DAY 1 Wednesday July 30, 2025
Departure
Arrival day in Detroit. There will be one pre
allocated transfer time from Detroit Airport to the
group hotel. Please contact us for flight options.
The tour member will meet everyone this afternoon
at the hotel.
DAY 2 Thursday July 31, 2025
Detroit MI
Today we will enjoy a guided tour of the Ford
Rouge Assembly Plant. The factory was developed
between 1917 and 1928 and originally consisted of
15,767,708 square feet and had 93 buildings. Initially
producing submarine chasers and tractors the
Model A was the first car produced at the factory in
1927. We visit the Henry Ford Museum, filled with
fascinating exhibits. The Henry Ford Museum is
full of American and Detroit’s automotive history.
We then visit the Automotive Hall of Fame, with
permanent and changing exhibits on the early days
of the automobile, the rise of the auto industry
around the globe, and the beauty of auto styling
and how it has changed every part of our daily lives.
DAY 3 Friday August 1, 2025
Detroit MI
Today we visit the General Motors Renaissance
Centre which showcases the history of General
Motors in Detroit. The guided tour takes us
throughout the Renaissance Centre, including a
stop at the “Borealis” glass sculpture, which is the
world’s tallest vertical sculpture. We visit the GM
Showroom, which is 44,000 square feet displaying
vintage and new concept vehicles from each of
General Motor’s vehicle brands. Later we visit the
General Motors Heritage Centre, a showplace for
the vehicles of the GM Heritage Collection. The
Centre has more than 600 vehicles on display. Each
of the vehicles in the Collection illustrates a design,
technical or sales milestone or accomplishment in
the history of General Motors or automotive history.
DAY 4 Saturday August 2, 2025
Detroit MI
Today we visit Factory One in Flint, which is the
home of the first carriage works owned by Billy
Durant before he formed General Motors. The
factory dates from 1880, when it was built by the
Flint Woollen Mills and became the Durant-Dort
Carriage Factory, one of the largest carriage builders
in the world. Later we visit the Sloan Museum, the
home of the Buick Gallery.
DAY 5 Sunday August 3, 2025
South Bend IN
This morning we depart Detroit and first visit the
Gilmore Car Museum. The Gilmore Car Museum
tells the history of America through the automobile.
It has a collection of over 400 vehicles and offer a
chance to drive a Model T Ford. We then continue
on to our hotel.
DAY 6 Monday August 4, 2025
Auburn IN
This morning we first visit the Studebaker Museum.
It is home to a priceless collection of vehicles,
artwork, archival material and artefacts spanning
nearly 200 years. The Studebaker National Museum
displays the first and last vehicles the corporation
ever made and boasts the largest Presidential
Carriage Collection in the world. We then travel
to Auburn and visit the Early Ford V-8 Museum.
The museum specializes in Ford Motor Company
vehicles made between 1932 and 1953 including
Ford, Lincoln, Mercury, commercial vehicles,
tractors, and Ford Industrial engines.
DAY 7 Tuesday August 5, 2025
Auburn IN
Today we first visit the National Auto & Truck
Museum, housed in two of the former factory
building of the Auburn Automobile Company.
Over 80,000 square feet of vehicles on display,
with over 190 pre and post war cars and trucks;
prototype vehicles, vintage gas and oil pumps,
muscle cars and even a real 1946 diner. Later we
visit The Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile
Museum which is dedicated to preserving cars
built by Auburn Automobile, Cord Automobile
and Duesenberg Motors Company. Looking like
cars that drove right out of The Great Gatsby, the
ornately styled cars produced by the Auburn, Cord,
and Duesenberg car manufacturers were expensive,
but lovely art deco showpieces built by hand in
the early 20th century. They were known for long,
sweeping curves and angles that shape over the
wheel wells and the hood.
DAY 8 Wednesday August 6, 2025
Indianapolis IN
This morning we travel to the city of Indianapolis.
Indianapolis is best known for the annual
Indianapolis 500, the world’s oldest major
automobile race. Better known as the Indy 500 it is
held annually at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
(IMS) It is contested as part of the IndyCar Series,
the top level of American Championship Car racing,
an open-wheel open-cockpit formula colloquially
known as “Indy Car Racing”. We will enjoy a behind
the scenes tour of the famed 2.5 mile oval giving us
unparalleled access to the historic Speedway facility.
Later we visit the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Museum with a collection encompassing vehicles
representing NASCAR, Formula One, American
short-track racing, drag racing and motorcycles.
DAY 9 Thursday August 7, 2025
Los Angeles
Today we are then transferred to the airport for our
flight to Los Angeles. On arrival we are met by our
coach and transferred to our hotel.
DAY 10 Friday August 8, 2025
Los Angeles CA
Today we first visit the Justice Brothers Racing
Museum that traces the evolution of motor
sports. The collection of vehicles, memorabilia,
photography, classic gas pumps, etc. is extensive
and includes vintage race cars, street rods, classics
and racing engines. This unique collection is housed
in three buildings and contains over 200 examples
of American automotive history. We then visit the
Marconi Automotive Museum which houses a $30
million collection of historical, exotic and classic
cars and has one of the largest Ferrari collections in
North America.
