrett Muscle Car Museum in Sevierville, Tennessee I am all charged up to get back working on a project car. There are at least 90 excellent examples in the museum of why we all love muscle cars.
Floyd Garrett is a well known and respected muscle car expert with a fondness [...]
Nethercutt Collection and San Sylmar
The late J. B. and Dorothy Nethercutt assembled a World-class collection of cars, mechanical musical instruments and rare collectibles. Thanks to their foresight and generosity their collections are available to all of us to see for absolutely no cost. The Merle Norman fortune allowed for the Collection to be funded forever. It will grow and [...]
Top Ten Collector Cars; Fantasy Car Collecting
Fantasy Car Collecting
I have recently visited a number of museums and private car collections and the thought crossed my mind; “If I had the money what would I buy?” It is a very difficult answer because so much depends on how much money you have and what you want to do with the cars. We [...]
Alan Jackson’s Private Car Collection, Take a Tour
Have you ever wished you could visit some of the private collections of the rich and famous? I know it is a dream for many of us to see Jay Leno’s fabulous collection of cars but there are many more collections that are also worth seeing. Often these are tucked away in far distant locations [...]
1969 Yenko Camaro Dragster, Cliff Ernst Collection
We all know how special the 1969 Camaro is. Seems like it is the stand out favorite of most collectors and car geeks of all kinds. On top of the regular Camaro stands the ultra rare COPO cars. You know the ones. The ones, you go into the dealer and give him the magic hand [...]
Yenko Camaro Collection
There are collections of cars all over this Country that contain outstanding examples of what we car junkies lust over. One such collection is by invitation only and is located outside of Nashville, TN. It is the private collection of Clifford Ernst. At onetime it cantained the largest number of Yenko Camaros in the World.
Cliff [...]
Riverside International Raceway Museum
In the mid 80s when I moved to Southern California the first thing I did was get season tickets to Riverside. It was a shrine for me. I grew up seeing it in movies and reading about it in magazines and watching races on TV. Within a few years I had my perfect season tickets [...]
Packard Museum, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
The Fort Lauderdale Antique Car Museum is about only one kind of car, the Packard. It has the biggest collection of Packards and Packard memorabilia in the World according to staff at the museum.
When we walked in we were impressed but once we started walking around and discovered there were multiple rooms of cars we [...]
Trophy Girls make you smile! NHRA Museum
Trophy girls make you smile. In the 50s and 60s is was all about fast cars and beautiful women. (Or was it beautiful cars and fast women?) The photo above is the most famous of them all; Linda Vaughan. She was Hurst Golden Girl/Miss Hurst. She is still around today and has held up well.
If [...]
Talladega International Motor Sports Hall of Fame Tour
Last winter Katrina and I decided to go On Tour for a day in the ZO6. It is an easy 4 hour cruise from our home to the Talladega Speedway . We jumped on the interstate, set the cruise control and a way we went. It was a warm Southern December day but overcast. We [...]
Corvette Museum, Quick Tour and Video
If you are any where near Bowling Green and you are a car guy or gal you have to visit the holly ground of the Corvette Museum. We are outside Nashville and it is a short hour and a half away. I recently jumped into the ZO6 and buzzed up the Interstate for another visit.
I [...]
So-Cal Speed Shop’s Historical Belly Tanker Stripped Naked!
WE HAVE THE PHOTOS
When we go on tour it is usually to a museum or an event. This time it was quite different but very exciting. We went to the So-Cal Speed Shop headquarters and took a tour of the shop. It is wonderful to see old cars and see history in a museum but [...]
Lane Motor Museum; Need a Smaller Car for Great Gas Mileage? Check these out!
So you have had enough and you are going to trade the SUV in for a new small car? Had enough of the 10 mph on your Muscle Car? Think going to the river with your boat requires a second or third mortgage on the house? Want to give the gas station attendant the finger? [...]
NHRA Wally Parks Museum, Pomono CA
I just returned from a trip to Southern CA and a visit to the Wally Parks NHRA Museum. It reminds me that the best museum I ever saw is always the last one I visited! There are so many great ones out there and this is one of the must sees. It is small but [...]
