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Museum Archive
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![The 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 […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/PXL_20240627_154256896.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Museum Tour: Pontiac Transportation Museum – Old School")
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 […] -
![(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. […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/DSC01874-1280x960-e1359846021572.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Museum Classics: Visiting The Walter P. Chrysler Museum In Its Final Week – So Long, Walt")
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. […] -
![I 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 […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/20220726_133937a.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Museum Outtake: 1963 Studebaker Truck Prototype – In Search Of Quiet Places")
Museum Outtake: 1963 Studebaker Truck Prototype – In Search Of Quiet Places
Posted on April 15, 2024 | 28 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 […] -
![This 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 […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/IMG_20240310_121242_edited.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Museum Classic / Automotive History: 1947 Tama E4S-47 – Arch-EV-ological Artefact")
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 […] -
![The 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 […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/IMG_20230517_131649.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Museum Classics: A Visit To The EFA Museum of German Automotive History, Part 2")
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 […] -
![The 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 […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/PXL_20240223_192454076.MPa_.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Museum Classics: 1987 Cadillac Broughams – The End Of Clark Street")
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 […] -
![(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 […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Air-planes-02.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Museum Visit: A Quick Tour of the Henry Ford Museum")
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 […] -
![In 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 […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/20230330_132744a.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Museum Classics: Ypsilanti Automotive Heritage Museum, Part II – The Corvairs")
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 […] -
![During 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 […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/IMG_20230517_130910.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Museum Classics: A Tour of the EFA Museum of German Automotive History")
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 […] -
![In 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 […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/IMG_7200-2.jpeg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Curbside Travelogue: Yes, There Really is an Art Car Museum")
Curbside Travelogue: Yes, There Really is an Art Car Museum
Posted on November 16, 2023 | 26 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 […] -
![(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 […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/IMG_20170726_172035.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Museum Classics: The Eclectic Vehicles Of The Skógar Museum")
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 […] -
![If 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 […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/IMG_1934.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "CC Museum Visit: Petersen Automotive Museum, Los Angeles – Detroit Dream Cars and Automotive Icons")
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 […] -
![Six 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 […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/IMG_1528.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Museum Classics: Visscher Classique Buren – Rüsselsheimer Cookies (And Some More)")
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 […] -
![There’s a letter on display at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn that allegedly originated from the pen of popular gangster Clyde Barrow. This letter compliments Mr. Ford on the […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/PXL_20230812_142333602a.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Museum Classic: 1932 Ford Model 18 Convertible Sedan – To Live Outside The Law, You Must Be Honest")
Museum Classic: 1932 Ford Model 18 Convertible Sedan – To Live Outside The Law, You Must Be Honest
Posted on August 24, 2023 | 29 CommentsThere’s a letter on display at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn that allegedly originated from the pen of popular gangster Clyde Barrow. This letter compliments Mr. Ford on the […] -
![We continue our time travel in the museum from where we left off, in the late seventies. When Simca faded away, initially became Talbot, yet disappeared completely just a few […]](https://i0.wp.com/www.curbsideclassic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/IMG_1388.jpg?resize=115%2C115&quality=75&ssl=1 "Museum Classics: Visscher Classique Buren – Point Of Interest For Francophiles, Part Two")
Museum Classics: Visscher Classique Buren – Point Of Interest For Francophiles, Part Two
Posted on August 17, 2023 | 22 CommentsWe continue our time travel in the museum from where we left off, in the late seventies. When Simca faded away, initially became Talbot, yet disappeared completely just a few […]
