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This is a list of museums in Orange County, California, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
An automotive museum is a museum that explores the history of automotive-related transportation. Bold – museums owned by automotive manufacturers Italics – no longer open to public access, excluding private or invitation-only collections that were never intended for public access
After the Sultan cancelled delivery of car number four, Dick Marconi bought the car from Williams. [44] Car number four is now on display at the Marconi Automotive Museum in Tustin, California, US. [44] [45] The FX has a top speed of around 205 mph (330 km/h), [44] yet Ferrari claimed "We don't want to make the fastest car in the world". [46]
The Petersen Automotive Museum hosts a collection of more than 400 classics, including Hollywood legend Steve McQueen's 1956 Jaguar, now worth more than $30 million. Jay Leno's look inside one of ...
The presenting sponsor of the museum is the Automobile Club of Southern California. Steve Gibbs, now a retired vice-president of NHRA, led the team that reconditioned a WPA -constructed 28,500-square-foot (2,650 m 2 ) building on the grounds of the Fairplex to house the museum, which opened to the public in 1998.
An auto show (also: motor show or car show) is a public exhibition of current automobile models, debuts, concept cars, or out-of-production classics. The five most prestigious auto shows, sometimes called the "Big Five", are generally considered to be held in Frankfurt , Geneva , Detroit , Paris and Tokyo .
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A model of Marconi's transmission towers at his first wireless station in Glace Bay. Marconi National Historic Site, located at Table Head in Glace Bay, is the site of Guglielmo Marconi's first transatlantic wireless station, callsign VAS, and the first wireless message sent from North America to Europe on December 15, 1902. [1]