Last month, I discovered this totally unrestored 1905 Oldsmobile. Can anyone correctly identify where this beautiful vintage car is currently being shown on Long Island?
Update: December 3, 2012: Congratulations to everyone who knew this car is on display at the Suffolk County Historical Society in Riverhead.
Enjoy,
Howard Kroplick
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this place looks like the old (before it was renovated) stony brook carriage museum on 25 A & main st in stony brook just north of stony brook college & the RR tracks
update from previous message; I think it is now a fully restored 1905 oldmobile call them and I could swear it is in a room on left of the main entrance to carraige house I think they call it? I don’t know what floor? (631) 751-0066
I’m thinking car is among the wagons, carriages, etc. at Stonybrook….
Hi Howard. Thanks as always for your automotive journalism. Is the location The Stonybrook carriage museum? I know it’s a stretch but I thought I’d give it a try!
Wow, what an absolutely spectacular barn find!
Suffolk County Historical Society, Riverhead
I believe the curved dash Olds is on display at the Riverhead Historical Society
It looks like the carriage museum at stonybrook.
Stony Brook, LI, NY
Billy joels bike shop in Oysterbay?
Carriage house museum in Stony Brook?
It’s been on exhibit at the Suffolk County Historical Society in Riverhead for many years.
It has been many, many years since I visited the Historical Society Museum in Riverhead, but I do recall a very early automobile tucked quietly away in the basement display area. I certainly cannot be sure, but I think it was an early Oldsmobile.
Bill
Yes Howard. That car is in the Suffolk County Historical Society Museum in Riverhead. I wish I owned that car. It’s in incredible shape for its age.
Rog
As a guess, at the L.I. Museum in Stony Brook.
Ken
I think it is the Suffolk County Museum in Riverhead I know its not Stony Brook There is also another small museum in Amagannsett that has carriages The Huntington historical Society has some carriages too
It’s at Riverhead in the Suffolk County Historical Society Museum
Positively absolutely in the Suffolk County Historical Society downstairs at 300 West Main street Riverhead New York right next to the1900 bike display and the sleigh.