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Vintage Grill & Car Museum
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Established2015
LocationWeatherford, Texas
Coordinates32°45′31″N 97°47′43″W / 32.758619°N 97.795287°W / 32.758619; -97.795287
TypeAutomobile museum, restaurant
CuratorTerry Mann
OwnerTom Moncrief
Websitevintageautomuseum.com

Vintage Grill & Car Museum is a car museum and restaurant in Weatherford, Texas.[1] It is located at 202 Fort Worth Highway, where it occupies a build from the 1930s that previously housed the McDavid Oldsmobile car dealership and a gas station.[1][2][3][4]

Museum

The museum features 11 cars.[5] Its collection includes a 1930 Buick, a 1940 LaSalle, a 1948 Studebaker sheriff patrol car, a 1948 Lincoln and a 1964 Lincoln Continental owned by President Lyndon B. Johnson, a 1975 Trabant, a 1979 Jeep CJ-7 (featuring six-wheel drive), a 1988 Jeep Grand Wagoneer-Dodge Durango hybrid, and a 1997 Pontiac G8 concept car.[1][4][6][7] On display are cars featured in the films The Godfather and Pearl Harbor.[3][8]

Restaurant

The restaurant bills itself as serving "farm-to-table southern style cuisine",[1] and it sources its produce from the local Weatherford Farmers Market.[1][7]

History

Vintage Grill & Car Museum founder Tom Moncrief, an oilman from Fort Worth, was made to create a combination car museum and restaurant after visiting one in Sydney, Australia, while on his honeymoon in 1988.[4][7][8] After originally planning to open a 1950s-themed museum in Fort Worth, Moncrief took a suggestion to open it instead in an old service station, purchasing one in Weatherford for the purpose.[7][8]

The current museum's buildings were built around 1919; by 1921, when the Bankhead Highway arrived in Weatherford, the lot included a 50-car garage, an auto sales and office building, gas pumps, and a repair shop. Before being repurposed as a car museum and restaurant, the property's former gas station also served as Weatherford's Greyhound bus station.[9]

The establishment opened to the public in early 2015.[4]

Vintage Car Museum and Event Center

On August 4, 2016, the companion Vintage Car Museum and Event Center opened one block west of Vintage Grill & Car Museum, at 100 Fort Worth Highway.[10] The Museum and Event Center is located in the 13,000-square-foot (1,200 m2) Hobson Building, which allows Moncrief to display more of his car collections, which are curated by Shana Akins.[4][10] The Event Center walls are the original 1886 rock walls from when the building was a livery stable. It can accommodate over 200 people.[10]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "About". Vintage Grill & Car Museum. Archived from the original on June 8, 2017. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Vintage Grill & Car Museum". Texas Monthly. March 24, 2015.[permanent dead link]
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Dabney, Courtney. "Vintage Grill Weatherford". Fort Worth Magazine. Archived from the original on March 20, 2016. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 Blok, Celestina (October 2016). "Wheels and Meals: Vintage Grill & Car Museum in Weatherford". Texas Highways. Archived from the original on June 12, 2017. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
  5. ↑ "Vintage Grill & Car Museum". TravelTexas. Office of the Governor, Economic Development and Tourism. Archived from the original on September 13, 2017. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
  6. ↑ Mayhew, Malcolm (April 1, 2015). "Restaurant review: Vintage Grill & Car Museum in Weatherford". DFW.com. Archived from the original on August 8, 2016. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 "Vintage Grill and Car Museum". Weatherford Democrat. March 10, 2015. Archived from the original on November 16, 2018. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 Winter, Lance (May 24, 2016). "Classic car museum revving up for enthusiast enjoyment". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Archived from the original on September 13, 2017. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
  9. ↑ "Vintage Grill & Car Museum". Parker County Heritage Society. Archived from the original on September 13, 2017. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 "Vintage Car Museum grand opening showcases automobiles from bygone eras". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. August 2, 2016. Archived from the original on November 6, 2016. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
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