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I have been hesitant to share photos of friends and family. But these are pretty special. And my friends and I are not getting any younger.
Our friend threw a birthday party at his Scottsdale Airpark garage / warehouse. He had about 70 or his favorite cars here tonight. His other 250 cars are at the Clive Cussler Museum on Arvada Colorado.
I don't know classic cars and since this is his garage there were no descriptive monuments by each car. I just had to appreciate each as a mechanical beauty of its time.
This is one of Clive's favorite autos. Any help identifying this car will be appreciated. This is the one that they made into his birthday cake. I believe this is a 1937 Cord convertible Coupe.
"One of the most attractive and rarest variants of the 810/812 models was the convertible coupe Approximately 195 came out of the factory and only 64 were supercharged. This car features a 200 cubic inch L-head V-8 engine with a centrifugal supercharger, front wheel drive, independent front suspension and a solid rear axle. This car won its class at Pebble Beach in 2007."
I think that the car behind this is a 1939 Lincoln Zephyr V12 convertible but I could be completely wrong.
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Source: www.autoworldmuseum.com/about.html
Why build an automotive museum? Because one way or another, our lives are touched by the automobile. We remember our parents’ cars, the ones we traveled in with family, the ones we borrowed for our first car date, the first ones we bought. The fast cars, the junkers, the modified ones and the ones we rebuilt—all of them are tied to us in memory. We even dream of cars.
William E. Backer, former owner of Backer Potato Chip Company in Fulton, Missouri, looked back in time and found that a vintage automobile was a thing of fascination. His memories were of old country roads and two lane highways. Bill Backer was an engineer and a builder who loved to tinker. Having built a successful potato chip company, he looked back at the cars that were part of his childhood. Shortly after, he owned a Canadian 1924 Dodge Touring. Dark blue with black fenders and a cloth top. Bill drove his family around the back country roads of Callaway County, Missouri and felt himself touching fading memories.
Not long after he collected the Dodge, Bill had a 1909 Ford Model T. Soon after that, a 1930 Model A. Then a 1929 Cord, a 1931 Rolls Royce Phantom II, a 1957 Chevy Bel Air, and so on. By the mid 1990’s, the number of classic autos in the collection neared 100. Bill found a home for many of his classic cars in an old retail building in Fulton. The Auto World Museum Foundation was formed and a classic car museum was opened to the public. Ten years later, in 2006, the automobile museum was moved to its current home at 200 Peacock Drive in Fulton. It is a building dedicated to the history of vintage and modern automobiles as well as the history of Callaway County and Fulton, Missouri.
After his passing in 2008, his daughter, Vicki McDaniel, assumed leadership of the museum and the collection of cars. Since then, the collection of vintage autos has changed a little. However, her primary passion is for the presentation of antique cars and modern ones in a place that everyone can visit.
The presentation of cars and staging of the museum is the vision of Tom K. Jones, Artistic Director of TKJ Designs in Fulton, Missouri. His concept for the museum was a movement through time and a portrayal of the history of Callaway County, Missouri. Auto World Museum is a stage—a movement through history. Its deep black curtains, scenes from back when, panels of advertising and memorabilia will take you through a history of motion in time. At first, you will visit a period not that long ago, although some say 100 years is a long time. As you move in a clockwise direction through the museum, you will find enticing displays. The simplicity of family drives in the convertible. The decadence of Hollywood and its fancy cars. The sights and sounds of the drive-in as you watched from the comfort of your Studebaker or Corvair. You will ponder when gas prices were really, really low. Finally, you will find yourself nearing the future, with displays of alternative fuel vehicles.
Auto World Museum will spark your curiosity. We hope that you will find that our collection of vintage and modern automobiles fascinates you the way that it did Bill Backer. We hope you will continue the journey with us as we add to the collection over time. We would like to thank William Harrison for his dedication to the research on the autos in the museum.
The new park's lights are all on sensors so dull days turn them on and today was as dull as they get.
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Bill said he found this by accident, it had been in a barn for bout 13 year with 13000 miles on it. This was also on a special tour we 3 had that normally don't happen - we was lucky this day.
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