Penske Automotive’s Scottsdale 101 Auto Collection Turns 10

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It seems that for as long as anyone can remember,Chauncey Ranch has been all about horsepower. For most of the ranch’s history, the horses in power wereArabians, acclaimed show horses that helped make Scotts-

dale, Arizona, a center for equestrian activities. By the way, Scotts-dale is a center of such importance that the nearby WestWorldcomplex was constructed and continues to function as an importantinternational equestrian facility, though each January it also servesas the site of the world famous Barrett-Jackson, collector car eventand auction.

A decade ago, the horsepower focus for the grounds that hadbeen home to Chauncey Ranch and its stables and pastures changedfrom steeds with four legs to those with four wheels. As Scottsdale’sbusiness development grew and needed more land for commercialuse, horse enthusiasts moved their stables to the north and east oftown. On the site of the former Chauncey Ranch, Roger Penske builtone of the world’s largest automotive dealership complexes, an in-verted L-shaped series of stores pointing toward the McDowell Moun-tains and built around the keystone of the Penske Racing Museum.

Though some of the original franchises have changed, PenskeAutomotive’s Scottsdale 101 Auto Collection remains a showcase for

13 vehicle brands -- Acura, Aston Martin, Audi, Bentley, BMW, Bugatti,Jaguar, Lamborghini, MINI, Porsche, Land Rover, Range Rover, RollsRoyce, and Volkswagen. Most of the dealerships are arrayed arounda paved, quarter-mile racing-style road and test track and the mini-mountain of an off-pavement torture track complete with its ownwater hazard.

The 41-acre facility also has its own body and paint shops, anAvis rent-a-car facility, a commercial-quality car wash, a window-tint-ing garage, a mobile windshield replacement service, parking forsome 3,000 vehicles, and even a Shell gasoline station.

Shell is a corporate affiliate of the Penske Racing teams, whichhas sent cars and drivers to compete in major motorsports seriesaround the world and which holds the record for the most victoriesin the history of the Indianapolis 500.

Some of the pioneers of sports car racing in northern Ohio stillremember the time when they used to race around the runways atthe Akron airport. One year, in the mid-1950s, a church youth groupwas invited to watch.

“One of them [a young visitor] would continue his new-found in-terest in motorsports,” writes author and auto racing historian CarlGoodwin.

That youngster was Roger Penske, whose growing interest in mo-torsports and things automotive would lead to success behind thewheel as a driver, perhaps the most successful racing team owner inAmerican history, and as one of the world’s leading automobile dealersand transportation business owners.

Roger Penske grew up in Shaker Heights, a Cleveland suburb. Hisinterest in cars included more than watching them race. He’d buy, fixand then sell vehicles, and also started racing them, and racing themvery well, indeed. In 1961, he not only won a Sports Car Club of Amer-ica national championship but also was honored as sports car driverof the year by Sports Illustrated magazine. He won more races and ad-ditional honors the following season. In 1963, he won a NASCAR stockcar race at Riverside, California.

Penske’s success as a driver came while he worked for Alcoa.Penske had studied at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, and joinedthe aluminum company after graduation. His success as a part-timeracer was so impressive that major teams were offering him cars torace. Qualifying for the Indy 500 loomed in his future.

But a more important opportunity also presented itself – the op-portunity to buy a Chevrolet dealership in Philadelphia.

But there was a catch. To secure the financial backing he’d needto complete that purchase, Penske would have to step out from behindthe wheel and take a position on the other side of the pit wall. He quitdriving to became a new car dealer. Soon, however, and while still inhis twenties, he also launched Penske Racing.

As it approaches its 50th anniversary, Penske Racing celebratesa history that includes championships in the U.S. Road Racing Cham-pionship, the Trans-Am, Can-Am, Indy car and American Le Mans Se-ries. It also raced in Formula One and still races in NASCAR’s SprintCup and Nationwide Series. But, its greatest fame has been achievedat Indianapolis’s historic Brickyard, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway,where Penske Racing has won the famed 500 a record 15 times.

At the same time, Penske has built businesses under the PenskeCorporation umbrella, including Penske Truck Leasing and the PenskeAutomotive Group, which operates more than 300 automotive dealer-ships, primarily in the United States and England.

