One of my favorite hidden places for viewing custom cars was Darryl Starbird’s hot rod museum. I intended to meet DEG there last year, when he discovered it had shuttered and the cars were going to go elsewhere. I have a video here that explains what happened to everything:
Per the video there will now be a greatly expanded museum known as the Speedway Motors Museum of American Speed. Location for curious Glibs:
599 Oakcreek Drive Lincoln, NE 68528
This is a huge collection. Darryl’s collection alone took over an hour to walk through, if you didn’t stop and gawk much. So expect this to be a day trip. Only four of his cars are on display at the new museum at this time, I think many more are set for rotation as they are cleaned up. Darryl’s museum was amazing – but there were clear signs that cars needed help. Tire rot had set in on some, for example.
That said, I wanted to go ahead and share all the other photos of this collection which I took last visit. These are the photos that inspired me to launch GlibCar. I don’t have the names or makers for most of these. I apologize. Many of the cars in these photos, like Blue Mist, will return to the owners and may not be seen again. Darryl had around 100 cars, and a fair amount were his so that will be a significant expansion for Speedway, should they display more than four at a time:
“Speedway Motors Museum of American Speed”
So driving on meth?
Seems more like everyone is drinking on zoom?
I was just there! It was just me, so I ran away and cried like a little bitch.
Sounds more like they’re drinking off of Zoom.
Meh! Show up and watch me drink in person.
Get out of my head.
Tomorrow is a company Friday for some reason so I feel like indulging a bit.
My first thought before reading the article is that it was in Speedway, IN. Obviously that’s not the case.
Maybe they were on meth when it was named.
My car knowledge is nowhere near sufficient to have an informed opinion on any of this, but I do enjoy the purty pictures.
I don’t much about the very custom stuff either.
Generally, me neither, although the craftsmanship is usually enough to make them worth seeing.
The custom hot rod pickup did make me smile.
Is that the weird vertical red job? Yeah, that’s amusing.
Very few people do. It is a pretty specialized field, although everyone like to look at them.
Per the video there will now be a greatly expanded museum known as the Speedway Motors Museum of American Speed. Location for curious Glibs:
599 Oakcreek Drive Lincoln, NE 68528
In 2021 I drove through Nebraska for my FreedomFest 2021 road trip. I had I known about this museum, I would have stopped in.
Thanks RJ!
Digging through some websites, the merger was announced in May 2021, so they probably wouldn’t have had everything from the Starbird Museum, but that’s OK.
A good portion were cars on loan. Probably 60%. I imagine those went back to owners unless they made separate arrangements with the redundant museum.
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Mazel Tov!
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This is true
Urthona zoom?
Cheesy ‘70s sci-fi villainess?
R C Dean Zoom?
For the “museums of cool stuff” inclined, I spent a few hours last week just up the road from there, checking out an awesome collection of machines.
If you’re lucky like I was, you can spend a few minutes chatting with the executive director of the joint.
Thanks RJ. Nice pictures of exotic cars, truly each is one of a kind. Would be fun to visit and read the history of each car on display. This will, however, be as close to them as I will ever be.
Growing up with clunkers/hand-me-downs the JC Whitney catalog was the wish list of the kids in my circle.
Me too! Loved that catalog. I loved that museum. I met his daughter out there. She was very nice. Definitely was a family event.
One of my favorite catalogs also. With the junkers my brother and I had, it was no surprise we prized it.
I remember the JC Whitney catalog.
Also, I remember Hemmings Motor News.
Just found out I will be unsupervised tonight and maybe tomorrow! Woo Hoo!
Tomorrow is a Friday for my company for some reason I don’t understand so w00ts tonight.
Shavuot starts tomorrow night; it’s a major holiday.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shavuot
Ahhh that one again. We just call it “Holiday 1”.
How pious.
4 day weekend!
Cool pics.
I didn’t do it justice. If I knew, I would have documented everything. And spent more time talking.
Ass Wednesday after dark.
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Hello!
Can you theme it with some custom cars?
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NSFW.
