You can all come out and watch TEAM GIXXER smoke the track!!
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- George Barber, who built the Barber Motorsports Park and
Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum with tens of millions of dollars of his own
money, expects to complete plans for a 100,000 square-foot museum expansion this
year and break ground in 2012.
The new building will be built on the
inside of the racetrack and will be connected to the existing museum by an
enclosed bridge over the track. You'll be able to stand in the walkway and watch
cars and motorcycles race below, he said this week.
The existing museum
is 140,000 square feet and has space to display about half of Barber's mammoth
bike collection, which is widely viewed as the world's best.
Barber also
said that work to restore the iconic Pete's Famous Hotdogs sign that used to
hang above the tiny Pete's Famous restaurant on Second Avenue North has been
completed.
Proprietor Constantine "Gus" Koutroulakis left the sign to
Barber after his death in April. Barber said he intends to display the sign in
his museum.
The neon and electrical components have beenrestored, but
the slightly aged paint was left alone.
"We're not exactly sure what
we'll do with it yet," Barber said.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- George Barber, who built the Barber Motorsports Park and
Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum with tens of millions of dollars of his own
money, expects to complete plans for a 100,000 square-foot museum expansion this
year and break ground in 2012.
The new building will be built on the
inside of the racetrack and will be connected to the existing museum by an
enclosed bridge over the track. You'll be able to stand in the walkway and watch
cars and motorcycles race below, he said this week.
The existing museum
is 140,000 square feet and has space to display about half of Barber's mammoth
bike collection, which is widely viewed as the world's best.
Barber also
said that work to restore the iconic Pete's Famous Hotdogs sign that used to
hang above the tiny Pete's Famous restaurant on Second Avenue North has been
completed.
Proprietor Constantine "Gus" Koutroulakis left the sign to
Barber after his death in April. Barber said he intends to display the sign in
his museum.
The neon and electrical components have beenrestored, but
the slightly aged paint was left alone.
"We're not exactly sure what
we'll do with it yet," Barber said.
