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The Gilmore Car Museum is an automobile museum located in Hickory Corners, Michigan, United States. The museum exhibits over 400 vintage and collector vehicles and motorcycles from all eras in several vintage buildings located on a 90-acre campus. [1] The museum claims to be the largest automobile museum in North America.
The Michigan Motor Sports Hall of Fame display is currently located at the Gilmore Car Museum in Hickory Corners. It is in conjunction with their "History of Stock Car Racing" display. The Michigan Motor Sports Hall of Fame exhibit was located at the R. E. Olds Transportation Museum in Lansing from 1994 thru 2006.
Pre-war survivors include two Model H (one owned by the Gilmore Car Museum and the other in Hollywood), one Model G pickup, one Model T, two Model Ms (a taxi and a farm truck), and two Model Ys (one sedan and one two truck conversion). Only one 1939 Model A is known to exist. It has been restored and resides in a private collection. [54]
Gilmore Car Museum. Hickory Corners, Michigan It's no surprise that Michigan, the nation's car capital, has a few auto museums of note. At the Gilmore, some 400 vehicles fill more than 190,000 ...
The museum features "hands-on" exhibits aimed largely at children, and has a planetarium and a Challenger Learning Center. Northeast of town, in Hickory Corners, is the Gilmore Car Museum, which includes cars used in Walt Disney movies. The Kalamazoo Air Zoo, just south of town, in Portage has several dozen aircraft on display, from biplanes to ...
Donald Sherwood Gilmore (March 7, 1895 – December 21, 1979) was an American businessman and philanthropist. ... Gilmore established the Gilmore Car Museum, ...
The museum was founded in 1994 by Robert E. Petersen, a publishing giant who helped to shape American car culture. Comedian Jay Leno is one of the museum's biggest fans and has had a lifelong love ...
Two restored older Checkers reside in the Gilmore Museum in Hickory Corners, Michigan. One is a 1923 Model E, the other is a 1936 Model Y. The museum also features the very last car the company assembled, a 1982 A11 taxi in Chicago green and ivory livery. At least two A8s exist, one a Driv-R-Matic Special, in restored condition.