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Day at the Museum
I drove up to codguys neck of the woods this morning to attend the 44th Lemay annual show. Harold Lemay made a fortune hauling trash and towing cars. He spent decades collecting cars and a lot of other things. Codguy had told me before that going there is sensory overload and it is. Once a year the Lemays open up the estate for an annual show. It's their original family home with a 300 car garage. If you ever think your watch collection has gotten out of hand, you've never been here. Once a year the estate is open, they have an 80 acre museum site that is open year round. A few years ago they donated 600 cars to a museum in nearby Tacoma. It is said that over his lifetime Harold Lemay collected 2400 cars. Today, we saw a good number of them. We went to the estate first which is basically several buildings with cars and other things packed to the rafters. There is sometimes a common theme in how the place is arranged but it clearly has gotten out of hand. I apologize in advance as the lighting is not museum like and things are packed in pretty tight. The first few pictures are from the estates outbuildings.
This is about half of the Packard room.
This building is filled with various old limousines with a truck in the center.
This is but a small part of the Cadillac section.
This is for the boys down under, a 1939 Chevrolet Ute, a truck on a car chassis built by Holden in Australia.
This is, well, Smellody and Nuvolari could tell you what it is, pass the grey poupon.
1904 Orient Buckboard. This 4hp V2 powered screamer set you back $337. The cheapest automobile in the world until the Model T came along.
Now moving on to the former Marymount military academy which the Lemays bought to hold more of the collection. At the school, some rooms are small and there are also larger common areas and more outbuildings.
Just one of the rooms filled with vintage motorcycles from all over the world.
A 1932 Ford roadster, not quite as unique as that thing behind it. What makes this roadster unique is the turbine engine that powers it. No transmission kids-direct drive. I'd bet that's a handful to drive. It has run at Bonneville.
1948 Tucker in the center aisle. All kinds of stuff on the outer rows.
A 1947 Dodge Woodie. Centered in the schools gymnasium, this is the only room we saw where you could display more cars without a shoehorn.
I liked this 1958 Buick Century Caballero.
A sharp 1956 Pontiac Star Chief Safari. Why can't we have sliding windows and wing windows anymore?
1958 Mercury Voyager 2 door wagon outside the gym. Station wagons were a theme here.
There was a car show going on the school grounds, and two more large outbuildings. In one of the buildings the, the vehicles were arranged with each row representing a decade of vehicle production. Inside the door the first thing you see is the worlds first automobile. Invented by Karl Benz in 1885, this patented in 1886 Karl Benz Patent motorcar started it all. The original is on display in Germany. This replica, #1 of 10 was built by MB to commemorate 100 years. This is the motorcar you see in the MB commercial with Karls wife driving to town. Some of the locals thought she was a witch at the time.
A row of cars from the brass era.
I've got to bring it back to airplanes for a minute. Here is a Packard/Rolls Royce Merlin V-1650 engine. First used in P51 and P40 fighters in WWII, they were later used to power unlimited hydroplanes.
1951 Frazer Vagabond utility sedan. Note the old school AC.
Supercharged 1936 Auburn 852 convertible sedan.
1937 Cord 812 Westchester.
1954 Kaiser Darrin KF-161 Roadster. When was the last time you saw one of those?
That's quite a few pictures, you guys probably get the idea. Too much to see at this place. There is another huge building with two rows of cars and racks three high with vehicles on each side.
If you are interested in cars, stop and see this place if you are in the Seattle/Tacoma area. Thanks to codguy for showing me around the place.
This is about half of the Packard room.
This building is filled with various old limousines with a truck in the center.
This is but a small part of the Cadillac section.
This is for the boys down under, a 1939 Chevrolet Ute, a truck on a car chassis built by Holden in Australia.
This is, well, Smellody and Nuvolari could tell you what it is, pass the grey poupon.
1904 Orient Buckboard. This 4hp V2 powered screamer set you back $337. The cheapest automobile in the world until the Model T came along.
Now moving on to the former Marymount military academy which the Lemays bought to hold more of the collection. At the school, some rooms are small and there are also larger common areas and more outbuildings.
Just one of the rooms filled with vintage motorcycles from all over the world.
A 1932 Ford roadster, not quite as unique as that thing behind it. What makes this roadster unique is the turbine engine that powers it. No transmission kids-direct drive. I'd bet that's a handful to drive. It has run at Bonneville.
1948 Tucker in the center aisle. All kinds of stuff on the outer rows.
A 1947 Dodge Woodie. Centered in the schools gymnasium, this is the only room we saw where you could display more cars without a shoehorn.
I liked this 1958 Buick Century Caballero.
A sharp 1956 Pontiac Star Chief Safari. Why can't we have sliding windows and wing windows anymore?
1958 Mercury Voyager 2 door wagon outside the gym. Station wagons were a theme here.
There was a car show going on the school grounds, and two more large outbuildings. In one of the buildings the, the vehicles were arranged with each row representing a decade of vehicle production. Inside the door the first thing you see is the worlds first automobile. Invented by Karl Benz in 1885, this patented in 1886 Karl Benz Patent motorcar started it all. The original is on display in Germany. This replica, #1 of 10 was built by MB to commemorate 100 years. This is the motorcar you see in the MB commercial with Karls wife driving to town. Some of the locals thought she was a witch at the time.
A row of cars from the brass era.
I've got to bring it back to airplanes for a minute. Here is a Packard/Rolls Royce Merlin V-1650 engine. First used in P51 and P40 fighters in WWII, they were later used to power unlimited hydroplanes.
1951 Frazer Vagabond utility sedan. Note the old school AC.
Supercharged 1936 Auburn 852 convertible sedan.
1937 Cord 812 Westchester.
1954 Kaiser Darrin KF-161 Roadster. When was the last time you saw one of those?
That's quite a few pictures, you guys probably get the idea. Too much to see at this place. There is another huge building with two rows of cars and racks three high with vehicles on each side.
If you are interested in cars, stop and see this place if you are in the Seattle/Tacoma area. Thanks to codguy for showing me around the place.
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