Museums
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Art of the Muscle Car Photo Shoot
It has been many years since we were honored with a visit from Peter Harholdt and had the pleasure of…
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1957 Aurora Prototype
One of our local car clubs recently had a driving tour to visit the Lane Motor Museum in Nashville TN.…
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Savoy Automobile Museum
When we arrived we were excited about the architecture of the building and the expansice grounds available for car shows…
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Bobby Darin’s DiDia 150
Bobby Darin was an unbelievable musical talent that died well before his time. This is the car he loved. It…
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Ernst Collection 2022
We have visited the Clifford Ernst collection several times over the years. Even though it has not changed a great…
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America’s Car Museum
My wife and I love to find car museums when we travel. It is always a challenge to find a…
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Eyes on Design 2022
We recently exhibited at the 2022 Eyes On Design car show held annually in Grosse Pointe Shores, MI. Without a…
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Mustangs and Shelby’s
This is a continuation of our coverage of the American Muscle Car Museum in Melbourne FL. Previously we did overviews…
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American Muscle Car Museum, Part 2
The American Muscle Car Museum is located in Melbourne FL but is not open to the public. Last time we…
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American Muscle Car Museum
We recently visited one of the most spectacular muscle car museums we have ever visited. It is located in Melbourne…
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MCACN 1963 Ford Mustang 2
Here is another favorite from the 2021 MCACN show (Muscle Car And Corvette Nationals). I had some time to spend…
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MCACN 2021
We recently attended the 2021 Muscle Car And Corvette Nationals (MCACN) in Chicago. It was the weekend prior to Thanksgiving,…
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1963 Barracuda Fastback Prototype Convertible
The first Plymouth Barracuda was built and released in 1964 just prior to the first and much acclaimed Ford Mustang.…
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2021 AACA Grand National Zenith Awards
My wife and I always enjoy the friendly people and outstanding cars that we find at all AACA (Antique Auto…
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Amelia Island Concours 2021
I have only been lucky enough to attend the Amelia Island Concours once in my life, but it remains on…
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Wellborn Muscle Car Museum
My wife and I have visited car museums all over the Country and have our favorites. The Tim Wellborn Muscle…
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1953 Corvette #003
The Corvette Museum in Bowling Green Kentucky is a must see for any car guy or gal. There is a…
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National Corvette Museum 2021
Being a Corvette fan and owner, my wife and I have visited the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green KY…
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1969 427 ZL1 COPO Camaro Video
Here is one of those cars you just love to hear run but never ever get to. Now you can…
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Man Cave Tour
If you are new to classic cars and can’t quite step up to a car yet take a look at…
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Indy 500 Museum, 100th Anniversary Winning Cars
This week in 2020 the Indy 500 is happening but it is not Memorial Day! The COVID-19 has turned our…
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1955 Nardi Blue Ray I
I always marvel when I look back at coachbuilt and concept cars from the 50s. Although I was there in…
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Car with three lives!
