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Henry Ford MuseumThe Henry Ford Museum opened in 1929 as part of an educational complex imagined by Henry Ford himself. Though the Henry Ford Academy still occupies a corner of the large building, the museum has taken over most of the floor space full of collections that focus on American manufacturing. The Henry Ford Museum includes artifacts, implements, machines and vehicles that are clustered in several gallery zones on the museum's continuous open floor, arranged by themes such as agriculture, furnishings, early flight, power generation, railways, and clockworks. Cars include the Lincoln limousine rhat J.F. Kennedy was assinated in, Charles Lindburgh's 1953 camping trailer )which ie towed around the country quite a bit for 20 years, before dropping it off at the museum in 1957) and a 12850's vintage Oscar Meyer Wienermobile which is on a Jeep chassis but has tail lights from a Ford Thunderbird.
 McDonald's Sign  1956 Chevrolet Belair  1956 Chevrolet Belair  1956 General Motors Firebird II  1956 General Motors Firebird II  1959 Volkswagen Westfalia Camper  1961 Lincoln 'Kennedy Car'  1961 Lincoln 'Kennedy Car'  1962 Budd XR-400 (based on 1962 Rambler Convertible)  1962 Experimental Mustang  1963 Buick Riviera  1964 Chrysler Turbine  1964 Chrysler Turbine  1967 Ford GT Mark IV  1967 Ford GT Mark IV  1968 Mercury Cougar  1972 Lincoln 'Reagan Car'  1972 Lincoln 'Reagan Car' 
Henry Ford built nine engine generators in the powerhouse of his mighty
Highland Park Plant. They produced the electricity that powered the machinery for making
Model T's. Driven by coal-gas & steam, these engines represented for mr. Ford the pinnacle of power,
efficiency amd beauty. Years later he had one enine moved and built his museum around it.
Today this engine represents something more. It symbolizes the place where the mainspring of the twentieth
century was wound. The automobiles, the production methods and the philosphy of labor that came out of the
Highland Park Plant changed the world.
Still today we feel the effects even as the century turns and our circumstances and the way we work changed
once again.
Two Fords Inside Micigan Theater
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A great day for a new vehicle!