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Just outside the Wally Parks NHRA museum is this 1930's Gilmore fuel truck, Pomona Ca, the Fairplex exit off the 10, 1101 W McKinley

Porsches are currently on display at the San Diego Auto Museum

1930 FN, made to order for the Shah of Persia

The 1930 FN Type 1400 was a Belgian car made at the request of the Shah of Persia.
Ordered in 1912 but because of the war, it could not be delivered. The body was later transferred to a 1930 chassis and finished using hand-carved wood and lots of aluminum

Via: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jk1971/sets/72157616587444463/ from some images I couldn't borrow from http://s207653679.onlinehome.us/wsb4547739201/CarsMC%20of%20Europe.htm

Peterson Musuem current exhibits

http://www.petersen.org/default.cfm?docid=1001
California Design will only run through Feb 7, What Were They Thinking runs through July 5

For an online gallery: http://www.tachrev.com/Petersen.htm

A bloggers guide to Car museums in the US

http://usclassiccars.blogspot.com/ State by state, with a brief synopsis

realistic diorama in the Saskatoon (Canada), Western Developement Museum

Setting the scene of the dustbowl and depression era farms... wow

this museum has a lot of surprising finds, a Minneapolis Moline UDLX tractor, this fire engine, a recretion of a frontier city with fully stocked stores, stations, and homes. A must see if you are ever traveling through Canada.

Images via: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jordoncooper/sets/72157613830886211/

the Minneapolis Moline can be seen here: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/06/1938-minneapolis-moline-model-udlx.html

If you are ever near Detriot, stop by the world's last Hudson dealership

Also, Apex Motors which produced the "ACE" car from 1920-1922 was located on South River Street and Preston Tucker whose family owned the Ypsilanti Machine and Tool Company developed and built the prototype for his "Tucker Torpedo", the Kaiser, the Frazer, the Chevrolet Corvair, and a B-24 bomber plant

http://www.ypsiautoheritage.org/

The Peter Mullin auto museum, not open yet, but soon

Celebrating the art deco movement, the French Curves Collection exemplifies the zenith of the French automobile, including beautifully styled and amazingly engineered French-built cars covering several decades: Bugattis, Delages, Delahayes, Hispano Suizas, Talbot-Lagos and Voisins, many have won awards at concours d'elegance, and a number of the race cars have been past winners of historic races, such as the Grand Prix de Pau and Le Mans.

1421 Emerson Avenue

Oxnard, CA 93033

Previously the Otis Chandler museum, The museum is reopening as the Vintage Museum of Transportation, displaying the Peter Mullin Collection, including 12 Bugattis from the former Schlumpf collection ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandler_Vintage_Museum_of_Transportation_and_Wildlife

For dates and hours: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/02/mullins-museum-info-its-not-open-often.html

Photo galley of the Hendricks Museum (one of the great private collections)

1930 "Model J Duesenberg LWB, Hibbard & Darrin Transformable Cabriolet". There were two made. One for the King of Spain and the other for William Randolph Hearst.

To contrast the ridiculously rare and expensive.... the following truck, which to me is equally as cool and unusual.

http://www.teamshelby.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=36851 down the page about 1/3rd before the museum photos. All of the cars here are owned by John Hendricks. He is the founder of the Discovery channel.