So after a 6 1/2 hour trip we finally made it from Kitty Hawk NC to Alan's museum in Granite Falls. When I first arrived I was greeted by Alan's son Alec who gave us a tour of the museum. He was a young man with a passion for machines and was telling us stories about all the unique stuff they had. You could tell that he is going to be the 3rd generation collector of the family. I wandered around checking out all the machines I've dreamed about like the Decapper, C-102 and the Glascock Deluxe as well as many others. It is quite an amazing site to see so many machines in one place. After exploring for over an hour we took a walk over to where Alan's workshop was.
He was there working on a couple machines so I had to interrupt and introduce myself. I couldn't miss the opportunity after driving all that way. He stopped and chatted with me for a while about all kinds of stuff. I found him to be very easy to talk to and a enthusiastic collector with a passion just as I. He then personally showed me around the museum telling me stories about several of his rare machines and such. It reminded me that despite anything I've heard about his business practices that in his heart he is a collector like the rest of us.
I ended up spending about three hours there and found it was well worth the drive. I would have spent more time but by that point my family was about to kill me. I took some pictures of the amazing collection that I shared below including the holy grail Decapper.
