Fulton, Missouri
573-642-2080
Admission varies from $4 - $8. Parking is free on museum lot.
https://www.autoworldmuseum.com/
Opened in 2006.
This museum looks like on old warehouse sitting back from the north/south highway between Fulton and Jefferson City. What a surprise to see what beauty is inside! The museum is 20,000 square feet with over 75 cars.
Then if you want to learn even more, you can hook up to a video with your phone.
Your phone is then connected to a video interview and you can learn even more including listening to an interview of William Backer discussing that vehicle.
This Kelsey Motorette was built in 1910 and is a three-wheeled roadster.
This is a Scripps-Booth 1917 Roadster. By the end of that year, Chevrolet absorbed this car into its line.
This 1919 Chevrolet Roadster was one of the first cars Chevy made under the GM banner. Its price was $715.
This 1920 Ford Model T "Center Door" Sedan was built 11 years after they first starting producing Model T's.
This 1924 Stanley Steamer was built the last year that Stanley produced automobiles.
Introduced in 1929, the Cord L-29 was the first American production car to feature front-wheel drive.
1929 Chevrolet Model 6AC Cabriolet - The 1929 production year was Chevrolet’s response to Ford's introduction of the Model A.
This is a 1929 Rolls Royce Drop Head Coupe. The first Rolls-Royce cars were offered in 1906 and by September of that year the first Rolls-Royce arrived in America.
This Ford Model A was a successor to the Model T. In 1930 when this Model A Sport Coupe was manufactured, the Model A was the #1 selling car.
1952 Kaiser Manhattan - the Kaiser Car Company was founded by a shipbuilder, Henry J. Kaiser, at the close of World War II.
The 1955 Studebaker Speedster was an automobile produced by Studebaker only during the 1955 model year.
1957 Ford Thunderbird was introduced in answer to the Chevrolet Corvette.
1966 Ford Mustang Coupe - The Mustang was introduced at the New York World's Fair in April 1964. In the first week over 20,000 cars were sold.
And the 1968 Volkswagen Beetle, the Beetle being the most produced car ever.
This is a 1975 Renault 12 which was converted to electric power after being built.
There are a few vehicles outside on the grounds.
Comments: I am so glad that someone recommended that we visit this museum. It is definitely a fun time!
The museum is well laid out - mostly chronologically. All of the cars going back to 1903 are in excellent condition. The paint jobs on the old cars are beautiful! Anytime you take a walk down memory lane is special so of course we enjoyed many of the newer cars.
It was especially nice that the walls are covered with period designs. It makes it very authentic and interesting.
With most of the cars there is a large sign giving details about the car and also an opportunity to listen to a recorded message about the vehicle. It runs for approximately five minutes. In other words one can learn a tremendous amount about each car if they take advantage of this offered information. However a few cars just had a sign on the front telling you the year and model and a couple cars had no information on display. They do rotate cars in the exhibit so I wonder if that is why some cars had so little information.
At the beginning is the opportunity to watch five videos. They range from 6-21 minutes long; two are about William Backer and the museum and three are about the history of cars. One can sit there for quite awhile watching these; we stopped after two of them because it was so much to absorb. One can watch them on the website so my recommendation is to watch them at your leisure before you go.
We probably spent 90 minutes there but you could easily spend maybe all day there if you chose to listen to every recording describing the cars.
There were very few other visitors when we were there on a Wednesday morning but the employee told us that they had had 500 visitors over the week-end!
The gift shop had lots of fun things for car-lovers!
