Seal Cove Auto Museum

We have left Green Lake NFH and are on the road but this is a blog I never got around to writing last year.

We visited the Seal Cove Auto Museum in Trenton, Maine last year.  This museum has over 50 vehicles from 1895 through the early 1920’s. 

Entrance

Besides cars there are plenty of motorcycles.

Pierce Arrow

Inline T-head four-cylinder. 7 horsepower (claimed)

Two-speed transmission. 28-inch wire spoke wheels

275 pounds

  

Richard Paine established the museum to provide a place to keep and display his vehicles.

 Page House

The museum is a world-class collection of early Brass Era cars (The Brass Era is an American term for the early period of automotive manufacturing, named for the prominent brass fittings used during this time for such things as lights and radiators).

1908 Ford

Cost new: $2,800

Model: K.  Only 50 were produced.  (This vehicle may be the last 1907/08 Model K still in existence.  The Model K was Ford’s first in-line six-cylinder engine.)

Tool box

1910 Stoddard Dayton

Cost new: $2,800

Dayton Motor Car Company, Dayton, Ohio

There was a lot of interesting advertisements in the museum too.

1910 White

White Motor Company, Cleveland, Ohio

  

1930 Packard

There is a lot to see in this fun museum.

License plate collection.

If you like very old cars and motorcycles, this is a great museum to visit.

We also visited the Cole Transportation Museum and the Maine Forest & Logging Museum.  Both of these museums are worth the trip.