The International Model Car Builders' Museum was founded with a simple goal: Preserve the memories of this great hobby for all hobbyists - old and new – and present current events which advance the high art of building highly-detailed scale vehicles. On this site you will find examples of some of the great model builders of the past like Dave Shuklis, Don Emmons, Phil Jensen, and others. Through our Hot 250/Clone the Past program, the Museum is either acquiring or replicating the most famous, influential models in the past. Already, we have more than a dozen original or replicated models. To insure against the time when fragile original magazines will deteriorate to the point where then information there will be lost, we have the Scan the Past program in which dedicated hobbyists are scanning vintage magazines to digitally preserve those magazines. In addition to the collection of hundreds of vintage models, we also have collected many items from Auto World, the Revell-Pactra Contests, manufacturers' wood bucks and prototype models, a Time Capsule to be opened in 20 years, and many other items. Check out this site and visit the past of the great scale vehicle building hobby!

AMT Lacquers were probably some of the finest hobby paints available at the time. Amazingly, most of this paint is still usable! Check out the Ranchero build-up in "The Way it Used to Be..." - it was painted with 40 year old paint!

Oooohhh! Car Model magazine. The Museum has an almost complete collection, and a group of dedicated modelers are working hard to preserve these rapidly deteriorating magazines in the "Scan the Past" project. Ultimately, these magazines will be available on CD.

You can also enjoy recent issues of the Museum's newsletter, give honor to those models who have passed from us by visiting our In Memoriam list, and appreciate the vast importance to the Museum's Scan the Past program.

One of the Museum's tasks is to complete the unfinished customs of Bob Barnett. This '40 Mercury has benefited from work by two of the Museum's restorers.  This is one of the many significant models that the Museum is in the process of restoring. Most of the Dave Shuklis models have been restored. Others continue to be found. Read more about the restoration projects.

One of the many new donations to the Museum.

When was the last time you saw one of these?

Many builders who received major national awards are being found, and in some cases even donating their models and trophies to the Museum!