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The World's Premier Automotive Exhibition
Centered around an unparalleled collection of historically significant vehicles, this remarkable mix of authentic artifacts, digital media, interactive play and personal accounts focuses on the enormous influence the automobile has had on American culture—from the automotive innovations that have changed our lives to the everyday choices we make.
The World's Premier Automotive Exhibition
“Driving America is different because it isn’t really about automobiles, but about how much the automobile has influenced American culture. It thoroughly examines the car from a perspective seldom viewed, that of the user.”
- Bob Casey, Senior Curator of Transportation at The Henry Ford
The World's Premier Automotive Exhibition
Some 18 interactive 42-inch touchscreens are sprinkled throughout Driving America, offering hundreds of additional details, images, videos and oral histories.
The World's Premier Automotive Exhibition
Hundreds of artifacts on exhibit have their own digital record, so you can tap and enlarge, view automobile exterior and interior images, look at a 360-degree view, scan through original advertisements, repair manuals and much more.
The World's Premier Automotive Exhibition
A handy Driving America smart card, given to you when you enter the exhibit, can store what you experience as you walk the exhibit and then digitally transfer your personalized compilation for online viewing later.
The World's Premier Automotive Exhibition
“Talk Like a Trucker” but keep it clean - we’re talking CB radio! Approached in a fun, participatory way, this interactive game introduces you to wonderful auto-centric lingo through a recording created at the height of the CB radio craze
The World's Premier Automotive Exhibition
For those that are all about the cars themselves, Driving America doesn’t disappoint, offering up a stellar and unprecedented collection of some of the most important and recognizable from century-old electric cars, to old and new hybrids, muscle cars, racers and modern-day SUVs.
The World's Premier Automotive Exhibition
Take a peek at the 1896 Ford Quadricycle, Henry Ford’s first automobile.
The World's Premier Automotive Exhibition
Feast your eyes on the 1865 Roper, the oldest surviving American car or the 1896 Duryea, it’s the last remaining example of America’s first production car.
The World's Premier Automotive Exhibition
Stop and stare at the 1967 Ford Mark IV race car, the first all-American car and team to win at Le Mans.
The World's Premier Automotive Exhibition
A feature of Driving America, the 1931 Bugatti Royale Type 41– it’s a stunner and the story of its escape from Nazi Germany is amazing.
The World's Premier Automotive Exhibition
The Driving America Timeline offers a quick glimpse of the exhibit’s major themes and stories.
The World's Premier Automotive Exhibition
The exhibit features 20 focal areas that cover everything from hot rods and road trips to road food and racing.
The World's Premier Automotive Exhibition
Keep your eyes peeled for Lamy’s Diner where all are welcome to sit down at the counter, slide into a booth or grab a chair on the attached patio and enjoy some coffee and light fare 1940s diner style.
The World's Premier Automotive Exhibition
“Everybody can relate to something in Driving America, because this exhibit is about more than automobiles, it is about American culture and how much of it has been influenced by the automobile over the past 100-plus years,”
- Patricia Mooradian, president of The Henry Ford.
My First Car
Users share their first car stories with The Henry Ford
My first car to drive
by Jason Buckowing
No Problem, I can do it!
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A Piece of American History
by Rick Telesca
My First Car – 1964 Ford Falcon
by Cheryl Wasserstrom
My First Car – 1979 Volkswagen Diesel Dasher Hatchback
by Eric Miller
Zero to 60 MPH – fast
by Ellen Sprouls
It Just Kept On Keeping On
by Mark Bishop
My Little Bug
by Virginia M. Ford
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