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Discover California Automotive Museums, Events, and History.

The Collector’s Museum
The Collector’s Museum is only open by appointment to groups and car clubs. There are vehicles on display but also so much more.

Lions Automobilia Foundation
Lions Automobilia Foundation is a nonprofit that’s mission is to Honor & Preserve the Legacy of Motorsports & Car Culture in SoCa.

Graffiti USA Museum
Graffiti USA Classic Car Museum will be an experience that brings people, revenue, events, students, and business to downtown Modesto. The Museum will create an immersive experience, taking the visitor back to the days of the cruise, with replica storefronts and murals of the Graffiti Era, that will be the backdrop to the cars and memorabilia on display.

The Murphy Auto Museum
The Murphy Auto Museum has over 90 cars on display. Cars rotate on a continuous basis, keeping the collection fresh and interesting.

JA Cooley Museum
The JA Cooley Museum is San Diego’s Most Unique Collection of Antiques and Automobiles

Motte Museum
The Motte Museum was once a produce market from the mid 1980’s to the late 1990’s, it is now a museum hosting the Motte Family Car Collection and the History of the Valley.

The Cobra Experience
The Cobra Experience is a non-profit museum committed to the promotion, conservation, education and preservation of the cars produced by Shelby American.

Mullin Automotive Museum
The Mullin Automotive Museum is a privately owned automobile museum in Oxnard, California, US. Established in 2010, it displays personal cars.

NHRA Motorsports Museum
The Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum presented by Automobile Club of Southern California is an independent California non-profit 501 (c)(3)

California Automobile Museum
The California Automobile Museum offers plenty of opportunities for you to visit. Located just a stone’s throw from the famous “Old Sacramento.”

Reiff’s Antique Gas Station Automotive Museum
Reiff’s Antique Gas Station Automotive Museum is a crazy collection of old time automotive memorabilia and retro 1950s nostalgia is alive and growing all the time. Museum tours by appointment, special event venue, photo days, annual car show.

San Diego Automotive Museum
The San Diego Automotive Museum located in beautiful Balboa Park offers a wonderful selection of vintage and classic American and European vehicles and motorcycles.

The Nethercutt Collection
The Nethercutt Collection has over 250 beautifully restored luxury automobiles, one of the finest collections of mechanical musical instruments, and The Mighty Wurlitzer pipe organ.

Automobile Driving Museum
The Automobile Driving Museum exists to preserve automotive history, interpret the historical significance.

Blackhawk Museum
The Blackhawk Museum is home to close to 50 classic, vintage and rare automobiles. Exhibitions of western frontier settlement and Plains Indians.

The Petersen Automotive Museum
Today, the Petersen Automotive Museum stands independently as the nation’s premiere automotive museum, serving hundreds of thousands of visitors each year.

Marconi Automotive Museum
The Marconi Automotive Museum is located in the heart of Orange County and houses a 70 plus car collection that is open to the public with a suggested $5 donation. Your donation goes directly to helping children in need. They're proud to house a collection of...
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CALIFORNIA
California, a western U.S. state, stretches from the Mexican border along the Pacific for nearly 900 miles. Its terrain includes cliff-lined beaches, redwood forest, the Sierra Nevada Mountains, Central Valley farmland and the Mojave Desert. The city of Los Angeles is the seat of the Hollywood entertainment industry. Hilly San Francisco is known for the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz Island, and cable cars.
AUTOMOTIVE HISTORY
In 1867, a group in Los Angeles built what was likely Southern California’s first home-built horseless carriage, in a shop on West Fifth Street. The four-cylinder, gasoline-powered carriage, built by S.D. Sturgis and J. Philip Erie was tested on the city streets of LA in preparation for a trial run to San Bernardino. The vehicle operated with some success around LA, but continual mechanical issues prevented it from making the trip to San Bernardino.
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