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Gilmore Car Museum | Hickory Corners, MI

The Gilmore Car Museum is America’s Signature Collection. Named one of the Nation’s TOP FIVE car museums and recently listed as the #1 Great Historic Auto Site in Michigan by Pure Michigan. Gilmore Car Museum and Historic Campus features over 350 antique, vintage and collector cars and motorcycles from all eras on display in over a dozen historic buildings throughout the 90-acre grounds. Classic Car Club of America Museum Pierce Arrow Museum The Franklin Collection Tucker Historical Collection and Library Model A Ford Museum Cadillac-LaSalle Club Museum Lincoln Motor Car Heritage Museum.

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Established in 1966.
The Gilmore Car Museum began in 1963 as the hobby of Donald S. Gilmore when his wife, Genevieve, gave him an antique car for his birthday –a 1920 Pierce-Arrow “project car.” The hobby soon grew into a collection of over 30 automobiles and Gilmore purchased 90 acres of farm property and had several historic buildings dismantled piece by piece and moved to the site. The Gilmores established a non-profit foundation, and opened the museum to the public for the first time on Sunday, July 31, 1966. Donald Gilmore passed away in 1979, and Mrs. Gilmore in 1990, but the legacy they began continues to grow.

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MAY 28 2023
Coca-Cola 600CHARLOTTE MOTOR SPEEDWAY
Concord, North Carolina
400 laps / 600 miles
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JUNE 4 2023
Ally 400NASHVILLE SUPERSPEEDWAY
Nashville, Tennessee
300 laps / 399 miles
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JULY 2 2023
NASCAR Cup Series Race at ChicagoCHICAGO STREET COURSE Chicago, Illinois TBA laps / TBA miles
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JULY 9 2023
Quaker State 400 Presented by WalmartATLANTA MOTOR SPEEDWAY
Hampton, Georgia
260 laps / 400 miles
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JULY 16 2023
Crayon 301NEW HAMPSHIRE MOTOR SPEEDWAY
Loudon, New Hampshire
301 laps / 318.46 miles
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JULY 23 2023
M&M's Fan Appreciation 400POCONO RACEWAY
Long Pond, Pennsylvania
160 laps / 400 miles
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JULY 30 2023
NASCAR Cup Series Race at RichmondRICHMOND RACEWAY
Richmond, Virginia
400 laps / 300 miles
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AUG 6 2023
FireKeepers Casino 400MICHIGAN INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY Brooklyn, Michigan 200 laps / 400 miles
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AUG 13 2023
Verizon 200 at the BrickyardINDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY ROAD COURSE
Indianapolis, Indiana
82 laps / 200 miles
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AUG 20 2023
Go Bowling at The GlenWATKINS GLEN INTERNATIONAL
Watkins Glen, New York
90 laps / 220.5 miles
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AUG 26 2023
Coke Zero Sugar 400DAYTONA INTERNATIONAL SPEEDWAY
Daytona Beach, Florida
160 laps / 400 miles
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SEPT 3 2023
Cook Out Southern 500DARLINGTON RACEWAY Darlington, South Carolina 367 laps / 501.3 miles
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SEPT 10 2023
Hollywood Casino 400 Presented by Barstool SportsbookKANSAS SPEEDWAY
Kansas City, Kansas
267 laps / 400 miles
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SEPT 16 2023
Bass Pro Shops Night RaceBRISTOL MOTOR SPEEDWAY Bristol, Tennessee 500 laps / 266.5 miles
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SEPT 24 2023
AutoTrader EchoPark Automotive 500TEXAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY
Fort Worth, Texas
334 laps / 500 miles
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OCT 1 2023
YellaWood 500TALLADEGA SUPERSPEEDWAY
Talladega, Alabama
188 laps / 500.08 miles
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OCT 8 2023
Bank of America ROVAL 400CHARLOTTE MOTOR SPEEDWAY ROAD COURSE
Concord, North Carolina
109 laps / 252.88 mile
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OCT 15 2023
South Point 400LAS VEGAS MOTOR SPEEDWAY
Las Vegas, Nevada
267 laps / 400.5 miles
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OCT 22 2023
Dixie Vodka 400HOMESTEAD-MIAMI SPEEDWAY
Homestead, Florida
267 laps / 400.5 miles
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OCT 29 2023
Xfinity 500MARTINSVILLE SPEEDWAY Martinsville, Virginia 500 laps / 263 miles
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NOV 5 2023
NASCAR Cup Series ChampionshipPHOENIX RACEWAY
Avondale, Arizona
312 laps / 312 miles

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TOP FUEL | Dragsters

Drag racing was born in the dry lake beds in the California deserts. In the 1930s as engines got better and drivers got braver, speeds began topping 100mph. But it wasn’t until after World War II that a bunch of kids with cars, hanging out with nowhere in particular to go, turned into something more serious.

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From the 1970s onwards drag racing began to take its modern shape. This was the era of sponsorship with big companies throwing their support behind teams. Volunteer crew members were suddenly given wages, trailers were turned into mobile workshops, and even the NHRA found a sponsor allowing it to offer bigger prize money.

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As the decade turned drag racing began to get organized. The National Hot Rod Association (NHRA) was founded in 1951 by Wally Parks, and within the decade two classes of competition had developed ‘Unmodified Stock’ and ‘Top Eliminator’.

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However, it wasn’t until one of the most serious accidents in early drag racing history in the 1970s that the fundamentals of car design changed. When Don Garlit’s front-motored dragster suffered a transmission explosion which split his car in half and cut off his right foot, he vowed to invent a car with the engine in the back capable of being a winner. He succeeded and within two years all car engines sat behind the drivers.

 

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