If the Car Stock Exchange was around 100 years ago, these vehicles would be on the IPO Calendar. Let’s take ride back in time through automotive history at Automobile Driving Museum, near Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), where you can actually ride in the cars of yesteryear. The collection of 75 vintage automobiles is dominated by Packards, of which there are 17, ranging from 1916 to 1958. The museum offers rides in these classics and is buying replicas for those that are too valuable to hit the streets...
The most-prized possession of museum creator and car collector Stanley Zimmerman is the 1955 Packard Caribbean, number 8 off the assembly line and the first one sold to the public, bought by Howard Hughes for his wife, actress Jean Peters, on her birthday when Peters and Hughes drove to Malibu and back to Beverly Hills. Peters, married to Hughes from 1957 to 1971, apparently didn’t like the car so eventually sold it to Mr. Zimmerman with its 1,751 original miles.
My favorite was this 1947 Kaiser Custom with leather interior and rumored to be the personal car of Henry J. Kaiser, who in 1965 was named the world’s top industrialist for building ships, roads, dams, airplanes, cars, hospitals and factories that made steel, cement, chemicals and aluminum.
If you like MGs, here are three of varying vintages and the newest car in the collection is the 1989 Porsche Speedster in a turbo body. Time to go back to the future and today's Car Stock Exchange. Check out automobiledrivingmuseum.org.
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