No, it is true – they were making cash income. The “museum” and I use the term loosely, was making a profit off the car the DHS lent to them. An expose’ was written about this in HOUR magazine about 8 years ago. According to the article the “museum” disregarded their contract with the DHS and instead of leaving the cars on static display, they rented them out for weddings, graduations, etc.
After the expose’ broke, DHS officials retrieved the cars and other historical items and sent the cars to REAL museums to go on display. That is all I can say at this time about that situation.
Sadly, the DHS does not have the room to display all of the cars in their collection. Earlier this year helped to get a Scripps Booth rocket car from an out-of-state museum and it is now on display at the Cranbrook Art Museum as part of their Michigan Modern Exhibit running through September.
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