Drive: Iconic American Cars and Motorcycles

The Taubman Museum of Art is pleased to present the special ticketed exhibition Drive: Iconic American Cars and Motorcycles featuring an all-star cast of American automotive and motorcycle icons, spanning over half a century, from 1910 to 1965. The cars and motorcycles included are iconic in their own right, and they represent the best efforts of famous inventors, coachbuilders, engineers, designers and owners.

For over one hundred years, the American automotive industry has been in the forefront of development, presenting many memorable automotive icons – very special cars (and motorcycles) that pioneered engineering and technical breakthroughs, presented dramatic styling tours de force and conceptual firsts, and realized dramatic sales triumphs. These are the very special vehicles that will be presented in the exhibition. Organized by well-known guest car curator Ken Gross, he is no longer surprised when an automobile exhibition in a fine art institution attracts both art aficionados and automobile enthusiasts. “Visitors are very excited to see these important cars and motorcycles, beautifully displayed and interpreted in galleries, in an artful way that they’ve never before considered.”

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website