Savoy Automobile Museum, Cartersville (Georgia), USA
Until May 5, 2024
With Wooden Wonders, the Savoy Automobile Museum offers a nostalgic journey around these cars whose bodies mix a steel front part, and a rear or side part framed and clad in exposed wood. While some models, especially utilitarian ones, were quite rudimentary, much more polished top-of-the-range models, with polished and varnished woods, color schemes and various types of wood, were offered by most American manufacturers in the 1930s to 1950s.
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For Wooden Wonders, the Savoy Museum offers 2 cars typical of this architecture, with a 1948 Chrysler Town & Country sedan and a 1946 Mercury station wagon. The originality of the exhibition is to associate these cars with 3 beautiful sport boats, also made of wood, from some of the most renowned brands of their time. 2 are replicas of racing boats, “Hotsy Totsy”, a 1926 Purdy and “Thomas”, a 1936 Gar Wood Speedster. The 3rd one, “Nana” is a 1948 Chris-Craft 19′. 2 of the boats are attached to the cars, forming a harmonious whole highlighting the woodwork.
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In addition, the Savoy Automobile Museum has planned a particularly eclectic exhibition programme for 2024, including a tribute to women drivers and their cars, the cars of the stars and films, 2 exhibitions on cars from the Indianapolis Circuit Museum, the Packard brand and Japanese cars. Of course, you will find more information in the next Automobile Museums newsletters.
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