Swigart Museum

#Pic_A_Day (2193) @AlMachFineArt https://www.abc23.com/newspost/the-swigart-museum/ TV show featuring the Swigart Auto Museum with so many unique autos! (Sorr...y the TV station puts a commercial first.) Here is an interview with Marge Cutright who has been with the museum for decades. Make sure it is on your bucket list for must dos, as it is very unique staffed by polite, caring, and knowledgeable people! The Swigart Museum is open daily from Memorial Day weekend through the end of October. "We Hope To See You Down The Road." So make your plans now for 2021 so you don’t miss this exciting Museum. http://www.swigartmuseum.com/ See more

This is an important moment in automotive history that took place 125 years ago today.

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Happy Thanksgiving from your friends at the Swigart Museum!

Today is this season's last Kars & Koffee by Raystown Kruisers. There is still time to stop by and check out the cars.

#Pic_A_Day (2145) @AlMachFineArt Horn Display at the Swigart Auto Museum There is a very interesting display of horns at the museum, 12031 William Penn Hwy Huntingdon, PA. This year is the 100th anniversary of the collection at the Swigart Auto Museum, America’s oldest automobile museum! You need to go quick as the museum is open till October 31st.... http://www.swigartmuseum.com/cars.html See more

It may be a bit chilly out but that didn’t stop Kars & Koffee by Raystown Kruisers! Cars are still pulling in. There’s only 2 Saturday’s left for the season. Next Saturday is our Trunk - or - Treat 9am-11am. ... Kars and Koffee takes place every Saturday (unless it’s raining) 9am-11am from May to October. The Swigart Museum America’s Oldest Car Museum closes at the end of October. Come and see us while you still can everyday 10am-5pm! See you down the road!

#Pic_A_Day (2140) @AlMachFineArt 3 different sized Curved Dash Olds seen at the Swigart Auto Museum! Also interesting history, drawings, advertisements, and hi...storical pictures. You can still go and see these autos as well as enjoy all the other unique autos and various displays at the Swigart Auto Museum in Huntingdon, PA History of the Curved Dash Olds Ransom Eli Olds founded the Olds Motor Vehicle Company in Lansing, Michigan, on 21 August 1897. His automobile company was the first in Michigan organized solely for manufacturing and selling motor vehicles. By 1903, Olds was a bit of a veteran in the fledgling business. He tested his first car, a steamer, in 1887 with a gasoline car soon to follow. The Olds Motor Vehicle Works was capitalized in 1899 by a wealthy lumber merchant, Samuel L. Smith, while Olds himself set about the development of several different models, including electric vehicles. It was not until the factory burned down on 9 March 1901 that Olds focused his attention on the surviving car, a gasoline runabout the now familiar Curved-Dash Oldsmobile (CDO). The car was powered by a single-cylinder engine and fitted with a spur-geared, two-speed transmission. The simple engine produced 4-hp at 600 rpm and was capable of a top speed of 20 mph. It was well made, simple to operate, and a good value. The Curved-Dash Oldsmobile quickly became America’s first volume car. Olds sold 425 of the $650 toboggan nose cars in 1901 with another 2,500 or so in 1902, and 3,924 in 1903. According to Wikipedia, The gasoline powered Curved Dash Oldsmobile is credited as being the first mass-produced automobile, meaning that it was built on an assembly line using interchangeable parts. It was introduced by the Oldsmobile company in 1901 and produced through 1907. 425 examples were produced the first year, 2,500 in 1902, with over 19,000 built in all. It was a runabout model, could seat two passengers, and sold for US$650. While competitive, due to high volume, and below the Ford US$850 "Doctor's Car", Western in 1905 produced the Gale Model A roadster at US$500, the Black went as low as $375, and the Success hit the amazingly low US$250. The flat-mounted water-cooled single-cylinder engine, situated at the center of the car, produced 5 hp (3.7 kW), relying on a brass gravity feed carburetor. The transmission was a semi-automatic design with two forward speeds and one reverse. The low-speed forward and reverse gear system are a planetary type (epicyclic). The car weighed 850 lb (390 kg) and used Concord springs. It had a top speed of 20 mph (32 km/h). The car’s success was partially by accident in 1901 a fire destroyed a number of other models before they were approved for production, leaving the Curved Dash the only one intact. History of Oldsmobile from the Oldsmobile Club of America: https://www.oldsmobileclub.org/page/History OLDSMOBILE 1896 2004 1864: Ransom E. Olds is born in Geneva, Ohio. His family moves to Lansing when he is 16. 1887: R.E. Olds develops a steam-powered car. 1893: Olds’ steam-powered car becomes the first American car sold abroad but the ship sinks on the way to India and the car is lost. 1896: Olds builds a gas-powered car and starts motoring around Lansing. 1897: Olds and Lansing business people start the Olds Motor Vehicle Co. and build four cars. The Lansing-based manufacturer is the first company organized specifically to produce cars in quantity. 1899: Olds’ second company, Olds Motor Works, moves to Detroit. 1900: The Oldsmobile name is first used. 1901: Detroit plants are destroyed by fire and Olds returns to Lansing. 1905: The Curved Dash Oldsmobile is immortalized by the song In My Merry Oldsmobile. 1908: Oldsmobile joins the newly organized General Motors Co. as one of its first two operating divisions. The other is Buick. 1916: Oldsmobile uses the first V-8 engine. 1927-29: Olds employment grows to 7,000 with 12 new buildings. 1935: One millionth Olds is built. 1942-45: Automobile production ends and Olds workers make 48 million rounds of ammunition, 140,000 aircraft machine guns and tank cannons. 1949: The Rocket V-8 engine is introduced. 1950: R.E. Olds dies. 1958: Olds becomes the nation’s fourth largest automaker. 1965: Employment exceeds 15,000 in Lansing. 1968: Hurst/Oldsmobiles roll off the assembly line and are shipped to Demmer Tool and Die for conversion. 1978: With the dedication of a new Cutlass plant, Oldsmobile’s Lansing operations become North America’s largest passenger car assembly complex. 1979: Engine plant opens in Delta Township. GM employment tops 23,000. 1984: With the reorganization of GM, Oldsmobile becomes a sales and marketing division in the Buick-Oldsmobile-Cadillac Group. Oldsmobile sells more cars this year than any other year. 1992: Buick-Oldsmobile-Cadillac becomes a corporate GM name only. Lansing’s factories become part of the Lansing Automotive Division, which made its home offices in the city. 1996: GM announces Oldsmobile will move to Detroit. 1997: Oldsmobile celebrates 100th anniversary. 1998: Oldsmobile moves from Lansing to Detroit. In mid-1998, Oldsmobile starts to build the Alero in Lansing. 1999: A GM vice president says the automaker could build two new assembly factories in the Lansing area. 2000: GM announces it will phase out its Oldsmobile division. 2001: Oldsmobile dealers begin receiving settlement payments from GM to avert lawsuits related to the Oldsmobile phase out. 2004: An amendment to a pending federal tax bill may give Oldsmobile dealers two years to spend their GM settlement checks before tax on the money is due. April 29, 2004: The last Oldsmobile to be built, an Alero, rolls off the line at Lansing Car Assembly. In My Merry Oldsmobile Song 1905 (Sorry if there are adds. Soon after you can skip it) http://youtu.be/Y7QnPtkn8q0 In My Merry Oldsmobile Song 1931 cartoon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuoheRxW_30 Judy Garland & Bing Crosby - IN MY MERRY OLDSMOBILE 1952 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wmz0VFV9zaY This was seen at the Swigart Auto Museum. This year is the 100th anniversary of the collection at the Swigart Auto Museum, America’s oldest museum! http://www.swigartmuseum.com/cars.html

