In the 1960s, Birmingham native George Barber modified and raced Porsches, eventually racking up 63 wins. Now a collector of classic motorcycles and sports cars, his Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum…
Barber In The News
Birmingham Businessman George Barber Elected to AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame.Dawn Kent Azok, AL.com | June 27, 2014
George Barber, the former dairy magnate and real estate developer who built Birmingham’s Barber Motorsports Park and Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum, has been elected to the AMA Motorcycle Hall of…
Barber Museum Named World’s “Largest Motorcycle Museum”Published by Motorcycle Classics | April 25, 2014
Guinness World Records just named the Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum the “Largest Motorcycle Museum” in the world. The 144,000-square-foot, five-story museum is home to nearly 1,400 motorcycles, of which about…
AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame, George Barber: Inducted 2014AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame | April 1, 2014
George Barber Jr. is a businessman and philanthropist whose passion for preservation of fine machines led him to build by one measure the world’s largest collection of historic motorcycles. Guinness…
Barber Motorsports Park: Driving Research and Recruitment in Birmingham’s Economic Development EffortsCary Estes, Birmingham Business Alliance | March 14, 2014
What began more than 10 years ago as a project to showcase a private collection of vintage motorcycles has, today, turned into a world-renowned race track and on of Alabama’s…
World War II Veteran Searches for His ‘Ginny’Kelly Stewart, Special to Stars and Stripes | February 17, 2014
Bill Burton knows what it feels like to have a bullet whiz by your head. “It makes a little whispering sound. A little wind will come from it, too. I…
The Ten Prettiest Racetracks In The WorldMáté Petrány, Jalopnick | November 8, 2013
A great layout for a race track isn’t the only thing that makes it excellent. Sometimes, the surrounding scenery and environment are just as important in giving the track its…
The Art of IndependenceJeff Book, Four Seasons | January 14, 2012
A compliment for any high-performance vehicle is that “it looks fast standing still.” That could be said of almost everything in this museum, which stands beside a sinuous racecourse in…
Build It and They Will Come: George Barber’s Motorcycle ObsessionGrant Parsons, American Motorcyclist | November 14, 2008
George Barber’s philosophy for his showpiece Museum and Racetrack is simple: “this place has to be a Mecca for motorcycle people.” Read the Full Article