As the Timbs Streamliner looked at the end of its first life. It seems ridiculous to think of a car…
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Don Garlits Museums
The Don Garlits Drag Racing Museum and the Don Garlits Antique Car Museum are fantastic. Either one of these museums is worth…
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Blackhawk Museum
The Blackhawk has been around for over 30 years. It presents and displays historically significant and artistically inspired automobiles from…
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Gilmore Car Museum; Part 2
The Heritage Center is where your tour begins. It also contains the Gilmore Store and Administrative offices. What you are…
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Gilmore Car Museum
We recently visited the Gilmore Car Museum in Hickory Corners Michigan. We have visited auto museums from coast to coast…
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1963 Chrysler Turbine Car
The 1962 Chrysler Turbine Car is one of those very rare Prototypes that was actually a fully operational car. Not…
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The Cars That Should Have Been
How would you have built your favorite car if you could have designed it? That is the question that Nashville’s…
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Marathon Village & Museum
In the early 1900’s there were car factories springing up everywhere in America. If you built bicycles or horse carriages…
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NANA’S DINER
I am continuously surprised at the number of outstanding private car collections there are. Not in TN or the US…
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XKSS Jaguar owned by Steve McQueen (Type-D)
As a young car guy growing up in rural Iowa, exotic cars were not common. A Corvette was exotic at…
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North Carolina Auto Racing Hall of Fame Mooresville NC
It seems that my wife and I can’t take a trip without finding a good car museum to visit. This…
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Memory Lane Museum
While participating in the Trump Charlotte Concours d’Elegance in 2018 we took time out to visit the Memory Lane Museum…
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Pense Race Shop
Team Penske When you talk about racing, at some point you have to talk about Roger Penske. Roger was a…
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Private Car Collection
Visiting car museums is always a wonderful experience to view all the great exotic cars. They are almost always the…
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Petersen Museum 2018
The car hobby is changing. Pickups are cool, station wagons are in and the demographics of the car collector are…
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NHRA Museum, August 2018 Part 2
This is our second article, Part 2 on the Pomona Wally Parks NHRA Museum visit in August 2018. For Part…
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NHRA Museum August 2018; Part 1
I have visited the NHRA Museum in Pomona CA many times over the years. Unfortunately, I have not been back…
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Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum 2018
I have visited the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum more than once and still walk away amazed at the cars that…
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Private Car Collection
Without a doubt, Tennessee is a State with lots of car enthusiasts. I am sure every State in the Union…
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National Car and Truck Museum Auburn, Indiana
When my wife and I travel if we are anywhere near a quality car museum we try to make time…
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Richard Petty Museum
I recently took a trip to visit the Richard Petty Museum in Level Cross NC just a short drive south…
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Lane Motor Museum, Nashville TN
Not if, but when you visit Nashville TN put the Lane Motor Museum on your list of things to do…
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FEATURE CAR: Buckminster Fuller’s 1933 Dymaxion Replica
When I was in college studying architecture many years ago, Buckminster Fuller was a guest lecturer one year. At that…
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Technology & Maritime Museum Malmo Sweden
My wife and I can both be considered diehard gearheads. Where ever we go, eventually we will discover a car…
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1967 Ford GT40 Mirage in Gulf Oil Livery
We recently visited the Blackhawk Automotive Museum which has to be on any car enthusiasts list of things…
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Blackhawk Automobile Museum
My wife and I recently traveled to the Central California Bay area and could not pass up the opportunity to…
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2015 Aero Car Reunion – Wellborn Museum & Talladega
The 2015 Talladega Aero Car Reunion was based at the Wellborn Muscle Car Museum but actually held in three different locations…
Read More » Talladega and Wellborn Museum Aero Car Reunion 2015
Wow, what a weekend. My wife and I just returned from the 2015 Aero Car Reunion held at the Wellborn…
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Another Private Collection
Back in my younger days I liked to autocross our Corvette on as many weekends as I could. Then, as…
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Part 2: Buddy Baker 200+ mph Dodge Daytona
Much has been said and written about the historic 200 mph record setting drive of NASCAR legend, Buddy Baker, at…
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Visit to a Private Car Collection
One of our favorite activities is to jump in one of the old cars and take a Saturday cruise to…
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Racing on Daytona Beach
In an attempt to escape some of the cold and ice of the winter we made a short but warm…
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NASCAR Hall of Fame Tour
Many of today’s NASCAR fans are too young to appreciate the origins of the sport. Us older guys love the…
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Visiting the Wood Brothers Museum
