Early automotive brochures were influenced by a lot of different factors, including nature it seems.
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This is your chance to show off your automotive skills and knowledge in our first-ever “Car Detective” photo quiz series. The rules are easy. The first person to successfully answer this series of questions get bragging rights to be called our official “Car Detective of the Week” and earns themselves four free tickets to the museum! Our weekly winner and a new Photo Quiz will be announced each Wednesday at 12:30 on our website and social media channels.
Join our museum curator Kevin Kelly as he takes you for a tour around our 1964 prototype Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe.
Early in the nineteen twenties, French aviator and inventor Gabriel Voisin sought to leverage the popularity of the French Impressionism movement to sell motor cars.
This is your chance to show off your automotive skills and knowledge in our first-ever “Car Detective” photo quiz series. The rules are easy. The first person to successfully answer this series of questions get bragging rights to be called our official “Car Detective of the Week” and earns themselves four free tickets to the museum! Our weekly winner and a new Photo Quiz will be announced each Wednesday at 12:30 on our website and social media channels.
Our curator Kevin Kelly is your tour guide as he takes you behind the wheel of our 1933 Alfa Romeo 8c 2300 Mille Miglia Spider.
Sales brochures have become an important part of the history of the automobile. Among our collection of great sales brochures, we have found one which we find very puzzling.
This is your chance to show off your automotive skills and knowledge in our first-ever “Car Detective” photo quiz series. The rules are easy. The first person to successfully answer this series of questions get bragging rights to be called our official “Car Detective of the Week” and earns themselves four free tickets to the museum! Our weekly winner and a new Photo Quiz will be announced each Wednesday at 12:30 on our website and social media channels.
The Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum is committed to road and traffic safety and believe that increased educational opportunities for young drivers promote a better outcome for us all.
Take a closer look at our 1967 Ford GT MKIV with this extended video from our recent "Overexposed" exhibition.
It is said that Carl Benz was the world’s first commercial automobile manufacturer. His first effort, the Benz Patent Motor Wagon was released and offered for sale as early as 1888. At the time, this newfangled technology befuddled many of its operators, and it was soon decided that some sort of instruction manual needed to be produced to assist with their operation. Before you is an extraordinarily rare publication that was devised to suit this purpose.
This is your chance to show off your automotive skills and knowledge in our first-ever “Car Detective” photo quiz series. The rules are easy. The first person to successfully answer this series of questions get bragging rights to be called our official “Car Detective of the Week” and earns themselves four free tickets to the museum! Our weekly winner and a new Photo Quiz will be announced each Wednesday at 12:30 on our website and social media channels.
