Wheels of Yesteryear Vintage Auto Museum, Automobile museum in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

Wheels of Yesteryear Vintage Auto Museum in Myrtle Beach displays over 100 classic vehicles, focusing on American-made automobiles spanning different decades of the 20th century. The collection showcases the evolution of car design and engineering from the early days through the late 1900s.

The museum grew out of the collection of Paul and Carol Cummings, who gathered vintage automobiles for decades before opening it to the public in Myrtle Beach. The cars date mainly from the 1930s to the 1970s and trace the shift from flathead V8s and chrome-heavy styling to the compact and muscle models of the 1960s.

The museum is run by the LoPresti family, and the collection grew out of a personal passion for American cars rather than a corporate or state initiative. Visitors can see period signage, oil cans and license plates arranged with the vehicles, objects that show how dealerships and gas stations presented cars to buyers in the mid-20th century.

The museum sits on the Grand Strand just off US 501, a short drive from central Myrtle Beach, with parking at the door. The floor is flat and walkable, and the aisles between cars are wide enough for strollers and wheelchairs. Allow roughly an hour to see the whole collection at an easy pace.

Many cars in the collection are rare models that disappeared from everyday use just a few decades after they were made. These vehicles show design choices that the industry later abandoned for different approaches.