Wood Brothers Racing Wood Brothers Racing was formed in 1950 in Stuart, Va., by Hall of Famer Glen Wood. Wood…
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Corvette Museum Sink Hole
I have been into Corvettes since I was very little. I remember my favorite toy as a child was a…
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Thunderbolt
It has been 50 years since the 1964 Ford Thunderbolt tore up the drag strips in America. Today it is…
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2014 Keeneland Concours d’Elegance
Katrina and I just returned home with great big smiles on our faces. We had a terrific time at the…
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1947 Norman Timbs Special
This is one of those cars you just can’t stop looking at because it is just so darn strange, unusual…
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Concept Cars at the Atlanta Museum of Art
Although we present this to you as a museum display it is really a temporary display that was housed at…
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Saint Louis Museum of Transportaion
We have had a number of people tell us the Saint Louis Museum of Transportation is not to be missed and…
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Sensuous Steel Art Deco Automobiles at the Nashville Frist Museum
We have traveled to many locations in the US to visit collector car museums. We have seen some extremely rare…
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Knoxville Speedway National Sprint Car Hall of Fame & Museum
In our last post we told you a little about the 2013 Knoxville Nationals and the informal race garages that…
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Peterson Automotive Museum
The Peterson Automotive Museum has been in the news a great deal over the past month or so. The decision…
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1951 Ford X-51 by Ron Courtney
Ron Courtney, an auto shop employee in McMinnville, Oregon, built the X-51 during the mid-50s. Preferring to call his work…
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Iowa I-80 Trucking Museum
Generally this site stays pretty close to the muscle car topic but we stray off into other collector car corners…
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Change at Floyd Garrett Muscle Car Museum
Our Dan Gurney Spoiler II has spent the last 3 years on display at the Floyd Garrett Muscle Car…
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1939 Delahay Type 365 Cabriolet
There is a point when a car is so wonderful it is no longer just a car. Its beauty may…
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Not a Barn Find…It’s a Lake Find!
Today, it seems everyone wants to discover a Barn Find. The desire to find that rare hidden away vehicle that…
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Peterson Automotive Museum
If you are ever in the Los Angeles area do not leave without visiting the Peterson Automotive Museum. I don’t…
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Mullin Automotive Museum
Southern California has no shortage of great car places. Hot rod shops, cruise-in places, historic custom car builders, collectors and…
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Building a VW in a “glass house”
This is a Collector Car site and we mostly focus on Muscle Cars. To some, even a VW is a…
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History of Ford
I recently found this graphic which although it never mentions many historical events I find important it does provide an…
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Auburn Cord Duesenberg Museum; Legendary Collector Cars TV Episode 5
Although we focus on Muscle Cars and Hot Rods most of the time we still love the old classics and…
Read More » Episode 4: Walter P. Chrysler Museum; Legendary Collector Cars TV
This Episode of Legendary Collector Cars TV takes us to the Walter P. Chrysler Museum outside Detroit, MI. When we…
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New Feature: Legendary Collector Cars TV, Episode 1: GM Heritage Collection
We are always trying a new way to bring our stories to you in the best way we can. Today…
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GM Heritage Collection
We all have “Bucket Lists” of all those things we want to do or accomplish before we die. Some are…
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Henry Ford Museum
Katrina and I have been on the road recently and visited some of the most impressive car museums in the…
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Chevy Convertible Collection Video
This is a follow up video from our visit a few weeks ago to the Dennis Albaugh Private Collection in Ankeny,…
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Dennis Albaugh Collection of Chevrolet Convertibles
I was a happy camper trying to decide which Yenko was best! Private car collections are often the most fascinating…
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1954 Oldsmobile F88 GM Motorama Concept Car
Before there was a Corvette in 1953 there was the GM Motorama show that toured the Country. It was full…
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Mercury Cyclone Spoiler II go to Muscle Car Museum
With a great deal of excitement and regret we delivered our 1969 Mercury Cyclone Spoiler II to the Floyd Garrett…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Muscle Car TV goes to Wellborn Museum
By: Richard Fleener Mark your Calenders! Muscle Car TV will be broadcasting their visit to the Wellborn Muscle Car Museum…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Floyd Garrett Museum Video
You may have missed our coverage of the Floyd Garrett Muscle Car Museum from a few days ago so we…
Read More » 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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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There are collections of cars all over this Country that contain outstanding examples of what we car junkies lust over.…
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Riverside International Raceway Museum
In the mid 80s when I moved to Southern California the first thing I did was get season tickets to…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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