Fountainhead auto Museum


The fountainhead auto museum had over 80 American made antique cars. The really neat thing is that all the cars there are  historically significant, pre-World War II automobiles. All except 2 of its cars still run if i remember right and all except maybe 10 are restored to amazing shape. The collection includes
a car with an 8 cycle motor, “alternative” vehicles from way back like early steam, electric and hybrid cars, the first American Midget racers and the first V16-powered engine, air cooled motors with incredible heat sinks, a car that ran an extra cylinder off the exhaust of the first 2, a car with a friction drive transmission, a steam car that could do 130mph in 1906, car that had the first accelerator pedal as well as being the first front engine rear drive connected with a driveshaft car, a 1914 car whos engine set an endurance record by running at wide open throttle for 337hrs with no adjustments, a1917 pierce arrow inline 6cyl engine that had 13.5L displacement-the rest of the car matches the motors size, the first molybdenum steel car, the very first car ever built in Alaska, the first front wheel drive car and on and on...
I cropped all the photos of the descriptions so hopefully they are large enough that you don't have to zoom in to read them. If you click the photo it brings up a photo viewer that enlarges them. I had to take a lot of the photos on weird angles to avoid reflections that would make the signs unreadable





































































































































































































































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