The private collection of 95+ automobiles at the Newport Car Museum focuses on eight decades of modern industrial automotive design and celebrates cars as works of art. From the 1950s to the present, separate galleries for Ford/Shelby Cars, Corvettes, World Cars, Porsches, Fin Cars, Muscle Cars and Mopars have been carefully curated to appeal to men as well as women and to all generations, from grandparents to parents to children.
Highlighted here are stellar examples of Jaguar, Mercedes Benz, BMW, McLaren, Lamborghini and Porsche.
Classic iconic 1960s cars include the Camaro, GTO, Mustang, Challenger and the Hemi Cuda.
The 1950s bloomed into color and jet-like styling with the Buick Skylark, Cadillac Series Sixty-Two, T-Bird and the DeSoto Adventurer Convertible.
The Porsche Exhibit, once a Pop-Up, is now permanent with many additions adjacent to the Fin Car Gallery.
After WWII, GIs who had discovered two-seater sports cars while in Europe, began buying MGs, Jaguars and the like from overseas. There were no American-built sports cars until GM introduced the Corvette in 1953. Ford followed suit in 1955 with the Thunderbird, but the company did not market these cars as sports cars because they felt the market was too limited. The company preferred the moniker “personal car,” thinking it would appeal to a broader market.