The Automobile Driving Museum is an
automotive museum
An automotive museum is a museum that explores the history of automotive-related transportation.
* Bold – Automotive museums owned by automotive manufacturers
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located at 610 Lairport Street,
El Segundo, California, USA.
The museum is nonprofit
501(c)(3) organization, founded in by car collectors Stanley Zimmerman and architect Earl Rubenstein. Its mission is to "collect, preserve, exhibit and ride in historic vehicles." It contains about 130 classic, antique, and vintage automobiles created between 1886 and 2000, of which roughly half are on display at any time. Visitors are permitted to touch and sit in most cars, and on Sunday Car Rides, experience driving around in classic vehicles. Its collection includes:
* 1932 Plymouth Brewster Town Car, owned by
Eleanor Roosevelt
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt () (October 11, 1884November 7, 1962) was an American political figure, diplomat, and activist. She was the first lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945, during her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt's four ...
* 1936 Packard touring phaeton, given by
Franklin Delano Roosevelt to
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secretar ...
* 1955 Packard Caribbean Convertible, given by
Howard Hughes
Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American business magnate, record-setting pilot, engineer, film producer, and philanthropist, known during his lifetime as one of the most influential and richest people in th ...
to his wife,
Jean Peters
Elizabeth Jean Peters (October 15, 1926 – October 13, 2000) was an American film actress. She is known as a star of 20th Century Fox in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and as the second wife of Howard Hughes. Although possibly best remembered f ...
References
Automobile Driving MuseumNorth American Reciprocal Museum Association entryLittle Known LA videoI Drive SoCal articleNew England Auto Museum article* ''Congressional Record'', Speech by Adam Schiff, June 11, 2002, Page 10201.
* ''Car'', Gregory Votolato, Reaktion Books, 2015, page 268.
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Automobile museums in California