Museum's full of chod.

[holbeck]

We all know about Gaydon, Beulieu or the Heynes museum. But where can you go to see chod preserved for posterity that is a little off the beaten track?

[ProgRocker]

Caister Castle Car Collection in Norfolk. Been there a few times in the past.

 

It has the very first Ford Fiesta there.

[garethj]

The Stondon motor museum in Bedfordshire is particularly obscure, there was an Autoshite meet there 2 years ago

http://www.motor-museum.co.uk/

[ProgRocker]

The Stondon motor museum in Bedfordshire is particularly obscure, there was an Autoshite meet there 2 years ago

http://www.motor-museum.co.uk/

 

Thanks. I have a couple of weeks off work coming up...

[messerschmitt owner]

he one in Calne has real chod - Attwell Wilson

[Rod/b]

Didn't Atwell Wilson close down? We had a MacDroitwich caper there a few years back, but shortly after the cars started appearing on eBay. I hope it didn't mind. What other car museum has an FSO Polonez and a Citroen XM covered in dirt?

[worldofceri]

Coventry Transport Museum is pretty good for tat. And it's free.

 

[scooters]

Bo'ness on Forth Motor Museum can haz some serious film buff chod

 

including the bond Elite (signed by Jaws!) and the Harry Potter Car

 

http://www.motor-museum.bo-ness.org.uk/

[messerschmitt owner]

Didn't Atwell Wilson close down? We had a MacDroitwich caper there a few years back, but shortly after the cars started appearing on eBay. I hope it didn't mind. What other car museum has an FSO Polonez and a Citroen XM covered in dirt?

They whittled the collection down but the museum is very much chod-filled and open.

 

I saw the XM - the guy who owned the museum died and only he knew the immobiliser code - so the car was killed by the simple lack of a four number code.

[shaun1706]

There is a place near Denbigh (North Wales) that had some random chod including the getaway lorry from the Great Train Robbery.

[holbeck]

The Patrick Collection collection in Birmingham used to be open to the public. I think some of it is still available for private views, anyone know?

[autofive]

there used ot be good motoring museum on the mountain in the isle of man, not sure if its still open though....

[dollywobbler]

There is a place near Denbigh (North Wales) that had some random chod including the getaway lorry from the Great Train Robbery.

 

That place sadly burnt down a while back, but they are trying to resurrect it. AFAIK, the truck survived but was pretty badly damaged. Not as badly as some of the cars though!

[Richard]

http://www.myretonmotormuseum.co.uk/in Aberlady is well worth a visit, even if you just get to peer through the windows because it's closed when it's not meant to be. I understand this is likely to happen even in the high season so it's best to phone before visiting.

 

Look at it though

 

CIMG2120 by cobra452001, on Flickr

 

It stands to reason really that somebody who runs a place like that is unlikely to stick to their advertised opening hours, a more "professional" curator would run a less interesting museum.

[catsinthewelder]

I was going to say Cars of the Stars in Keswick but http://www.visitcumbria.com/kes/cars-of-the-stars.htm

[Cavcraft]

http://www.mouldsworthmotormuseum.com/

[AnthonyG]

I think the Patrick Motor Collection got sold off in the 1990s.

[pompei]

There used to be an outpost of the Cars Of The Stars at Hornsea Freeport.

 

Any trolley-bus lovers? Then this is for you:-

 

http://www.sandtoft.org.uk/

[fiatdaft]

How far off the beaten track are you willing to go?

 

http://speyer.technik-museum.de/en

 

http://sinsheim.technik-museum.de/en

 

both are awesome.

[holbeck]

How far off the beaten track are you willing to go?

 

http://speyer.technik-museum.de/en

 

http://sinsheim.technik-museum.de/en

 

both are awesome.

 

Wow, now that's a museum (both).

[Manbearpig]

This looks interesting sur le continent;

 

Mahy museum in Leuze-en-Hainault Belgium, bit of chat about it here: http://www.escortrscosworth.com/forum/showthread.php?p=433902

 

 

 

[scruff]

August Horch museum in Zwickau is brilliant.

 

Back in blighty another thumbs up for Stondon. Not really shite but Bentley is nice http://www.bentley.org.uk/#/motor-museum/4525135745

[Vanny]

Went here last month, it's a little small, but they've put a lot of effort in with what they've got. There is some rather unique crap too;

 

http://www.lakelandmotormuseum.co.uk/

 

 

The Patrick Collection still existed in the early 2000's as I investigated going (to the the GrpB BX rally car), even then the building was rather derelict looking, and closed tours only.

[scruff]

Still there though I suspect a shadow of it's 80s shite-laden past but still some interesting stuff there. AS meet anyone...??

 

http://www.patrickcollection.org/

[gricer]

Au continent, this place is fab - just outside Rennes, in north-west France.

 

Web site focuses on the collection of F1 and rally cars, but there's plenty of workaday chod too, mostly French

 

http://www.manoir-automobile.fr/welcome/index.php

[Micrashed]

Went here last month, it's a little small, but they've put a lot of effort in with what they've got. There is some rather unique crap too;

 

http://www.lakelandmotormuseum.co.uk/

 

+1

And they have the Bluebird/ Campbell collection too - I was there on Monday.

 

[Richard]

I finally got around to visiting Myreton Motor Museum last weekend. Highly recommended.

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30854514@N ... 815819394/

 

Just don't use a rubber cheque to pay your admission or they'll name and shame you forever.

 

[MikeKnight]

The Stondon motor museum in Bedfordshire is particularly obscure, there was an Autoshite meet there 2 years ago

http://www.motor-museum.co.uk/

 

"Introduced in 2011, we are very pleased to now exhibit a collection of over 400 model aircraft. All constructed by one man"

 

One very bored, very unmarried man.