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Welcome to MotorCities National Heritage Area (MotorCities), where you can Experience Everything Automotive! We invite you to join us as we take a drive down memory lane, gaze into the future and share with you an amazing automotive journey.

Pull out a calendar, road map and pen, and let the fun begin! We invite you to browse the many wonderful automotive museums, homes and gardens, tours and sporting events located in MotorCities and plot your path through the heart of the American automotive industry. If you need help, we're ready to jump in! Whether your visit lasts a few hours or a few days, you are guaranteed an exciting variety of places to see and things to do.

With over 100 sites and experiences waiting to be explored, go ahead and choose your category of interest - and get ready to Experience Everything Automotive!

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Monday, 02 July 2018 17:03

Aviation and Lindbergh

Packard used the nearly mile-long infield of the Proving Grounds automotive test track as a landing strip to test the manufactured aircraft engines for World…

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Monday, 02 July 2018 17:03

The Test Track at the Proving Grounds

This high speed test track was a 2 1/2 mile oval that had 31-degree banked curves which allowed for car to gain speed easily. In…

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Monday, 02 July 2018 17:04

The Packard Endurance Runs

The Packard Motor Car Company proved that it could combine luxury and quality time and time again. The company continually tested its products, even under…

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Monday, 02 July 2018 17:05

Packard Company Portrait

The Packard Motor Car Company sold the most luxury cars between 1925 and 1942 with the tombstone-shaped grill as their company's trademark. Packard is remembered…

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Monday, 02 July 2018 17:17

Hamtramck Automobile Row

After the nearby Dodge plant opened in 1914, the small village of 3,500 people ended up growing into a city of 56,000 people by 1930.…

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Monday, 02 July 2018 17:25

Bold Moves - Bringing Buick to Flint

As the regions forests had been depleted, the lumber company of Begole, Fox and Company reinvented itself as the Flint Wagon Works and in 1903…

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Monday, 02 July 2018 17:30

Chevrolet Empire Along the Flint River

As Billy Durant was forced out of the company in 1910 and then proceeded to partner with Louis Chevrolet to built yet another automotive empire,…

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Monday, 02 July 2018 17:31

Billy Durant and the Birthplace of General Motors

Why fight between quality and quantity, when you can have both? The General Motors founder followed this philosophy to a fault by combining quality brands…

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Monday, 02 July 2018 17:46

Auto Dealers in Ypsilanti

Auto dealers sold 31 different brands of cars and trucks during the 1900s. The 1/4-mile was transformed in 1912 into a bustling market when the…

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Monday, 02 July 2018 17:50

Ypsilanti's Automotive Manufacturing

Automobile companies couldn’t survive here, but auto parts manufactures had more luck. Ford parts factories, particularly for convertibles, operated in Ypsilanti for decades until moving…

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