Tacoma's American Car Museum to open on Saturday
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TACOMA, Wash. -- If there were a heaven for cars, it would look like Tacoma's American Car Museum.
The brand new museum, which officially opens on Saturday, will play home to garbage baron Harold LeMay's famous car collection.
The museum is just days away from its grand opening, but staff members are still working around the clock to ensure that everything is just right.
"Today, tomorrow, Thursday -- it's hell on wheels, but that's okay," said David Maderia, the museum's CEO.
Before they can open the museum, Maderia and his crew still have to hang a sign out front and install 80 flat screen monitors.
A Grand Prix race car is on the wall and most of the roughly 350 cars are already in place, thanks to the hard work of volunteers like Marion Batholomew.
"We're working on and touching things that we otherwise would not be able to, and that makes it a whole lot of fun," Batholomew said.
All the work will soon pay off, and Maderia is ready to go.
"I'm pumped," he said. "We just gotta get some sleep. We look like crap, but you know, that's okay."
The museum officially opens on Saturday, but on Friday it will host a "Great Gatsby" party for about 1,000 lucky car lovers from around the world.
LeMay's collection used to be about 3,000 cars, but it's been pared down to 1,500. At any one time, the museum will show about 350 of those cars.
The brand new museum, which officially opens on Saturday, will play home to garbage baron Harold LeMay's famous car collection.
The museum is just days away from its grand opening, but staff members are still working around the clock to ensure that everything is just right.
"Today, tomorrow, Thursday -- it's hell on wheels, but that's okay," said David Maderia, the museum's CEO.
Before they can open the museum, Maderia and his crew still have to hang a sign out front and install 80 flat screen monitors.
A Grand Prix race car is on the wall and most of the roughly 350 cars are already in place, thanks to the hard work of volunteers like Marion Batholomew.
"We're working on and touching things that we otherwise would not be able to, and that makes it a whole lot of fun," Batholomew said.
All the work will soon pay off, and Maderia is ready to go.
"I'm pumped," he said. "We just gotta get some sleep. We look like crap, but you know, that's okay."
The museum officially opens on Saturday, but on Friday it will host a "Great Gatsby" party for about 1,000 lucky car lovers from around the world.
LeMay's collection used to be about 3,000 cars, but it's been pared down to 1,500. At any one time, the museum will show about 350 of those cars.
