On June 3rd, the boys, our friend Joachim, and I visited the museum of German Automobiles in Amerang.
The museum was started by a private collector and pays homage to the inventors and business men of the industry like Benz, Maybach, Daimler, Diesel, and Horsch (Audi). Unlike the Porsche or MB museums in Stuttgart or the BMW museum in Munich, this was not a commercial for one brand.
There were about 200 cars from the last 100 years. The cars were in terrific condition and you could feel the evolution and see the expanding wealth of the continent after WWII. They also had some of the cars from the 1980s and 1990s that I remember as the most beautiful.
The cars on display were museum pieces but they did have one car for the boys to get behind the wheel. It was huge. It must have been 20 feet long.
Here you can see the coupes and convertibles. At the very end you can see Brian sitting on a bench, bored. I should have known that the boys - who could leave the Louvre after a couple of hours - would be able to walk through this museum in an hour.
They also had a huge collection of model trains in all sizes. This was also appreciated very briefly.
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