It took Nevada a decade and they had both ends of the car intact.

The former teen has a tired shell missing both ends.

I wish the best for his "project" !

Check back here in 2031 for an update !
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Museum staff painstakingly restored the 1910 McKeen motor car.

Now a national historic landmark, it’s known as the best surviving example of the early use of internal combustion power in a self-propelled railroad car.

The car came to the State Railroad Museum in 1995 as a donation from the Bernhard family of Carson City, who purchased the car, used it as an office building and recognized its importance.

Using surviving original construction details, drawings and historic photographs, the museum’s railroad restoration staff and volunteers undertook the restoration.

They replaced and replicated parts, repainted with original schemes and, after a decade of work, in 2009 the famous piece operated under its own power for the first time since 1945.