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Barber Motorsports Park is an 880 acres (360 ha) racing facility in Birmingham, Alabama.It was built by George W. Barber, and includes the 230,000-square-foot (21,000 m 2) Barber Vintage Motorsport Museum. [1]
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Most of the motorcycles in the collection were originally acquired by Tom and Heather Sturgess and housed in a purpose-built museum in Nelson from December 2014. [2] [3] However, in February 2016, Sturgess announced that he had undergone major surgery, and that the collection of almost 300 motorcycles, which had been open to the public for a year, was to revert to being a private collection. [4]
A transport museum is a museum that holds collections of transport items, which are often limited to land transport (road and rail)—including old cars, motorcycles, trucks, trains, trams/streetcars, buses, trolleybuses and coaches—but can also include air transport or waterborne transport items, along with educational displays and other old transport objects. [1]
See motorcycles that used a lit flame for night travel; went 85 mph with no brake and more at 'An Artful Ride' at Cape Cod Museum of Art in Dennis.
Barber started collecting motorcycles in the 1970s. [3] It is "the world's largest collection of motorcycles," [1] and it is in the Guinness Book of Records with more than 1,400 motorcycles covering all timelines from vintage to modern. [3] He was inducted into the Motorcycle Hall of Fame in 2014. [3]
There are National Motorcycle Museums in a number of countries. Some of the better known are: National Motorcycle Museum (UK), Solihull, West Midlands, England. National Motorcycle Museum (Anamosa, Iowa), Anamosa, Iowa, USA. Sturgis Motorcycle Museum & Hall of Fame in Sturgis, South Dakota
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