hi there this is matt with gram ventures and
today we are out at the lemay marymount car museum this is an interesting location it was built
in the 1900s originally was a military academy turned boys school and then in the early 90s
harold lemay purchased it now harold lemay he has a quite a large sanitation company basically
picks up the garbage and with all those proceeds he bought a lot of cars and stores a lot of
them here there's an additional museum in tacoma but this is the spanaway
location that's called
marymount the building is really neat looking it's very historic and part of the deal
when he bought it he agreed to preserve it and actually kind of upgrade it and
it's kind of an event center as well so hope you join us on this and see this interesting
location and car museum are you guys excited is it cold enough for you and as you can see we had a
little bit of snow out here and we're bundled up pretty good now off in the distance there's some
of the different hu
ge warehouses that have cars and this is the main building right here as you
can see the brick structure really neat looking and this entire complex was the military academy
and boys school and now it's home to many unique and collectible cars now here's the front
here i like this this sign they have up front they also got other vintage signs which are really
cool look at this gentleman welcoming you here he's all messed up and then from a distance
we saw ronald mcdonald and evie wanted to
say hi oh he's got his own name tag i'll sit next
to you are you sitting next to ronald mcdonald okay we're heading on inside
to check in oh looky here okay we've checked in they give you this
little guide it gives you kind of a map of some of the different stuff they have they got
a hall gymnasium rifle range room orphan room and then they have two additional outbuildings
with additional cars so we're going to check out this main building first there's harold lemay
right there and up fron
t they got a gift shop here that's got fire on it huh yeah
so there's some collectibles some oh they got some postcards and i really like this old safe oh yeah they have some hot wheels
here huh oh and i like these old car shirts that's similar to what you're
wearing today i know it's pretty fly i may have a guest book here
you want to sign us in haley now one thing to keep in mind please do not
touch or drool on the exhibits so i don't know if that's because people like the car so much
th
ey drool or maybe they got a issue with their got mouth cool horse up there okay museum
entry here we go into the main area oh i like this whole gas pump not only do they have vintage cars but they
have other vintage stuff too look at this old timey cash register now i picture this
would be somewhere in like an apartment store department store in like the 50s
bringing up some christmas merch now as you can see they got vehicles
down below and they also got some up top and then that one's go
t like a little tiny camper
with a weird-looking doll it's a 1976 compass echo house trailer from the looks of it they have
little plaques in front of the different vehicles see if there's anything unique
that we really like i love these i want this card isn't that nice we
got a volkswagen bug and it's got a cool surfboard we got a woody 1971 beetle
woody i've never seen one with with wood on the side that's really unique that's so cool and
what's nice about all these cars is they've been
restored really well and in really good shape
that's super cool they got some like race style cars a 50 crossley hotshot roadster and then look
at this one a 1975 rup centaur and it's got like a motorcycle fro forks on the front which is really
unique and this little orange thing up there it's called the 1973 bond bug and i don't know
if it was has anything to do with james bond but it's pretty interesting looking
this almost looks similar to it now moving on further kind of a huge showpiec
e
here in the middle it's a 1935 styer 120s i don't know much about it but it is sweet
looking and i also like to i got i forget what logo that is that pegasus it's some sort
of automotive related we'll have to look it up they got the three stooges in the corner
there and they also have the sarcophagus which not only they have cars they just have interesting
pieces i don't think this is like original but it is neat looking mommy liked
it too you saw a mummy right there and not only regular
cars i got interesting pieces
around they got this kind of monster guy there they got different cases with all sorts of vintage toys look over here they got all sorts of
different cars and i said in the beginning this was a boys school and originally military
academy and they have all these old pictures from when it was a boys school in
a military academy back in the day and it just since turned into a car museum but
they have quite a collection of vintage pictures from the day a lot of hi
story here i really
love this deep blue color of this one oh yeah isn't that one your favorite
color yeah it's a 1939 hd prototype that's so cool man that's in good shape metallic help and if you look up top there an old
texaco and look they got the oscar mayer mobile and a couple other small cars up there and
i'm not sure if that's the same one if anybody is older like me the show family matters that
looks like steve urkel's bug a 59 bmw azetta it's a one door sedan and it may be hard
to
see from down here but the one door is up front that's how you get in this thing do
you think she saw a monster car look in here look at this dragon car this
