Virginia
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Old Cranks Motorcar Museum
Old Cranks Motorcar Museum is an eclectic collection of over 70 vehicles from 1906 to the ’80s. Vintage clothing, auto-related memorabilia.
Bruce A. Elder Antique and Classic Automobiles
Located in the downtown historic district of Staunton, VA, Bruce A. Elder Antique And Classic Automobiles displays important automobiles from the dawn of motoring through the muscle car era.
Keystone Truck and Tractor Museum
The Keystone Truck and Tractor Museum in Colonial Heights, Virginia is a fantastic automotive museum full of over 150 antique tractors and more.
Roaring Twenties Antique Car Museum
The Roaring Twenties Antique Car Museum features autos that the average person would drive and lots of interesting memorabilia.
Virginia Museum of Transportation Inc
The Virginia Museum of Transportation, originally formed as a partnership of the Norfolk & Western Railway and the City of Roanoke.
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VIRGINIA
Virginia, a southeastern U.S. state, stretches from the Chesapeake Bay to the Appalachian Mountains, with a long Atlantic coastline. It’s one of the 13 original colonies, with historic landmarks including Monticello, founding father Thomas Jefferson’s iconic Charlottesville plantation. The Jamestown Settlement and Colonial Williamsburg are living-history museums reenacting Colonial and Revolutionary-era life.
AUTOMOTIVE HISTORY
You may not think of Virginia has a birthplace of automobiles but in Richmond, VA in 1896, Wood & Meagher built a prototype gas-propelled motor carriage. In 1901, George Dawson in Waynesboro, made a steam-powered vehicle called the Dawson. Then in 1902 R.W. Coffee & Sons, makers of heavy machinery, gas engines and transmission gears, developed a 1-cylinder, 12-horsepower touring car. They entered their car in a 100-mile endurance test from New York City to South Port, Conn. The car was unable to finish the competition, but a New Yorker purchased it and used it as a taxi for years.
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