Car Museum at Fair Park

[Frank]

Did anyone check out the car museum at Fair Park? I was hoping to go there but it appears to have been closed about a year ago. Heck, they hardly mentioned it opening much less when it closed. Did anyone ever get a chance to check it out?

[grove rat]

i never knew it was there, i would have for sure checked it out with it being so close to me

[talisman]

Never even knew about it. Definitely would have checked it out.

[grove rat]

well fuck it would have been cool just to see the race cars and that fucking nomad!

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehSnhImV-TA[/ame]

[BMCSean]

I went a few years back but there was a rap concert and ghetto cars everywhere. Was it the 97.9 the beat museum?

[RWhite]

Never knew it was there. Found this on its demise.

http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2012/02/blaming_city_museum_of_automot.php

[Frank]

I don't think it was around more than 3 years. I saw ONE little display at the fair one year, but they would always clear out the museum to put in a bunch of stupid vendors, so you had to go when the fair was over once they put all the cars back in the building. They did a lousy job of promoting it. I had heard several cars from the Pate collection had made it there. One another note, I went my the train museum on Sunday and the Big Boy is still there and outside the grounds on its own spur getting ready to make the move to Frisco. Its all pretty and shiny now. All of the rolling stock from the museum is already moved out there and this is the last piece. It will be towed there, but they keep cancelling the trip.

[Baron Von Crowder]

I met a guy that had an old hard top convertible that was on loan to them, and wanted to make the trip out to check out the cars. Never did make it out, and sounds like they closed it. He said it was kinda odd how they had it set up and open, guess that was thier demise.

[RWhite]

....One another note, I went my the train museum on Sunday and the Big Boy is still there and outside the grounds on its own spur getting ready to make the move to Frisco......

I remember stumbling across that display many years ago when I went to the Fair with my kids and wife. Glad it will have a permanent place for people to see. Big Boy is an apt name for that engine!