Automobile Driving Museum, Automobile museum in El Segundo, United States.
The Automobile Driving Museum occupied a building at 610 Lairport Street in El Segundo, California. It held about 130 classic, antique and vintage automobiles built between 1886 and 2000, with roughly half on display at any one time. Visitors could touch and sit in most of the cars. The museum closed in October 2024.
The Automobile Driving Museum was founded in 2002 by car collector Stanley Zimmerman and architect Earl Rubenstein as a nonprofit with the mission to collect, preserve, exhibit and ride in historic vehicles. It closed in October 2024 after the death of its primary benefactor. Among its cars were a 1936 Packard touring phaeton given by Franklin D. Roosevelt to Joseph Stalin and Eleanor Roosevelt's 1932 Plymouth Brewster Town Car.
The museum's stated mission was to "collect, preserve, exhibit and ride in historic vehicles." Visitors could touch and sit in most cars, and on Sunday Car Rides they rode as passengers in classic vehicles around the El Segundo neighbourhood.
The museum stood at 610 Lairport Street in El Segundo, a short drive south of Los Angeles International Airport. Visitors could touch and sit in most cars, and on Sundays ride as a passenger in a classic vehicle around the neighbourhood. The museum closed in October 2024.
The museum closed in October 2024 after the death of its main benefactor, so the Sunday rides in the neighbourhood around Lairport Street are no longer running. Its roughly 130 cars dated from 1886 to 2000, and visitors were once allowed to touch and sit in most of them.
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