“The 50th anniversary of the Alfa Romeo Montreal” and “Automotive Couture, French Cars featuring the 50th Anniversary of the Citroen SM” are the featured events for the return August 13 of The Quail, A Motorsports Gathering during Monterey Car Week.
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Dr. Fred Simeone is a passionate man. As a renowned surgeon and medical educator, he has saved and improved numerous people’s lives. A world-class automotive enthusiast, he curates and collects great sports, racing, and GT cars. And as an individual, he’s driven by all of the good derived from the spirit of competition. He’s also a much-in-demand Concours judge and author of considerable knowledge and authority.
In the early days of the automobile, a team of entrepreneurs sought to create a car without valves and gears. They would name their new enterprise The Gearless Automobile Company.
Dr. Simeone tells the story.
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 founder of an award-winning car museum is leading the charge to bring driver's education back to Philadelphia.
Our museum curator Kevin Kelly answers all your questions about what its like to manage our collection and shares a few behind the scenes stories.
Harry John Lawson was a British entrepreneur who sought to create an early monopoly on petrol-driven cars through the acquisition of multiple patents. His end goal never included vehicle production, rather he aimed to exploit the patents he purchased by charging royalties to manufacturers that produced vehicles from the patents he owned.
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.
Please use the form below to submit your questions to Kevin today (Wednesday, April 14th) from 10AM - 3PM. Later this evening, we will post a video response to those questions featuring Kevin and related cars from our collection.
If you haven't been to a Demo Day at the Simeone Museum, this is what you have been missing!
We are looking forward to announcing our upcoming Demo Day schedule very soon!
The new Salon of Sports Car Style and Design is now open at the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum. The Old Annex area of the Museum has been totally redone and now features sports cars with stylish elegant designs.
Our library collection contains two well-produced brochure which appear to be selling a car, but were more likely an early example of a designer conducting market research.