is a 2006 dragster draco that is really interesting looking it's all
dragon themed look at the controls in here oh and it looks from these pictures it
looks like it breathes fire and blows smoke isn't that something now now this one's really cool too this
is right across from the dragon car this is a beautiful paint job it may be hard
to
see on camera but there's frankenstein and maybe that's van helsing or somebody with a torch
it has lots of detail almost like tree bark it looks like or scales or something
hey this is bad when they do even inside and look inside the interior
oh it's got a spider web steering wheel and the actual upholstery is so neat looking look
at this thing and then hi inside the engine it has a spider web got a spider web in the engine
and look there's old frankenstein himself yeah that paint sche
me is amazing beautiful and
it's it's it's almost it's like an old-timey wagon converted into this monster mobile it's
also right next to this beautiful 48 chevrolet the car oh yeah the cars here have been
beautifully restored the paint jobs are beautiful this one i was gonna say if you kind of look
at different angles it may be hard to see on camera but it's almost purple at certain angles and this place has is kind of an homage
not just to gasoline-powered vehicles but look at this old bu
ggy up top
here a mennonite buggy closed body okay we'll go look in a second
here's another buggy over here quite unique looking these old buggies
kind of suspended up in the air one thing i'm kind of a sucker for us these
vintage signs i like these restored vintage signs mostly automotive related there's one there as
well as i like that old bf goodrich sign up there kind of adds to the overall theming and back
here in this corner got a 1950 suda baker and i don't think it's functional bec
ause i'd
throw 10 cents in it but that coca-cola machine look at that that is definitely a relic
and i don't know the history of that at all but back in the back there they have original
pancake house sign home of kentucky fried chicken and this to the right is actually an ice cream
vendor bicycle oh yeah look at that that's so cool it was five cents for ice cream huh imagine that
albeit it's a little bit disappointing because the ice cream there's nothing in there i've been
told and the c
oca-cola machine is dry so we're gonna have to look elsewhere for refreshment okay
this is the same room that has the dragon as well as the frankenstein vehicle and everly just
has to show me this one this is a 57 desoto wow look on the fenders here there
are looks like some dragons and teeth and look at the front almost
reminds me of something from skeletor there's another fender over there
and look up front here there's a pair of hands there's some talons and look at the swords oh look at
that it's kind of a cool picture
of it and then in the back i don't know what this is supposed to be but it's got like weird i
don't know if that's supposed to be the exhaust but it's like these these towers and look at the
bling bling on the side there oh look there's all sorts of other little details here's like almost
looks like a weapon or a spear on the side there so this almost looks like a shield this definitely
looks like something out of a movie the gothic coach is what it's calle
d come on there's even
a picture of somebody with alice cooper there it's kind of hard to see and do you want to know
the best part of this vehicle the cheetah flooring oh i didn't even see that oh yes now that is
definitely custom some cheetah selling point there okay the second room is by far my favorite
i really like the old frankenstein vehicle another retro gasoline pump flying a gasoline
38.5 cents a gallon i think it's a little more now and look this is a brass hose nozzle
collectio
n donated by bill bill was in the brass nozzles i guess and there's
the big old one down below there now i'm walking to one of the main buildings that's
got a lot of cars in it so let's take a look now this is a huge huge warehouse
here and there's a lot to see not only do they have cars and other memorabilia
but look this old mickey mouse movie projector that is really unique looking an old hi-fi
stereo and look at this old polaroid got this old-timey radio here and actually they
have an
entire display case full of radios these old-timey radios remind me a christmas story and we also learned look at this here would be
hard to see this wd-40 can is actually a radio it's got an antenna with some things on it so
you can keep it incognito in your shop there there's a ton of retro signs if
you're into that you got some denny's this old texaco sign this jukebox is awesome elvis he's singing to it didn't see the songs
that were on oh yeah i don't know any of them yeah taking a look
glad ragdoll oh yeah mr sandman's on
there i'll never know by four lads this is the top top 20 billboard baby mr sandman is the only
one for five plays it's 25 cents two plays 10 and one play for five so you get 25 cents
you can listen to three of these top hits now we learned that so this big building
was the gymnasium of the boys school and it makes sense since if you take a look it's a basketball hoops on each side and
they got this huge michelin man and then the queen of biker bay boul
evard right here like this old neon that may be more
modern but it's still neat looking i really like this a1 auto wrecking sign
glowing here i don't know if you can pick it up in the camera but you can hear
