Guide
This is a private museum, licensed by the ministry of culture and tourism, built around a category of car that most collections in Turkey skip. Its subject is what English calls the youngtimer or modern classic: not the very old vehicles that the phrase 'classic car' usually brings to mind here, but machines that stood out in their own production years for technical superiority, sporting character or a place in a limited series. The museum says plainly that it works from the view that a twenty-five-year-old car can already hold classic value, and that is the principle the collection is assembled on.
The cars have been maintained, repaired and restored with their originality kept intact, and on some models period accessories have been put back so that the look of those years survives. All of them are limited-production vehicles representing the advanced technology of their moment.
The founder is Ali Gürün, a mechanical engineer who graduated from İstanbul Technical University and who has been attached to cars, mechanical design and motor sport since childhood. He describes the aims as raising interest in modern classics in Turkey, contributing to motor sport culture, and in particular drawing young people at technical schools towards automotive technology; the museum also intends to restore cars of this category found in Turkey and to arrange temporary exhibitions with comparable museums abroad. It is supported on a voluntary basis by people who share the same enthusiasm.
