Story Keeper

Betsy Iler
Oct 19, 2021
Oct 19, 2021 Updated Aug 5, 2025
6 min to read

Story Keeper — Curator of the Wellborn Musclecar Museum, Alton Freeman knows the story of every car on the lot.
Jake Arthur

Curator of the Wellborn Musclecar Museum, Alton Freeman knows the story of every car on the lot.
Jake Arthur

Alton Freeman rattles off intricate details about great American muscle cars like a true Chrysler man, but he claims he isn’t one. Instead, he’s a General Motors man, said Freeman, who has managed Alexander City’s energy-charged auto museum for more than five years now. He didn’t know much about the Dodge dynasty when, at age 64, Freeman passed Tim Wellborn’s test and was hired to reopen and operate the iconic Broad Street showroom at Wellborn Musclecar Museum, but he hung on Wellborn’s every word and read whatever he could get his hands on. Today, Freeman is a true curator, pouring over technical specifications to authenticate vehicles, cataloging and maintaining each vehicle’s unique components and creating awe-inspiring visitor experiences through tours of the museum floor.

Freeman retired from military service with the U.S. Army and was working in security before a mutual acquaintance mentioned that Wellborn was looking for someone to help him reopen the museum he had founded in 2010. Wellborn closed the museum in 2016, following the death of his longtime friend and the museum curator, Phillip Love. When he was ready to reopen, he needed a curator.

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