Museum Tours

Cuzzin Ricky and I stopped in Auburn, Indiana on our way from one race track to the other. We went to the Auburn Cord Museum as well as the National Auto and Truck Museum which was right next door. The above photo is a detail of a winch/wrecker mounted on the back of a 1935 Ford truck. It has Holmes cast into the gear. I'm assuming this would have been one of the original Holmes wrecker designs. Nothing at all like the Holmes 440 that used to be on just about every wrecker.

The museum had a good collection of cars and trucks - there was a little bit of everything in there. In addition to the full size cars and trucks, they had something like 3,000 small cars and trucks on display. I'm not sure what scale they were but the cars were all roughly four inches long. We were fortunate to get a tour of the workshop and basement storage area as well.
To be continued.....