Hi Everyone, I'm still on the road, but I'm gonna try a few more. This report contains info about our journey on the way to Dearborn.
The first one is the parking spot JM and I paid $30 to use, we took up five spots, and they were trying to get $10 each. When we arrived in Cleveland to see the Western Reserve Historical Society's Crawford Collection, we found they were having a PARADE RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE MUSEUM! Oops on us. JM always has some awesome sandwich makings with him, thanks to his angel of a wife! He also had a bag of Utz brand crab/Old Bay flavored chips made in good old Hanover PA, my favorite. We visited the Utz plant on a tour during the Gettysburg meet, first or second, I can't remember. We really needed some chow after the museum and parade watching.
Their Stainless '36 has spider hubcaps on the passenger side and normal ones on the drivers. The interior is unrestored and I loved it! (Even though I see the headlight switch is turned on.) I learned from the V-8 Foundation's new book on the Floyd collection that this particular car was originally assigned to the Detroit branch of Allegheny Ludlum company. (Joe Floyd's stainless '36 was assigned to Chicago.) It sits beside a stainless T-Bird and a Continental. They have a DeLorean, obviously stainless, that they say is car #1, in another gallery.
In the background of one of the '36 shots, there is a collection of license plates, many originally owned by Mr. Crawford, that goes back to the beginning, plates made of leather with house numbers attached all the way up to the sixties (I think).
The last car is an 1897 Panhard Levassor, and the placard says it's believed to be the oldest enclosed automobile in existence.
They also have a spectacular carousel.
https://www.wrhs.org/research/crawford/