Haugland Collection

The last museum we visited is the Musee national de l'automobile in Mulhouse, France. This is the museum that incorporates the Schlumpf collection. The Schlumpf brothers made their money in textiles and spent it all on acquiring cars, to the point where they were embezzling funds from their company and bankrupted it. The French government out out warrants for their arrest in the 1980s but they had fled to Switzerland. The government seized the car collection and it is now heralded as the largest car museum in the world, with over 100 Bugattis alone in the collection, not counting the huge number of early automobiles, historic race cars and other luxury cars in the collection. This museum takes quite a while to see and is simply overwhelming. It would definitely be worth a repeat visit as I'm sure I missed things and details that I would love to catch next time.

A car will be following me home from Retromobile....

Today I was moving cars around and took the opportunity to drive 's 1959 Fiat 600 Multipla. This is definitely one of the

Happy Black Friday! (Idea stolen from and possibly others).