for display of grill and bumper badges, could any satisfy better than on a properly shaped stone guard for a car you have in the garage?

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When at Pebble Beach, make friends, you never know where it might lead to, as Claus Muller was delighted to find out, he was invited to tour a private collection of a Maharajah

Above, the collection is partly in a roundhouse, I think it's a great way to access a large collection for a driver, I have no idea if the architect was informed that the display factor would be important

The 1914 Rolls Royce that sparked the tour invitation, was brought to the 2012 Pebble Beach Concours

Above, the original Shell gas station that is inside the palace, as the only gas engine vehicles of the time were owned by the Maharajah. Makes sense!

 While visiting India, the author of the website was also interested in seeing the local repair shops to contrast them with what he is familr with in Germany

Above a Royal Enfield repair shop, below, a bicyclist repair shop

See or read the entire post about the week in India and tour of the private collection at http://www.classicmotourist.blogspot.de/2013/03/indien.html which I learned about from http://www.carguychronicles.com/2013/04/classic-cars-in-india-rajasthan.html

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the 5 million dollar, 5,000 square feet garage, 121 foot wide clear floor with no ceiling to floor columns (underground) with an RV elevator... and a collection of Harleys that have never been ridden or turned on

Thanks Randy!

Only once on the video does it mention the tv show that filmed it, Million Dollar Rooms http://www.hgtv.com/million-dollar-rooms/show/index.html

I think we can say the economic crisis is officially over

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the Riverside International Automotive Museum, not easy to find, but worth the time to tour

 the museum owns, and restores as well as repairs race cars.  This is the famous Gurney Eagle

 I'll go back and get better photos of the race cars one day, but the lesson you can get from looking at them is how fast design changed after the 70's. Not much is different pre 1960's from decade to decade, but as soon as wings and downforce came into play, a lot changed quick

 Above is a Vector. There were a couple of movies that had them featured... they were made in So Cal, but it wasn't a good business plan, they made them of expensive materials in some ways, liek carbon fiber, but the windows can't open, the interior is really cheap GM stuff like switches etc... and half way through building them, they could no longer get the engines they'd been using and switched to Lamborghini engines

 Tamerlane Thoughts blogspot toured here a year or two ago, and did a much better post about this collection of Maserati, the largest in So Cal I have no doubt

 Ol Yeller 3 ahead of the Cobras and european cars

 Great photos sometimes have great stories... like the above... that is a fridge or bbq grill... in place of the window netting you might be used to seeing. McCluskey arrived at the racetrack to learn that he'd be required to have some form of restraining material in the window... so he went and found what you see above, and put in it in time for the race. I love racing stories.

 Here is what driving to it looks like, that dead end above, well don't go that far. Take the left turn

 Past this building labeled 833

 Past this one labeled 815... it and the previous 833 will be on your right, as well as the museum below, and it blends into the surrounding builds really well. Why the camoflage? Don't know.

http://www.riversideinternational.org/

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A private museum in Canada gets a bit of publicity for it's exquisite automobiles

 The Al Johnson collection in Aldergrove, North of Washington State, in the Vancouver region

 A 1930 Cord Cabriolet with Woodlight headlights (I love those)

A rare Diana, of 1927, was the first car to start his collection

Story and photos from http://www.vancouversun.com/cars/Barn+houses+vintage+vehicles+from+unheralded+makers/6276202/story.html via the amazing and diverse Vintage Racing League newsletter http://multibriefs.com/briefs/vrl/index.php

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You can learn a lot from car guys, even ones that collect Lancias, in Pennsylvania... cool story from Car and Driver via the Vintage Racing League

I had no idea so many parts were the same in Ferraris and Lancias of the 60's

Mike Kristick: "The Lancia people tell me not to sell any tool kits to Ferrari guys. They’re the same pieces as Ferrari tool kits, but they keep telling me that the Ferrari guys will pay three times as much. The fuel pump for a Lancia Flaminia is the same as a Ferrari’s; the Fulvia ignition is the same as a Ferrari’s. The Ferrari parts guys buy up all of the Lancia parts and jack up the prices to the Ferrari guys."

What began as a search for parts for the Fulvia has become, three decades later, what may be the largest inventory of salvaged and new-old-stock (NOS) Lancia parts on the continent.
http://www.caranddriver.com/features/ancient-grease-lancia-life-support-feature?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+caranddriver%2Fblog+%28Car+and+Driver%29

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