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The Unser Racing Museum

The Story of the Family See the cars you have heard of and learn about the changes in race car technoligies with our interactive kiosks. There are four generations of Race Cars, Uniforms , Pike's Peak Cars, Antique Cars , Trophies , Winning Pace Cars , and Original Artwork. See four different Museum Sections that offer permanent exhibits and changing Special Showcases. Check out our website for upcoming events , dates, and times. Visit our Gift Shop and get a piece of the Racing Action. Race books, video's, apparel ,posters , memorbilla and you can even pick up a copy of Mom Unser's famous green chile stew recipe. The Unser Racing Museum also offers Jerry's Garage that is available for special after-hours events, catered corporate events, business meetings, private functions...contact us for more information. By honoring the past we are preparing for the future...Established by the Unser Family to be awarded to a student from Albuquerque's West Mesa to pursue an education in the automotive industry.

Immigrating from Switzerland, Louis and Marie Unser settled in Colorado Springs, raising a family by the nearby mountain Pike's Peak. Louis was especially skilled in exploring the then new-fangled automobile engine which sparked the interest of the sons. On September 1915 they rode a motorcycle and sidecar to the summit of Pike's Peak, a mountain previously declared to be unscalable. Soon after  this conquest, the Colorado City police hired the three Unser brothers to teach them how to ride motorcycles, and in 1916 after a road was built, Spencer Penrose officially staged a "Race to the Clouds", a 12.4 mile race to the peak. The Unser boys were regular competitors.

Jerry Sr., born Jerome Henry Unser in 1899, was the second son born to Louis and Marie Unser. Jerry and his brothers were the first to ascend Pike's Peak in a motorcycle and sidecar in September of 1915, the year before an actual road had been built.   Once the Pike's Peak road was built they were regular competitors in the annual race.

In 1936 Jerry moved his family to Albuquerque where he opened a small garage. Within a few years he had relocated his garage, adding a filling station, to the western end of Central Avenue.  Son Alfred (Al) was born in 1939.  By this time Jerry had earned a reputation for being able to “fix things nobody else could.”

Jerry’s sons learned to drive a Model A Ford he’d acquired, on the burro trails on the outskirts of Albuquerque. Before long they had progressed to driving in races.  Jerry taught each of his sons to stick with their endeavors, no matter how difficult, and to do their best at everything they tried.  The boys competed in and won at many short tracks in New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado and in 1955 they competed in their biggest race yet,  Pike’s Peak.

This was the start of the dynasty of famed "First Family" of American auto racing.

The Unser Racing Museum
1776 Montaño NW
Albuquerque, NM 87107
Phone (505)341-1776
http://www.unserracingmuseum.com/

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