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Old 24th April 2021, 07:06   #1
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Default Rover owner opens new car museum.

A former owner of Wembley Stadium has collected 120 British cars, all in running / show condition.

These are now in his new museum in Derby, to open this summer.

His own personal transport; an Austin 7, a Porsche and a Rover 75.

Might the 75 be his daily, the article didn't say, but quite possibly.

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Old 24th April 2021, 16:22   #2
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Can you point us to the article please Mike?

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If I'm correct it's the museum that should have opened a couple of years ago .

Looks like it now could be open by summer this year, an article from the local paper:-

https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/wha...museum-5168743

and the museum website:-

https://www.greatbritishcarjourney.com/

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Thanks very much Jim.

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Check out Hubnut on you tube. Ian has had a preview of the museum and some off the cars that will be heading there. He even has a drive of a nice Austin 1300 GT
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AROnline are currently running a feature on this museum with lots of pictures

https://www.aronline.co.uk/news/grea...h-car-journey/

some of the pictures











and as Pete mentioned here's Ian Seabrook's recent video previewing the museum



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I can see many British car clubs wanting to use this venue for national meetings.
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That's about an hour from me.

It'll be getting a visit
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That's about an hour from me.

It'll be getting a visit
And about 20 mins for me.Might get a season ticket
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That looks well worth a day out
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