For decades, Harold LeMay and his wife Nancy collected cars. A lot of cars. Their collection counts roughly 3,500 automobiles, and is large enough to qualify as the world’s largest privately owned automobile collection as recorded by the Guinness Book of World Records. Before Harold LeMay passed away six years ago, the family donated the collection to a public museum. The museum will move into a new facility located on a 9-acre site near the Tacoma Dome in Washington state. The facility will be the largest of its type in the world, with 750,000 square feet of space and an architectural design that uses glass and chrome to mimic a hood scoop. The LeMay Museum is scheduled for a 2008 opening.

A sample via the LeMay web site from the vast collection, a 1950 Chrysler New Yorker 2-door convertible. One of 899 made.

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