A very special car in Reno's National Automobile Museum

[Tripatini]

The National Automobile Museum in Reno, Nevada is home to the Thomas Flyer, and is acclaimed to be one of the top motor car exhibits in the world, and for good reason.

We found an American treasure in the National Automobile Museum in Reno, Nevada.

Hidden in plain view among hundreds of classic cars is the 1907 Thomas Flyer, the winner of the first and only Around the World Auto Race.

After decades of neglect, in 1964 the dilapidated Thomas Flyer was lovingly restored to her original condition by forty car craftsmen in the Harrah’s Classic Car Museum workshop.

The work took six weeks and the end result was the Flyer, exactly as she looked, when she crossed the finish line in Paris on a hot summer day in July, 1908.

Today, this matriarch of motor cars sits silently in the National Automobile Museum. However, if you stand before her and close your eyes – you can imagine the sound of 350,000 people cheering her as she crossed the finish line in Paris.

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[Maureen Blevins]

Nice picture of the museum. However, if you are leading with a story on the Thomas Flyer, it would be nice if you had a photo of it.