Next time you’re in the City of Brotherly Love, before you altruistically cruise over to Pat’s Steaks, ascend Rocky’s favorite art museum steps and grab a hot pretzel on a cold street corner, stop in at the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum. One of the world’s great collections of racing sports cars has been meticulously assembled during 50 years of collecting by Philadelphia neurosurgeon, Dr. Frederick Simeone. The eponymous museum contains approximately 65 of the rarest and most significant race cars, 1909 to the mid ‘70s, including a 1912 National Speed Car powered by a 7-litre engine which, in a similar car, powered the only stock car model to win the Indianapolis 500, in 1912.

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