Key Automobile museum near Selçuk • Folksy Travel by Bill Smale

There were a couple interesting things about this car. The front is very unusual and the doors don’t open out, they slide forward to let you out.

We used to see these fairly often on the roads in California. A friend of ours even had this vintage triumph which they never drove due to some problems with getting the right parts to fix it.

If this was completely white it would be the same color as my sixth grade teacher’s Austin Healy, Ms.. Dicarlo”s car she drove from San Francisco which was quite a ways.

This MGA was one year earlier than the one my dad bought. He arranged to have the wall between the seats and the trunk taken out and two seat seats put in facing backwards for us kids which was great fun because we could see where we had been. The story was, my dad wanted a sports car and my mom said it was OK if the whole family could ride in it. You will notice there are no door handles. You had to reach inside the car and pull a cable to open the door. This meant you couldn’t really lock the door which was an interesting idea?

The coffee shop (Coca-Cola) inside the museum

A replica of a 1965 Ford Mustang as a pool table

I love this design and it kind of reminds me of the TV show “the avengers” but I think that John Steed’s car was a Bentley.

This Thunderbird was definitely worth buying. After that series Ford decided to make it less sporty looking and not very interesting

I had a matchbox version of this car and thought it was so cool. You could drive it on lakes

This car started quite a revolution for Chevrolet and for kids as well. Just after this car came out bicycle manufacturers started making the stingray bicycle which had very high handlebars and was very sporty looking.

This was the style Corvette used for the TV show “Route 66”

This was an interesting Mercedes hood ornament

This old Renault has the typical sloping front and that’s how you tell the old Renault

Beautiful design and typically Renault

This was an interesting design for BMW

This is kind of a funny looking bakery truck. Remember in those days they used to deliver bread and milk

This is such a typical 1930s gangster car. Look at the running boards

I found this fascinating. On the pump above you can see this price per gallon and then a chart for what the price is for how many gallons. If the price changed it would be quite a job to switch all of these out

An old barbershop. On the very right you can see a display stand and inside they have collars with collar buttons which you could buy

The one car that I totally loved when I was a kid and was not on display in real size, only in miniature, was this Edsel

This is probably a limousine for a liter of a country and it looks like somebody has already taken out one of the bodyguards

The reason we call these things at gas stations “gas pumps” is because they actually had to pump the gas up into the cylinder above to fill the cylinder with the amount of gas the customer wanted. Then gravity would pour the gas into the gas tank.

This visible measure concept was introduced to avoid suspected scamming by the gas station. You could see exactly how much gas was going to be put into your car through the glass measuring container above.

The blue ring octopus is deadly and this looks like the markings of a blue ring octopus. I decided not to touch theJeep.

Tire pressure gauge and air pump

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