[1] William F. Harrah collected approximately 1,450 automobiles, which he stored inside warehouses in Sparks, Nevada.

[citation needed] In 1981, Holiday Inn announced that it would sell the entire collection, a decision that received some opposition.

Nevada governor Robert List attempted to delay the sale while working on a plan to have the state enact legislation that would save the collection.

Holiday Inn donated 175 of Harrah's automobiles to the group and sold the rest of the collection through three auctions in the mid-1980s.

[8] Also on display is one of three 24kt gold plated DeLoreans built for American Express, a "Jerrari", a Jeep Wagoneer fitted with a V-12 Ferrari engine and formerly used for winter driving by William F. Harrah, and the only surviving prototype of Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion car.