Monday, July 31, 2006

TENNESSEE - Dixie Gun Works Old Car Museum

Dixie Gun Works Old Car Museum
1200 N Highway 51 S
Union City, TN 38261
(901) 885-0561
Features: In addition to an actual gun works and firearms collection, this facility houses a collection of 36 vintage and antique cars, as well as thousands of antique mechanical devices and appendages.

Floyd Garrett's Muscle Car Museum
320 Winfield Dunn Parkway (Hwy. 66)
Sevierville, TN
(865) 908-0882
Features: More than 90 muscle cars from the 1950s, '60s and '70s, including 'Cudas, Novas, GTOs, Camaros, Mustangs and Firebirds, plus assorted memorabilia.

Hollywood Star Cars Museum
914 Parkway
Gatlinburg, TN
(865) 430-2200
Features: Modified and/or one-of-a-kind vehicles used in films and television, such as from "Gone in 60 Seconds," "Charlie’s Angels," "The Fast and the Furious" and "xXx," "Back to the Future Time Machine" and "Days of Thunder."

International Towing & Recovery Museum
3315 Broad Street
Chattanooga, TN
(423) 267-3132
Features: A collection of restored antique wreckers and equipment, industry related displays of collectible toys, tools, unique equipment, and pictorial histories of manufacturers. The site was chosen because the indusry's first wrecker was fabricated nearby at the Ernest Holmes Co.

Lane Motor Museum
702 Murfreesboro Pike
Nashville, TN 37210
(615) 742-7445
Features: A collection mostly of European automobiles, housed in a 32,000 square foot building. Most of the collection was built in the 1950s, '60s and '70s with a smattering from the '20s.

Music Valley Car Museum
2611 McGavock Pike, opposite Opryland Hotel
Nashville, TN
(615) 885-7400
Features: Antique and specialty cars, many owned by show business personalities. One example: Randy Travis' 1965 Ford Mustang.

Muscle Car Museum
320 Winfield Dunn Parkway (Hwy. 66)
Sevierville, TN 37876
(865) 908-0882
Features: Among the cars on display in the 35,000 square foot facility are Elvis Presley's first limo, a 1967 Shelby Mustang, a 1970 GTO Judge, a 1969 Boss 429, a 1963 Tameless Tiger Tempest, a 1970 Hemi Cuda, and a 1971 Buick GS Stage 1 convertible, one of less than 15.

Smoky Mountain Car Museum
2970 Parkway
Pigeon Forge, TN 37863
(865) 453-3433
Features: This half-century-old facility exhibits the James Bond Aston-Martin used in the "Goldfinger" and "Thunderball" films, an Elvis Presley Mercedes Benz, Al Capone's Cadillac, and such classics as a Marathon and a Deusenberg.

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