{"id":14461,"date":"2015-04-24T11:53:33","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T18:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/?p=14461"},"modified":"2015-05-13T12:11:51","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T19:11:51","slug":"world-museum-of-speed-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/world-museum-of-speed-opening\/","title":{"rendered":"World Museum of Speed Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Story Via Autoweek
\n<\/a>Photos: Gregor Halenda<\/p>\n

In the corner visible from the Interstate \u00a0are hung four classic stock cars on the museum\u2019s own 31-degree, 44-foot-wide Daytona banking: Dale Earnhardt Jr.\u2019s 2000 Chevy Impala, Jim Vandiver\u2019s 1974 Dodge Charger, Terry Labonte\u2019s 1988 Chevy Monte Carlo and Cale Yarborough\u2019s 1979 Oldsmobile 442. On the ground in front of those four sits Richard Petty\u2019s Monte Carlo from the 1979 season.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s an open-wheel racing display of midgets and champ cars lined up under a 50-foot-wide mural of a midget race. The motorcycle section includes a long row of flat track TT bikes of the kind that used to race at nearby Sidewinder racetrack (the site of Dave and Sally Bany\u2019s first date, by the way).<\/p>\n

There\u2019s even a replica speed shop called Bucky\u2019s with the real office remnants of Bill \u201cGrumpy\u201d Jenkins.<\/p>\n

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Only half of all the museum space will be taken up by cars. The rest will serve the purpose of education. Remember the shop classes you took as a kid? Those don\u2019t exist anymore, so the museum will offer all manner of automotive-related shop classes in a facility that includes 10 lifts left over from the Chrysler Dodge Jeep dealership that used to occupy the building, along with all the tools and machinery an aspiring grease monkey could dream of.<\/p>\n

Racing 101 and Racing 201 will teach the fundamentals of car control before setting the kids loose in three onsite simulators: a NASCAR rig, an Indy car open-wheeler and a drag racing \u201cChristmas tree.\u201d Design, Build+Race will have kids penning their own race cars. In all, 10 classes will fill out the summer. More are planned for the fall, with the goal being to get school credits.<\/p>\n

More of the huge space in the former Town and Country Dodge dealership includes a mid-century lounge and an area for up to 1,000 guests (book your wedding now!). It sounds like a great museum, well worth a trip to the Great Northwest to see. It\u2019ll be open six days a week from 10 a.m.-5 p.m., closed Mondays.<\/p>\n

ETA:<\/strong> The museum is located in Wilsonville, OR! (We can’t believe we left that out!)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

World of Speed museum opens in the Portland area Friday in Wilsonville.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":14463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3470],"tags":[688,130,41,2509,2510,1354,1631],"class_list":["post-14461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-classic-car-museums","tag-historic-auto-attractions-museum","tag-news","tag-portland","tag-world-museum-of-speed-opening","tag-world-of-speed","tag-world-of-speed-museum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/unnamed-12.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42YSK-3Lf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14461"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14973,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14461\/revisions\/14973"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racingjunk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}