a lot of the glow of some of this neon which is really neat hi guys it's me haley and i'm
going to show you my favorite car i've seen so far this is a 1995 volvo 850 um it's an art car for
the streetcar project it was by a college senior um for their design project which is really
cool
and there was actually 30 plus artists around the world who participated in making
art on this car so let me show you some of my favorite details i really really like the
inside of the car it looks like they crocheted seat covers and they even painted by the different
buttons and everything this whole entire car is just filled with art which i really love
and there's even a pinata in the back seat so you can smash it yeah so there is always
a party when you're in this car apparently and an
d even in the very back they have these
really cool eyeballs here i saw them um and they both say i am okay so we were talking
with one of the employees about how this was a gymnasium and since this was a military
academy i guess they have an underground rifle range that you can go see and i don't know
what's left there but he said back in the day they'd practice their marksmanship downstairs
underneath kind of in the basement area of this gymnasium so we'll show you so
this is where the r
ifle range room is the rifle range room and from the looks of it the
range has been converted into additional storage and as you can see it's got a huge collection i
didn't even know this was down here i've outboard boat motors all sorts of different flavors i i
had no idea or didn't expect this to be down here and uh maybe somebody's into this
collection-wise but i don't know i find outdoor motors to be more of a
utility than a work of art but if they don't have it it wasn't made from the
hooks of
it this one's pretty unique looking this big funky green looking one some of them look
a little space-like almost maybe some robot this one is the wizard superpower and back here
further in the rifle range a lot more vehicles this is unique looking it's a 1970 mini beep it's
a mini beep it looks like a replica jeep for kids and this look at this for you disney fans
out there this is from mr toad's wild ride this looks like a ride vehicle says this is
part of the mr toad's wild rid
e attraction at magic kingdom in disney florida ran from 71 to 88.
look at this unique this is called the snow runner i don't know how much it would run on
snow but it's got a track in the back and it's got a ski up front and it looks kind of
like a motorcycle or maybe even like a leaf blower but i don't know how well they worked i guess if
they did work great you'd probably see them all over the place but maybe that's why it's hanging
here on the wall and now that i've seen several of thes
e pegasus it is the mobile oil symbol which
is pretty cool looking so this gymnasium area is really neat to see there's a lot of vehicles and
stuff here the rifle range room is really neat and we got a couple more areas before we're done with
this place this next area is off the gymnasium oh and looky here i absolutely love a
vintage delorean look there's even a model now this is just delorean this isn't a mock-up
like back in the future but this model is like it has a back to the future sh
irt back
to future shirt i love the gold the wing doors and the stainless steel this one's actually
in really good shape it's at 83. delorean oh my goodness that's so cool oh and here's
the muscle got a 80 ferrari 308 that thing is i think it's gorgeous and one thing i really
like about some of these old vehicles is the hood ornament they're very unique and kind of
almost it's like a signature for the vehicle such as this one as well if you
take a look maybe a eagle or a swan they got some
reminds me of
vegas they got some retro some video slots another jukebox and
another slot machine here as you can see this place is full service and if you're
a fan of vintage size this is your place i really like this one richfield high octane
gasoline got like an eagle on top of it the neon is really neat a really unique
car a 1990 red stiletto custom-built car looks like a big shoe with wheels on it the wheel
on the back is so good look at on the back here very unique looking looks lik
e
something to be like in a monster parade and if you're in the market for a used vehicle
it says use cars okay they're not great cars they're not excellent cars they're just okay
problem with okay cars is the warranty is five minutes or 50 feet so you kind of kind of roll
the dice here a little bit with an okay used car okay we saw the main areas and now we're back
where we began in the gift shop that was the lemay museum out here in marymount what an interesting
place lots of unique vehi
cles and stuff to see they have a lot of collectibles i didn't realize
all the other collectible and vintage items just besides cars they have here which is really neat i
especially like this old scoreboard behind me but there's a lot more to this place there's
an additional two warehouses full of cars that you can see it's already becoming a long day
so we're not going to check those out today but definitely if you have the time they give you
like a little trolley thing to take over there
and you can have walking as well as guided
tours through that area but it's a lot to see in one trip we just saw the main area the
basement and definitely is a lot to see and a fun place to check out a lot of times there's
some good discount tickets online whether it's through groupon or otherwise and you can find
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