Our last day in Nagoya and the morning was spent at one of Toyota’s museums. This very interesting complex was built on the site of one of their textile factories. Toyota originally made mill machinery before becoming the world’s biggest car company. They had some very impressive displays including real vehicle manufacturing facilities.

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This was a pretty cool car museum with some good stuff.  A huge collection with great displays.

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We visited the Ronald Regan Libary on the outskirts of LA to check out the Airforce 1 707 which is on display. You were able to go aboard and see how Ronny Ray-gun ran the USA from the air. Much more cramped than we were expecting- our Qantas flight on Wedneday night has much more […]

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For a bit of a treat we stayed the night on the Queen Mary in Long Beach California. This historic ship is now a hotel.  Long Beach is a really nice layed back spot, its hard to belive you are in LA.  There was free shuttle into town and lots of night action- we found […]

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This museum was a good one, it not only had over 300 flash muscle cars on show and for sale but many cars used in movies. There were plenty of familiar cars including Herbie, The real Back to the Future Delorium, The A Team’s truck a Batmobile and Kit from Nightrider. The museum is called […]

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About a hours drive over town we found the Walter P Chrysler museum. A pretty shiny flash display of about 70 classic Chrysler vehicles. The also ran a film which about Walter Chrysler….”the greatest industrialist of the 20th Century” ..His vision made the Automotive industry” and a heap of other quotes like we heard yesterday […]

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We took the bus over to the Rouge Truck Plant for a walk around the final assembly process of the all new 2009 F150. What a monster truck they are so flash, leather captain chairs, 18″ mags, moon roofs and plenty of chrome- very impressive.  The plant is only about 10 years old and state […]

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This guy must have been mega rich- this home even has its own hydro electric power station.  The original budget (back in 1909 was $200,000 but like most Ford budgets it blew out to a whopping $2 Million. Remember this is 1909 – the average wage for a Ford worker was $5 a day in […]

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We were thinking that Henry Ford’s Greenfield Village would be a Ford version of Disneyland- pretty crap with Furry Model T’s replacing mice, dwarfs and princesses. But no it was a very well executed look back to at the history of the USA, Set on what must have been more than a hundred acres of […]

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This museum would have to be one of the most amazing museums and probably the best one we have ever visited. Not only does it contain a pretty extensive collection of cars (not all Ford) but presidential limousines including the car JFK got shot,the seat Licon died on, Washington’s bed,  Planes, Trains, and other forms […]

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When  we visited the VW Golf Factory in Wolfberg Germany on our last roadtrip  http://roadtrip.intown.net.au/09-oct.htm  we sampled their sausages and beer for lunch, so we thought we should do the same at the Henry Ford Museum. Our verdict is the Germans do it better, Their sausages are much more tasty and Ford doesn’t make anything you would […]

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We stopped by Oshawa about an hour or so out of Toronto, it is home to the Canadian Automotive Musuem, so we thought we would take a look.  It was really just a big shed with a collection of different cars, no real theme just all put together like in someone’s shed. No Ford Discovery […]

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