LeMay museum finally had it's groundbreaking (2 years since I posted that it would happen)

http://hagertyblog.blogspot.com/2010/08/lemay-museum-groundbreaking-june-2010.html for the story and photo gallery. My first post didn't say much, just informative that it's supposed to become the largest in the world
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/03/if-you-live-near-seattle-you-might-want.html

Gambrinus Drivers Museum

This museum is located Belgium, at Romedenne in an authentic 19th century brewery-malting and presents a series of old trucks, especially equipped for the transport of beer. Different halls, including 70 thematic display cabinets, which are dedicated to the brands, to the makes of trucks (electricity/steam/petrol), to publicity, to truck manufacturers, etc.
Info via: http://www.opt.be/accueil/en/index.html
Looks almost like a Tempo, but it's a Scammel truck, and this has to be the smallest semi truck / flatbed combo I'll ever see, and even better, it's a beer truck

The above beer truck is a 1960 Llyod LT 600

Photos from the Flikr acct of Xavnco http://www.flickr.com/photos/xavnco2/with/4742571218/

Italy's National Automobile Museum in Turin (or Torino I'm not sure, I can't read Italian)

the wood buck for an Alfa Romeo Guiletta Sprint

Fiat Turbina

the winner of the Paris to Peking race

If you are ever near Torino, it looks like a must see to me! http://www.museoauto.it/home/

Images from http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomislavmedak/

I hope you had a chance to visit the Monte Holm railroad and car museum

A pennyless hobo that road the rails during the great depression, and through his own great efforts became a business tycoon and railroad owner... one of the last private railroads.

After riding the rails and sheepherding from a covered wagon in Montana from age 13 to 19, Mr. Holm became a scrap-metal salvage business with 10 cents, at age 19, and have made a success out of things people throw away, started his own railline and this musuem to showcase the equipment he salvaged, was a City Council member and owner of the House of Poverty Museum, which showcased many antiques and his collection of train cars.

Mr. Holm was one of the few remaining registered owners of a private rail line. His collection included a presidential dining car used by President Wilson and later President Truman, the last steam engine operated in Alaska he'd acquired the locomotive and later the Alaska Railroad asked unsuccessfully to purchase it back, and several cabooses. The collection includes an ex-US Army Class S-160 Consolidation steam locomotive, a former Great Northern caboose, former Spokane, Portland & Seattle private observation car, an 0-4-0 steam locomotive, and various track machines, railroad-themed amusement rides, as well as a wide variety of railroad collectibles ranging from old books to tool collections.

According to "Once a Hobo .. The Autobiography of Monte Holm," published in 1999, he bought the cars to fulfill a promise he made one day to own a railroad after he was kicked off trains during the Great Depression while traveling across the country between jobs as a sheepherder in Montana. started a scrap metal salvage business and started his own railline and this musuem to showcase the equipment he salvaged.

http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-5515279/Monad-Holm-89-hobo-turned.html

There is a book about his life which is reviewed in the most wonderful ways, "Once a Hobo, the Autobiography of Monte Holm"
http://thecelebritycafe.com/books/full_review/153.html

and http://www.amazon.com/Once-Hobo-Autobiography-Monte-Holm/product-reviews/1882792769

and http://www.railroadbookstore.com/shop/general_11950_1882792769_Once-A-Hobo-The-Autobiography-of-Monte-Holm.html

Port of Moses Lake Commissioner Larry Peterson said he enjoyed stopping in and visiting Holm. He recalled that Holm had wanted to drive his locomotive out to the airport and back during a celebration. The predominant railroad at the time was Milwaukee Railroad, and when Holm got ahold of them, the railroad told him no.

“Monte was great friends with Joshua Green, president of Peoples Bank, who was a major stockholder in the railroad,” Peterson recalled. “Monte called his friend Joshua Green and before long, had a call back from the railroad that it would be OK to do that.”

http://www.hobonickels.org/holm.htm

He passed away in May 2006

the museum days and hours of operation:
Monday thru Saturday 10am to 5pm

Address:
West Broadway
Moses Lake, WA United States
98837
http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMMJW_House_of_Poverty

To a Pacific Northwest magazine writer in 2000 he showed his antique cars, steamship whistles and fire engines in his museum.

