Foto Friday - 6/29/12

This is my seventy-sixth Foto Friday post. The pictures today are from LeMay - America's Car Museum. Full set with all 115 photos can be viewed here.

DISCLAIMER: If you go to the full set on Flickr for this Foto Friday, you will see a ton of pictures of cars. If you don't like cars, you probably won't like this edition of FF.

So, one Father's Day, we decided that it would be fun to take our dads to the brand new LeMay car museum in Tacoma. As you can see from the first picture above, we weren't the only ones who thought that was a good idea. We waited in line for about 45 minutes to get into the place. Right away, this was the worst thing about the visit. They don't have enough cashiers to get people in.

I want to warn you that I know nothing about cars, so a lot of the vehicles you see pictures of are going to be left unlabeled. I didn't start taking extra pictures of the signs until halfway through our visit.

Once inside, the museum was really cool. Like I said, I'm not a big auto enthusiast, but even I had a good time. There are tons of cars in that place. 350 of them, according to their website.

I imagine that a car person would be like a kid in a candy store at this place. Cool building design.

Juliana and my dad checking out the nice view of Tacoma.

Here's a 1930 Rolls-Royce Town Car. Would not mind owning any of the cars in this museum.

Here's one of the garage parts of the facility. Four levels of cars, cars, cars.

LeMay is named after Harold LeMay. He amassed the largest privately owned collection of automobiles, motorcycles, trucks, all manner of other vehicles and related memorabilia in the world. At its peak, the LeMay Collection numbered in excess of 3,000 vehicles.

This is a 1961 Buick Electra 225 Convertible Sedan. I know that because that's what the sign said.

This Cadillac needs more lights and horns.

Screen wasn't working on this one, so I don't know what it is. I'd still drive it though.

Heh... awesome Thunderbird. Speaking of the signs though, they could use some better digital signage programs.

1923 Ford T-Bucket Roadster. Always liked the look of roadsters.

They had a neat toy car track there that you could pay to try. Also a racing simulator.

Yes, please.

*drool* 2010 Ferrari California. Only about $200,000.

If you don't know what kind of car this is, there is something wrong with you.

I'm pretty sure this was the oldest car in the museum. ;-)

Are you tired of car pictures yet?

Okay, here is a cute little break.

One of the first electric cars from 1914.

The old Mobile gas station logo.

When we got to Bethany's parents' house after the museum, we found this cute little guy crawling on the driveway. Tried to pick him up, but he wouldn't let us, so we just gave him a few gentle pets.

Last weekend, we were invited to celebrate James' third birthday at Jason and Molly's house. Jason built this fun sprinkler for the kids to run through. To see more pictures from the party or tons of other cars, view the full set.