I’m not sure that’s custom, but it sure looks expensive.
Lol
Related
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pbquDj3mkGc
I’ve seen that picture before.
I really hope the youngsters keep this tradition alive.
Great pics and I will be visiting the museum next time I’m in NE.
Thanks, RJ!
I have a fun nicotine patch update but the squirrels don’t like it so, oh well.
Did you cover a sleeping person with nicotine patches?
No. My patch wouldn’t adhere last night so this morning was particularly rough. Today I secured the fucking thing with Scotch tape so it should last though the night.
You’re quitting? Good for you.
Yah three days now and it’s not so rough. Just the occasional nick fit and psychosomatic reaching for the crutch and it’s not there.
Mornings are the worst. I was gonna go cold turkey but after one super rough morning I thought, let’s try the patch program. I have time.
Oh yes. Good for you. Maybe try an arm scrunchie like you use to keep a phone on your arm?
Some of those cars remind me of Matchbox cars I had as a kid.
They look like those slot-racers from the late 60’s.
Slightly on-topic – I vetoed the idea of taking the insurance off the Tacoma. It was such a silly idea that I can’t even.
97 bucks per month isn’t hard to bear. She was trying to bully me. Does she want me stuck out here in the exurbs? Probably.
Well shit. Tina Turner and Martin Amis.
Mornin Glibbies!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DL7-CKirWZE
🎵🎵
😃☕
Good morning, Sean, DEG, Stinky, and U!
Morning.
How’s the 🐱👤?
He’s been sleeping almost all the time, but occasionally gets up to move from one spot to another, including lying down right next to the water dish and shoving his face down in it. Encouragingly, yesterday he actually got himself up on the bed, which is a repro of an antique-style four-poster/canopy bed and is rather high off the floor. I don’t think he’s eaten since Tuesday evening though. 😟🐱👤
Oh, hun! You gotta get him eating again; it’s bad for the organs not to. You could smear dairy products on his nose, or this stuff. Call the vet again if necessary.
https://www.chewy.com/licks-pill-free-multi-vitamin-cat/dp/193410
He had dental surgery Tuesday afternoon, so his mouth is sore. He did ate pretty ravenously after he got home Tuesday evening (before the original pain meds wore off.)
Also, per TT, the vet’s office called yesterday and, hearing a description of his behavior at that point, said it sounded pretty normal under the circumstances. Hoping he can be tempted later at least with one (or more) of his new favorite pureed treats.
https://billypenn.com/2023/05/21/philadelphia-rainbow-crosswalks-gayborhood-thermoplastic-progress-flag/
“People were coming here and saying, ‘How do I know when I’m in the Gayborhood?’”
I thought they already had the rainbow flag on the street signs there?
Philadelphia’s one of the biggest national shitholes in the country (sorry man, it’s true) and they bother with this? If you’re putting out road stuff that’s completely unnecessary and needs protection from being trashed by unhappy citizens maybe it shouldn’t be installed.
You’d almost think (or wish) people wouldn’t put out a “Welcome Mat” if you lived in Philly.
It would be like a Glib putting out a welcome sign
The more likely Glib doormat says, “Come back with a warrant.”
Why did the Libertarian chicken cross the road?
None of your business! Am I being detained?
You’re not gaying LOUDLY enough!
https://nationaltoday.com/national-wine-day/
Happy national wine day!!
🍷🍷
Shouldn’t that be National Whine day?
Nice looking cars from a bygone era. Everything now’s just a generic blob (I know, I know low drag but still).
Mornin’ all.
Chilly morning in southern NH. Upper 40s. Yesterday’s rain has moved out. I think it will be a nice but chilly day today.
Gym time soon.
Good morning, All!
We had that weather yesterday. Bouncing back today. Corn planting today.
Almost have all the garden in. Apple trees in blossom. Grass is gonna need mowing soon.
67 here. Absolutely beautiful. Spending another day of my life in meetings. Increasingly I do not wish to do that.
It’s like they took my old Hot Wheels cars, and blew them up to full size.
Many of those were the models for your hot wheels cars.