IPenske Automotive’s Scottsdale 101 Auto Collection Celebrates

10 Years - An Insider’s Tour of An Automotive Theme Park


It seems that for as long as anyone can remember,Chauncey Ranch has been all about horsepower. For most of the ranch’s history, the horses in power wereArabians, acclaimed show horses that helped make Scotts-

dale, Arizona, a center for equestrian activities. By the way, Scotts-dale is a center of such importance that the nearby WestWorldcomplex was constructed and continues to function as an importantinternational equestrian facility, though each January it also servesas the site of the world famous Barrett-Jackson, collector car eventand auction.

A decade ago, the horsepower focus for the grounds that hadbeen home to Chauncey Ranch and its stables and pastures changedfrom steeds with four legs to those with four wheels. As Scottsdale’sbusiness development grew and needed more land for commercialuse, horse enthusiasts moved their stables to the north and east oftown. On the site of the former Chauncey Ranch, Roger Penske builtone of the world’s largest automotive dealership complexes, an in-verted L-shaped series of stores pointing toward the McDowell Moun-tains and built around the keystone of the Penske Racing Museum.

Though some of the original franchises have changed, PenskeAutomotive’s Scottsdale 101 Auto Collection remains a showcase for

13 vehicle brands -- Acura, Aston Martin, Audi, Bentley, BMW, Bugatti,Jaguar, Lamborghini, MINI, Porsche, Land Rover, Range Rover, RollsRoyce, and Volkswagen. Most of the dealerships are arrayed arounda paved, quarter-mile racing-style road and test track and the mini-mountain of an off-pavement torture track complete with its ownwater hazard.

The 41-acre facility also has its own body and paint shops, anAvis rent-a-car facility, a commercial-quality car wash, a window-tint-ing garage, a mobile windshield replacement service, parking forsome 3,000 vehicles, and even a Shell gasoline station.

Shell is a corporate affiliate of the Penske Racing teams, whichhas sent cars and drivers to compete in major motorsports seriesaround the world and which holds the record for the most victoriesin the history of the Indianapolis 500.

Some of the pioneers of sports car racing in northern Ohio stillremember the time when they used to race around the runways atthe Akron airport. One year, in the mid-1950s, a church youth groupwas invited to watch.

“One of them [a young visitor] would continue his new-found in-terest in motorsports,” writes author and auto racing historian CarlGoodwin.

That youngster was Roger Penske, whose growing interest in mo-torsports and things automotive would lead to success behind thewheel as a driver, perhaps the most successful racing team owner inAmerican history, and as one of the world’s leading automobile dealersand transportation business owners.

Roger Penske grew up in Shaker Heights, a Cleveland suburb. Hisinterest in cars included more than watching them race. He’d buy, fixand then sell vehicles, and also started racing them, and racing themvery well, indeed. In 1961, he not only won a Sports Car Club of Amer-ica national championship but also was honored as sports car driverof the year by Sports Illustrated magazine. He won more races and ad-ditional honors the following season. In 1963, he won a NASCAR stockcar race at Riverside, California.

Penske’s success as a driver came while he worked for Alcoa.Penske had studied at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania, and joinedthe aluminum company after graduation. His success as a part-timeracer was so impressive that major teams were offering him cars torace. Qualifying for the Indy 500 loomed in his future.

But a more important opportunity also presented itself – the op-portunity to buy a Chevrolet dealership in Philadelphia.

But there was a catch. To secure the financial backing he’d needto complete that purchase, Penske would have to step out from behindthe wheel and take a position on the other side of the pit wall. He quitdriving to became a new car dealer. Soon, however, and while still inhis twenties, he also launched Penske Racing.

As it approaches its 50th anniversary, Penske Racing celebratesa history that includes championships in the U.S. Road Racing Cham-pionship, the Trans-Am, Can-Am, Indy car and American Le Mans Se-ries. It also raced in Formula One and still races in NASCAR’s SprintCup and Nationwide Series. But, its greatest fame has been achievedat Indianapolis’s historic Brickyard, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway,where Penske Racing has won the famed 500 a record 15 times.

At the same time, Penske has built businesses under the PenskeCorporation umbrella, including Penske Truck Leasing and the PenskeAutomotive Group, which operates more than 300 automotive dealer-ships, primarily in the United States and England.

IPenske Automotive’s Scottsdale 101 Auto Collection Celebrates

10 Years - An Insider’s Tour of An Automotive Theme Park


But it was in Scottsdale that Penske chose to assemble a show-case automotive collection, a collection that includes the museum thathouses his historic racing cars and motorsports memories. Since itsopening, the Scottsdale 101 Auto Collection has been more than acomposite of new car dealerships; it has served as a tourist attraction,a sort of automotive theme park.