#Pic_A_Day (2133) @AlMachFineArt April 8, 1948 Swigart buys Curved Dash Olds, Pics & information You can still go and see this auto as well as enjoy all the other unique autos and various displays at the Swigart Auto Museum in Huntingdon, PA http://www.swigartmuseum.com/cars.html

Check out theses great pictures from Kars & Koffee by Raystown Kruisers at the museum this past Saturday!

It’s a beautiful and cool day for Kars & Koffee by Raystown Kruisers here at the Swigart Museum! After today there’s only 4 Saturday’s left for Kars and Koffee so make sure to come check it out! Every Saturday from May to October 8am-11am, weather dependent.

Kars and Koffee tomorrow (Saturday) morning here at the Swigart Museum!

Check this out, some Pennsylvania Automotive history!

Come check out the Kars & Koffee by Raystown Kruisers this morning at Swigart Museum.

#Pic_A_Day (2119) @AlMachFineArt Feb. 19, 1948 Newspaper article about Swigart Auto Museum. The article mentions the huge collection of name plates, here are ...4 of them. Remember you can still go by and enjoy all the unique autos and various displays at the Swigart Auto Museum in Huntingdon, PA http://www.swigartmuseum.com/cars.html See more

#Pic_A_Day (2109) @AlMachFineArt 7/7/1948 Newspaper - 12 Veteran Firemen Head Parade in Swigart Museum Autos There was so much to see back then and there is s...till so much to see! Go by and enjoy all the unique autos and displays at the Swigart Auto Museum in Huntingdon, PA Here are just a couple of them. http://www.swigartmuseum.com/cars.html See more

Continuing our focus on past attendees, I have to wonder will this vehicle be back to Kars and Koffee this week? Stop by the Swigart Museum tomorrow morning from 8:00 to 11:00 AM and find out. While the cars are cool, the coffee will be hot and ready.