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Welcome to the Boyertown Museum of Historic Vehicles  —  preserving Pennsylvania's transportation heritage.   We are LOCATED at Third & Walnut Streets in Boyertown  —  just 35 miles northwest of Philadelphia, in southeastern Pennsylvania.   The museum's visitor HOURS are 9:30 to 4:00 Tuesday through Sunday year round, except major holidays.   Free parking.   Admission:  $6 adults  •••  $5 seniors or AAA  •••  $4 students.   For more info, click or on our state outline at left.

Looking for something in particular ?   Google will search our website exclusively for you.   To use it now, click or on the Google at the right, or  —  you can access it at any time, from any place on any page  —  simply by clicking on the old car in the upper left corner.

The Founder of Our Museum was born in 1910, and moved to Boyertown at the age of 16, to begin a 57-year career of designing & building over 100,000 truck bodies;  followed by another 21 years as Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Boyertown Museum of Historic Vehicles, which he and his wife, Erminie, started in 1965.   The Paul Hafer Biography is chock-full of fascinating facts  —  and nearly 600 pictures.   We're hoping to have it posted within a few months.   Click or on desk at left, for a brief note on Mr. Hafer.

The Executive Director of the Boyertown Museum  —  we call him Our Driver  —  is a walking encyclopedia in the world of wheelhicles.   Ken Wells, who has been with us for more than half of the 42 years that the Museum has been in existence, writes to you about various this-n-thats here on our website.   We call his department, A WORD FROM OUR DRIVER.   Click or on car at right, to survey his scriptings.

Every Saturday of Labor Day Weekend, the Boyertown Museum of Historic Vehicles holds its Event of the Year.   We call it Duryea Day  —  and this year was Number 42.   To get the 411 on what happened in 2007, click or on wheel at left.   Yep.   We've got the 2006 confluence posted too  —  and the 2005 & 2004 & 2003.   To look 'em over, Click now, or anytime on the RECENT NEWS nav-bar at the far left of your screen, where you may also find another else or so of interest to you.

Our DID YOU KNOW Department is a wealth of short articles on (mostly) topics that are specifically, or closely, related to the theme of our Museum  —  that being, vehicular transportation.   We are constantly adding new ones, and each includes the date that we first posted it.   Plus, all are indexed.   Click or at right, to take a look.   •••   Incidentally, the letter  I  is the hot-key that instantly takes you to an alphabetized Index to our whole site  —  or, you can also get to it through the HELP nav-bar at the left side of your screen.

Yes, the Boyertown Museum of Historic Vehicles is on the air.   Wheels Along the Road is our monthly television outing.   The hour program  —  hosted by our "Driver", Ken Wells  —  features auto restoration specialist Ralph DeStefano, with Tech Talk, where you will glean good gobs of great garage tips;  and Dan Olsen, with tons of tin lizzie trivia.   Guests include experts on automobiles, trucks, and transportation history.   And if that ain't enuff for you  —  the call-in Car Quiz will certainly get your nostalgic juices generatin'.   So, grab your zapper & cell-phone, and click or on wheels at left, for the Tele-Schedule.

There are over 8,000 museums in the United States;  another 2,400 in Canada;  and more than 40,000 others around the world.   Many of them also house libraries.   Additionally, there are quite a few un-museumed libraries dedicated to our rich history of automobilia.   We have divided the various links into seven different categories, to make them a little easier for you to peruse them.   Or  —  if you prefer, you can go after them through our "whole site index", via the HELP Department.   Or, just press the letter  I   —  the hot-key for the alphabetized Index to our whole site.   •••   Click or on the links graphic at right, to enter the OTHER MUSEUMS Department.

A good deal of Our Website tends to assume that you are of the United States, and that your primary language is English.   Of course, in the web environment, this is frequently not true.   Therefore, we have liberally peppered our site with "greenies"  —  which we use for a number of things, such as:    to define a word, a term, or an acronym, or    to give you some additional information on something  —  usually, just a little  —  but occasionally, a whole mini-bio on a person, or    to present you with an instant photograph or diagram, equiparant to the text, or    to help you get a geographic "fix" on some town or area that we are talking about.   It's easy to get these added tidbits.   Just point to a greenie, and up pops the note-box.

Additionally, sometimes we feel that you may enjoy knowing quite a bit more about some of the communities that are near to our Museum.   In that case, we do an article on it, and put it in our Geography Department.   You can go there now by clicking or on the U.S. map above/left  —  or anytime, by clicking on the GEOGRAPHY nav-bar at the left of your screen.

Besides the regular greenie, there is also the blue "greenie", which acts much like a greenie  —  except that it is a link  —  and you can click on it.   Regular greenies are un-clickable.   •••   By the way  —  all pictures have captions.   Just point to the photo to see it.   Pictures with green borders yield enlargements.   Pictures with blue borders are links.

We initiated our HELP Department primarily as an assist to site visitors  —  and there you will find:  Tips for navigating our site, including a full list of our hot-keys and the customary "site map", which is essentially a Site Contents outline, organized by the site's structure.   The latter is occasionally helpful  —  but often  —  not greatly.

Then we figured that you might like some General Navigation Tips that would be helpful when browsing any website  —  not just ours.   So you will also find that section in the HELP Department.

As we got more and more into the intricacies of website design, we found ourselves writing down various stuff to guide us in our quest.   And so, we've determined to share those too.   They're really for those of you who are also involved in designing and/or maintaining a website of your own.   The main ones are:    40 Things That Everybody Hates on the Web    Detailia on Site Design & Philosophies    140 Named Colors    Some Basics About Colors.

In any case, you may click or on the four-letter-word above/right, to go to our HELP Department now  —  or anytime you wish, by clicking on the HELP nav-bar at the left of your screen.   Additionally, you'll find a number of quickie mini-helps along the black awning  —  at the top of our page banner.

This Home Page was last updated and verified as being accurate information as of
Thursday, April 10, 2008.