Stahls Automotive Collection

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| alt = Group of cars in a large garage

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| location = 56516 North Bay Drive, Chesterfield Township, Michigan

| type = Automobile museum

| key_holdings = Chrysler Turbine Car
1934 Duesenberg Model J
Tucker 48

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| collection_size = Over 90 cars
About 20 musical instruments

| visitors = 5,000 (in 2014)

| founder = Ted Stahl

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| owner = Ted Stahl

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| website = https://www.stahlsauto.com/

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Stahls Automotive Collection is a private automotive collection in Chesterfield Township, Michigan, US.{{Cite news|last=Anderson|first=Elisha|date=February 16, 2015|title=Museum holds treasure trove of automotive history|work=Detroit Free Press|url=https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2015/02/16/ted-stahl-stahls-automotive-foundation/23530523/|access-date=January 28, 2022}} It is the personal collection of Detroit native Ted Stahl, the chairman of fabric-based heat printer GroupeSTAHL in St. Clair Shores.{{Cite news|last=Davis|first=Dar|date=April 15, 2012|title=See Motor City notables with Dar|page=F3|work=The Herald-Palladium|publication-place=St. Joseph, Michigan|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/93681864/see-motor-city-notables-with-dar/|access-date=January 28, 2022|via=Newspapers.com {{free access}}}}

The collection contains over 90 cars housed in a {{Convert|45,000|sqft|m2|adj=on}} garage, most of which are from the Art Deco era and the Great Depression.{{Cite web|title=About Us|url=https://www.stahlsauto.com/stahls-auto-museum-michigan/|access-date=January 28, 2022|publisher=Stahls Automotive Collection}} The collection focuses mostly on American cars, including former makes such as Auburn, Cord, Duesenberg, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, and Packard in addition to cars built by Cadillac, Chevrolet, Chrysler, and Ford. Stahls purchases vehicles largely based on their degree of innovative engineering and their importance to the development of automobile design.

The oldest car in the collection is an 1899 De Dion-Bouton tricycle, and the first one that Ted Stahl purchased is a 1930 Ford Model A Roadster Deluxe. Among the most prominent cars in the collection are a 1934 Duesenberg Model J, a Tucker 48, and a handful of cars built for films, such as The Great Race, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and The Reivers. In 2021, the collection acquired a Chrysler Turbine Car, one of only nine to survive and one of only two in a private collection (the other belonging to Jay Leno).{{Cite news|last=Streeter|first=Mercedes|date=May 7, 2021|title=The New Owner Of The Chrysler Turbine Car Says It'll Actually Get Driven|work=Jalopnik|url=https://jalopnik.com/the-new-owner-of-the-chrysler-turbine-car-says-itll-act-1846848366|access-date=January 28, 2022}}

In addition to the cars, the collection also includes about 20 musical instruments, including a Wurlitzer theater pipe organ. There is a separate "music room" featuring orchestrions and other automated musical instruments.{{Cite web|date=August 7, 2015|title=Stahls Automotive Museum|url=https://detroithistorical.org/things-do/events-calendar/events-listing/stahls-automotive-museum|access-date=January 28, 2022|publisher=Detroit Historical Society}}

The collection is open to the public at no charge on Tuesday afternoons, the first Saturday of each month, and every Thursday excluding the third Thursday during the summer. Regular events at the collection include an annual Autos for Autism fundraiser, which benefits the Ted Lindsay Foundation,{{Cite news|last=Tuttle|first=Nicole|date=July 7, 2021|title=Chesterfield Twp. car museum gears up for Autos for Autism event|work=The Voice|publication-place=New Baltimore, Michigan|url=https://www.voicenews.com/2021/07/07/chesterfield-twp-car-museum-gears-up-for-autos-for-autism-event/|access-date=January 28, 2022}}{{Cite news|date=July 12, 2021|title=3rd annual Stahls Autos for Autism event benefiting Ted Lindsay Foundation|publisher=WXYZ-TV|url=https://www.wxyz.com/news/3rd-annual-stahls-autos-for-autism-event-benefiting-ted-lindsay-foundation|access-date=January 28, 2022}} and a Veterans Day open house.{{Cite news|date=November 8, 2021|title=Veterans honored at Stahl's Automotive open house Thursday in Chesterfield Twp.|work=The Macomb Daily|publication-place=Sterling Heights, Michigan|url=https://www.macombdaily.com/2021/11/08/veterans-honored-at-stahls-automotive-open-house-thursday-in-chesterfield-twp/|access-date=January 28, 2022}}