By the way, that theme park has recently added yet another newattraction, one we’ll visit as we make our way from one end of the fa-cility to the other.

We start our visit at the south end of the property, where we aregreeted by the shining, silverly cylindrical facade of Porsche NorthScottsdale. Step inside the semi-circular, silver and black showroom,and our eyes are drawn to walls covered with huge photographs of his-toric Porsche racing cars and, above the receptionist’s desk, the words:

“In 1948, I felt confident we had created a milestone automobile.”The quote is from Dr. Ferry Porsche, who that year finally put the

family name on a car inspired by the pioneering automotive engineer-ing his father, Ferdinand Porsche, had been doing for so many yearsfor other automakers.

Indeed, arrayed around the showroom are the latest examples ofPorsche’s ongoing evolution of milestone automobiles, soon to includethe newest, the next-generation 911.

While touring the Porsche showroom, you may be surprised tosee a couple of Ferraris on display. They are trade-ins and availablefor sale.

As you visit the various Scottsdale 101 Auto Collection dealer-ships, you’ll see other pre-owned Ferraris in various showrooms. They,

too, are for sale, a convenience for those who may not want to visit ei-ther of the two Ferrari/Maserati dealerships the Penske AutomotiveGroup operates in the Southwest – one a few miles to the south, in itstraditional location on the McDowell Road auto row, and one quite afew miles to the north, at the Wynn resort on the Las Vegas Strip.

From Porsche North Scottsdale, we move across the driveway tothe BMW dealership, where we are greeted by dark brown walls, a sil-ver ceiling, slate-colored flooring and the lineup of BMW’s newest au-tomobiles and sport utility vehicles. The BMW dealership also has asecond floor. Originally the home of MINI North Scottsdale, the secondfloor now showcases pre-owned and especially new BMW M cars, thefactory hot rods produced by the automaker’s M (as in Motorsports)division.

Another showcase area, not only of the BMW dealership but also

of all the Scottsdale 101 Auto Collection dealerships, is the automotiveservice center. Like the BMW “garage,” several of the service areashave special clinker tile flooring. Each of the service bays – and thereare more than 250 throughout the facility – has its own Shure TC3bench, Lista tool boxes, computer, fluid delivery and recovery systemsand encapsulated, hydraulic Rotary SL29i lift. Any parts a technicianneeds are delivered by a state-of-the-art Remstar International auto-mated storage and retrieval system.

By the way, cars kept overnight are elevated onto those lifts so garagefloors can be thoroughly cleaned on a daily basis. Penske Racing’s garagesare known for their eat-off-the-floor spotlessness, and the dealership serv-ice areas maintain the same spic-and-span cleaningprinciples.

Our tour takes us from the BMW center to


But it was in Scottsdale that Penske chose to assemble a show-case automotive collection, a collection that includes the museum thathouses his historic racing cars and motorsports memories. Since itsopening, the Scottsdale 101 Auto Collection has been more than acomposite of new car dealerships; it has served as a tourist attraction,a sort of automotive theme park.

By the way, that theme park has recently added yet another newattraction, one we’ll visit as we make our way from one end of the fa-cility to the other.

We start our visit at the south end of the property, where we aregreeted by the shining, silverly cylindrical facade of Porsche NorthScottsdale. Step inside the semi-circular, silver and black showroom,and our eyes are drawn to walls covered with huge photographs of his-toric Porsche racing cars and, above the receptionist’s desk, the words:

“In 1948, I felt confident we had created a milestone automobile.”The quote is from Dr. Ferry Porsche, who that year finally put the

family name on a car inspired by the pioneering automotive engineer-ing his father, Ferdinand Porsche, had been doing for so many yearsfor other automakers.

Indeed, arrayed around the showroom are the latest examples ofPorsche’s ongoing evolution of milestone automobiles, soon to includethe newest, the next-generation 911.

While touring the Porsche showroom, you may be surprised tosee a couple of Ferraris on display. They are trade-ins and availablefor sale.

As you visit the various Scottsdale 101 Auto Collection dealer-ships, you’ll see other pre-owned Ferraris in various showrooms. They,

too, are for sale, a convenience for those who may not want to visit ei-ther of the two Ferrari/Maserati dealerships the Penske AutomotiveGroup operates in the Southwest – one a few miles to the south, in itstraditional location on the McDowell Road auto row, and one quite afew miles to the north, at the Wynn resort on the Las Vegas Strip.

