I just learned of a new museum, lots of cars and motorbikes, it's in Murdo, on I90 1/2 way across South Dakota

Here is the inventory from 2011, it's not 100% accurate, but close enough to let you know what you can expect to find, you can get a look at them at http://www.pioneerautoshow.com/tour-cars.php

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the wallpaper behind the car, and the id tag, very cool.

1929 Mercedes SSK at the Louwman museum in Holland

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1937 Hispano Suiza woody, with Buffalo upholstery and Seagrass floormats... talk about rare and unique compounded, doubled, and squared

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Bebe Peugeot, one more interesting and rare car I've never heard of, but found at the Mullin museum, and learned of on Wikipedia. What a great hobby!

 cool radiator ornament

The original Bébé was presented at the Paris Motor Show in 1904 and stole the show as a modern and robust creation that was cheap, small, and practical.

Tiny dimensions meant that its small engine could propel it to 25 mph. Though selling price was deliberately kept as low as possible, technologies like rack and pinion steering and a driveshaft instead of a chain were included in the vehicle. Production began in Audincourt in 1905, and the car proved to be popular. Bébé sold 400 units in the first year, or 80% of Peugeot's production. It was also exported, particularly to Britain. The Type 69 was sold until 1912

The Type BP1 Bébé was a design by Ettore Bugatti, initially for the German car firm Wanderer, then also built under license by Peugeot for the French market.

 Peugeot displayed it under their marque at the Paris Motor Show in 1912. Production began in 1913 following discontinuation of the Type 69. Wanderer built their car with Bugatti's own 4-speed transmission, but in order to keep production costs down for the French version, Peugeot fitted a 2-speed gearbox initially, which was then replaced by their own 3-speed.

Bébé scored some racing success among small car classes, notably at Mont Ventoux in 1913, where it won in its class. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peugeot_B%C3%A9b%C3%A9

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The 2nd floor of the mullin museum has a racetrack ambience and garage diorama, very cool!

 The above car front and center is a Miller Cooper

I'll be posting galleries of most of these cars, and lots more about the Mullin museum

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I spent the day at the Mullin Museum today, photographing Bugatti, Delahaye, Hispano - Suiza, and other rare, beautiful automobiles, and some unrestored Bugatti from the Schlumpf collection, and will be posting them for the next several days... here is a quick look

above is the worlds highest priced car ever sold, at between 30 and 40 million. Ralph Lauren has one just like it, and the two are the only completely original Type 57SC Atlantics in existence http://www.sportscardigest.com/gooding-and-company-sells-1936-bugatti-type-57sc-atlantic/

In the next couple of days or weeks, however long it takes to get the photos posted, you'll see a lot of Bugatti, Talbot Lago, Avion Voisin, Delahaye, Hispano Suiza, Charron, De Dion Bouton, Auto Union, Peugeot, and Renault

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An awesome Edsel, the Model 40 that Justacargal Tere photographed (on display at the Peterson Museum in LA)

Tere toured the Peterson to photograph the new exhibits, and took several galleries of the cool stuff she found, so for more, see her blog http://justacargal.blogspot.com/ and enjoy!

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Justacargal (Tere) went to the Peterson Museum and posted several galleries, this one shocked me, there was an Autoped at the museum!

 

 The Autoped was used by the US Post Office delivery service in 1917 http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/11/scooter-was-born-about-90-years-ago.html , as this photo from Shorpy shows

But those are just a couple photos of just the Autoped, from Tere's gallery of the scooter exhibition, so make her day with lots of visits to her site http://justacargal.blogspot.com/2011/11/peterson-museum-fall-2011-scooters.html , and you'll have my thanks for making her happy! 

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