by Mike Staggs | Aug 30, 2019 | Uncategorized
At the auto museum, we are always excited to welcome descendants of an owner or manufacturer of a motor vehicle in our collection. Last year, we welcomed descendants of Finley Robertson Porter, builder of the F.R.P., and Helen Hartley Jenkins, original owner of the...
by Mike Staggs | Aug 9, 2019 | Updates
Earlier this year, we were pleased that Camp Beech Cliff approached us and asked if we would host a Tinker Camp for them here at the auto museum. A couple months later, we were even MORE pleased to hear that Tinker Camp was so popular among the registrants that Camp...
by Mike Staggs | Jul 23, 2019 | Learn
What would you do if you had just taken over control of a debt-ridden company with a pile of unsold spare parts? If you were Charles Herman Metz, you would have come up with a plan – because not only did you possess a fine technical mind, you were also...
by Mike Staggs | Jul 17, 2019 | Learn
Summer 1916 – Augusta (32) and Adeline (26) Van Buren, two sisters, become the second and third women to drive coast-to-coast trip on their own solo motorcycles (the first was Effie Hotchkiss – her mother technically rode, not drove), and the...
by Mike Staggs | Jul 8, 2019 | Learn
Let me take you back to the very beginning of the old car hobby – back to 1939 to be exact – and an article that appeared on September 8 of that year. The headline read, “Vintage Cars Will Undergo Various Tests,” and the article went on to say, “Motordom’s...