From Porsche North Scottsdale, we move across the driveway tothe BMW dealership, where we are greeted by dark brown walls, a sil-ver ceiling, slate-colored flooring and the lineup of BMW’s newest au-tomobiles and sport utility vehicles. The BMW dealership also has asecond floor. Originally the home of MINI North Scottsdale, the secondfloor now showcases pre-owned and especially new BMW M cars, thefactory hot rods produced by the automaker’s M (as in Motorsports)division.

Another showcase area, not only of the BMW dealership but also

of all the Scottsdale 101 Auto Collection dealerships, is the automotiveservice center. Like the BMW “garage,” several of the service areashave special clinker tile flooring. Each of the service bays – and thereare more than 250 throughout the facility – has its own Shure TC3bench, Lista tool boxes, computer, fluid delivery and recovery systemsand encapsulated, hydraulic Rotary SL29i lift. Any parts a technicianneeds are delivered by a state-of-the-art Remstar International auto-mated storage and retrieval system.

By the way, cars kept overnight are elevated onto those lifts so garagefloors can be thoroughly cleaned on a daily basis. Penske Racing’s garagesare known for their eat-off-the-floor spotlessness, and the dealership serv-ice areas maintain the same spic-and-span cleaningprinciples.

Our tour takes us from the BMW center to


sweeping balcony that overlooks the paved and off-road test tracks,as well as providing a vista that includes a large automotive servicecenter, the body and paint shops, the administration office, new carparking lots, gas station and car wash facility.

Next door to the Penkse Racing Museum is the combined show-room of Bentley Scottsdale and Lamborghini North Scottsdale. Thedecor is much like the Jaguar dealership, except for the maple-wooddropped ceiling and the dark flooring beneath the Lamborghini dis-play area.

That same back hallway that led us from Jaguar to the motor-sports museum and on to Bentley and Lamborghini now delivers usto Rolls Royce Motor Cars Scottsdale and Scottsdale Aston Martin,where not only Bond, James Bond would feel right at home, but sowould some of his Ferrari-driving adversaries. For customer conven-ience, several pre-owned Ferraris share showroom floor space withthe Rolls and 007’s favorite cars.

We’ve been heading to the west since we left the motorsportsmuseum. Now we walk across a couple of driveways to MINI NorthScottsdale, where the building is basic black inside and out, withbright green and yellow exterior trim and green, yellow, orange andblue accents inside. The internal walls are adorned with MINI roofspainted with Union Jack, American Stars and Stripes and checkeredflag motifs. While inside, be sure to check out the Bulldog loungeand the MINI history timeline chart.

Just to the east, we enter Acura North Scottsdale with its light-colored tile flooring, beige-wood trim, and tall light-colored walls –and, of course, the lineup of Acura cars and sport utility vehicles.With Acura recently announcing a lost list of new vehicles, including

a successor to the NSX sports car, this showroom will be a happen-ing place in coming months.

For now, however, the happening place is next door at Volkswa-gen North Scottsdale, where the next-generation Beetle and theAmerican-made Passat share the two-story showroom rotunda withVW Vintage.

What’s VW Vintage? It’s the newest automotive attraction atthe Scottsdale 101 Auto Collection.

It all started when the dealership took a 1961 VW Transport, a1981 Thing and a 1966 VW microbus in trade for various new vehi-cles. They’ve since been joined by a 1956 oval-window Beetle, a1989 Cabriolet and a 1967 Herbie the Love Bug. The historic VWswere kept in the main showroom and immediately attracted the at-tention and affection of seemingly every customer who walkedthrough the door. Dealership employees also loved the air-cooledcontingent, and thus VW Vintage was launched.

VW Vintage is Penske’s own classic car dealership-within-a-dealership. VW Vintage will focus on classic Volkswagen sales andservice and even do some restoration work as offering vintage partsand vintage-style apparel, perhaps someday adding car club-styleactivities.

From Range Rovers roving the range to vintage Volkswagens ondisplay… from exotic sports cars to luxury sedans and sport utilities…and from MINIs to cars that won the biggest race on the planet, theScottsdale 101 Auto Collection truly is more than a group of new cardealerships. It’s a modern – and historic – automotive theme park.

Audi, where the decor features beige wood – just like some Audi ve-hicle interiors – light-colored tile flooring and an industrial-style ceil-ing with exposed air vents. In addition to Audi vehicles, you find thequattro café, a waiting area for those bringing their vehicles for serv-ice.