DAY 11 Saturday August 9, 2025
Los Angeles CA
This morning we visit the Nethercutt Collection
of 200 restored vehicles that date from between
1898 and 1982. Exhibits include an 1898 Eisenach
Runabout and a 1967 Ferrari 365 California Spyder. Among the treasures spanning four floors in the
collection’s original facility is one of the world’s
most outstanding assortments of beautifully
restored antique, classic automobiles. The rest of
the afternoon will be free.
DAY 12 Sunday August 10, 2025
Los Angeles CA
This morning we visit the Petersen Automotive
Museum, one of the world’s largest automotive
museums. Spanning several levels in a state of the
art building, the museum is most famous for the
Vault, featuring over 250 vehicles from around
the world. The collection includes some of the
most iconic and rare cars, motorcycles, and trucks
spanning over 120 years of automotive history
featuring vehicles from 6 different regions, and
provide an immersive experience exploring the
history of the automobile, from early legends to
stunning modern supercars. This afternoon we visit
the Automobile Driving Museum in El Segundo
with over 130 Vintage, Antique and Muscle cars in
the collection.
DAY 13 Monday August 11, 2025
San Simeon CA
This morning we pick up our Ford Mustang
convertibles (or similar) and drive north along the
Pacific Coast Highway to visit the Murphy Auto
Museum, located in Oxnard that specialises in
Packard automobiles. The collection comprises over
90 beautiful vintage automobiles and Americana
from 1903 to the present day. We then continue on
to our hotel in San Simeon.
DAY 14 Tuesday August 12, 2025
Big Sur
Today we travel along one of the most famous
and spectacular drives in the world in our Ford
Mustang convertibles, The Big Sur, following the
rugged Pacific coast of California from San Simeon
to Monterey. Enjoy the spectacular views and every
twist and turn of the road, as we make the most
of this truly spectacular drive. On arrival in Carmel
by-the-Sea we attend the Concours on the Avenue
and admire the 150 vehicles vying for the 14 major
awards. Later we drive to San Jose to return the
Ford Mustangs and return to our hotel in Santa Cruz
about 45 minutes from Monterey.
DAY 15 Wednesday August 13, 2025
Monterey Car Week
This morning we visit the iconic Carmel Mission,
the backdrop for a variety of vintage automobiles
during the Carmel Mission Classic. We will also
walk along Lighthouse Avenue in Pacific Grove to
view The Little Car Show. There will be time to visit
Automobilia Monterey, where over 45 international
dealers show off and sell their impressive
automobilia collections.
DAY 16 Thursday August 14, 2025
Monterey Car Week
Today we attend the Monterey Motorsports
Reunion at Laguna Raceway, the most important
historic racing event in America. The annual
Monterey Motorsports Reunion is a celebration
of motorsport history that brings approximately
550 race cars together in one open paddock for
everyone to enjoy. Each accepted car, from more
than 1,000 entry applications received, is scrutinized
and accepted based on the car’s authenticity, race
provenance and period correctness. Enjoy the
classics racing at this legendary venue.
DAY 17 Friday August 15, 2025
Monterey Car Week
Today, we visit first the Legends of the Autobahn
event, hosted by the BMW, Mercedes and Audi
Car Clubs of America. The Concours d’Elegance
celebrates German automotive technology
past, present and future. We then visit the Werks
Reunion, where we will be treated to a stunning
display of more than 500 Porsches.
DAY 18 Saturday August 16, 2025
Monterey Car Week
Today we visit the amazing Concourso Italiano, the
world’s largest luxury and exotic Italian Car show.
This event has perhaps the best collection of rare
and exotic Italian cars in the world featuring more
than 1000 vehicles of Italian origin.
DAY 19 Sunday August 17, 2025
Pebble Beach
The highlight of the tour, today we visit the Pebble
Beach Concour d’Elegance, one of the most
important classic car events in the world. Since
1950, Pebble Beach has been host to what is quite
simply the finest exhibition of showcars in the
world. Held on the 18th fairway of Pebble Beach Golf
Links, the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance is an
annual gathering of rare and antique automobiles,
international automotive luminaries and motorcar
enthusiasts from around the globe. It is an event of
dazzling elegance, appropriately held at a resort
famous for both its beauty and its refinement.
DAY 20 Monday August 18, 2025
Departure
This morning we check out of our hotel and
travel to San Francisco to visit the Blackhawk
Museum with its automotive exhibition which
displays historically significant and artistically
inspired automobiles from the very earliest to the
contemporary with a rotating selection of more
than 40 historically significant classic, sports, and
styling cars. Later we travel to the Academy of
Art University Automobile Museum, presenting a
tantalizing glimpse into the history of the art and
design of automobiles. Displaying cars from this
expansive collection, among them classics from Alfa
Romeo, Bugatti, Jaguar, Packard, Duesenberg and
Cadillac, the museum preserves an integral piece
of international automotive culture. Later we are
transferred to the San Francisco Airport for flights
back to Australia. The tour concludes.
| Twin Fare | Single Fare |
|---|---|
| $11,750 | $16,475 |
International touring can involve a considerable amount of walking and stair climbing in the places visited and it is important that all tour participants have a level of physical fitness that allows them to take part in this activity without the need of assistance from others.
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