An Introduction & Index

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Introduction

By way of introduction, my wife and I are members of the Savoy & Georgia Museums Inc. (GMI) who live close enough that we can enjoy the Savoy and other GMI museums on a regular basis.

Based on my pre-exhibit research, what we’ve seen during our visits to view new exhibits and what I’ve otherwise learned about the vehicles, I combined my enjoyment of automotive history, doing research and writing to create this “digital Archival Blog” as my personal reference source, which anyone is welcome to view and read.

In terms of the ‘target audience,’ my hope is the exhibit photo galleries and other information I capture will facilitate a ‘virtual visit’ to both current and past exhibits for those who, for whatever reason, are physically unable to visit the Savoy during an exhibit of interest. Secondarily, it will be a historical archive that will allow me as well as other museum members and guests to ‘revisit’ exhibits that have moved-on.

In no way is the archival blog a substitute for actually visiting the Savoy to see the exhibits first hand and visually explore the details of the vehicles and insights offered by the Savoy’s volunteer docents and other members of the staff.

Direct Link to the Landing Page for All Four of My Blogs https://werlivingood.com/

The Savoy was #1 in the USA Today’s 2024 Reader’s Choice Awards!

Voted #1 Car Lover Attraction by USA Today 10Best Readers’ Choice 2024 ⏐ SAVOY AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM

Current Exhibits & Upcoming Events

Temporary Exhibits

    Savoy Events Calendar for May as of 2 May Direct Link to Website Calendar View

    No recent additions since the Sip & Paint on 17 May and Automobilia Collectables Lecture on 18 May

    https://savoymuseum.org/events-calendar/month/

    And, yes… you can change the Savoy’s ‘default’ list view of events into a full-month calendar view by using the small view selector icon in the upper right-hand corner of list view page; just select ‘Month’ and voila, you can see a full-month view where hovering over an event will generate a pop-up of all the event detail. And, no I’m not sure why the Savoy doesn’t use this as their website’s default setting.

    Sneak Peek at Events for June & July

    They’ll Eventually Add These Events To Their Calendar

    Savoy Museum Collection Exhibits

    A Note About the Automotive Art at the Savoy: It is my heartfelt belief that most art cannot be fully appreciated beyond it’s aesthetic qualities to a viewer unless they take time to learn more about the artists, their inspiration and the techniques they use and why. With that additional understanding, artworks will usually provide the viewer with an entirely different experience, analogous to understanding how the Grand Canyon or amazing landscapes in Utah were formed vs. just appreciating their appearance. With that in mind, I created my ‘Automotive Art at the Savoy’ webpage that provides background on each of the artists that may be of interest. The same is also true of many of the automobiles that come through the Savoy as well, especially the one-off, unique models associated with a single designer.

    Current Unofficial Savoy Statistics As of 7 May 2024

    • Date First Opened to the Public: 8 December 2021
      • 100,000th Museum Visitor: 4 January 2023
      • 200,000th Museum Visitor: < 30 April 2024
        • 2023 Attendance: ~78,000
    • Total Temporary Exhibits: 31
    • Total Vehicles Displayed: 369
      • Less 33 Multiple Appearances: 336 Different Vehicles
      • Vehicles on Loan From Others: 234 Exhibited
      • Vehicles from the Savoy Collection: 102 of ~139 Exhibited
    • Special Events: 39
      • The Savoy Lecture Series: 17
      • Car Owner Engagements : 6
      • Savoy Car Shows: 2
      • Others: 14
    • Movies at the Savoy: 26
    • YouTube Videos: 19 with > 556 Subscribers .Link to Savoy YouTube Channel

    Recent Savoy Archive Updates Now at 65 Published Entries

    Savoy Auto Museum Timeline

    Previous Savoy Exhibits

    • 2024, Year 3 Exhibit Rotation – Link to Consolidated List of 39 Vehicles Displayed Thus Far in 2024
      • 27 Wooden Wonders, 9 Jan – 5 May  (2 Autos & 3 Watercraft)
      • 28 What’s in Chip’s Garage, 6 Feb – 2 Jun (12 Vehicles)
      • 29 Women Racers and Their Cars, 5 May – 7 Jul  (8 Vehicles) WIMNA and Savoy Collaboration
      • 30 Movie Cars , 2 Apr – 4 Aug (9 Vehicles)
      • 31 RAD Cars of Savoy (Preview Edition), 7 May – 25 Aug, Savoy Collection, 1980s & 1990s
      •   Indy Motor Speedway Museum, Part 1, 1 Jun – 29 Sep Vintage and Historic Indy Racers
      •   Moonshine Runners, 9 Jul – 3 Nov  The Forerunners of NASCAR Racers
      •   Prominent Packards, 6 Aug – 1 Dec  Highlighting the Packard Brand over 60 Years
      •   Savoy Survivors, 27 Aug – 5 Jan 25 TBA – Was ‘Cars as Canvas’
      •   Indy Motor Speedway Museum, Part 2, 1 Oct – 2 Feb 25 Andretti, Foyt, and Unser Indy Racers
      •   High-Performance Sportscars, 5 Nov – 2 Mar 25 Exotics, Supercars, and Hypercars
      •   Collectible Japanese Cars, 3 Dec – 30 Mar 25 Japanese Domestic Market Autos
    https://myviststothesavoy.files.wordpress.com/2024/05/savoy-car-inventory_4_may_2024.xlsx