The next stop on our tour looks less like an automobile dealer-ship than a hunting or fishing lodge. The staff at Land Rover NorthScottsdale even wears fleece jackets. There’s an Adventure Centre.A huge four-oared shell hangs from the ceiling. Canoes, sleds andpolo equipment are part of the decor.

Land Rover and Range Rover vehicles aren’t merely on display.Just out the dealership’s back doors is an off-road test track wherethose vehicles can show their capability at crossing a stream, climb-ing over rocks or taking on a slope that leans the car seemingly al-most to the tipping point.

On a monthly basis, Land Rover and Range Rover owners canparticipate in off-road driving classes on the mini-mountain, and sev-eral times a year, the dealership sponsors driving adventure tripsfor its customers and their vehicles.

From Land Rover, we make our way through an internal hallwayto Jaguar North Scottsdale, where you encounter a circular show-case at the front of the dealership showroom. The decor featureslight gray-green wall covering and dark marble desk tops, and, ofcourse, an array of, as the British say, Jag-u-ars.

From Jaguar North Scottsdale, a hallway delivers us to the in-side of the Penske Racing Museum, which also can be enteredthrough the front door near the intersection of North ScottsdaleRoad and East Chauncey Lane.

Entering from the Jaguar dealership, the first vehicle we en-counter is the Nichels Engineering-prepared 1963 Pontiac Catalinastock car that Roger Penske drove to victory at Riverside Interna-tional Raceway. Parked next to the Catalina is a 2005 Dodge ChargerNASCAR stock car formerly driven by Rusty Wallace.

Keep going and we see the 1973 Porsche RSR that Mark Dono-hue drove to the inaugural International Race of Champions serieschampionship, the 1972 McLaren 16B-Offenhauser that Donohuedrove to first of Penske Racing’s 15 Indy 500 victories, the 1974 PC-1 Formula One car Penske Racing developed, and a 40-percent-scalewind tunnel model of the 1991 PC 20 Indy racer.

Between those vehicles and the front entrance, we encountera couple of Indy 500 pace cars, another IROC racer, and nearly adozen more historic Indy racers, most of which won the famed 500-mile Memorial Day weekend classic.

Depending on the date of a visit, however, the cars in the mu-seum could be different. They are rotated in and out at various times,and also are used for displays at vintage and other racing events,car shows, at other museums, and even at other Penske AutomotiveGroup dealerships.

The Penske Racing museum also has an upstairs, where thereare many scale model cars, sometimes a full-size racer as well, tro-phies won by Penske Racing teams, and the Turn 4 Café, where foodand beverages are available until 3 p.m. Monday through Friday.Note, however, that the grill is shut down an hour before closing.The museum is open weekdays and Saturdays from 8 a.m. until 4p.m., and Sunday from noon until 5 p.m.

From the museum’s upper level, we can step outside to a large,


sweeping balcony that overlooks the paved and off-road test tracks,as well as providing a vista that includes a large automotive servicecenter, the body and paint shops, the administration office, new carparking lots, gas station and car wash facility.

Next door to the Penkse Racing Museum is the combined show-room of Bentley Scottsdale and Lamborghini North Scottsdale. Thedecor is much like the Jaguar dealership, except for the maple-wooddropped ceiling and the dark flooring beneath the Lamborghini dis-play area.

That same back hallway that led us from Jaguar to the motor-sports museum and on to Bentley and Lamborghini now delivers usto Rolls Royce Motor Cars Scottsdale and Scottsdale Aston Martin,where not only Bond, James Bond would feel right at home, but sowould some of his Ferrari-driving adversaries. For customer conven-ience, several pre-owned Ferraris share showroom floor space withthe Rolls and 007’s favorite cars.

We’ve been heading to the west since we left the motorsportsmuseum. Now we walk across a couple of driveways to MINI NorthScottsdale, where the building is basic black inside and out, withbright green and yellow exterior trim and green, yellow, orange andblue accents inside. The internal walls are adorned with MINI roofspainted with Union Jack, American Stars and Stripes and checkeredflag motifs. While inside, be sure to check out the Bulldog loungeand the MINI history timeline chart.

Just to the east, we enter Acura North Scottsdale with its light-colored tile flooring, beige-wood trim, and tall light-colored walls –and, of course, the lineup of Acura cars and sport utility vehicles.With Acura recently announcing a lost list of new vehicles, including

a successor to the NSX sports car, this showroom will be a happen-ing place in coming months.

