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I spent an afternoon last week visiting two car museums that were very close together in location and very similar in terms of collection philosophy. The Millbury Classic Cars and Truck Museum<\/a> in Millbury, Ohio<\/a>, and Snook\u2019s Dream Cars<\/a>, located 26 miles south in Bowling Green<\/a>, are each the offshoots of private collections passed on from father to son. While the Millbury focuses on vehicles from the 1960s and 1970s, Snook\u2019s collection includes cars from the early auto age and prewar era. Because each assemblage of vehicles reflects the personal preferences and vision of each owner, it is not surprising that there are very few artifacts in either location that recognize women as participants in American automotive history. Fortunately, I discovered a few that made the trip to Ohio worthwhile.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Millbury Classic Cars and Trucks Museum opened its doors in May 2024. It is a large structure consisting of three garages, each added on as the collection expanded. The museum is a family project; the owner\u2019s mother-in-law helped with the wood staining on the walls, while his son helped locate cars to fill the collection. The museum is unique in that provenance is not a requirement for auto inclusion; in fact, the majority of the vehicles are not original but have been modified or customized in some way. Rather than rely on donations, most of the cars were acquired through auction. Because the cars were purchased rather than donated, the accompanying placards have a lot of technical information about the car, but no identification or stories of previous owners. The collection also includes a vast array of auto memorabilia, including gas pumps, signage, and toys. Replicas of movie cars are also a prime attraction. <\/p>\n\n\n

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‘Daisy Duke’ display with 1974 Plymouth Road Runner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Women\u2019s representation in the museum is primarily as mannequins, called upon to place an automobile in a particular cultural or historical moment in time. They are part of a family in a\u00a0Scooby-Do\u00a0Mystery Machine-themed 1974 Chevy G10 custom van<\/a>; riding in the passenger seat of a 1975 Volkswagen Bus; sitting shotgun in the 1979 Pontiac Trans Am<\/a> of Smokey and the Bandit<\/em> fame. The only vehicle devoted to a woman is a replica of the yellow 1974 Plymouth Road Runner driven by the fictional character Daisy Duke<\/a> in the Dukes of Hazzard<\/em> television series. A group of mannequins \u2018for sale\u2019 featured a dark haired woman in a racing suit, no doubt a salute to Danica Patrick.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Mary Clark’s 1933 Cadillac<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Snook\u2019s Dream Cars was opened in 2002 with the goal of sharing \u2018cars for all ages.\u2019 The automobiles on display are all in working condition; the museum\u2019s on-staff mechanic gave us a short tour of the four-bay shop for maintaining collector cars within the building. The museum features a recreated 1940s era Texaco gas station, a showroom of extensive automobile memorabilia, and a car collection presented within period scenes ranging from a 1930s general store to a racetrack from the 1960s. The car collection consists of models from the 1930s, and includes coupes, convertibles, sedans, roadsters, and race cars.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Women were represented in the museum as important historical markers, such as the year in which Amelia Earhart disappeared, as well as the year in which Lyn St James<\/a> became the first female rookie of the year at Indy. Two of the vehicles with female connections were a 1933 Cadillac owned by Mary Clark of the Kimberly-Clark Company, and a 1954 Kaiser-Darrin. As noted on an accompanying poster, \u2018[Henry J.] Kaiser\u2019s wife loved the look of Darrin\u2019s sports car, and convinced her husband to go with the design for a limited production\u2019, which suggests she had a significant amount of automotive influence over her husband.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stereotypes of women drivers were found on the covers of automotive magazines on display, as well as assorted print advertisements in the \u2018for sale\u2019 bin. Symbolic women were also present as hood ornaments and award figures. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Automotive Digest<\/em> cover featuring the stereotypical ‘backseat driver’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

While there weren\u2019t as many representations of women in the two Ohio museum as I had expected, I am hoping that delving deeper into the artifact origins will provide some new insight into women\u2019s automotive history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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