On a trip to the U.K. in 2017, I planned out a couple of Car Museums to visit along the way. As we were passing through the Lakes District, Lakeland's was an obvious choice for a stop.

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To be perfectly honest, I didn't have high expectations of this excursion. I expected a nice little collection of F1 cars and paraphernalia, maybe a couple of videos. Boy, was I wrong!! Come join me as my horizons are expanded.

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Located in beautiful Derbyshire, the Museum sits within the confines of the Grand Prix complex. As I was driving in and out there were numerous Astons, Jags, Ferraris and Porsches moving around - it would be an interesting place to do some serious car-spotting I think. Anyway, let's go in!

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This is a companion article to a previous one I wrote, where I visited the Ferrari Enzo Museum in Modena, Italy.

In that article, I mentioned that I'd taken pictures in the Engine Hall. I kept them out of that piece because I figured most people wouldn't be overly impressed by an engine sitting on a stand. For those brave few who ARE interested, here we go! The other article is HERE if you haven't seen it already.
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Above is the stunning entrance to the Enzo Museum. You park around the back of the building (lots of spaces!) and walk around the side to be greeted by this! I've never seen a museum that looked so interesting from the outside.
[aesop_content color="#ffffff" background="#000000" columns="1" position="none" imgrepeat="no-repeat" disable_bgshading="off" floaterposition="left" floaterdirection="up" revealfx="off" overlay_revealfx="off"]Come and join me on this, the first of my virtual Car Museum tours. I love to visit Car Museums and photograph the exhibits. All the pictures in this article are taken by me (unless stated otherwise) and I'll share my thoughts and impressions as well.
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