Showing posts with label car collections. Show all posts
Showing posts with label car collections. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

I didn't know that the Detroit Historic Museum had an extensive car collection, the historic society has been collecting for 90 years

news story and video that is worth watching here: http://detnews.com/article/20110219/METRO01/102190368/Part-of-Detroit%E2%80%99s-history-kept-under-wrapsPart of the approximately 60 car collection are: an 1870 Phaeton Carriage made for the worlds fair,a 1963 Chrysler Turbine that would run on diesel fuel, unleaded gasoline, kerosene, vegetable oil and even tequilaa 1911 Ford Model T keeps

Friday, February 18, 2011

The Schlumpf Collection is on display in France at the National Museum in Mulhouse, the Cité de l’Automobile

The Schlumpf Collection may be the most prestigious car collection in the world. This is demonstrated by the two of the only 6 made Bugatti Royales, including the famous Coupé Napoléon, the 150 Bugatti, Hispano-Suiza, Ferrari, Rolls-Royce, Maserati, Maybach, Mercedes models, etc. One of the Royales they acquired when they purchased the Shakespeare collection, in 1964, which was a total of 30