The Automobile Driving Museum is an
automotive museum
An automotive museum is a museum that explores the History of the automobile, history of automotive-related transportation.
* Bold – museums owned by automotive manufacturers
* ''Italics'' – no longer open to public access, excluding private ...
located at 610 Lairport Street,
El Segundo, California
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, USA.
The museum is nonprofit
501(c)(3) organization
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, founded in by car collectors Stanley Zimmerman and architect Earl Rubenstein. Its mission is to "collect, preserve, exhibit and ride in historic vehicles." It contains about 130 classic, antique, and vintage automobiles created between 1886 and 2000, of which roughly half are on display at any time. Visitors are permitted to touch and sit in most cars, and on Sunday Car Rides, experience driving around in classic vehicles. Its collection includes:
* 1932 Plymouth Brewster Town Car, owned by
Eleanor Roosevelt
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt ( ; October 11, 1884November 7, 1962) was an American political figure, diplomat, and activist. She was the longest-serving First Lady of the United States, first lady of the United States, during her husband Franklin D ...
* 1936 Packard touring phaeton, given by
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882April 12, 1945), also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving U.S. president, and the only one to have served ...
to
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Dzhugashvili; 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until Death and state funeral of Joseph Stalin, his death in 1953. He held power as General Secret ...
* 1955 Packard Caribbean Convertible, given by
Howard Hughes
Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) was an American Aerospace engineering, aerospace engineer, business magnate, film producer, and investor. He was The World's Billionaires, one of the richest and most influential peo ...
to his wife,
Jean Peters
Elizabeth Jean Peters (October 15, 1926 – October 13, 2000) was an American film actress. She was known as a star of 20th Century Fox in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and as the second wife of Howard Hughes. Although possibly best remembered ...
References
Automobile Driving MuseumNorth American Reciprocal Museum Association entryLittle Known LA videoI Drive SoCal articleNew England Auto Museum article* ''Congressional Record'', Speech by Adam Schiff, June 11, 2002, Page 10201.
* ''Car'', Gregory Votolato, Reaktion Books, 2015, page 268.
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Automobile museums in California
Museums in Los Angeles County, California