My family and I flew up to Dayton for a couple of days to check out the Air Force Museum. When we arrived we signed up for the presidential hangar bus trip and I signed up as a standby for the restoration facility tour. They only get 44 people over there once a week, so this was a rare opportunity. Amazingly enough I…
The Secret Bubble Cars Of Detroit
Tucked away in an obscure warehouse in Detroit sits the almost inaccessible Transportation Collection of the Detroit Historical Museum. Lacking facilities and money to display them, the museum keeps its classics entombed in protective bubbles. Here's a rare look inside.
The Datsun Heritage Museum Is Very, Very Cool
There is an unofficial Datsun heritage museum in California. Which is unofficially fantastic. [Autoweek]
Inside Mercedes-Benz's Classic Treasure Trove
The Mercedes-Benz Classic Center is one of the finest restoration facilities in the world. Vanity Fair's Brett Berk recently stopped by to drive a vintage Gullwing, giving Jalopnik this exclusive behind-the-scenes peek. —Ed.
Detroit's Henry Ford Museum Opens Its Doors, Hoods For Your Amusement
As part of an exhibit dubbed "Engines Exposed," The Henry Ford museum has opened the hoods and removed the engine covers on dozens of vehicles in its collection. Ever wondered what the inside of a Bonneville streamliner looks like?
GM Firebird Turbine Concepts Visiting California, Pennsylvania
This fall, the General Motor Heritage Collection will be shipping all three of Harley Earl's turbine-powered Firebird dream cars, first to Pebble Beach and then to Hershey, PA. The 'birds normally reside in Michigan, so if you live near CA or PA, now's your chance to see retro-futuristic turbine optimism in the flesh.
Steve McQueen Exhibit at the Petersen
Commenter Danny Boy, who'll come back when summer's in the meadow, went and checked out the Steve McQueen exhibit going on at the Pete until April 9th and now we've got Sheryl Crow stuck in our heads again. Gah! Featured are McQueen's legendary XKSS, his Fuelie '57 Chevy convertible, his Porsche from Le Mans…
So-Cal Speed Shop Founder to Host Movies at NHRA Museum
The noted, legendary and highly-influential founder of the So-Cal Speed Shop (resurrected by equally noted and highly-influential rod builder Pete Chapouris), Alex Xydias will be presenting a series of very early hot rod and drag racing flicks at the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum in Pomona, starting on February…
Cars of Rock at the Pete
Opening tomorrow at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Fabulous Los Angeles, California is a redux of an exhibit they ran a few years back featuring significant cars of rock 'n' roll, including the Pantera Elvis shot full o' holes, a Nancy Sinatra movie Mustang and Snoop's golf cart from his Chrysler spot with Lido…
Party With Me, Punker At the Astor Classics Event Center
Art Astor may have made his bones peddling soft rock to the 909, but let's not hold that against him (too much, anyway), because he's sunk some cash into the Astor Classics Event Center in Anaheim. The facility houses his collection of cars, as well as vintage telephones, radios, and well as the website eloquently…
