Vintage Grill & Car Museum

Vintage Grill & Car Museum
Exterior of the 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 / 32.758619; -97.795287
Type Automobile museum, restaurant
Curator Terry Mann
Owner Tom Moncrief
Website vintagegrillandmuseum.com

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 circa-1930s building that previously housed the McDavid Oldsmobile car dealership and a gas station.[1][2][3][4]

Museum

Interior of the Vintage Grill & Car Museum

The museum features 11 classic and vintage cars, and admission is free with the purchase of a meal.[5] Its collection includes a 1930 Buick, a 1940 LaSalle, a 1948 Studebaker sheriff patrol car, a 1948 Lincoln and a 1964 Lincoln Continental that were 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.[1][4][6][7] Also on display are cars featured in the films The Godfather and Pearl Harbor.[3][8]

Restaurant

The restaurant bills itself as serving "farm-to-table southern style cuisine",[1] and it sources its produce from the local Weatherford Farmer's Market.[1][7]

History

Vintage Grill & Car Museum founder Tom Moncrief, an oilman from Fort Worth, was inspired 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 buildings that comprise the current museum 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

Interior of the Vintage Car Museum & 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 collection, which is curated by Shana Akins.[4][10] The Event Center walls are the original 1886 rock walls while the building was still a livery stable and can accommodate over 200 people.[10]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "About". Vintage Grill & Car Museum. Archived from the original on 2017-06-08. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
  2. ↑ "Vintage Grill & Car Museum". Texas Monthly. March 24, 2015.
  3. 1 2 Dabney, Courtney. "Vintage Grill Weatherford". Fort Worth Magazine. Archived from the original on 2016-03-20. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Blok, Celestina (October 2016). "Wheels and Meals: Vintage Grill & Car Museum in Weatherford". Texas Highways. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
  5. ↑ "Vintage Grill & Car Museum". TravelTexas. Office of the Governor, Economic Development and Tourism. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
  6. ↑ Mayhew, Malcolm (April 1, 2015). "Restaurant review: Vintage Grill & Car Museum in Weatherford". DFW.com. Archived from the original on 2016-08-08. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
  7. 1 2 3 4 "Vintage Grill and Car Museum". Weatherford Democrat. March 10, 2015. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
  8. 1 2 3 Winter, Lance (May 24, 2016). "Classic car museum revving up for enthusiast enjoyment". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
  9. ↑ "Vintage Grill & Car Museum". Parker County Heritage Society. Retrieved May 15, 2017.
  10. 1 2 3 "Vintage Car Museum grand opening showcases automobiles from bygone eras". Fort Worth Star-Telegram. August 2, 2016. Retrieved May 15, 2017.

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