National Automobile Museum named in the 'Top Ten Museums' by "Car Collector" magazine, one of "America's Five Greatest Automobile Museums" and one of the top sixteen auto museums in the world by "AutoWeek", and has been repeatedly selected as the best museum in Northern Nevada by "Nevada Magazine"'s annual reader's poll. National Automobile Museum The National Automobile Museum, located just south of the Truckee River in Reno, Nevada, displays historic automobiles from the late 19th century and from throughout the 20th. Most of the vehicles displayed are from the collection of the late casino owner William F. Harrah, and so the museum is
William F. Harrah skin color or gender. The main theater in Harrah's Reno was named "Sammy's Showroom" after entertainer Sammy Davis, Jr. (whose Duesenberg replica now resides in the museum that bears Harrah's name), and actor-comedian Bill Cosby recalls Harrah as a good friend. The William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration is named after him. Harrah had an extensive collection of cars. Many of his cars enjoyed 'best' or 'one-of-a kind' status. Some notable mentions in his collection were the two Bugatti Type 41s, a Phantom Corsair, two Ferraris among several others. In 1966 his 1931 Bugatti Type 41 Coupe de Ville