Thank you to our Sponsors!
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2019 Collaborative Sponsors
Discover Kalamazoo – Kalamazoo, MI
United Rental Party & Event Services – Kalamazoo, MI
2019 Supporting Sponsors
Sherriff-Goslin Company – Battle Creek, MI
Thornapple Credit Union – Delton, Hastings, and Middleville, MI
2019 Model T Driving Experience Sponsor
Barry County Festival of Trees
November 15 to December 31, 2019
Celebrating the Holidays with Barry County Businesses and the Barry County Chamber of Commerce, this event features holiday trees decorated by businesses throughout the museum. Visitors “vote” for their favorite trees with non-perishable food donations for local distribution through the Barry County Fresh Food Initiative and the Food Bank of South Central Michigan.
Alpha Women’s Center
Barry Christian School
Barry County Chamber of Commerce
Barry County Libraries
Barry County United Way
Bay Point Inn
Bay To Bay Building Concepts
Carpenter Gravel
Cereal City NAPA
Chapple Realty
Chief Noonday Chapter / North Country Trail Association
Delton Cheer
Delton Kellogg 4th Grade to Mackinac
Delton Kellogg School – Transportation
Delton Moose Lodge
Education Station
Family Support Center of Barry County
Glass Creek Winery
Goldworthys Towing and Recovery
Habitat for Humanity
Hastings Downtown Business Team
Historic Charlton Park
JaQua Realtors
Kiwanis Club of Hastings
Mexican Connexion Restaurant
Michigan Career & Technical Institute
Mid-Lakes Screen Printing, The Cottage Shop, Ken’s Sport Shop
The Shack aka Delton Rocks
Thornapple Credit Union
Thornapple Manor
WBCH Radio
West Michigan Works!
9th Annual Gilmore Spooktacular
October 22, 2019
A howling good time for the entire family, this event geared for kids 12 and under includes truck-or-treating throughout the museum, vintage car rides, and participation from local businesses and organizations!
All Weather Seal of West Michigan – Lowell, MI
Discover Kalamazoo – Kalamazoo, MI
Dunkin’ Donuts of Kalamazoo – Kalamazoo, MI
Fresh Coast Auto Detail – Kalamazoo, MI
Radisson Catering – Kalamazoo, MI
Sherriff-Goslin Company – Battle Creek, MI
Sweetwater’s Donut Mill – Kalamazoo, Plainwell, and Battle Creek, MI
Thornapple Credit Union – Delton, Hastings, and Middleville, MI
All-Years Corvette Show and Swap Meet
July 21, 2019
Gilmore Car Museum’s all-years Corvette Show and Swap Meet is expected to feature more than 270 cars.
Discover Kalamazoo – Kalamazoo, MI
Fresh Coast Auto Detail – Kalamazoo, MI
Heritage Chevrolet – Battle Creek, MI
Sherriff-Goslin Company – Battle Creek, MI
Thornapple Credit Union – Delton, Hastings, and Middleville, MI
Cars and Coffee
July 13, 2019
Cars & Coffee Grand Rapids will be bringing their successful West Michigan event to the grounds of the Museum. It is an opportunity for exotic and unique vehicles and their owners to network, and open to the public for viewing.
Biggby Coffee Gull Road – Kalamazoo, MI
WQXC FM 100.9 – Otsego and Kalamazoo, MI
WZUU FM 92.5 – Otsego and Kalamazoo, MI
24th Annual Vintage Motorcycle Show
June 8 and 9, 2019
The Museum’s Vintage Motorcycle Show is an annual summer event featuring over 250 vintage motorcycles on the show field, a variety of vendors, and over 5,000 spectators who ride in on their motorcycles, making this West Michigan’s largest motorcycle event.
Battle Creek Harley-Davidson – Battle Creek, MI
BMW Motorcycles of Grand Rapids – Grand Rapids, MI
Checkered Past Cycles – Galesburg, MI
Crown Advertising, Motorcycle Coasters – Rantoul, IL
Discover Kalamazoo – Kalamazoo, MI
Sherriff-Goslin Company – Battle Creek, MI
Thornapple Credit Union – Delton, Hastings, and Middleville, MI
Zeigler Motorsports – Kalamazoo, MI
Gilmore Pre 1942 Showcase & Driving Tour
May 17 and 18, 2019
Discover Kalamazoo – Kalamazoo, MI
Olson’s Gaskets – Port Orchard, WA
Sherriff-Goslin Company – Battle Creek, MI
Thornapple Credit Union – Delton, Hastings, and Middleville, MI
Matinee Feature – Herbie: The Love Bug
March 23, 2019
Discover Kalamazoo – Kalamazoo, MI
Fresh Coast Auto Detail – Kalamazoo, MI
Thornapple Credit Union – Delton, Hastings, and Middleville, MI
8th Annual Pint with the Past
February 16, 2019
Pint with the Past is the Museum’s annual Beer-Tasting Fundraiser featuring Michigan craft brewers, live music, and of course, the best vintage autos.
Bell’s Brewery – Kalamazoo, MI
Discover Kalamazoo – Kalamazoo, MI
Founders Brewing Co.- Grand Rapids, MI
Fresh Coast Auto Detail – Kalamazoo, MI
NEDs on Gull Lake – Hickory Corners, MI
Seber Tans, PLC – Kalamazoo, MI
United Party & Event Services – Kalamazoo, MI
New Year’s Eve, 2018
Ringing in the New Year at the Gilmore Car Museum! This classy museum event features an evening of fun and frivolity complete with a wide selection of appetizers, drinks, dancing, a car-themed photo booth complete with costumes and props, a champagne toast at midnight, and a stellar “ball” drop inside the museum!
Kalamazoo Wings – Kalamazoo, MI
Seasonal Grille – Hastings, MI
United Rental Party & Event Services – Kalamazoo, MI
Exhibit Sponsor, Michigan Driver & Traffic Safety Education Association: Seasonal exhibit, open April 1 – Nov 30, in the lower level of the Campania Barn.
As car culture developed, Americans became increasingly concerned about safety. Step into our 1950s-era driver education “classroom” and check out how early traffic safety concerns transitioned into the “driver’s ed” we know today.
MDTSEA – Lansing, MI MDTSA has a long and proud history of involvement with Michigan driver and traffic safety and provides materials and resources for both driver education instructors and students.
Exhibit Sponsor: “The Negro Motorist’s Green Book: Racial Discrimination and the Automobile in America“
The Gilmore Car Museum is proud to announce a partnership with the PNC Foundation that will offer an insightful and educational story that predates the Civil Rights era. Decades after the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment ended slavery, African Americans continued to suffer unequal treatment, especially in the South. The Jim Crow philosophy discriminated against blacks in nearly every aspect of public life, including travel. Although the roads and highways were free for all to use, doing so was not easy for blacks. The Green Book, written by Victor Green, provided guidance for African American travelers to find safe locations to sleep, eat, shop and purchase gas.
PNC (Kalamazoo, MI) PNC Financial Services Group operations include a regional banking franchise operating primarily in nineteen states and the District of Columbia with more than 2,700 branches, online and mobile services together with 8000 ATM machines, specialized financial businesses serving companies and government entities, and asset management and processing businesses.
