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Vintage Grill & Car Museum
Vintage Grill & Car Museum is a car museum and restaurant in Weatherford, Texas.[1] It is located at 202 Fort Worth Highway, where it occupies a build from the 1930s that previously housed the McDavid Oldsmobile car dealership and a gas station.[1][2][3][4] Museum The museum features 11 cars.[5] Its collection includes a 1930 Buick, a 1940 LaSalle, a 1948 Studebaker sheriff patrol car, a 1948 Lincoln and a 1964 Lincoln Continental owned by President Lyndon B. Johnson, a 1975 Trabant, a 1979 Jeep CJ-7 (featuring six-wheel drive), a 1988 Jeep Grand Wagoneer-Dodge Durango hybrid, and a 1997 Pontiac G8 concept car.[1][4][6][7] On display are cars featured in the films The Godfather and Pearl Harbor.[3][8] RestaurantThe restaurant bills itself as serving "farm-to-table southern style cuisine",[1] and it sources its produce from the local Weatherford Farmers Market.[1][7] HistoryVintage Grill & Car Museum founder Tom Moncrief, an oilman from Fort Worth, was made to create a combination car museum and restaurant after visiting one in Sydney, Australia, while on his honeymoon in 1988.[4][7][8] After originally planning to open a 1950s-themed museum in Fort Worth, Moncrief took a suggestion to open it instead in an old service station, purchasing one in Weatherford for the purpose.[7][8] The current museum's buildings were built around 1919; by 1921, when the Bankhead Highway arrived in Weatherford, the lot included a 50-car garage, an auto sales and office building, gas pumps, and a repair shop. Before being repurposed as a car museum and restaurant, the property's former gas station also served as Weatherford's Greyhound bus station.[9] The establishment opened to the public in early 2015.[4] Vintage Car Museum and Event Center On August 4, 2016, the companion Vintage Car Museum and Event Center opened one block west of Vintage Grill & Car Museum, at 100 Fort Worth Highway.[10] The Museum and Event Center is located in the 13,000-square-foot (1,200 m2) Hobson Building, which allows Moncrief to display more of his car collections, which are curated by Shana Akins.[4][10] The Event Center walls are the original 1886 rock walls from when the building was a livery stable. It can accommodate over 200 people.[10] Gallery
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