I visited Harrah's summer of 70 or 71. I was a teenager traveling with my folks on a cross country vacation. I don't remember how many hours we spent there but it wasn't enough time to go through all the buildings. I spent the last 30 minutes jogging to see as much as I could. It surprises me he had less than 2000 vehicles. It seemed like 20,000! Many of the vehicles on display were being worked on which made it even more mesmerizing than a static museum. I'm 64 and I'll never forget that experience. Thanks for the video.
A Must see, Museum Remember when they had the Ford Tri-Motor hanging from the ceiling & all kinds of RR memmemorabilia when Harris had it ? thanks for the Mem's you two sure can bring them out & thanks ya kindly for doing it SOoo well
National Automobile Museum both part one and two were great. Keep up the great pieces. They both made my Sunday mornings. (Yeah, shows you what kind of life I lead. LOL!)
Jeanne Uzar We are back in Reno for Hot August Nights. Planning a trip to Sacramento Be fun to get to the Bay but may be more than one set of feet can do.
I visited the museum last Monday when I was in Reno. Great collection! My favorite galleries where the first one, and the one with most of the cars from the twenties and thirties.
I visited the Harrah Museum around November 1969. It was in Sparks, NV on a large piece of property that Bill Harrah owned then. There were only 400 or so cars on display, plus another 1,000 or more in warehouses around the property. I remember a locomotive and a couple of airplanes on the property. If memory serves, he had a few hundred Nash Ramblers in various configurations waiting to be restored. The staff of mechanics and artisans who worked on site numbered in the dozens. If a car came in and needed a missing part, the staff could manufacture the part on site. Harrah was also the Ferrari importer for the western US. (Luigi Chinetti was the east coast importer.) His Modern Classic Motors in Reno was a Rolls Royce and Ferrari dealership only. Harrah had two famous cars built by the craftsmen at the auto collection: the Jerrari, a hybrid of a Jeep Wagoneer and a Ferrari 330 GTC; and a Ferrari Targa ('68 330 GTS) because Harrah liked the concept of the Porsche Targa. Both were featured in different issues of Road & Track. I was fortunate enough to visit Modern Classics in mid-1972 and got to see both of the cars (the Targa was for sale in the showroom and the Jerrari was being serviced in the shop. I also viewed a large mounted photo on the wall of the sales manager's office, the subject of the photo was a view from the passenger seat of a Daytona through the driver window with the speedometer registering the vehicle's top speed of 173 mph. A much smaller version to the photo also was published in Road & Track. "The only advantage of being old is having witnessed history first hand."
Wow yes! I first saw the collection in about 68. Or 69. Hurrah lives at Tahoe and used the Jeep in the winter to get up Donner to Truckee. The locomotive was Virginia and Truckee Reno. Now in Tucson Arizona. I was struck by the Edsels. Like 30 of them. Every configuration and color. But the early cars.... still my favorite. 19th century autos. Rare!
Hey Toy Man If you haven't left Nevada yet I suggest going the Strip in Vegas. Tucked away there's another car museum with plenty of old cars just like the museum in Reno but different ones including muscle cars(but not many) It's really worth checking out!
Great video! I stopped in Sparks in '76 and toured the rather primitive museum..a.scattering of quonset huts with some very usual cars including a Pierce Arrow Silver Arrow..the idea car made for a world's fair. I think he had a Ford of every year in place too. Thanks so much for the tour of the rare cars. I had seen several Tuckers...one in San Diego at the Balboa Park museum, one in Sarasota at the now defunct Bellem's museum, one in Lancaster county PA at a small museum there and one at the ACD museum. And I made a couple videos of one that showed up in Lakeland and Winter Park Florida! Thanks for all the cool work you do! :) Jack
If you get to Southern California again be sure to check out the Nethercutt Collection in Sylmar. Call ahead and make an appointment for a guided tour of the San-Slymar part of the collection. The San-Sylmar holds the truly amazing and fun stuff including a 1933 Duesenberg worth $25 million, many Orchestrians and one of the largest organs in the world.
Oh! Tucker. A really great movie staring Jeff bridges. Ps I worried on a film with his dad Lloyd. And Jeff gave us a photography demonstration on widlux cameras. Jeff used the widelux to take photos. Long story.
Having fun at Hot August Nights, and could find my way to a video con of the timing were right. I played a video game here. Sort of. A race car simulator. WOW!!
I visited Harrah's summer of 70 or 71. I was a teenager traveling with my folks on a cross country vacation. I don't remember how many hours we spent there but it wasn't enough time to go through all the buildings. I spent the last 30 minutes jogging to see as much as I could. It surprises me he had less than 2000 vehicles. It seemed like 20,000! Many of the vehicles on display were being worked on which made it even more mesmerizing than a static museum. I'm 64 and I'll never forget that experience. Thanks for the video.
A Must see, Museum Remember when they had the Ford Tri-Motor hanging from the ceiling & all kinds of RR memmemorabilia when Harris had it ? thanks for the Mem's you two sure can bring them out & thanks ya kindly for doing it SOoo well
Your videos are wonderful. They are not only fun but also informative. I love how you throw in some history behind whatever it is you're showing
Thanks. We do get a kick out of making them. Sort of like still teaching while screwing around.
