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user-inactivated  ·  2604 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Today I got to stand in front of a 1937 Packard Twelve Touring Sedan that was converted to propane in 1939 . . .

There are tons of car museums across the country. Chances are if you travel anywhere, there's probably one on the way. One of the really cool things about them, and this includes museums of other man made objects such as aircraft and train museums, is that the objects you're looking at often have a deeper, richer history than at first glance. So many of these things are shaped by history and politics. So many of them involved countless man hours of research, development, and construction. They're things that, by being created and by existing, have touched the lives of so many people and have helped to shape the world into what it is today.

Sometimes getting lost in thought about it is enough to leave you in awe long after you've left the museum and it makes you look at the things in your own life in a whole new light.