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Speedway Motors Museum Of American Speed: One BangShifter’s Look Into The Jaw Dropping Facility In Nebraska

Jul 15, 2015BangShift Galleries, Museums5

Speedway Motors Museum Of American Speed: One BangShifter’s Look Into The Jaw Dropping Facility In Nebraska

(Photos by Scott Liggett) – There are places in this country involving cars, racing, and automotive history that are beyond description and the Speedway Motors Museum of American Speed is one of those places. Founded in 1992 by Speedy Bill Smith and his wife Joyce, this place stands as a monument to the trials, tribulations, advancements, and failures in the pursuit of performance motoring. From the earliest incarnations of racing cars to the incredible technology of today, this place has it all. The sheer volume of vehicles is astounding but it is the engines and parts that everyone really goes nutty over.

You will get a taste of that over the next couple of days as we run contributor Scott Liggett’s favorite photos from his visit to the Lincoln, Nebraska museum. The rooms full of engines, the walls decked out in intake manifolds, and the way it is all just open for you to revel at really makes this place unique. Engines by Smokey Yunick that you can get your snoot right down near to see the tricks and maybe discover some hidden gem of Yunick magic most people walk past. This is pure magic.

We’ll back back tomorrow with another load of photos from this true automotive heaven on Earth so for today, enjoy the images below courtesy of Scott Liggett.

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5 thoughts on “Speedway Motors Museum Of American Speed: One BangShifter’s Look Into The Jaw Dropping Facility In Nebraska”

  2. Matt

    I’ve been fortunate enough to spend two 8 hour days at this place and I still have not had enough time to take it all in. This place is 3 stories of everything automobile related. Every square inch of wall space and floor space is full of cool stuff. Even the stairwells are plastered with car related movie posters and another stairwell is solid lunch boxes. A window looking into the machine shop shows how all Speedway brand parts are made right there on site. This place is a must visit for anyone. Try to attend during their racer appreciation day in February and then you can tour the parts warehouse, shipping department, machine shop, engine shop, and dyno room. Also, their employees are some of the nicest people you will ever meet. Bill Smith started something that is just undescribable and will surely be around for centuries to come.

    1. Scott Liggett

      I wanted into that room with all the old race and airplane engines bad, bad, bad. Shoved my camera against the windows to get these pictures.

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