National Automobile Museum both part one and two were great. Keep up the great pieces. They both made my Sunday mornings. (Yeah, shows you what kind of life I lead. LOL!)
Jeanne Uzar We are back in Reno for Hot August Nights. Planning a trip to Sacramento Be fun to get to the Bay but may be more than one set of feet can do.
I visited the museum last Monday when I was in Reno. Great collection! My favorite galleries where the first one, and the one with most of the cars from the twenties and thirties.
I visited the Harrah Museum around November 1969. It was in Sparks, NV on a large piece of property that Bill Harrah owned then. There were only 400 or so cars on display, plus another 1,000 or more in warehouses around the property. I remember a locomotive and a couple of airplanes on the property. If memory serves, he had a few hundred Nash Ramblers in various configurations waiting to be restored. The staff of mechanics and artisans who worked on site numbered in the dozens. If a car came in and needed a missing part, the staff could manufacture the part on site. Harrah was also the Ferrari importer for the western US. (Luigi Chinetti was the east coast importer.) His Modern Classic Motors in Reno was a Rolls Royce and Ferrari dealership only. Harrah had two famous cars built by the craftsmen at the auto collection: the Jerrari, a hybrid of a Jeep Wagoneer and a Ferrari 330 GTC; and a Ferrari Targa ('68 330 GTS) because Harrah liked the concept of the Porsche Targa. Both were featured in different issues of Road & Track. I was fortunate enough to visit Modern Classics in mid-1972 and got to see both of the cars (the Targa was for sale in the showroom and the Jerrari was being serviced in the shop. I also viewed a large mounted photo on the wall of the sales manager's office, the subject of the photo was a view from the passenger seat of a Daytona through the driver window with the speedometer registering the vehicle's top speed of 173 mph. A much smaller version to the photo also was published in Road & Track. "The only advantage of being old is having witnessed history first hand."
Wow yes! I first saw the collection in about 68. Or 69. Hurrah lives at Tahoe and used the Jeep in the winter to get up Donner to Truckee. The locomotive was Virginia and Truckee Reno. Now in Tucson Arizona. I was struck by the Edsels. Like 30 of them. Every configuration and color. But the early cars.... still my favorite. 19th century autos. Rare!
Hey Toy Man If you haven't left Nevada yet I suggest going the Strip in Vegas. Tucked away there's another car museum with plenty of old cars just like the museum in Reno but different ones including muscle cars(but not many) It's really worth checking out!
Great video! I stopped in Sparks in '76 and toured the rather primitive museum..a.scattering of quonset huts with some very usual cars including a Pierce Arrow Silver Arrow..the idea car made for a world's fair. I think he had a Ford of every year in place too. Thanks so much for the tour of the rare cars. I had seen several Tuckers...one in San Diego at the Balboa Park museum, one in Sarasota at the now defunct Bellem's museum, one in Lancaster county PA at a small museum there and one at the ACD museum. And I made a couple videos of one that showed up in Lakeland and Winter Park Florida! Thanks for all the cool work you do! :) Jack
Jack R I loved the old place. 2 Royals! (basket cases but...) Hard on the feet. Took like 3 days to see the whole thing.
A Tucker!! I still can't believe I was standing right next to a Tucker!!! 😛
If you get to Southern California again be sure to check out the Nethercutt Collection in Sylmar. Call ahead and make an appointment for a guided tour of the San-Slymar part of the collection. The San-Sylmar holds the truly amazing and fun stuff including a 1933 Duesenberg worth $25 million, many Orchestrians and one of the largest organs in the world.
DRGW485 WOW yes, I want to see that. Heard about it, but no real information. WILL DO!!!
What's the movie about the 51 cars?
Not sure what you are asking. 51 cars.. did I say something about 51 cars.
@@ToyManTelevision sorry I shouldn't be so vague, you mentioned that a certain car only had 51 of it made and there was a movie about why.
Oh! Tucker. A really great movie staring Jeff bridges. Ps I worried on a film with his dad Lloyd. And Jeff gave us a photography demonstration on widlux cameras. Jeff used the widelux to take photos. Long story.
If you like the Tucker Jay Leno has one on Jay Leo's Garage series along with it's owner. If you haven't seem it you should.
Andrew Jackson Saw it.Love Leno's channel. Wish I could get into the collection!
Are you gonna be going to game con at salt lake city August 6-8 this year?
Mr goat No, in Reno for Hot August Nights. Great show!! Like to get to some fan cons though. Be a GAS. Like to get to GenCon.
He doesn't do video game crap. He does stuff that matters like model railways and museums.
Dr. Jak G. Cogsworth I know that, I had think that he could come I mean making and playing video games is a big part of screwing around with stuff.
Having fun at Hot August Nights, and could find my way to a video con of the timing were right. I played a video game here. Sort of. A race car simulator. WOW!!
Sometime, you should go to hobbie town in Kansas City!
then coronavirus comes :(
Horror.
Check today’s show. Really horrible this plague