We visited the Model T Museum in Richmond last week, the place is just fine and really is set for a great future....
The building is centered in the re-development area downtown Richmond, with lots of fine establishments and building art surrounding it.
The front entrance is located off the private parking lot...
Visitors daily, at least 12 or more...note the lobby guest book the day we visited!
The displays of Fords, and feature items is superb.
After visit, a short ride up to E. Main St. and into Ron and Rachel Hughes "Tin Lizzie Cafe" for coffee and snack. Ron is busy placing more T pictures on the walls of the cafe, some from local Model T owners, Ron has a '24 runabout.
If you go anywhere near Richmond IN, you have to make the trek over to the club Museum
Thanks for the report, Dan. It's good to see that the progress is continuing. The last time I was at the Museum was at the Centennial in '08. I know the new one will blow my socks off! I can't wait to visit it.
You guys in the midwest have all the fun....
Yep...maybe...but Richmond is a long way from my house in north FL...
We took a 2 week trip, ran about 300 miles of the "Worlds Longest Yard Sale"...this crazy thing has been done for over 20 years, starts in Alabama and ends in Michigan!
The route follows 2-lane US 27, all the way...a log jam...every yard, every town, every sidewalk on that highway is covered with tents, and piles of stuff.....
I got that gasoline blow torch under the tree for $2...just the thing to place on Nellie, the cutdown pickup
Of course did see a few T tools, and a complete T for sale in TN.
Oh, wow ... I could use some of those antlers! :-) I do carvings on them, and slices, etc. I've not heard of this! .... (probably a good thing, though!) The museum looks like a fun place to visit.
Richmond is almost exactly half-way on our annual trip to visit my wife's family in Iowa from our home outside Philly. We stop overnight each trip out and always visit the museum. Can't wait to see the new place when we go through in September!
How far away from Richmond is Bluffton Indiana? From the looks of things on a map, I may have been driving right by it? If I end up to having to go to Bluffton again, I'm going to make it a point to stop at the museum. Bluffton is sure closer than southwest Florida. While I was up in Bluffton, I couldn't help but keep thinking that 'Lizzie' sure would look at home among all these early 20th century buildings. The house my daughter and her family was renting was on Main St. in Bluffton and was built before my 27 Ford was. Sure would have liked to have been able to picture of 'Lizzie' sitting in the driveway. I'm positive she wouldn't have been the first one.
Dennis, according to Google Maps, Bluffton is 73 miles almost due north of Richmond,
Dennis
If going to Bluffton, give Jack Putnam a call, Jack posts a bit here, and has a nice shop, rebuilds motors, and some rather nice T's too. He is just off the Interstate a couple of miles east of Bluffton.
As for Richmond. Here are some more shots of the buildings around the Model T Museum, that have fun art on the sides.
Dan: There are two Bluffton's. I'm in Bluffton, OHIO. Dennis is talking about Bluffton, Indiana. The towns are about an hour and a half apart. I am just off I-75 in Ohio and all are welcome to stop when in the area.
Dick, 73 miles down here in Florida is a nothing trip, in a modern car anyway. I'll make it a point to visit the museum if I'm up in those parts again.
Dennis, I agree about 73 miles. I was once told that the difference between Americans and Europeans is that Americans think that 100 years is a long time and Europeans think that 100 miles is a long distance.
It is a good thing they have a firetruck in the wall art otherwise they would be getting a lot of calls about the building being on fire.
Yup, those paintings are mighty realistic.