He started the Pontiac-Oakland Museum in IL. Now he plans a new Pontiac museum in MI. (Page 1/1)
rinselberg MAR 27, 08:26 PM
"Remember Pontiac? This collector wants to turn a Michigan school into a museum for the GM car brand"

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A decade ago, he started a museum for Pontiac vehicles in Pontiac, Illinois.

In the middle of nowhere, opening that small museum in a small town – on historic Route 66 – brought visitors from around the world. The admission is free, but many of those visitors still leave real money behind while ogling GM’s dead brand.

Now the Pontiacpreneur wants to expand in a new museum, in the other Pontiac. Tim Dye says the Pontiac Transportation Museum he's creating inside a former elementary school, just west of downtown Pontiac, Michigan, can do even better than his original spot. Dye said he will shoot for 50,000 visitors a year, giving a boost to the hopeful city that once built GM’s storied brand.

We’ve got 55 cars here already,” he says, sounding as amazed as his visitors, during a tour of the dimly lit, unheated school whose interior walls have been blasted away. A dozen of those cars are his.



This continues online. Photos of vintage and not so vintage vehicles that are expected to be on exhibit when (or if?) this project is successful. Visible in one of the photos: a bright red 1988 Fiero GT if I'm not mistaken.

Bill Laitner for USA Today; March 24, 2021.
https://www.usatoday.com/st...ycommoney-topstories

Here's the website for the Pontiac-Oakland museum he started in Pontiac, IL, in 2011.
http://www.pontiacoaklandmuseum.org
williegoat MAR 27, 08:44 PM
How many of you are POCI members?

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OldsFiero MAR 28, 08:57 AM

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Originally posted by williegoat:

How many of you are POCI members?




Never heard of it till now. Thanks guys, looks interesting. And yes, I know I live under a rock.

Marc
williegoat MAR 28, 12:01 PM
I have had the Goat since 1976 and the GP since the early nineties.



After I bought the Fiero, some began to suggest that I might have a problem, so I joined a support group.



I have been a POCI member for 15 years.

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