"Then we boarded Holm's train. Up front was the locomotive, the last steam engine to run on the Alaska railroad. At the rear was a caboose Holm had built because the train seemed lonely without one. In between was a 1915 presidential car that Burlington Northern used for dignitaries, including Presidents Truman and Wilson on their whistle-stop campaigns. The presidential car had sterling lamps, a stainless-steel galley, servants quarters with an ironing board, even a polished mahogany banquet table with a filigree coffee pot suspended in its own silver cradle. This train outclassed even today's top-of-the-line RVs.

http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20000730&slug=4034399

July 17, 2001, Moses Lake, Washington, Moses Lake Iron and Metal Co.
The last steam locomotive to run on the Alaska Railroad was 2-8-0 #557. This took place on September 5, 1960 and it was a passenger run from Anchorage to the State Fair at Palmer, in the Matanuska Valley, and return. Old #557 was then sold for scrap and left Alaska June 14, 1965 aboard the Trainship ALASKA, bound for Everett, Washington. Our family unit traveled to Moses Lake, Washington to visit #557's current resting place. It is owned by Monte Holm who owns Moses Lake Iron and Metal. Monte was extremely friendly and had his assistant take us through his museum called, "The House of Poverty". Inside the museum we found an extraordinary collection of antiques which included old cars, Jesse James' mother's sewing machine and a rifle that came over on the Mayflower. Stepping outside, we came across #557 where we spent some time photographing it and checking out its controls

http://www.alaskarails.org/railfanpage/pnw/pnw-train.html

The story of Monte Holm is a long and interesting onehe went from being a self-described hobo waiting in bread lines and riding rail cars during the Great Depression, to the owner of a railroad and a scrap metal tycoon who handed out Werthers Original candies to everyone he met. Eventually, he opened the House of Poverty Museum to showcase antiques and other curiosities that he had come across in his lifetime. In 1979, Monte Holm took the Collectors Edition name on his 1979 Lincoln Mark V seriously, buying the car, taking it home, and parking it in his museum for more than two decades.

http://www.jameslist.com/advert/139196/for-sale-lincoln-mark

http://rides.webshots.com/photo/2465738520098197393Yafgap for a photo of his steam locomotive

Happy Centennial birthday Hunt Special... the only full size automobile that has been built in San Diego

Did the Hunt brothers, who only made this one vehicle, feel the need to plaster their name all over it for posterity to remember them? Or so they would gain local recognition and drum up business?

It's part of the J Cooley collection on permanent display at the Cooley Museum in San Diego at the corner of Park and El Cajon blvd.

For my previous post on the Cooley Museum: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/05/almost-unknown-but-incredibly.html

the Museum of the City of New York is having a program to address what is next for cars in the city, the challenges, innovations, and implications

THURSDAY • AUGUST 5 • 6:30 PM

The Future of the Car in the City

New York’s streets are contested space, with pedestrians, bicyclists, cars, buses, and trucks all jockeying for room.

Although New Yorkers have one of the lowest rates of vehicle ownership, the negative impacts of cars—pollution, declining street safety, and congestion—are becoming increasingly clear and demand thoughtful solutions.

What strategies will keep things moving: car-free “eco-zones,” congestion pricing, peak metering, or others— in light of increased pressures on the streetscape?

Join panelists Vishaan Chakrabarti, Marc Holliday Professor of Real Estate and Director of the Real Estate Development program in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University , Shin-pei Tsay, Deputy Director of Transportation Alternatives, and others for a discussion on the future of the car in New York .

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Cars, Culture, and the City. Reservations required. $6, Museum members; $12, Non-members; $8, Seniors and students.

Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10029
212.534.1672 ext. 3396

www.mcny.org

It's that rare occasion when I found an image, and knew that the object is in a local musuem... The Ryan X-13

Ryan x-13, possibly the only vertical launch, and vertical landing aircraft. How they landed that ono it's hook to tower.. I'm sure ground control must have helped instructions

above photo via http://zelastchancegaragedu78.blogspot.com/

Above image from http://voiture-jaune.tumblr.com/

I can't recall where I found the above image

Above image is with the aircraft in the museum

If you want to see a really cool museum, of aircraft, spacecraft, and a lot of cool WW1 planes, next time you are traveling in San Diego, go to the San Diego Air and Space Museum in Balboa Park

Micro museum

An Isetta truck... huh, that's pretty cool!

Peel P50

and the Silver are just 3 of the standouts... for a whole gallery of about 2 dozen see: http://autozine.com.br/classicos/os-divertidos-micro-carros-do-pos-guerra

Just outside the Wally Parks NHRA museum is this 1930's Gilmore fuel truck, Pomona Ca, the Fairplex exit off the 10, 1101 W McKinley

Porsches are currently on display at the San Diego Auto Museum