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    Additional Subjects That Follow…

    • The Learning Center
      • Someone You Should Know
      • Background Information
    • Overview of the Savoy & Georgia Museums, Inc.
      • A Little More About the Savoy
      • A Little More About GMI
      • Opportunities for Refinement at the Savoy
    • Automotive Research Resources & Misc. Information
      • Other Archival Blog Entries
      • Links to Websites of Interest
    • More About this Digital Archival Blog
    • Other Automobile Collections We’ve Visited Since 5 May 2022
    • My Savoy Exhibit-Inspired Book Reading As of 30 June 2023

    The Learning Center

    The following links take readers to ‘spin-offs’ from my Savoy Exhibit archival blog entries where I included A LOT of information pertaining the era or movement associated with the cars or ‘theme’ of the exhibit.

    Someone You Should Know My Personal History Narratives

    Background Information… on the Savoy, Past Exhibit ‘Themes’ & Other Subject I Found interesting

    Overview of the Savoy & Georgia Museums, Inc.

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    Automotive Research Resources & Misc. Information

    The Chrysler Evolution Timeline

    More About this Digital Archival Blog:

    The Savoy is an “Automobiles as Art-Gallery,” which we sincerely appreciate. Being able to see vehicles they way they are tastefully exhibited in the roomy, relatively distraction-free halls and galleries of the Savoy is just so refreshing. And, if you take a moment to enjoy the art hanging on the walls, it too is intriguing, even more-so if you take time to learn more about the artists.

    I decided to create this blog so I could capture what we’ve seen at the exhibits in a digital, web-accessible digital Archival Blog with sufficient detail that will allow us to recall the details of our visits. However, after publishing content for nearly a year, in some respects its has transcended ‘Archival Blog‘ levels of detail to become a pseudo time capsule of the museum’s exhibit history that I refer to quite often. If others find it of interest, all the better.

    However, this digital Archival Blog is no substitute for actually visiting the museum to see everything in person. Photos alone simply fail to allow readers to fully appreciate the vehicles and art on exhibit in terms of scale, detail, colors, textures in three-dimensions, just as it would with any art museum, monuments and other worthwhile exhibits or places of interest. Moreover, photos alone don’t make-up for the missed experience of being in the presence of the exhibit and amazing surrounding environment that is the Savoy and its knowledgeable, exceptional staff.

    Since this is a non-commercial, hobbyist’s venture and I’m uploading low-resolution, small-sized images taken by an amateur photographer with initially a 2016 Samsung J3 Galaxy phone –– more recently a 2022 Apple iPhone SE — my sharing of this information is done in the spirit of the Fair Use Doctrine. My hope is, my on-line digital Archival Blog may inspire folks who somehow stumble upon it to visit the museum and see the exhibits first hand if at all possible, as that’s the best way to experience visual art… within the environment that’s been carefully curated for the exhibits.

    Fair Warning: Given the variety and number of vehicles that have been exhibited, my “Archival Blog” has now grown in size and complexity well-beyond my initial, modest objective. To that end, I have included a few statistics below the index of each public blog entry created since July 2022 that reflect the same information you see below for the consolidated content of this entire blog.

    • Printed page length
    • Word count
    • Reading time (Based on a reading speed of 300wpm)
    • Total count of individual images
    • Number of video links
    • Hours of Content Work About 50% of the Effort Needed to Publish A Blog

    Total Blog: Printed Length: 2,304-Pages, Word Count: 566,361 (31.6 Hour Read), Images: 6984 Video Links 205, and over 2,832-Hours of content work as of 28 April 2024

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    Other Automobile Collections We’ve Visited Since 5 May 2022

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    My Savoy Exhibit-Inspired Book Reading

    In addition to the hundreds of internet-hosted articles I’ve read while doing research on the cars displayed in each of the Savoy’s exhibits that are listed as acknowledged sources where I’ve used information from those articles in whole or part as the background information I provide for each vehicle, I’ve also been inspired to obtain and read several books regarding the focus area of the exhibits. The following is a running index of those books as well as more recently starting to add articles I’ve read and cited using Seattle University’s outstanding ‘Joint STORage’ (JSTOR) site where, as a member, I’m enabled to read up to 100 articles a month.

    • Big Blocks Exhibit: Holman Moody & Kar-Kraft
    • Built for a Crisis: Unsafe At Any Speed & The Decline and Fall of the American Auto Industry
      • Follow-on: Comeback & The Automobile and American Life
    • 75 Years of Porsche: Porsche 911, Forever Young
    • Factory Drag Cars: The American Hot Rod
    • Forged by Fuller: JSTOR Article, Custom Coachbuilding in the United States, 1900-1940
    • Forged by Fuller: The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
    • British Invasion: Wayne Carini’s Affordable Classics, Volume 1
    • Rolling Sculpture: Ken Purdy’s “Kings of the Road” highly recommended by Ken Gross
    • Women in Motorsports: Janet Guthrie’s Life at Full Throttle, Danica Patrick’s Pretty Intense personal wellness plan that Miss Debbie whose all about nutrition and fitness finds excellent, and Car & Driver’s 50th anniversary anthology, a wealth of past articles & reviews

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