Today's travels began with a visit to Reno's National Auto Museum -- easily the most impressive of the half-dozen auto museums I've visited Founder William Harrah didn't settle for buying rare models and restoring them to showroom quality  he sought out one-of-a-kind items like the 1907 Thomas Flyer which won a land race from New York to Paris via Asia  a DeLorean with gold-plated shell  and a Rolls (or similar model) with solid copper body