Vintage Grill & Car Museum

Vintage Grill & Car Museum
	Exterior of the Vintage Grill & Car Museum
	Location within Texas
Established	2015
Location	Weatherford, Texas
Coordinates	32°45′31″N 97°47′43″W / 32.758619°N 97.795287°W
Type	Automobile museum, restaurant
Curator	Terry Mann
Owner	Tom Moncrief
Website	vintageautomuseum.com

Vintage Grill & Car Museum is a car museum and restaurant in Weatherford, Texas. ^{[citation needed]} It is located at 202 Fort Worth Highway, where it occupies a circa-1930s building that previously housed the McDavid Oldsmobile car dealership and a gas station. ^{[citation needed]}

Museum

The museum features 11 classic and vintage cars. Its collection includes a 1930 Buick, a 1940 LaSalle, a 1948 Studebaker sheriff patrol car, a 1948 Lincoln and a 1964 Lincoln Continental both 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. ^{[citation needed]} Also on display are cars featured in the films The Godfather and Pearl Harbor.^{[citation needed]}

Restaurant

The restaurant bills itself as serving "farm-to-table southern style cuisine", and it sources its produce from the local Weatherford Farmer's Market. ^{[citation needed]}

History

Vintage Grill & Car Museum was founded by Tom Moncrief, an oilman from Fort Worth, who was inspired to create a combination car museum and restaurant after visiting one in Sydney, Australia, while on his honeymoon in 1988.^{[citation needed]} 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.^{[citation needed]}

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. ^{[citation needed]}

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.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 is curated by Shana Akins. ^{[citation needed]}