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Given the public can climb into this old Ford, it was still a pretty nice car!. They even let me jump into it!
During the spring of 2013 my son Karson visited Old Town Sacramento and said it was a great area of the city. Ann and I didn’t know for sure what to expect when we arrived there today, but we came away pleasantly surprised.
Today we drove from our Sacramento motel room to the California Auto Museum, then to Old Town Sacramento.
We began the day at the California Auto Museum located just a little south of the Old Town Sacramento area. Much of the museum’s collection came from Edward Towe, a Montana banker who assembled a large collection of Fords in Deer Lodge, Montana (some of his collection is still there at the Montana Auto Museum). That explains why many of the early vehicles and artifacts are related to Ford.
I felt like the museum started strong, with some good explanations and backgrounds. The exhibit is organized on a timeline, starting with some very early Fords.
This is a good display of how Camp Curry at Yosemite began. It started as a tent camp in 1899 by David and Jennie Curry.
A pretty static display more typical of the arrangement of the early vehicles at the museum.
The demonstration of how/why a ring and pinion developed was particularly well done. There was a video (see below the picture of the R&P machine) of the R&P and played above a hands-on example that people could spin by hand. Well done!
