Petroleum Museum & Chaparral Gallery

 

 

 

 

The Petroleum Museum in Midland Texas gave an overview of how oil is discovered, drilled and produced.

The Chaparral Gallery inside the museum had many Jim Hall and Hap Sharp Racing team cars and was of the highlights..The cars were so impressive and the drive to Midland was well worth the time.

 

 

Cars, Trees and Traditions exhibition

Cars, Trees & Traditions Exhibition

A great exhibit of 70 Years of Jeep highlighted the 55,000-square-foot Walter P. Chrysler Museum along with the Cars, Trees & Traditions Holiday Exibition.  Eight decades of holiday season celebrations were paired with Chrysler vehicles throughout the Museum. Evergreens featured authentic ornamentation from the early 1900s through the 1980s.

Several Lionel O and O27 gauge model trains spanning several decades were featured among the displays. Several of the box cars, produced by Weaver Ultra Line Cars, highlight current and past Chrysler brands including Dodge, Mopar®, DeSoto and Plymouth. Others spotlight such iconic Detroit institutions as Vernor’s and Stroh’s. The Stoney Creek Model Railroad Club ran a trio of trains on a 14’ x 28’ track.

Vehicle progression from horseless carriages to enclosed, more comfortable and better engineered models that helped change the ways in which Americans celebrated the season’s festivities were wonderfully displayed.

A Celebration Of Model T

As Detroit's Auto show comes to a close, here is another car I built in fabric that marks the events of another decade in the twentieth century, the 1910s. It took almost 3 years for me to complete this quilt. It was hard to work with just black fabrics for the model T, so i used black and whites instead, added lots of embellishments and I love the way it turned out.