Wood Brothers Racing Museum

The Wood Brothers Racing Museum is in Stuart, Virginia, home town of the oldest continuously operating team in NASCAR Cup Series history. Glen Wood started the team in 1950 as a small family operation, and the No. 21 Ford still races today. The team moved its race shop to North Carolina in 2003, and the museum fills the last of its four Stuart shops.

The building is about 15,000 square feet. A July 2025 NASCAR feature counted nearly two dozen race cars across three generations of the sport, a trophy room full of memorabilia, and a wall for Dan Gurney with his final NASCAR helmet. Glen Wood's handwritten 2012 Hall of Fame speech is here too, along with the bronze headed hammers the crew used to practise tyre changes for Jim Clark.

The family calls it a living museum because it changes often. Co-owner Eddie Wood says he can tell a story about every picture on the walls, and Leonard Wood still works daily in the shop area of the building.

• Race cars from three generations of NASCAR, close to two dozen of them in July 2025.

• A 1971 Mercury Cyclone that won its class at The Amelia Concours d'Elegance, on display at the time of the July 2025 feature.

• The trophy room, packed with silverware and memorabilia from more than 75 years of racing.

• The Dan Gurney wall, with his final NASCAR helmet and the uniform Glen Wood wore to fuel Gurney's winning cars at Riverside.

• Glen Wood's handwritten 2012 NASCAR Hall of Fame speech and the flip board of driver mugshots he collected.

• The bronze headed hammers used to practise tyre changes for Jim Clark, a favourite of Eddie Wood's.

• Family history from the early days in Stuart: the chain and beech branch from an early engine hoist, a piece of the original Homeplace floor and the family crib.

• Glen Wood's last street car, a silver 2003 Jaguar XJ Vanden Plas.

• Life size photos of the team's drivers lining the lobby.

• The museum changes often, and some cars travel: Trevor Bayne's 2011 Daytona 500 winner was on loan to The Henry Ford in 2025.

• Open on weekdays. Published times differ between listings, so it is best to call +1 276-694-2121 before heading out.

• Admission prices are not published anywhere we could read.

• The museum is at 21 Performance Drive, Stuart, VA 24171.

• The race team itself is based in North Carolina, so no race cars are built in Stuart today.

Last verified: 8 November 2026

Official link: https://www.woodbrothersracing.com/