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The museum opened in 1966 exhibiting the car collection of Donald S. Gilmore, a local businessman. Today, its collection consists of over 400 vehicles, including an 1899 Locomobile Steam Car and a 1930 Rolls-Royce prop car used in the 1967 film The Gnome-Mobile. The museum also claims to have the largest display of automotive mascots and name ...
1918 Dort sedan and sedanet 1922 Dort sedan, showing design features derived from a Rolls-Royce model, in the Gilmore Car Museum in Hickory Corners, Michigan. The Dort Motor Car Company of Flint, Michigan, built automobiles from 1915 to 1924.
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 Michigan Motor Sports Hall of Fame is a non-profit hall of fame for Michigan auto racers. It was founded in 1982 by Dick Lee and was incorporated April 19, 1982, as a non-profit 501(c) (3) non-stock Michigan corporation. The Michigan Motor Sports Hall of Fame display is currently located at the Gilmore Car Museum in Hickory Corners. It is ...
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]
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.
1923 Barley 6-50 Touring at the Gilmore Car Museum. In 1922 the company introduced a lower-priced line, the Barley, named for the company's president. The first Barley Model 6-50 debuted in September offering torpedoes and sedans with Continental 50hp six-cylinder engines and a 118" wheelbase. The following year, a Sport Sedan and Touring Sedan ...
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