Museum of American Speed

68528 Lincoln, NE, United States of America (USA) (Nebraska )

The Speedway Motors Museum of American Speed preserves, interprets, and displays physical items significant in racing and automotive history.

Exhibits include racing vehicles dating from the 1920s to recent vintage Indy Cars, classic midget cars, Go-karts, motorized toys, antique and rare cars, a Soap Box Derby collection, automotive memorabilia, and Buck Rogers memorabilia, as well as Music Room that houses a collection of autographed guitars on the ceiling.

Tether Cars
Some historians have circled 1937 as the beginning of the tether car era in California, but the hobby was also appearing in other cities at the same time. Hobbyists took small gas-powered engines from their model airplanes and mounted them on a board with four wheels to make a powered car. A cable or string connected to the car was then attached to the center "tether pole" and the car was push-started and began racing around the pole. We have lots of examples of engines, cars, tether car parts and a section of track on display in the museum.

Music Room​
The Museum of American Speed is proud to display one of the nation’s only dioramas devoted to American music and pop culture during the mid-to-late century. Discover how Hot Rod culture and mainstream music were uniquely tied together.

​You will find hundreds of automotive-related album covers, along with a vast collection of signed stringed instruments, and the famous, Lively Set Movie car! You’ll enjoy the vocal harmonies of The Beach Boys’ recordings alongside the magnificent Chevrolet 409 c.i. engine display.

Schwinn Krate
​Few things are more Americana in the bike industry than a retro Schwinn. And few, if any, retro Schwinns were more popular than the Krate models. Originally released in 1968 and sold until 1973, the Krates are synonymous with childhood for many Americans.

Quadangle​
Scot Breithaupt organized the first-ever BMX race, at just 14 years old, he went on to create the Bicycle United Motocross Society (B.U.M.S.) and soon produced the first California State Championships in 1972.

Soapbox Derby
In 1933, a Dayton, Ohio news photographer, Myron Scott, happened upon a group of boys driving engineless carts down a hill on a local brick street.  Fascinated by these boys, the photographer asked them to come back to the same hill in one week to race for a prize.  Myron and nineteen boys returned one week later to compete for a trophy.  One of the cars, driven by Robert Gravette, became Myron’s vision for future soap box derby cars.  The black number seven was hand crafted and well built; this car would become the subject for the derby logo.

The Unser Racing Museum Merged with the Museum of American Speed
The Museum of American Speed is proud to partner with the Unser family to bring you the most comprehensive collection of Unser artifacts ever assembled in one place.  The amazing Unser name is synonymous with victory in all forms of racing including Indy, Pikes Peak, Nascar, Road Racing, Dirt Champ, and many others.  It is our honor to tell of the monumental accomplishments of racing aces Al Sr, his brother Bobby.  In the displays visitors will also learn of the other amazing drivers in this lineage of legendary racers.

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