(upbeat music) - Welcome to the Museum of Automobiles.

We're up here on Petit Jean Mountain in Arkansas.

We're about 15 miles south-west of a little town called Morrilton.

This museum was built in 1964 by former Arkansas Governor Winthrop Rockefeller.

He built this museum because he had a collection of cars that he needed a place to share with the public, and he also wanted to bring tourism to this part of the country.

So, we've got 48 cars and six motorcycles that are on display.

The oldest, the oldest car we have on display is a 1904 Oldsmobile, and the newest thing we have on display is a 1981 DeLorean, kind of like the car that was in the movie "Back to the Future" if you've seen that movie.

This one doesn't do much traveling in time.

It kind of sits here for everybody to see and enjoy.

We've got a gun collection, We've got some old motors, and we've got some pedal cars for you to see.

We've got a nice gift shop that you can buy souvenirs, T-shirts, and that kind of thing.

We have a couple of Governor Rockefeller's personal cars.

We've got one that he personally drove, and we've got the car that he came to Arkansas in from.

He lived and was born and raised in New York.

He came to Arkansas with his 1951 Cadillac.

It's here on display.

And we've also got his 1967 Cadillac Fleetwood that's got a silver bull on the hood, which is pretty neat.

We've got one car here that has been here the entire time the museum has been here, and it was one of Mr. Rockefeller's, and it's a 1914 Cretors Popcorn Wagon.

It's real bright and shiny.

It's got a lot of nice lights on it.

It's really cool to look at.

We've got a car here that was bought by Elvis Presley, owned by Elvis Presley, that was on his farm in Tupelo, Mississippi.

It gives you an idea of what people did in years past, how they got from place to place.

Even as early as, you know, the early 1900s.

You know, the cars were very primitive then, but, and the roads were really rough, so the car had to be pretty tough to withstand the ruts and potholes in the old back roads of Arkansas especially.

As a matter of fact, we've got a car here that was built in Arkansas.

It's a 1923 Climber automobile, and the factory was in Little Rock, Arkansas, and we've actually got two.

One is on display and one is in storage, but they are the only two known to exist and we've got 'em both here at the museum.

Most all of them do run.

They were, most were driven in here when they came in here.

If they don't run, it will take just a little bit of, you know, massaging to get 'em to run.

Some of the cars were donated by different individuals.

We are a non-profit organization and donors can donate cars to the museum and get a tax write-off, you know, if they so wish as a charitable contribution.

And then, some of the cars are on loan by area collectors.

It's about a 60 40 split as to the ones that belong to the museum and ones that are on loan.

Well, thanks for coming to the museum.

Hope you enjoyed the tour and hope you can come back and see us again soon.

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