Haynes Motor Museum

[ryanMIL]

Hi All,

Going to stay in Shepton Mallet this weekend with the girlfriend and half joked about dragging her to the Haynes Motor Museum seeing as she's dragging me to the Mulberry Outlet. Anyway, she surprisingly said she wouldn't mind going.

Caught me off guard a bit. Has anyone been? Is it any good? Seem to have a large and varied collection on their website.

[buggalugs]

I went a few years ago, was a nice way to kill an afternoon.

[Tyre Tread]

Excellent collection and, although I have been several times, we even arranged a boys weekend away so thos ehwo hadn't been before could do the Haynes Museum and the Fleet Air Arm Museum which is just up the road.

All those who went enjoyed it tremendously.

When we went last October their usual eating facilities were being overhauled so they were only doing very basic soup and sandwiches so check if they ahve finished refurb or eat before you go in.

Lots of lovely machines to drool over.

[graham22]

Very interesting with some unusuals. They have a Red room where all the cars are red! - not just the obvious Ferraris but anything.

See if there's a meet or something in the rally field & on the track, last time we went the Sunbeam Alpine club were there - never realised so many were still on the road, even more spectactular watching them trying to grind the door handles on the track

[vixen1700]

graham22 said:

Very interesting with some unusuals. They have a Red room where all the cars are red! - not just the obvious Ferraris but anything.

Including a red Facel HK500.

Well worth a visit.

[LotusOmega375D]

Tyre Tread said:

Excellent collection and, although I have been several times, we even arranged a boys weekend away so thos ehwo hadn't been before could do the Haynes Museum and the Fleet Air Arm Museum which is just up the road.

We did that and actually preferred the Yeovilton aircraft museum: really well laid out and interesting. Very impressive.

Haynes is a bit of an old-fashioned museum IMO: row upon row of cars simply lined up for you to walk past, but if you're in the area you should certainly tick it off.

[aka_kerrly]

Without a doubt an excellent day trip.

You should be lucky as the American room is reopening this weekend * according to their website.