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Check out the Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Museum from your couch with virtual 3D tours on the museum's website.
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Henry Ford Museum preparing Driven to Win: Racing in America exhibit
The Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, will open a special exhibition on auto racing called Driven to Win in June 2020.
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New Brumos Collection museum is a trip through Porsche history
The former racing team, dealership, and distributorship leaves a collection of vintage Porsches, plus other cool European and American cars of the past.
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BMW M gets a dedicated stage in BMW Welt museum
BMW's M division now has its own little permanent corner of BMW Welt, complete with a sign welcoming visitors to "M Town." For now, the new space gives visitors the chance to explore the M division's current portfolio. "The newly designed exhibition space invites every car enthusiast to become a...
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Geek out with the sci-fi cars exhibit at Petersen Automotive Museum
The collection displays cars from cult classics and mainstream films such as "Transformers," and "The Man from U.N.C.L.E."
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Vintage Fiat 500 inducted into Museum of Modern Art in New York
The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York has a new exhibition piece: a 1965 Fiat 500. Fiat highlighted the car's induction in a Monday announcement, and the mini car is on display as part of a new exhibit called "The Value of Good Design." The chosen pieces aim to tell the story of industrial...
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For the Tupelo Automobile Museum in Tupelo, Mississippi, these are unfortunate times. Yet for car collectors, this is a chance to own some pretty extraordinary cars. According to a Hemmings report last December, Bonhams will host a no-reserve sale for the 178 museum-owned lots currently part of the collection. All proceeds will benefit the educational charities of the museum's founder Frank Spain. Spain owned all of the vehicles headed to auction. He died in 2006, and his wife has continued to operate the museum as curator. Low attendance in recent years meant there was no choice but to cease...
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This car museum is a three-ring attraction
The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus earned its title as “The Greatest Show on Earth,” in part, because it provided not one, not two, but three rings of entertainment under its big top. You might say the same thing about the Sarasota Classic Car Museum, which is located in...
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You need to be invited to visit America’s Muscle Car Museum
Mark Pieloch started learning body and paint work while he was still in high school in the little town of Groveland, Massachusetts, and that led to restoration projects, 10 of them over his first 30 years. He left all that behind to become a very successful entrepreneur, patenting and manufacturing...
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In London, Design Museum goes beneath the skin of Ferrari
Some might say, oh, here’s another Ferrari exhibition, haven’t there been enough already in 2017 celebrating the company’s the 70th anniversary? Well, no, there have not. Since mid-November and running until April 15, 2018, the Design Museum in London is hosting a spectacular...
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Legendary driver Jim Clark finally getting proper museum
Race car drivers know their own kind well. Many drivers consider Jim Clark to be the greatest—or at least among the greatest—drivers of all time. We don't disagree. Now, others may get the chance to understand his talent. More than $2.4 million has been raised to pay for a museum to...
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Now there are seven (or maybe nine): Bugatti Royale prototype re-created
The Bugatti Type 41, better known as the Royale, was intended to be the biggest, most luxurious, most expensive car in the world. It was to be sold only to royalty. Launched into the teeth of the Great Depression, just six of a planned 25 were built. None of the original six has changed hands since...
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The official Porsche Museum near Stuttgart, Germany, is something approaching Mecca for car enthusiasts, but the automaker is saving you the airfare and passport stamp if you happen to be at one of many automotive events this year. The company's historians have selected numerous events for what it calls its "rolling museum," where it takes popular cars from its collection and either displays them or drives them at various events around the globe. Last year, the collection made an impressive 280 worldwide appearances. While this year's agenda hasn't been set in full, the automaker did detail...
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Mercedes-Benz Museum Starts Selling Off Some Classics: Video
The official Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Germany must be brimming with classics as the museum is now starting to sell some of them off. The list of cars available for sale can be seen at the website www.alltime-stars.com and includes some stunners such as a 1929 Type 630 Kompressor and even...
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Alfa Romeo Reopens Its Official Museum To The Public
Alfa Romeo helped kick off the launch of its new Giulia sports sedan by also reopening its official museum, located in Milan, Italy, to the public. The museum closed in 2009 following the decommissioning of an adjacent plant and a relocation of the brand’s headquarters. However, as part of...
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Sinkhole Survivor: Restoration Begins On Millionth Corvette
Last February, a sinkhole lurking under the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky opened up and swallowed eight prized examples of America's sports car. Given the perilous conditions, it was initially unclear if recovery—let alone restoration—was going to be possible...
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National Corvette Museum Sinkhole Repairs To Begin In November
The National Corvette Museum will begin filling in the famous sinkhole next month.
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50 Years Of Top Secret Concepts & Prototypes On Display At Porsche Museum: Video
Located next to Porsche’s headquarters in the Zuffenhausen district of Stuttgart, Germany lies the automaker’s official museum. The modern structure, opened in 2009, serves as a celebration of all things Porsche. It's open to the public, costs just a few euros to get in, and is a...
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For car fans, it wasn't an easy sight to see: Several of the world's rarest Corvettes, resting in a crumpled heap at the bottom of a large sinkhole under the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Now, the future is looking brighter for three of those Corvettes, which General Motors Company [NYSE:GM] has vowed to restore. Chevrolet will restore the 2009 Corvette ZR1 prototype known as 'Blue Devil', and the 1-millionth Corvette. It will also provide funds for restoration of the 1962 Corvette damaged in the sinkhole, which the museum itself will oversee. Five other vehicles...
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Corvette Museum Motorsports Park Inches Closer To Opening
Earlier in 2013 news that construction of the long awaited Corvette Museum Motorsports Park had begun. The facility, which was announced over three years ago, will feature a lengthy road course, massive skidpad, a go-kart track, and a quarter-mile dragtrip. It will also strengthen the idea that it...
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"Dream Cars" Exhibit Brings Classic Design To Atlanta
Forward-looking automotive designs populate a new exhibit at Atlanta's High Museum of Art.
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Eighth And Final Corvette Rescued From Sinkhole
The Mallet Hammer Z06 was the last car consumed by a sinkhole under the National Corvette Museum.
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Three Corvettes Safely Recovered From Museum Sinkhole: UPDATE
Work has begun in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Back in mid-February, a massive sinkhole opened up directly underneath the Skydome at the National Corvette Museum. Eight unfortunate Corvettes that were on display dropped into the hole, and the damage estimates began swirling in. These are extremely rare...
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Tour Honda's Museum With Google Maps, Too
The Honda Collection Hall is now open to virtual visitors thanks to Google street view.
Stephen Edelstein