The Journey Continues

 On our way to Pontiac, Illinois, we made a stop in Marengo to have a guy turned two brake drums for his 1961 Pontiac and bought 4 wheels from him. Great guy. They had been emailing for awhile, so Ron was expecting him. This is where we had to park the truck and trailer while the work was being done.

We arrived in Pontiac before the museum opened, so had time to walk the streets.

 We thought these little cars had been around town for awhile, but one of the restaurant owners told us that a few years ago the businesses decorated dogs! I guess they are auctioned off as fund raisers; the cars have been around longer than the guy expected them to be.

There are also a lot of cool murals around town also.

One business had this banner hanging in the window! Go cats!

 We finally got into the Pontiac Oakland Museum when it opened at 9:00 a.m.

We had only been here a little while when Tim, the owner, asked Cary if he would like to ride over to the warehouse where he needed to pick up something he needed to use today. We both went along.

 Wow! Tim is a pretty young guy to have all these cars! He has only had the museum open a few years. He is from Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. He came to Pontiac and asked around about the possibility of opening a museum here. The mayor actually gave him a call...and the rest is history!

 Part of the building is dedicated to painting. He has a guy who paints cars,

and this gorgeous dress that glows in the dark,

and pieces like this, that although they are done on hoods of cars, they are meant to be sold as wall art, perhaps to restaurants in town.

Cary is still on Cloud 9 after Tim asked him if he would like to ride along when he moved this convertible to make room for another car going into the museum. Wow! Next stop, the Route 66 Museum down the street.