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Cars are even in the air, visitors
touring the galleries hear original radio advertisements and
musical jingles for great cars. The museum is also on the
move with video. Race footage, vintage television ads and
historical documentaries run on a large screen, set on the
back of a miniature truck.
The collection is displayed in
a sleek new setting, measuring 12,000 square feet. Each of
the two main galleries are filled right up to their 25-foot
ceilings. So many of its displays are one-of-a-kind that any
listing of the contents is a partial one, but you'll see fine
art oil paintings, and drawings by American and European artists,
folk-art models, rare advertising (including a set of legendary
Burma-Shave roadside rhyming signs), original photographs,
Detroit styling models, autographs and letters, racing memorabilia,
dealership and roadside signs, humorous prints, toys galore,
Hollywood movie posters, unusual auto accessories and gadgets,
colorful pedal cars, showroom posters, and even several presidential-car
license plates.
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Outside, the museum literally
stops traffic! The exterior is lined with an eye-popping set
of 20 original full-color billboards (each one measuring 20
feet by 10 feet), long-lost ads for some of the greatest cars
of the 1940's and 1950's. You won't see anything like them
anywhere else.
Automobiles themselves don't mirror
the people who used them as vividly as the items left behind
by those people. The Museum of Automobile History reflects
the monumental influence of the car, as well as an unbridled
enthusiasm for the automobile. It is a memorable automobile
trip and a dazzling display of the world on wheels, for everyone
of all ages.
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