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Hartford, Wisconsin: Wisconsin Automotive Museum

One of its exhibits is a car driven more than a million miles by a local traveling salesman.

Address:
147 N. Rural St., Hartford, WI
Directions:
Downtown. Hwy 60 (Sumner St.) to Rural St, then north two blocks. Two blocks west of Hwy 83 (Main St.).
Hours:
W-Sa 10-5, Su-Tu closed. (Call to verify)
Phone:
262-673-7999
Admission:
Adults $10,(6-16) $6, 5 and under free, (62+) -$9
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Mitchell Motor Car, 1908.

Wisconsin Automotive Museum

What a fun museum. Two floors of cool cars. Super sweet people.

[Kimmy G, 10/12/2024]

The museum features cars that are mostly of importance to Wisconsin, such as locally-built Kissels and Nashes, as well as a Saab that was driven over a million miles by a Wisconsin traveling salesman.

Wisconsin Automotive Museum

Built near where the old Kissel car factory used to be, museum hosts Nash, Kissel, Studebaker, and many other iconic cars, as well as a few train sets.

[Corinne Kneeland, 03/27/2022]
Long-lived Car Parks at Wisconsin Car Museum

Peter Gilbert is a traveling salesman from Glendale, Wisconsin. Until recently he drove a Saab 900 SPG, which he had purchased new in late 1989.

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[12/10/2006] Complete News Story


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