Search
Privacy
Curbside Classics Archives
Museum Archive
-
Museum Classic: 1957 Morris Minor 1000 Tourer – Driving Dad’s Car, Almost
Posted on July 17, 2024 | 34 CommentsI shared a photo report from the recently opened Great British Car Journey museum, and teased that there was something else, other than a great collection of memorable British cars, […] -
Museum Photo Report: The Great British Car Journey, Ambergate, England – For The Memories, Not The Glamour
Posted on July 15, 2024 | 19 CommentsThe number of UK car museums –with heavily revised and expanded collections such as British Motor Museum (BMM)– available seems to be increasing and has inevitably led to some interesting […] -
CC Museum Tour: Pontiac Transportation Museum – Old School
Posted on July 1, 2024 | 63 CommentsThe city of Pontiac, Michigan may not be as widely-known as Detroit, Dearborn, or Flint as far as automotive production is concerned, but their motoring history is rich enough to […] -
Museum Classics: Visiting The Walter P. Chrysler Museum In Its Final Week – So Long, Walt
Posted on June 15, 2024 | 86 Comments(first posted 3/12/2013) There are a lot of great car museums here in the U.S., including the Studebaker Museum, in South Bend, Indiana, and the Auburn-Cord-Duesenberg Museum, in Auburn, Indiana. […] -
Museum Outtake: 1963 Studebaker Truck Prototype – In Search Of Quiet Places
Posted on April 15, 2024 | 27 CommentsI love museums. Etymologically, “museum” is Latin by way of the Ancient Greeks; you may notice that the root is “muse,” as in “to inspire.” Therefore, the museum is a […] -
Museum Classic / Automotive History: 1947 Tama E4S-47 – Arch-EV-ological Artefact
Posted on April 15, 2024 | 11 CommentsThis week, we are going back to the weird and wonderful world of JDM – the twist here being that the cars we’re going to examine are genuine rarities, even […] -
Museum Classics: A Visit To The EFA Museum of German Automotive History, Part 2
Posted on March 24, 2024 | 14 CommentsThe museum reopens from its winter closure at the end of March, so let’s view some cars less well known in North America. The Hanomag 2/10 PS “Kommissbrot” (army commissary […] -
Museum Classics: 1987 Cadillac Broughams – The End Of Clark Street
Posted on February 26, 2024 | 25 CommentsThe Clark Street Cadillac assembly plant closed in 1987, but a small part of it lives on at the Detroit Historical Museum, where some of the lowest-mileage 1987 Cadillacs in […] -
CC Museum Visit: A Quick Tour of the Henry Ford Museum
Posted on January 31, 2024 | 32 Comments(first posted 1/29/2018) In the fall of 2014, I was quite active with my union, and they sent me and a small group of grocery workers to Detroit […] -
Museum Classics: Ypsilanti Automotive Heritage Museum, Part II – The Corvairs
Posted on January 29, 2024 | 54 CommentsIn a belated companion to my nearly year-old discussion regarding the Hudsons of the Ypsilanti Automotive Heritage Museum, here is the follow-up: the Ypsilanti collection of Chevrolet Corvairs. Because the […] -
Museum Classics: A Tour of the EFA Museum of German Automotive History
Posted on December 23, 2023 | 13 CommentsDuring a May holiday in southeast Bavaria, my 86 year old host and I cycled 50 km from Ruhpolding to the EFA Museum of German Automotive History in Amerang, he […] -
Curbside Travelogue: Yes, There Really is an Art Car Museum
Posted on November 16, 2023 | 25 CommentsIn his article detailing the zaniness of Houston’s annual Art Car parade Jon Stephenson notes that his city is also home to an Art Car museum. Well, it took me […] -
Museum Classics: The Eclectic Vehicles Of The Skógar Museum
Posted on October 10, 2023 | 21 Comments(first posted 10/10/2017) Skógar, a little town in southern Iceland, is famous for its superb waterfall, but also for having one of the oldest museums in the […] -
CC Museum Visit: Petersen Automotive Museum, Los Angeles – Detroit Dream Cars and Automotive Icons
Posted on September 1, 2023 | 17 CommentsIf there’s a city meant to have a large temple devoted to automotive history, that is car-crazy Los Angeles. And that obligatory shrine is none other than the Petersen Automotive […] -
Museum Classics: Visscher Classique Buren – Rüsselsheimer Cookies (And Some More)
Posted on August 25, 2023 | 25 CommentsSix years ago, the PSA Group acquired Opel and Vauxhall. Meanwhile they have all become members of the big Stellantis family. So an Opel hall of fame in a museum […]