SDSouth Dakota field entry
Motion Unlimited Museum & Classic Sales
Rapid City, SD
A Rapid City classic-car museum where the exhibits spill directly into commerce: the same family operation maintains a large lot of antique and collector vehicles for sale as a licensed dealership.
Motion Unlimited is simultaneously a curated automotive museum and a functioning classic-car business where many other vintage vehicles are actively bought and sold.
Field notes
Why it belongs
Classic-car museum, licensed collector-vehicle dealership, large changing sales inventory and long-running restoration operation at one property.
Museum displays and a real collector-car dealership occupy the same operation, so preserved automotive history sits beside a large, changing inventory that is actively bought and sold.
Motion Unlimited has operated south of Rapid City for more than five decades as both a museum and a classic-vehicle business. Inside, the museum displays antique, classic and custom vehicles alongside motorcycles, signs, pedal cars, toys and other automobilia. Outside and through its sales operation, the owners maintain a substantial changing inventory of collector vehicles as licensed and bonded motor-vehicle dealers. The first-party site currently describes more than 75 vehicles on the physical lot and more than 100 for sale overall, but inventory changes constantly. The museum operates seasonally, while the classic-car sales business continues beyond the museum season depending on weather.
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What you will find
Directory categories
Known for
- Classic cars
- Antique vehicles
- Automotive museum
- Classic-car sales lot
- Licensed dealership
- Automotive memorabilia
- Long-running restoration work
- Motorcycles
- Vintage signs