insight on that? the lemay family was in a tough spot. they wanted so badly as you can see to fulfill harold s wish. but it ran away from them in a second. the museum is still called lemay, america s car museum, so there s still a connection to it. once it became so corporate i think its mission started to change. it was no longer what they wanted to call it. were they happy then with the outcome the fact that they had the two museums. are they happy now? they absolutely are. i think they have been able to feel that they did right by harold. you work on this series so often all of these different cases. how often is it the family is so committed to honoring the parents of the grandparent s legacy over the money? it is not about the money. the lemay s had however much
museum. that shifts the focus from harold other donors as well. that s discouraging for harold s heirs because his wish was a museum devoted to his collection. the family believes there s still a chance to keep his vision alive. eric what is this place? would you believe a second museum just minutes down the road from the first? that s next. new aleve pm the only one to combine a safe sleep aid plus the 12 hour strength of aleve. it tastes better when you grow it. it tastes even better when you share it. it s not hard, it s doable. it s growable. get going with gro-ables. miracle-gro. life starts here.
them they have to court corporate sponsors for more big bucks. that will mean the lemays are told they ll have to sacrifice their control and vision of the museum. the family agrees but soon find themselves just 2 on a board of around 30. on the one hand you want to see the legacy and the story of those cars preserved. on the other hand, you really can t control once it s in a museum s hands. exactly. the museum adds cars from other collections to attract national attention, then fundraising runs tight. the board tells the family they don t have the budget to preserve arld the harold s cars. many of the ones he donated are redundant. they decide on a fate that harold lemay would have never considered. to sell some of the cars. if you could have controlled the situation would you have asked them to sell other cars? i don t sell many cars.
it s not particularly easy to drive. it has three peddles, but the brake is on the right. what s it doing there? you did clear the streets today? and the sidewalks. as we scoot around it s easy to see why harold fell in love with this classic. i love it. feel the hair blowing, the top down. there s a big tree. a tree back there. big tree. brake, brake, brake. brake. oh that s forward. wait. brake. brake. oh yeah, that thing on the right. throttle up? yeah. oh, my gosh. perfect. not a scratch. but a collision is in store for the lemay family as it tries to get its museum into drive. it needed a building, fundraising, all the next steps. the family donates 600 cars to the project and $15 million, too, but it s not enough so they hire a fund-raiser who tells
so what was so what was the first official white house car? it s b, the 1909 white steamer. that year congress passed legislation on behalf of william howard taft for official white house automobiles. for nearly four decades businessman harold lemay amasses a collection of classic cars in tacoma, washington, that includes at least 3,000 vehicles. even he doesn t know the exact number. but there is one car he misses out on says his wife nancy. he always wishes he had gotten a tucker. preston tucker was an american inventor and entrepreneur who designed the tucker sedan in 1948. conceived as the car of the future. it was so ahead of its time. it s so sleek. it has awesome lines. but sales were doomed after