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Museum Store (on the Gilmore Car Museum Campus) The NEWLY expanded Gilmore Musuem Store, located in a single story building near the Museum’s Gas Station, serves as the first point of contact for visitors. Here you'll purchase your admission tickets, find the best in automotive books, diecast collectibles, and clothing, and see the one-of-a-kind Gnome Mobile movie set from the 1967 Walt Disney movie. The Barn borrows its name from its original location – Kalamazoo County’s G Avenue rather than from Gift Shop or Gnome Mobile. In 1963 work began in earnest to systematically disassemble, label each board and move this structure to the rapidly growing museum grounds. When it was built at the turn of the last century the barn stood a full two-stories, yet only the top floor could be preserved once it was rebuilt at the museum. G Barn could easily have derived its name from the 1967 Walt Disney movie, the “Gnome-Mobile”, which featured a 1930 Rolls-Royce Sedanca Deville. Today, the car used in that film, starring Walter Brennan and Ed Wynn, is here on display next to the authentic movie set of the car's back seat. After filming had ended Mr. Gilmore purchased the Rolls Royce directly from his friend Walt Disney, and as an added bonus Disney donated the original oversized movie set. This is an exact re-creation of the rear seat of the 1930 Rolls Royce which is actually almost four times larger than life. On the walls of G Barn you will find a display telling the history of Donald Gilmore and the Gilmore Museum. Look close and you will even find personal letters to Mr. Gilmore from President and Mamie Eisenhower. |
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Hickory Corners (South West of the Museum)
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Kalamazoo (South West of the Museum) |
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Battle Creek (East of the Museum) |
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HOURS:
Open Daily May 1 – October 31, including Holidays
Mon. – Fri. 9am – 5pm EST
Sat. & Sun. 9am – 6pm EST
Admission RATES:
CCCA Museum Members – FREE on non-event days
Adults, 16 and over – $10.00
AAA Members – $9.00
Seniors, 62 and over – $9.00
Students 7-15 – $8.00
Children 6 & Under – FREE (Must be accompanied by an adult)
Group Rates Available
Upcoming EVENTS:
The 2011 “Experience” weekend will take place June 3-5, 2011 at the Classic Car Club of America Museum in Hickory Corners, Michigan. The theme for the 2011 event is “Vintage Cars of Indiana".
About the MUSEUM:
Plans to establish the Classic Car Club of America’s Museum at the Gilmore Car Museum first germinated in 1984, with the original building being dedicated in June of 1987. A historic two-story barn dating from the 1890s, originally located only a few minutes from the museum, was disassembled, relocated and rebuilt on the Gilmore site, and today is known as the “Barrett Barn.” Initial funding for the building project was provided by the co-founder of the renowned Barrett-Jackson Auction of Scottsdale, Arizona, Thomas W. Barrett III.
The CCCA Museum displays several “Full Classic” automobiles and over 700 mascots, part of the Marvin Tamaroff Mascot Collection donated in 1996.
