Nixdorf Classic Car Museum

[iamsuperdan]

So if you're ever driving through Summerland, BC, you should take an hour or so and check out the Nixdorf Classic Car Museum. They have about 80 cars on display, ranging from the 30s to the 2000s, with the bulk of them being 50s and 60s. Little bit of everything.

WHat I like about this museum is that every car has a story. It's not just a guy who went to an auction and bought a cool car to display. Each car has a sign that mentions where the car came from, a little history on the car, and a fun little factoid about the build.

The cars will never win Pebble Beach Concours, but they are all beuatifully restored drivers. 

It's all private, owned by one family, and they decided to open a museum instead fo just parking the cars and hiding them away for their own pleasure.

http://www.nixdorfclassiccars.com/

Here's some of the cars. 

 

 

 

 

My personal fav car there. I love these old Grand Nationals.

 

This Cahrger was a very close second for me. Love it.

 

 

I thought this was cool. 1953 Oldsmobile. I was very curious about the thing on the dash. Was quite shocked when I found out out what it was. Thought that kind of tech was a fairly recent thing. 

 

 

For sale. $10k CDN for all three.

[Scalper]

nice pics,   I like G/N too.. to bad it was faster then the vette, that why it was scrapped. nothing can be faster then the vette as per GM..

[espo]

Looks like a great place to spend an afternoon. That "Thing" on the dash of the '53 Oldsmobile,. In the early to mid '50's GM was playing with automatic head light dimers, which is what you are looking at.  

[iamsuperdan]

1 hour ago, espo said:

Looks like a great place to spend an afternoon. That "Thing" on the dash of the '53 Oldsmobile,. In the early to mid '50's GM was playing with automatic head light dimers, which is what you are looking at.  

Yup! I was very surprised to learn about that.

[Howard Cohen]

I really like the signs by the cars, the story often makes the car more interesting. That is one of the reason why I take sign pictures at shows. As for the headlight dimmer, in the 50s, GM had some very innovation engineering, much of which was shown on the Motorama cars, everything from radar to traction control to a decelerometer  

[misterNNL]

I have a question about the gray " Ford-ish" convertible with the tan top and a Mercury looking grille. Was that a Canadian built Meteor ?

[landman]

25 minutes ago, misterNNL said:

I have a question about the gray " Ford-ish" convertible with the tan top and a Mercury looking grille. Was that a Canadian built Meteor ?

Yes.

[iamsuperdan]

12 hours ago, misterNNL said:

I have a question about the gray " Ford-ish" convertible with the tan top and a Mercury looking grille. Was that a Canadian built Meteor ?

YOu bet!

[iamsuperdan]

19 hours ago, Howard Cohen said:

I really like the signs by the cars, the story often makes the car more interesting. That is one of the reason why I take sign pictures at shows. 

Exactly! i've been to other museums with big elaborate dioramas and pristine show quality cars, and they're interesting, but I like the more personal experience of wandering through here. It's about the cars. No fancy displays, just cars. And even if the car is cobbled together from two or three others, or isn't 100% accurate, I like that there's a story, and we learn what the story is.

 

I was here a couple of years ago, and got to wander through the resotarion area. I'll see if I can track down those pics. It was great that I couls wander through the shop. No roped off areas, try not to trip over the tools please.

 

[misterNNL]

Thanks for posting the additional info. I first became aware of the Canadian Ford's during my high school years('50's) when I saw the mid decade ones with those cool swoopy V shaped center grille bars.

[iamsuperdan]

Alright. Checked my computer, looks like my filing system works! Here are pics I took in August 2016, my first visit. This time I got to wander through their restoration shop.

Interesting. A few of the cars in the shop are now out on the museum floor.