

Lou Hoyt, third owner of the 16-valve Duesenberg racing car on exhibit

The Owls Head Transportation Museum is pleased to announce the opening of a new exhibition: Faster: The Quest for Speed. This exciting new exhibit includes antique and contemporary racecars, racing motorcycles and bicycles. Faster is hosted in the Museum’s State of Maine Wing and will continue there for three years. The exhibition tells the story of mankind’s quest for speed with vehicles of both the two-and-four-wheeled kind sourced from world-class collections throughout the East Coast.

The exhibit features dozens of vehicles and highlights including a Michael Schumacher driven Ferrari F2002 Formula 1 car, the world’s second-oldest Duesenberg: a 1915 Indianapolis team car, a 1907 Renault Vanderbilt Cup Racer, a 1914 Mercer Raceabout, a 1930 Bentley Speed Six, a 1929 JAP motorcycle, a Hudson Hornet and more.



Wilber D’Arlene finished second at Indy in 1916 with this Duesenberg

Faster: The Quest for Speed explores racing – from the competition go-karts, soapbox derby cars and mini-bikes that spurred the passion for racing in many young drivers, to upper-echelon internationally revered race cars like the Ferrari F2002. The exhibition includes racing ephemera, uniforms, trophies and historical graphics from the museum’s own Lang Library and materials sourced from private collections.



A 1907 Renault Vanderbilt Cup Racing Car on exhibit

“This is certainly the most ambitious exhibition in the history of OHTM, not only are the vehicles significant, their stories represent the multi-faceted history of the sport from youth racing all the way to Formula 1. We feel it is our duty to showcase the aesthetic and historical significance of each piece while striving to tell a story that will educate and thrill our visitors, and I think we have certainly achieved that with Faster,” said Owls Head Transportation Museum Executive Director Russ Rocknak.



The 1914 Mercer 35-J Raceabout on exhibit

The Owls Head Transportation Museum is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. To learn more about the museum visit owlshead.org. Look for follow up stories on the 1907 Renault Vanderbilt Cup racing car, the 1914 Mercer Raceabout and the 1915 Duesenberg.