Our Top Picks of Automobile Museums

One of the miracles of this new high-tech age is getting to take virtual tours in automobile museums. I like Toyota's auto museum in Tokyo. Taking a virtual tour is how I found out President Roosevelt's grand touring car was located in Japan.

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Here are some of our favorite auto museum sites worth visiting some night when you have nothing else to do.

1. Toyota Automobile Museum -- Best virtual museum I have seen to date. A must see!
2. Petersen Automotive Museum -- My favorite site to explore. Excellent site to see innovative, unique photos about cars. Also gives you a virtual museum floor plan tour.
3. Muscle Cars -- Muscle cars are American vehicles built from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s that were equipped with large, powerful engines.
4. World's Fastest Cars
5. Auto Vacation Land
6. Owls Head Transportation Museum -- Great site. Click on Auto Museum Collections, then Autombiles, and see motorcars you never knew were made and more.
7. Tampa Bay Automobile Museum -- Take virtual tour of this great automobile museum
8. Tupelo Automobile Museum - has a great timeline to use to see various motorcars by year.

Special Interest Automobile Museums and Special Auto History Links

Get ready to be amazed at the cars and trucks you didn't even know existed. In these museums, you'll see how eligant some old motorcars were. Look at vintage Pierce-Arrow motorcars, Crawford motorcars, and see Preston Tucker's Car of the Future. If you know of an auto museum worth visiting and want to share it with our visitors, send me an email and I'll take care of it.

1. Henry Ford Showroom Exhibit -- lots of Model-T photos to look at.
2. 1948 Tucker -- Preston Thomas Tucker's last automobile
3. 1949 Ford -- known as the car that saved Ford.
4. Studebaker National Museum -- virtual tour not so hot but looks like a good place to visit in person.
5. National Automobile Museum -- not much visual here but does have a list of impressive automobiles on exhibit in the museum, including the Batmobile.
6. Buffalo Pierce-Arrow Transportation Museum - you will only enjoy this one if you are hung up on Pierce-Arrow memorabilia or just want to see what a Pierce-Arrow automobile looks like
7. Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum -- want to hear the engine of some vintage Crawford motorcars -- then visit this museum, click on Sounds of the Crawford and enjoy.
8. Gilmore Car Museum -- founded in 1963 as a hobby by Donald Gilmore when his wife gave him a 1920 Pierce-Arrow project car. Not a real exciting site but you might see automobiles you have never seen before.