Coker Museum

The Coker Museum in Chattanooga showcases over 100 vintage vehicles, including cars, motorcycles, trucks, buses, and airplanes, offering a unique glimpse into automotive history.

Planning your visit

Coker Tire in Chattanooga is the world's largest supplier of reproduction vintage tyres — a business built on the observation that restored antique vehicles cannot run without period-correct rubber, and that nobody was making it.

The museum attached to the operation holds over 100 vehicles: pre-war American cars, motorcycles, trucks, buses, fire apparatus and aircraft, assembled by the Coker family across decades. The emphasis falls on brass-era and early vehicles, which is where the tyre business began.

The connection between the business and the collection gives the museum an unusual coherence — these are the vehicles the company exists to keep on the road.

Chattanooga has a substantial transport heritage of its own, given its railway history.

Bookable options include trolley tours with a museum visit. Current availability is shown below.