Harold LeMay, a Tacoma businessman, loved cars and managed to collect more than 3,000 automobiles, trucks, and motorcycles over forty years of collecting. A number of the vehicles from his collection form the nucleus of the LeMay—America’s Car Museum. This collection of more than 300 cars, motorcycles, and trucks is displayed in a four-level building in Tacoma, Washington.
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Shown above is an overview of the top floor of the museum.
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Shown above is a 1949 Kumza-Offy Midget Race Car.
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Shown above is a 1949 Crosley Midget Racer.
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Shown above is a 1965 Lotus 35. Designed to be a multi-purpose racecar, only 22 of these were built.
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Shown above is the 1960 Rambler, “The Ferrambo” which features a Ferrari 360 Modena drive train. The front end styling resembles the early Lusso Ferrari.
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Shown above is a 1972 Dodge Challenger, Chi Town Hustler.
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The museum includes a slot-car track for those who want to try their hand at racing.
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Shown above is an 1883 Columbia Expert Ordinary High Wheel Bicycle. This bicycle was sometimes called a “penny-farthing” because the difference in wheel sizes reminded people of the difference between the penny and the farthing (quarter penny). These expensive bicycles were ridden primarily by urban upper-class men. Quick breaking would sometimes create the phenomenon known as “taking a header” as the cyclist would be thrown from the bike head-first.
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Shown above is the museum’s one boat: a 1955 Greavette 24-Foot Streamliner. This was built at a time when the boat industry was switching from wood to fiberglass.
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Shown above is the Auto Care Center where museum cars are preserved and prepared for displays and museum events. The car on the lift is a 1917 Crane Simplex Model 5 with a coach body built by Brewster & Co. in New York. The 7-passenger touring car was ordered by John D. Rockefeller Jr. as a birthday gift for his father, John D. Rockefeller Sr.’s 78th birthday.
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Shown above is a street rod which began as a 1939 Ford Deluxe Convertible. This is a total re-design with only 20% of the original Ford remaining. It is powered by a 2006 Ford GT supercharged engine with a Ford 4R 4-speed transmission.
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The third bay of the Auto Care Center held the 1946 Ford Super Deluxe, 2-Door Coup, shown above.
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Also in the Auto Care Center was the 1959 Cadillac Coupe deVille, 2-Door Hardtop, shown above.
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