People think “Rangely, a car museum in Rangely what is it, four rust buckets someone drug out that have dust on them?” But they, they would have never in their wildest dreams guess that that's what was in that building.

There it is.

These things are art to me.

The classic cars.

I didn't want them in an old dusty shed somewhere.

So ended up with this.

You like the same kind of cars I like!

My name is Bud Striegel.

Well Im glad you come!

We're here in the Rangeley automobile collection.

I started with cars when I was 13 years old.

Look in here.

So always been interested in cars.

But a lot of these in here, probably 60 or 70% of these we restored and painted in here.

I am Kelsey Peters.

I work for Bud Striegel, restoring and building cars and kind of curate down at the museum.

The Rangely Automotive Museum.

We're building our own cars.

Complete cars.

They're very expensive cars that aren't worth nothing.

But it's fun collecting and it's probably more fun gathering that stuff up and putting it together Than it is to own them.

It's always been a hobby of mine, something mechanical I really like.

And I think these classic cars are a piece of art myself.

I have a very artistic side, and I love building, doing things hands on.

So that's kind of why I wanted to do the metal, paint side of things.

I've just always loved building things and creating things.

We get people all over the world that come to Rangely, Colorado, just to see the place that they've heard from so and so word of mouth or at a car show they heard about it.

is kind of humbling, that they want to see something in my town.

Rangely the town it got incorporated in 1946.

My parents brought me here in 1945.

I live in the same house I've lived in for I guess, 65 years.

It's a small town, easy to get around in and friendly people.

Everybody asked me my favorite car.

I like something about every one of them I got in here or I wouldnt have it.

I don't really have a favorite car.

The oldest one is a 13 and the newest ones a 59 I think somewhere right in there.

The collection that I really like is from 26 to 34 was a period I thought they had the best looking cars.

I can't get in hardly any of these cars Im way to tall.

I tell everybody if you know how many you got you don't have enough.

Probably got 85 I don't know.

I think there's 60 in here.

There's 360 tires in here.

If you walk around, you'll always find a flat one I can tell you that.

I just wanted to build something.

I had to have place from a cars, and I want to build something [where] maybe somebody come to Rangely once in a while and buy a hamburger and rent a room or something.

I want to make something when they walked in, they'd be surprised to see this thing in Rangely.