OLD CARS

This week's challenge for Photo Friday theme is Silver so here's some photos of the "Antique Car Exposition" at Luz Station in São Paulo, taken by my husband.

Luz Station, Estação da Luz, was the first railway station built in 1901 in São Paulo. The beautiful architectural structure of the Estação da Luz railway station is a picturesque example of São Paulo’s historical center. Designed by English architect Charles Henry Driver, the building pioneered the use of iron which provided a touch of glamour to the whole structure. The station and the railway between Santos and Jundiaí were an important milestone in the development of São Paulo. The railway was used to transport coffee to the city.

De Soto, 1948

Duesenberg, 30's (probably)

GM Coach, 60's

Harley Davidson, 50's

Photos by Carlos Alckmin Mascaro

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Update: You can see beautiful photos of classic cars at Jan Bussey's "Cascade Exposure":

http://jlbussey.exposuremanager.com/g/show_n_shine_2006

ALABAMA

Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum
6030 Barber Motorsports Parkway
Birmingham AL 35094
(205) 699-7275
Features: More than 900 vintage and modern motorcycles -- believed to be the largest such collection in North america -- as well as a collection of Lotus and other race cars. Approximately 500 motorcycles on display at any given time. Bikes range from 1904 to current-year production, from 16 countries that represent 143 marques.

International Motorsports Hall of Fame
Speedway Boulevard, adjacent Talladega Superspeedway
Talladega AL
(256) 362-5002
Features: The IMHOF's Motorsports Museum spans three buildings and an enclosed courtyard. Its collection of racing vehicles and memorabilia from 1902 to the present is valued at more than $15 million. Among the items on display are the fastest boat in the world, the rare Ford Talladega Torino that Alabama native Donnie Allison raced in the Winston Cup series, the STP Dodge Charger that Richard Petty drove to a career-record 31 victories, and the Budweiser Rocket car that was the first to break the sound barrier on land.

Mercedes-Benz U.S. International
Visitors Center
1 Mercedes Drive
Tuscaloosa AL 35490
(888) 286-8762
Features: Tours will resume early next year, when visitors will be able to take a virtual tour of the manufacturing process, and see vintage Mercedes, Benz and Daimler vehicles in Daimler's only U.S. automobile manufacturing plant.

ALASKA

Museum of Alaska Transportation & Industry
3800 West Museum Drive
Wasilla, Alaska 99687
(907) 376-1211
Features: The museum's mission is the collection, conservation, restoration, exhibition, and interpretation of artifacts relating to Alaska’s transportation and industrial history. Its scope is statewide and the collections reflect that, encompassing Eskimo skin boats to jet aircraft.

ARIZONA

Franklin Automobile Museum
1405 East Kleindale Road
PO Box 40444
Tucson, AZ 85717-0444
(520) 326-8038
Features: This facility springs from the donation of his adobe home and his car collection by the estate of Thomas H. Hubbard, who died in 1993 at the age of 67. He was a well-known Tucson auto restorer and car history buff widely recognized as a leading authority on the Franklin automobile. His collection, besides 16 Franklins, includes a 1909 REO, a 1939 Lincoln Zephyr and a 1957 Porsche coupe. A '33 Franklin Coupe is shown here next to the museum/home's entrance.

Hall of Flame
6101 East Van Buren St.
Phoenix, AZ 85008
(602) 275-3473
Features: Nearly an acre of fire history exhibits, with more than 90 restored pieces of fire apparatus dating from 1725. Mostly American items, but there are examples from Europe and Japan. Sponsored by the National Historical Fire Foundation.

Penske Racing Museum
7125 East Chauncey Lane
Phoenix, AZ 85054
(480) 538-4444
Features: Celebrates four decades of the famous racing enterprise with an 8,000 square foot facility that includes two floors plus a mezzanine with a collapsible glass wall. Eleven of Penske Racing's winning Indy 500 cars are on display, along with 18 other racing and vintage cars, Team Penske trophies and other memorabilia.

ARKANSAS

Ft. Smith Trolley Museum
100 South 4th Street
Fort Smith, AR 72901
(479) 783-0205
Features: The Fort Smith Streetcar Restoration Association is dedicated to the preservation and appreciation of electric powered streetcars, railroad equipment, transportation and other technology that existed during this period in history, and to providing a unique educational experience to the visiting public.

Museum of Automobiles
Petit Jean Mountain
8 Jones Lane
Morrilton, AK 72110
(501) 727-5427
Features: Its collection includes some very unusual vehicles such as a 1904 Oldsmobile French Front, a 1912 Paige Beverly touring car, a 1916 Smith Motor Wheel, a 1933 Auburn V12 Boat Tail Speedster and a 1914 Cretors Popcorn Wagon commercial truck seen here. The museum also serves as headquarters for the Mid-America Old-Time Auto Association.

TEX-ARK ANTIQUE AUTO MUSEUM
Third and Broad streets
Texarkana, AR
(870) 772-2886

CONNECTICUT

Connecticut Firemen's Historical Society
230 Pine Street
Manchester, CT 06040
(860) 649-9436
Features: The museum is located in a 1901 firehouse and exhibits a wide variety of firefighting equipment and memorabilia ranging from leather fire buckets used by the first settlers, to early motorized fire apparatus. Also on display, a horse-drawn hose wagon and a steam-operated pumper.

Golden Age of Trucking Museum
1101 Southford Road
Middlebury, CT
(203) 577-2181
Features: In addition to continually changing exhibits on trucking, the museum has a display of Crosley cars and collectibles, a 35-minute movie about moving the Edaville Railroad from Carver, MA, to Portland, ME, art displays, stock cars from the now-closed Danbury Race Arena, antique trucks ranging from the early 1900s to 1974, plus a trio of cars made in Connecticut -- a Locomobile, a Trumbull and a Barker.

Photomobile Model Museum
1728 Highway 198
Woodstock, CT
(203) 974-3910
Features: Dedicated to solar electric small-scale car, boat, plane, train and maglev vehicles. Highlight:
New England solar car.

DELAWARE

Magic Age of Steam
Route 82
Yorklyn, DE 19736
(302) 239-4410
Features: Steam-powered cars, locomotives and other vehicles are represented in this facility, dedicated to the "Age of Steam" in America from the end of the Civil War until the early 1920s. It includes the largest collection of steam-powered autos in the world, an exhibit of miniature stationary steam engines and tiny railroad locomotives, and the 7" gauge coal-burning Auburn Valley Railroad, all located on the grounds. Seen here is the 30-horsepower 1912 Stanley, a 7-passenger touring car that holds the record for the longest trip ever made in a steam car -- 8,328 miles during the summer of 1972.