Automotive Museum and Member Classics...What We Do For Fun.

[RCW]

I couldn’t find the other thread about the Museum I’ve been part of for 20 years.

Member Daren Todd stopped there a couple years ago and posted some great pictures.

The Car Museum has been closed due to COVID since March. We finally had an Executive Committee meeting in person a couple weeks ago. We’re working on rotating exhibits and vehicles in and out. We had a’70’s car exhibit that is now transitioning to farm tractors.

I grabbed a few pictures. Several of the ones in storage are ours.

We’ve held a sweepstakes since our opening in 1997 to give away a classic car. We’ve done early Mustang Convertibles for many years. The black one this year is very nice.

 

[Lil Foot]

They're all beautiful! I'm jealous of you.

 

[RCW]

They're all beautiful! I'm jealous of you.

Bill - it’s really a great thing. We’re about 90,000 square feet, so it’s very large with about 175 vehicles on exhibit.

There’s vehicles with somewhat modest value, while others are worth more than my lifetime income. The ‘66 Plymouth convertible just came in as a donation, and may replace the white’61 Chevy for a parade car. The Chevy is a 3-speed 6 cylinder, so it’s a little tough to drive for a parade. The Plymouth is an automatic.
Many of our Board members are retired. I just finished a second term as President, but I gotta go to work everyday, so I don’t get to spend as much time there as I’d like to.

 

[skeets]

Real nice,, do you guys drive them once in a while or just for looks?

 

[RCW]

Real nice,, do you guys drive them once in a while or just for looks?

skeets - many of the cars are on loan to us by generous owners, so we don’t drive them at all.
For the ones we do own, we do register and drive a few for parade vehicles.
The others we own we only keep Museum insurance on, so they don’t leave the property either. Guessing we own 25% or so.

It would cost a small fortune to insure all of our owned vehicles for the road, especially in New Yorkistan....

 

[motionclone]

You guys need my gen2 Camaro there. Mines a clone of a Baldwin Chevy/Motion Performance 1970 (New York Companies)

 

[RCW]

You guys need my gen2 Camaro there. Mines a clone of a Baldwin Chevy/Motion Performance 1970 (New York Companies)

You should have seen one of our Muscle Car Exhibits......damn....

 

[motionclone]

You should have seen one of our Muscle Car Exhibits......damn....

Youre lucky getting to be around all that old iron

 

[RCW]

Youre lucky getting to be around all that old iron

Damn straight..... these are heavy toward MOPAR, and I’m a GM guy....

 

[RCW]

Motion - while the GTO Judge was cool in one picture, the special car might have been the yellow Buick next to it. It was a 455 as I recall, and of very, very limited production.
Those pictures were from 5 or so years ago....it drew a good crowd of folks my age....

 

[motionclone]

Motion - while the GTO Judge was cool in one picture, the special car might have been the yellow Buick next to it. It was a 455 as I recall, and of very, very limited production.
Those pictures were from 5 or so years ago....it drew a good crowd of folks my age....

Probablty the 455 gsx. Lots of nice stuff there. Most people dont understand the amount of work it takes to fully restore a car to this level. Thousands of hours.

 

[Fordtech86]

Was that a true GT500KR or a clone?

 

[skeets]

Tell me, the picture of the logram what was it on a 426 wedge or a 413? What car was it in ,, aww man I got questions,,, mopar or no car

 

[Magicman]

From my days that were:

1959 Pink Edsel

 

[lugbolt]

all the museums around here are GM museums. Buicks Pontiacs Oldsmobile chevrolet gmc. Of those you can bet that they'll cover 98% of the entire museum. Mopar? Might see a superbird knockoff or a Hemi Cuda and that's about it. Ford? GT500 maybe, and a couple of run-of-the-mill 65's. One place has a '65 Fastback which isn't original (dynacorn body).

Understand that I certainly appreciate being able to go look at them, admire the painstaking work involved and just as important the monetary investment, but I'd like to see something other than a bunch of 68/9 Camaro's and Boss Mustangs. Show me some Packards, Hudsons, Tuckers, and the like. My neighbor has a 1935 Tatra T77a (first year for the "A") that I kind of like, and I can buy it cheap. Unfortunately the original V8 is long gone and parts? Yeah right. So it might make a good restomod, or heaven forbid another drag car; and an oddball at that.

I've got a couple old Mustangs one is 1 of 6, the other a run-of-the-mill nothing special turd. I bought it used/running/driving and finished it up earlier this spring.. Wait, are they really ever "finished"? Nah. Never. When I bought it, I just wanted to sell the stupid thing because it needed SOOO much work (body/paint/interior/drivetrain/everything). The interior was the most challenging on the rarer one since the original owner was a very heavy smoker and I refuse to buy a smoker's car, but this deal was too cheap to pass up and I knew it was a full on project from the get-go, so I painstakingly drove it home and proceeded to completely tear it down to nothing but a sheet metal body-and nothing else. It's a lot of work, probably the worst part is keeping up with all of the parts and then storing them for 10 years such that you know where it all went. I did a very good job of it thanks to Kubota (they use little zip-lock style heavy duty baggies for owners manuals and parts shipping, and I hoard them for small parts like this, nuts & bolts, clips, etc). I'm glad it's "done" and we enjoy going for a cruise on Saturday nights when the weather is decent. A/C helps too.

And I just picked up a 88 Mustang coupe, 5.0. I am reading into it but so far I'm seeing that this color and trim is VERY rare (23 known production). I might end up keeping it, have not decided. At some point if I decide to keep it, I'm probably going to have to look into building another shop to store this sickness in, but at that point a move is in order.

 

[skeets]

Man and all I want is a 64 Plymouth 426 Wedge with a 4 speed car,, I would even settle for a 71 Sebring big block with a 4 speed, like the one I bought when I came home.
Alas they are out there ,if you have the cash, and to redo one, again if you got the cash,,,,
Ahhh well I can look at them, remember and dream

 

[RCW]

lugbolt - many of our cars are Pre-war. We have an ACD section with Auburn, Cord, Duesenberg, plus a Cars made in New York exhibit (Pierce Arrow, Cunningham, Franklin).
Here’s a Packard and Marmon I had pictures of.

 

[RCW]

Was that a true GT500KR or a clone?

Ford - that was a real McCoy.......

 

[Daren Todd]

I couldn’t find the other thread about the Museum I’ve been part of for 20 years.

Member Daren Todd stopped there a couple years ago and posted some great pictures.

The Car Museum has been closed due to COVID since March. We finally had an Executive Committee meeting in person a couple weeks ago. We’re working on rotating exhibits and vehicles in and out. We had a’70’s car exhibit that is now transitioning to farm tractors.

I grabbed a few pictures. Several of the ones in storage are ours.

We’ve held a sweepstakes since our opening in 1997 to give away a classic car. We’ve done early Mustang Convertibles for many years. The black one this year is very nice.


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If it's any consolation. I can't remember where I posted the bloody pictures either I went and checked the threads I started and can't find them, so I must have posted on someone elses.

 

[Fordtech86]

@RCW

Don't make cars like this anymore...

Had a Board meeting the other day at the car museum. https://www.classiccarmuseum.org/ I've walked by these two many times, but for some reason they both caught my eye. My pictures stink, but I'm no photographer.... My favorite has always been a '31 Packard coupe, off-white and burgundy...

www.orangetractortalks.com