Photo courtesy LeMay ? America?s Car Museum
One of the highlights of the LeMay ? America?s Car Museum?s recent grand opening weekend was the presentation of the inaugural Nicola Bulgari Award to Ed Welburn, the vice president of Global Design at General Motors and a member of the America?s Car Museum board of directors for the last six years.
The Bulgari award is to be annually presented to individuals who make outstanding contributions to preserving America?s automotive heritage through education, restoration or collecting classic cars. Welburn was selected to receive the 2012 Nicola Bulgari award for his commitment to maintaining, perpetuating and sharing GM?s design heritage. Welburn maintains strong ties to the collector-car community by overseeing displays of GM?s Heritage Center vehicles as well as the Center?s concept cars and GM?s new models that are annually shown at the Amelia Island and Pebble Beach Concours d?Elegance. The GM Heritage Center currently houses more than 400 examples of GM design history.
Left to right: Nicola Bulgari, Ed Welburn and David Madeira, president and CEO of LeMay ? America?s Car Museum. Photo by Bob Gassen, courtesy America?s Car Museum
Saturday, June 2, brought the grand opening of the 165,000-square-foot, four-level museum to the public. Opening ceremonies were attended by car collector Jay Leno, Washington Lt. Governor Brad Owen and LeMay Museum president David Madeira. Harold LeMay?s widow, Nancy LeMay, was also in attendance; it was her husband?s idea and vast personal collection of over 3,000 vintage cars, trucks and motorcycles that spawned the concept and began to collect the funding to start the museum project in 1998.
Harold died in 2000, but his dream of creating a first class automotive history museum in the Pacific Northwest continued, culminating in the opening of the $60 million-plus facility this week. In addition to 15 permanent and seasonal displays,? the museum also has an educational center that will receive up to 100,000 school-aged children each year, encouraging them to learn about the history of the automobile and to become involved in America?s automotive culture.
The museum also has a 3.5-acre open field that will host concerts, car cruise-ins and the occasional drive-in movie as well as a theater, caf?, banquet hall and meeting facilities inside. The collection of vehicles on display is so large, NAPA Auto Parts opened a NAPA Auto Care Center at the museum just to service the 500-plus vehicles that are being shown. For more information about the museum, visit LeMayMuseum.org.
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