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A great collection but still looking for a Duesenberg
Willy Vinton is the manager of the Fountainhead Antique Auto Museum in Fairbanks. He's worked at the museum since before it opened in 2009. This winter he has been restoring a 1926 Snow Motor, a tractor propelled through the snow on two giant screws, -as told to Som Friedman
On« of tho things that intorosts ma about tho musaum Is Its specific focus. What kind of cars do you look for as a curator?
It's all pre-World War II: early, rare American cars. We don't do commodity cars, your standard Ford, Chevy, Dodge that the everyday man drove. That's what makes us stand out.
How many vahlelas ara In tho museum's Alaska colloctlon? Do you have a favorite vehicle from that collection?
We keep 65 to 70 cars all the time, and...