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ABC 10 News Live at July's Cars & Coffee
ABC 10 News Live at July's Cars & Coffee
Ciara Encinas spends the morning at the San Diego Automotive Museum, enjoying our monthly Cars and Coffee event and getting to know some of our regular attendees.
NBC Introduces Alternative Fuel Exhibit
NBC Introduces Alternative Fuel Exhibit
Come learn the history of alternative fuels, and check out some amazing innovations that will guide us into the future in Althernative Fuel: The Power Around Us.
Explore San Diego Features the Barn Find Exhibit
Explore San Diego Features the Barn Find Exhibit
Kathleen Blade of Fox 5 San Diego showcases the San Diego Automotive Museum's 1928 Studebaker Barn Find.
KUSI Spotlights May's Cars & Coffee
KUSI Spotlights May's Cars & Coffee
The community event is an opportunity to enjoy Balboa Park while looking at cars of different makes and models brought in by San Diegans.
NBC Highlights Weather for May's Cars & Coffee
NBC Highlights Weather for May's Cars & Coffee
NBC 7 San Diego News previewed the San Diego Automotive Museum's May Cars and Coffee monthly event during their weather segment.
KUSI Live at the San Diego Automotive Museum's Cars & Coffee
Live at the San Diego Automotive Museum's Cars & Coffee
Rain doesn't keep the car enthusiasts away from hanging out at the museum for the monthly Cars and Coffee event.
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San Diego Automotive Museum Awarded Grant from Conrad Prebys Foundation
The San Diego Automotive Museum awarded a $55,000 grant to aid in the creation and launch of a brand-new Vocational Education Program.
Maintenance Manager Makes San Diego Automotive Museum Shine
Maintenance Manager Makes San Diego Automotive Museum Shine
The Zeverly Zone on CBS8 News features Rey Gutierrez and how he used the COVID closure to reimagine his space.
San Diego Auto Museum’s First Cars & Coffee for 2022
San Diego Auto Museum’s First Cars & Coffee for 2022
Kacey McKinnon of KUSI News previews the San Diego Automotive Museum's first Cars and Coffee event for 2022, plus showcases recent changes at the Musuem. Free donuts included!
Festive Cars Drive Through El Cajon for Jingle Cruise
Festive Cars Drive Through El Cajon for Jingle Cruise
KUSI News reports live from the San Diego Automotive Museum's Jingle Cruise in El Cajon. The holiday drive supports Home for Guiding Hands. Home of Guiding Hands Website
Preparing to Spread Holiday Joy with Jingle Cruise
Preparing to Spread Holiday Joy with Jingle Cruise
KUSI News previews the San Diego Automotive Museum's Jingle Cruise in partnership with Home of Guiding Hands.
How the Museum's Murals Came Back to Life
How the Museum's Murals Came Back to Life
The husband and wife team of Richard Keit and Mary Kennedy, owners of RTK Studios, tell the story of the re-creation of the San Diego Automotive Museum murals.
San Diego Automotive Museum prepares for Halloween 2021
San Diego Automotive Museum Prepares for Halloween
San Diego Automotive Museum hosted two events Halloween weekend, the first Trunk or Treat and Cars and Coffee.
KUSI's Lauren Phinney & Paul Rudy Host All Revved Up!
KUSI's Lauren Phinney & Paul Rudy Host All Revved Up!
KUSI News spotlights the San Diego Automotive Museum's inaugural All Revved Up! celebration.
Monumental Public Art for San Diego Automotive Museum
Monumental Public Art for San Diego Automotive Museum
Once completed, life-size grizzly bear sculptures will be placed on two corners of the 1935 California State Building, home of the San Diego Automotive Museum.
Louie Mattar's Car Featured in RVing in the USA
Louie Mattar's Car Featured in RVing in the USA
The San Diego Automotive Museum is just one the stops the RVing the in the USA makes while visiting San Diego.
New Additions at San Diego Automotive Museum
New Additions at San Diego Automotive Museum
"We took advantage of COVID, we didn't let COVID take advantage of us," Lenny Leszczynski says.
Restoration Phase I Complete
Restoration Phase I Complete
Artisans have now restored the long-lost grand tile murals and bold bas-relief ornamentation to the San Diego Automotive Museum’s façade.
San Diego Automotive Museum Featured on Mysteries at the Museum
San Diego Automotive Museum Featured on Mysteries at the Museum
The Travel Channel's Mysteries at the Museum tells the secrets of Louie Mattars epic cross-country journey is his 1947 Cadillac.
San Diego Automotive Museum Facade Painstakingly Restored
San Diego Automotive Museum Facade Painstakingly Restored
Preservation project, spearheaded by the Committee of 100, ties into a broader campaign to rehabilitate the Palisades in keeping with the 1935 California Pacific International Exposition.
KUSI Highlights San Diego Automotive Museum Re-Opening
KUSI Highlights San Diego Automotive Museum Re-Opening
Dan Plant covers the re-opening of the San Diego Automotive Museum, as Balboa Park museums open at 50 percent capacity.

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