Kevin Wheatcroft Museum

[LarryH57]

A relative of mine who is more in to F1 racing cars, told me that last November he went to Donnington to see the Wheatcroft Museum, which contained F1 cars and a host of German MVs

He said the museum was closing for good. Or was it just for the winter season.

Has it closed for good?

[simon king]

Yes it has, sadly

[ploughman]

Found this piece through google.

Note the comment about returning vehicles or selling them.

https://www.autosport.com/historics/news/139307/donington-collection-museum-to-close

 

 

[Minesweeper]

Does this include the military collection as well - Jack might know something about that ?

[johann morris]

I am sure that I read somewhere that he plans to build a dedicated museum for his military vehicle collection.

 

Jon

[Richard Farrant]

https://en-gb.facebook.com/pages/category/Automotive-Restoration-Service/The-Wheatcroft-Collection-2348619585363508/

[Niels v]

Base on some of the comments Kevin has made on Facebook, The F1 collection or parts of it is keep until he can make a new museum for them. He has also mentioned having a rather large collection of vintage cars and recently posted pictures of newly purchased vintage Grand prix motorbike. 

[ajmac]

I read that Donnington Park Race Track has either been sold outright or been leased out, thus the museum had to go as that was not required by the new owners / occupiers.  It would seem to have been a good move as Kevin and the team have been getting a lot of vehicles out to companies for restoration over the last year.

Edited April 7, 2019 by ajmac

[Jack]

On 4/7/2019 at 11:57 AM, ajmac said:

I read that Donnington Park Race Track has either been sold outright or been leased out, thus the museum had to go as that was not required by the new owners / occupiers.  It would seem to have been a good move as Kevin and the team have been getting a lot of vehicles out to companies for restoration over the last year.

That's correct, Kevin has changed management so the T&C's have changed. And expect great news as Kevin has TEN Shermans in restoration as well as TWO Tigers 🙂

[LarryH57]

Any ideas where Kevin's proposed MV museum might end up?

Near Beltring might be nice!