Mullin Automotive Museum in Oxnard, CA
French stylish cars exposed to the Mullin Automotive Museum in Oxnard.
Operating days April 12 and 26, 10 and 23 May, 14 June and 28, 12 and July 26, 13 and 23 August, 13 September and 27, October 11 and 25, November 8 and 22, December 13
Tickets 15 adults; 10 elderly; 8 children; free for children 2 and under and active duty military with ID.
Private tours 40 each arranged in advance, usually performed on Tuesday call 805-385-5400 or email.
Nestled in a quiet industrial complex in Oxnard is a tribute to the beautiful art on four wheels of the motor museum Mullin.
Honoring Art deco of the French automotive design, Mullin elegant vehicles have long hoods, gleaming chrome and wings fleshy curves like Mae West.
You do not have to be a car person to appreciate the elegant beauty of these classic French cars built coach and great runners Price simply viewed as metal sculptures, they are simply breathtaking.
The collection includes 120 cars with 50 to 60 on display at any given time, the vehicles were built individually for the high end of the French automobile industry names sound with romance Bugatti Airplanes Voisin, Delahaye, Hispano Suiza, Talbot-Lago.
Designed in the style of the Paris Auto Shows 1930, the Mullin Museum opened April 15, 2010, in the building where Otis Chandler, owner of the Los Angeles Times, once housed his car collection when his heirs sold cars, businessman Peter Mullin bought the building and was renovated for his car collection.
Touring fan of cars on the ground level while the race cars line the balcony above.
The exposed beauties when I visited included a striking red Bugatti, the last type 57 built After suffering from rust and rot, it was restored it 30 years ago and still looks like new, since it was treated with such love after Mullin bought at auction in 1987.
Film buffs will admire the convertible Delage D8-120 1939, which was seen Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, Carmen Jones and An American in Paris Belonging RKO Studios in Hollywood, the car was shipped to France to draw An American in Paris and returned California after shooting.
A Talbot-Lago T150-CSS on the screen is a dark purple eggplant that looks almost black one of only 14 made, it is a favorite of Mullin cars, according to our guide, Warner Hall.
Hall said they do not like talking about how much cars cost, but an exception One of the four produced the Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic in 1936, the car shiny silver, belonged to Lord Victor Rothschild, was two once the most expensive car in the world in 1971, Dr. Peter Williamson paid an unprecedented 59,000 for the car, which later won best in show at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance in 2003 in 2010, the Williamson family sold the car to a new record price, somewhere between 30 million and 35 million, hall said, and they let people like me watch this royal automobile Imagine.
We can look but do not touch t room wearing a handkerchief to wipe fingerprints, he can leave when it has features or opened the door hinge oddly futuristic 1938 Dubonnet Hispano-Suiza H6C Xenia.
Yet these cars are not static artwork they can be driven, and volunteers regularly take to keep their powerful engines in the form room admit s unnerving but exhilarating to drive a car with a superexpensive superlong hood.
On the upper level of the museum are racing cars for elegance sorting elegant built for speed.
1937 Delahaye Type 145 V-12 Grand Prix is an electric blue beauty known as The Million Franc Because after a fare, he earned If it passes all mechanical controls, he will again race in August to Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion, we Mullin owner says room will drive himself if I had a valuable car lovingly restored to pristine condition, I hesitate to lead again, this is to keep a race car that never runs .
The races are scheduled for August 12-14 at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca in Salinas.
Of all the cars on display, only one belongs to a different museum on loan from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hotel of Fame Museum 1928 Special Miller was the most successful rider of his day.
The Bugatti factory bought this car and copied the dual overhead cam head, Hall.
He said they were very lucky to have the exact car that Bugatti has acquired.
Also on the second floor, the Bugatti Club, home 50-75 pieces of furniture by Carlos Bugatti, the Bugatti family portraits and sculptures by the artist Rembrandt Bugatti The work of Ettore and Jean Bugatti is mostly down it is they who have cars and houses the largest Mullin deprived of their automotive collection.
It's all part of a special retrospective exhibition on the art of Bugatti, which opened March 20 at Mullin Automotive Museum.
Drawings and plant objects, many of which have never been exhibited to the public, trace the evolution and breakthroughs of Bugatti The retrospective also examines the influence of the family on the automobile as art.
The museum is usually open and the second and fourth Saturday of the month, but there are additional days planned for this year.
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