For now, however, the happening place is next door at Volkswa-gen North Scottsdale, where the next-generation Beetle and theAmerican-made Passat share the two-story showroom rotunda withVW Vintage.

What’s VW Vintage? It’s the newest automotive attraction atthe Scottsdale 101 Auto Collection.

It all started when the dealership took a 1961 VW Transport, a1981 Thing and a 1966 VW microbus in trade for various new vehi-cles. They’ve since been joined by a 1956 oval-window Beetle, a1989 Cabriolet and a 1967 Herbie the Love Bug. The historic VWswere kept in the main showroom and immediately attracted the at-tention and affection of seemingly every customer who walkedthrough the door. Dealership employees also loved the air-cooledcontingent, and thus VW Vintage was launched.

VW Vintage is Penske’s own classic car dealership-within-a-dealership. VW Vintage will focus on classic Volkswagen sales andservice and even do some restoration work as offering vintage partsand vintage-style apparel, perhaps someday adding car club-styleactivities.

From Range Rovers roving the range to vintage Volkswagens ondisplay… from exotic sports cars to luxury sedans and sport utilities…and from MINIs to cars that won the biggest race on the planet, theScottsdale 101 Auto Collection truly is more than a group of new cardealerships. It’s a modern – and historic – automotive theme park.

Audi, where the decor features beige wood – just like some Audi ve-hicle interiors – light-colored tile flooring and an industrial-style ceil-ing with exposed air vents. In addition to Audi vehicles, you find thequattro café, a waiting area for those bringing their vehicles for serv-ice.

The next stop on our tour looks less like an automobile dealer-ship than a hunting or fishing lodge. The staff at Land Rover NorthScottsdale even wears fleece jackets. There’s an Adventure Centre.A huge four-oared shell hangs from the ceiling. Canoes, sleds andpolo equipment are part of the decor.

Land Rover and Range Rover vehicles aren’t merely on display.Just out the dealership’s back doors is an off-road test track wherethose vehicles can show their capability at crossing a stream, climb-ing over rocks or taking on a slope that leans the car seemingly al-most to the tipping point.

On a monthly basis, Land Rover and Range Rover owners canparticipate in off-road driving classes on the mini-mountain, and sev-eral times a year, the dealership sponsors driving adventure tripsfor its customers and their vehicles.

From Land Rover, we make our way through an internal hallwayto Jaguar North Scottsdale, where you encounter a circular show-case at the front of the dealership showroom. The decor featureslight gray-green wall covering and dark marble desk tops, and, ofcourse, an array of, as the British say, Jag-u-ars.

From Jaguar North Scottsdale, a hallway delivers us to the in-side of the Penske Racing Museum, which also can be enteredthrough the front door near the intersection of North ScottsdaleRoad and East Chauncey Lane.

Entering from the Jaguar dealership, the first vehicle we en-counter is the Nichels Engineering-prepared 1963 Pontiac Catalinastock car that Roger Penske drove to victory at Riverside Interna-tional Raceway. Parked next to the Catalina is a 2005 Dodge ChargerNASCAR stock car formerly driven by Rusty Wallace.

Keep going and we see the 1973 Porsche RSR that Mark Dono-hue drove to the inaugural International Race of Champions serieschampionship, the 1972 McLaren 16B-Offenhauser that Donohuedrove to first of Penske Racing’s 15 Indy 500 victories, the 1974 PC-1 Formula One car Penske Racing developed, and a 40-percent-scalewind tunnel model of the 1991 PC 20 Indy racer.

Between those vehicles and the front entrance, we encountera couple of Indy 500 pace cars, another IROC racer, and nearly adozen more historic Indy racers, most of which won the famed 500-mile Memorial Day weekend classic.

Depending on the date of a visit, however, the cars in the mu-seum could be different. They are rotated in and out at various times,and also are used for displays at vintage and other racing events,car shows, at other museums, and even at other Penske AutomotiveGroup dealerships.

The Penske Racing museum also has an upstairs, where thereare many scale model cars, sometimes a full-size racer as well, tro-phies won by Penske Racing teams, and the Turn 4 Café, where foodand beverages are available until 3 p.m. Monday through Friday.Note, however, that the grill is shut down an hour before closing.The museum is open weekdays and Saturdays from 8 a.m. until 4p.m., and Sunday from noon until 5 p.m.

From the museum’s upper level, we can step outside to a large,

