The brilliant and wildly eccentric Lane Motor Museum...
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alfaspecial said:
Edited for you If you were an East German citizen and you were innotrouble with the Stasi, you might have been able to buy a Wartburg camping limousine............ only the 'in trouble' version came not in a fetching shade of blue but that shade of paint known as 'hearse black'
The former Stasi HQ in Leipzig is worth a visit, unlike when it was operational
. I believe that one V.Putin was stationed there...
rodericb said:
Doug DeMuro has done some videos of cars at the Lane Motor Museum. Videos of the typical cars he's into which are the quirkier Euro things that the average PH would be in amazement that anyone would even be bothered remembering, let along scouring Europe for museum grade examples. It's amazing how much European content is in that place.
That surprised me too, though in an American context there are dozens of museums of old American cars, plus a few that have unmatched collections of very rare cars such as the Simeone in Philadelphia or the Peterson in LA all of shic I have visited.Sadly, my favourite museum of all, The Mullin has closed with the death of its founder.
I spent a magical day in that closed museum years ago . It specialized in Art Deco French cars and the building as design to be Art Deco too. Imagine being in an empty museum with these:
The Simeone specializes in competition cars and they run them in the yard sometimes;...
However, the completely eccentric places do it for me....how about the Dwarf Car Museum in Mesa AZ?....a very unusual guy decided to fabricate replica cars at 2/3 scale, powered by Honda engines and fully road legal:
The are of course endless numbers of museums around the world.. I generally pick up a few a year, even in India or China or the like. I will be in Germany in September and thee is a new one I want to see. While I much prefer driving to looking,seeing the variety f what people design and what others collect is well worth the time for me.
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