Volo Auto Museum
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The Volo Auto Museum is an automobile museum in the Chicago suburb of Volo, Illinois, USA. It is part of a larger antique mall.
Unique to this museum is that many of the vehicles on display (in four large buildings) are for sale. A military-oriented "Armed Forces Exhibit" was added fairly recently. Cars on display are mostly from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. The museum and antique mall are together a family business begun in 1960 as a furniture store.
The museum also features cars (some original and many replicas) from famous television shows and movies. These include:
- KITT from Knight Rider
- Bluesmobile from The Blues Brothers
- The General Lee from The Dukes of Hazzard (television show)
- police car from RoboCop III
- replica DeLorean from Back to the Future
- replica DRAG-U-LA from The Munsters
- Christine from Christine
- cars from The Fast and the Furious
- replica van from Scooby-Doo
- replica (Don Currie-built) Batmobile of TV's Batman
- moped used by Peter Parker in Spiderman
The replica Batmobile is notable as it signed by George Barris and the signage around it refers to the Barris-built Batmobiles. However, there is no mention that this is a non-Barris replica.
Some of the so-called "star cars" are also available for purchase.
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