The(massively belated)Giant San Diego Automotive Museum Photodump

"ViperGuy21" (viperguy21)
12/22/2014 at 18:30 • Filed to: San Diego Automotive museum, photodump

It has been a month since I took these pictures while on vacation in San Diego, but they are here now!

But before I get farther into that, let me just say that San Diego is packed full of Porsches(primarily older ones), M division BMW's, Teslas, and unfortunately the infamous Priuses. Besides the Toyotas, however, there were always impressive cars ranging from a Jaggggggggg to a Lamborghini Aventador Roadster. And on every corner there were at least two wagons, with one always seeming to be in the full Jalop-style too. The great weather, the great views, and just the fact that it is an incredibly nice city made for a great time, and as you can probably tell, great car-spotting wherever I went. But that didn't stop a trip to the gorgeous Balboa Park to go to my first automotive museum(I know right!? North Texas is dropping the ball!).

I tried to take at least one picture of each car and one of the description on the little podiums in that order. I managed to get pictures of all the cars, and all the descriptions, but some of them are crappy because they are all iPotato pictures(Give me a break though! I'm hoping for a proper camera for Christmas). they also have a few displays that are car-related that I snagged shots of as well. So without any further ado, enjoy the pictures:

There are a few more pics in the comments cause I've hit Kinja's limit and I don't want to do a pt.1 and pt.2 thing. Hope you enjoyed!!!

DISCUSSION (21)

ViperGuy21 > ViperGuy21
12/22/2014 at 19:54

Kinja'd!!!

Parking lot wonder to finish it off:

Kinja'd!!!

Sn210 > ViperGuy21
12/22/2014 at 20:12

that Bizzarrini prototype is incredible. I belive that's the same one I saw in Vegas a few years ago. Awesome pics

Saracen > ViperGuy21
12/22/2014 at 20:26

It's a fun little museum. They rotate their exhibits...last time I was there it was low-riders though...so you didn't miss out. The car of note in the parking lot that day was a british racing green MG roadster.

Did you go to the aerospace museum next door? I like that one too.

Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan' > ViperGuy21
12/22/2014 at 20:48

Cool of you to put in the texts, it was quite interesting.
Cool show, thanks for sharing!

ViperGuy21 > Otto-the-Croatian-'Whoops my Volvo is a sedan'
12/22/2014 at 21:16

Absolutely! Glad you appreciate it!

ViperGuy21 > Saracen
12/22/2014 at 21:18

Yes I did. That was something really special. They had some great planes there and at the Midway museum!

ViperGuy21 > Sn210
12/22/2014 at 21:22

It's the only one ever made with a Lamborghini V12, the other two were with Corvette V8's so if the one you saw was a V12, then it is the same:).

But it is mighty impressive. I'd never even heard of Bizzarrini before then, and then I did a bit of research and found out that Mr. Bizzarrini was one of the designers of the 250 GTO, and then branched out on his own to, unfortunately, fail.

Sn210 > ViperGuy21
12/22/2014 at 21:42

Kinja'd!!!

That's the one! I think I've only seen one other, they're very pretty

ViperGuy21 > Sn210
12/22/2014 at 22:28

Stunning. Where'd you see that one?

Sn210 > ViperGuy21
12/22/2014 at 22:33

that one was at Mecum in Monetery in August, the estimate was $1.8-2 million

https://www.mecum.com/lot-detail.cfm…

ViperGuy21 > Sn210
12/22/2014 at 22:57

Nice! But, why is it on the grass at a Mecum auction?

Btw, the bid went on at 1,100,000 according to my Mecum infonet:)

Sn210 > ViperGuy21
12/22/2014 at 23:05

that was the viewing area. For $40 I think you could walk around and see all the cars going through the auction

Kinja'd!!!

http://oppositelock.jalopnik.com/concours-doppo…

ViperGuy21 > Sn210
12/23/2014 at 00:12

Wow, that's totally different from the Dallas one. There it's $20 and you just walk around the convention center looking at them and you can also watch the live auction in the part you walk straight into when you walk in. But there's no Concours here.