My experience with the MVTF was weird. I approached them in 2010, a year or so after Jacques, the founder, died. I offered to night shoot/light some of the collection. They were totally into it, thinking calendars and posters etc. I went 11/10, got a few shots, had equipment failure. Revisited in 2/11 and had a great night of shooting, indoors, in a freak snow storm!
I was pretty happy with the images. E-mailed them to everyone in charge "Aren't these bitchen? lets do more!", and got no response. Crickets chirping. After 6-months of inquiring I gave up. I came to find out years later that the place was in political turmoil, and most of the guys I dealt with had been ousted. Apparently Jacques widow HATES the museum. She would see it sold off entirely and erased from her mountainside, but his trust makes it very difficult. I guess, the last thing the MVTF.org was thinking about was advertising.
I put a few of these on flickr, but have never shown most of these publicly:
http://lostamerica...nology-foundation/PASSWORD: lostamerica
A friend told me a few months ago that they were auctioning off the key pieces in the collection. I ended up selling a few of these pix to the auction house, so it wasn't all bad. Unfortunately, they told me my 3 favorite pieces are gone already: the Panther, Kettenrad and Skdfz Halftrack. Pretty sure there's still over 100 vehicles up there, so it's definitely worth the trip.
Say hi to Adolph the cat for me.