The founder of Harrah’s Hotels & Casinos and Harrah’s Automobile Collection, Bill Harrah, was also one of last century’s most famous car collectors. Opened in 1989, the National Automobile Museum (The Harrah Collection) in Reno features more than 200 vehicles, most of them American-made vehicles from his great collection. The marquee vehicle is one of the most famous American cars ever: the 1907 Thomas Flyer, winner of the following year’s landmark New York to Paris Automobile Race. Others: a 1937 Airomobile Experimental Sedan, styled by John Tjaarda; a 1934 Dymaxion Model 2 4-D Transport, created by Richard Buckminster ‘Bucky’ Fuller (1895−1983), inventor of the geodesic dome and the Dymaxion™ House, a car that was found dilapidated in a Mesa, Arizona, backyard. And, one of the world’s most beautiful vehicles, a 1936 Mercedes-Benz Type 500K Special Roadster, was purchased new by Princess Nina Mdivani, wife of Denis P.S. Conan Doyle, son of author, Sir Arthur.

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