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“Slowly rotating on a turntable, a wine-red 1939 Delahaye Type 165 cabriolet is all swoops and slopes and voluptuous curves, a reclining nude with a 12-cylinder engine,” said a male reporter describing a vehicle in the  Mullin Automotive Museum collection in Oxnard, California.

A female reporter saw things differently when she picked her top 10 car museums to see in the U.S., choosing the same place because of a car on display that has spent most of its life at the bottom of a Swiss lake (shown in smaller photo). A wrecked 1925 Bugatti Brescia Type-22 car sat for more than 70 years at the bottom of Lake Maggiore till the car was dredged in 2009.  The unrestored “piece of art”  was acquired by the car museum at  Bonhams in Paris in January 2010 for the mere price of  $368,320.

Owner of one of California’s newest, must-see car museums, Peter Mullin, has loved cars all his life and especially likes French marque cars and Italian designers. The collector recently paid the most ever for a single car, spending an estimated $30 million on a 1936 Bugatti Type 57SC!

California has around a dozen automotive museums. While Petersen Automotive Museum in L.A. consistently ranks among the Top 10 car museums in the U.S. it’s time they take a look at Mullin Automotive Museum!  Others you’ll enjoy  include Nethercutt in Sylmar, Marconi in Tustin, California Auto Museum in Sacramento and Blackhawk in Danville.