Reno MG - All British Car Club: Britain's Motorcar Museum

The museum shares the grounds of the famous Cistercian Abbey - which was mostly destroyed by Henry VIII after he had the Abbey and almost all the monks murdered - along with the Montagu Mansion & Gardens. Lord Montagu and his family still live in the mansion, but it is open daily for tours... and is worth taking the time to see.

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Above: A monorail serves the multiple functions on the large acreage - giving beautiful views down onto the gardens... which are so large as to be difficult to see when walking on the paths.

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Above: The James Bond Vehicles Museum is also on the grounds, housing the fantastic cars, motorcycles, boats, and airplanes from the famous "007" movies from the 60's through the present.

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Above: Just one of the many James Bond / 007 vehicles - this one, an amphibian vehicle. Some were very memorable, others had more of "bit parts" in the movies.

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Above: Another view of the monorail and a small portion of the exterior of the Motorcar Museum. The museum has a great gift shop with dozens of different scale-model diecast model cars... many that couldn't be found anywhere else in Great Britain (which has a far greater variety at much more reasonable prices than are available in the U.S.).

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Above: The museum has well over a dozen fully-equipped garages from the early auto days. Most have prolific stock of parts, supplies, under-counter paraphenalia, and work-in-process autos... along with recorded "shop talk" in thick accents using car part names that are often difficult to figure out. Additionally, it had many other small exhibits that were very fully-equipped with parts and quite authentic.

Reno MG - All British Car Club

Britain's National Motorcar Museum

The Great Britiain National Motorcar Museum is a wonderful place, filled with hundreds of automobiles from the 1890's through the 1960's, exhibits, and old full-scale garage replicas.

Additionally, on the same grounds is the James Bond "007 Auto Museum" featuring almost all the vehichles used in all the 007 movies.

Cars are arranged by era - for example, there are dozens from World War II - and category (including beautiful collections of buses, races cars, motorcycles, etc.). This museum is far bigger and better organized than ones in the U.S.

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One of many mock-up

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One of the racecars from the 30's - 60's

These are huge: 30 - 40' long with 48

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Left: One of the many garage displays. Be sure to click this picture to enlarge it and spend time studying the incredible variety of authenticity.

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Left: A combination garage / parts store - it often took 20 to 30 minutes of careful attention just to get an overview of the many different items packed into these displays, reminding one of small garages in the U.S. back in the late 1940's and early 1950's.

Left: Daimler is NOT a part of modern-day Daimler-Benz of Germany, maker of the Mercedes-Benz automobiles. Rather, it is an English brand - by custom, the Queen of England is always carried in a Daimler automobile.

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Part of the huge pre-BMW Mini-Cooper Collection

There was a huge section of race cars

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An interesting Mini Cooper

Would this go over in the U.S.?

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