Last week we took a drive to Volo, Illinois and visited the Volo Car Museum. Wow, what an interesting and fun way to spend the day! They have 4 buildings chock full of antique cars, separated by different categories 1) Cars from the 1950's to the 1970's, 2) Jay Ohrberg's Collection of weird, yet functional cars, 3) The George Barris Collection of TV and Movie cars and 4) cars from the 1920-1930's.
The museum had a great collection of television and movie memorabilia....
At each exhibit they had a television playing clips from the corresponding TV show or movie...
The Munsters car.....
the ape from King Kong....
The original Herbie from Herbie, Fully Loaded....
Here's a look at just a small portion of the television/movie cars on display....
Mom and I did a little phooning....
The Antique cars were gorgeous.....
Most of the cars were for sale - check out the price on this next one. Anyone interested?
But my favorite cars were the ones from the 60's and 70's....
Chablis likes the Mustangs....
But here is where I go on tilt.... I love Camaro's. They are my absolute favorite car and I've personally owned 3 of them so far - a 1970, a 1980 and a 1998. I went nuts looking at all these awesome Camaro's.
But my dream car, the one I always wished I could have had, was the 1969 RS convertible....
Oh, how I wish this was mine. I know the big orange sign says "do not touch cars" but I was literally laying on it and drooling all over it. I was beside myself.
Anyone want to buy it for me?
Outside they had a band playing Jimmy Buffet music. It was a perfect day to be walking around.
We spent several hours just checking out all the cars. The Volo Car Museum also has an Antique Mall made up of three huge buildings. We quickly breezed through one of them, but decided we have to go back another day in order to see everything in the Antique Mall. This place was that big! They also have a Trolley Car that you can ride and for Halloween they transform it into a "Haunted Trolley Car."
The Volo Car Museum was a great place to spend the day. If you're ever in the area, be sure to check it out. I know we will definitely be going back!
