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VINTAGE: LeMay Museum Celebrates History And Love Of Automobiles
The newly opened America’s Car Museum in Tacoma is a treasure trove based on one man’s massive lifetime car collection.
Housed in a spectacular new building, LeMay - America's Car Museum presents an ever-changing display of automotive history. (Photo: LeMay Museum)
Divide 3,500 by seven and you get 500. Simple math, but Harold and Nancy LeMay realized it would be slightly more complicated in the context of willing their immense car collection to their kids as inheritance.
To the relief of enthusiasts (and probably their children), the couple’s back-porch conversation of a few years ago has culminated in the opening of LeMay - America’s Car Museum in Tacoma, Wash., which opened June 2.
Covering nine acres along Interstate 5, the cars are presented in a three-story, architecturally bold 165,000 square-foot structure that is reminiscent of a hood scoop. At any given time, the displays include a few hundred vehicles from LeMay's collection as well as others.
Staggered rotation will keep things fresh, including themed exhibits. They currently include alternative propulsion, British Invasion of the 1960s, Ferrari in America and Indy cars.
The campus includes an education center for younger visitors, indoor and outdoor space for car clubs and shows plus interactive experiences throughout.
The late Harold LeMay really did amass about three-and-a-half-thousand cars in his collection, which stands to reason when a passionate collector sells just eight of his vehicles – and buys back five of them – in a lifetime. LeMay’s was actually the largest car collection in the world, according to Guiness.
Current inventory is still more than 2,000 vehicles. The new museum, complemented by the previously established LeMay Collection at Marymount, also in Tacoma, should ensure visits and revisits for years to come.
For more information about the museum, its collection and special events, see LeMay Museum.
Watch the trailer video that introduces the museum at LeMay Opening.
This story originally appeared at Motor Authority.
To the relief of enthusiasts (and probably their children), the couple’s back-porch conversation of a few years ago has culminated in the opening of LeMay - America’s Car Museum in Tacoma, Wash., which opened June 2.
Covering nine acres along Interstate 5, the cars are presented in a three-story, architecturally bold 165,000 square-foot structure that is reminiscent of a hood scoop. At any given time, the displays include a few hundred vehicles from LeMay's collection as well as others.
Staggered rotation will keep things fresh, including themed exhibits. They currently include alternative propulsion, British Invasion of the 1960s, Ferrari in America and Indy cars.
The campus includes an education center for younger visitors, indoor and outdoor space for car clubs and shows plus interactive experiences throughout.
The late Harold LeMay really did amass about three-and-a-half-thousand cars in his collection, which stands to reason when a passionate collector sells just eight of his vehicles – and buys back five of them – in a lifetime. LeMay’s was actually the largest car collection in the world, according to Guiness.
Current inventory is still more than 2,000 vehicles. The new museum, complemented by the previously established LeMay Collection at Marymount, also in Tacoma, should ensure visits and revisits for years to come.
For more information about the museum, its collection and special events, see LeMay Museum.
Watch the trailer video that introduces the museum at LeMay Opening.
This story originally appeared at Motor Authority.
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