Located in Melbourne, Florida, this new 123,000-square-foot complex houses the collection of Mark Pieloch. Mark has been a car enthusiast for over 40 years and has amassed over 400 cars that range from classic 1950s to 1970’s American muscle cars, to modern “sophisticated” muscle like a 2019 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 Convertible
The 501(c)3 museum, located on 42 acres in Melbourne, includes 90,000 sqft of vehicle display area, an 18,000 sqft showroom, and an adjacent 15,000 sqft maintenance and restoration facility for the collection. The private museum is located at 3500 Sarno Road. It is not open to the public but is open to hosting numerous non-profit fundraisers, car activities, and educational tours for school-age children.
The collection itself, in addition to the cars, has vintage balloon tire bicycles, auto-related neon signs, antique gas pumps, jukeboxes, pedal cars, vintage soda coolers, motorcycles, and more.
The main features of the collection are:
– More than nearly 50 Indianapolis 500 Pace Cars & Trucks
– More than 35 Shelby’s
– 29 Yenkos, at least one car for every make and model ever built, which makes it the most extensive Yenko car collection in the world
– Over 80 First Place National show winners
Within the car collection, there are 75+ cars with less than 100 original miles, 40+ cars with between 100 to 999 original miles, and 30+ cars with between 1,000 to 9,999 original miles. As you stroll through the Museum you will literally see the “Who’s Who” of American Muscle cars.
3500 Sarno Road
Melbourne, FL 32934
P: 321-914-4322
E: info@americanmusclecarmuseum.com
Only open for special events
Plan: 2+hr
For special events
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Benson Memory Lane Museum is the private collection of Jim Benson, owner of Benson Automotive. You’ll bikes, antique pedal cars, pictures, dealership signs, and, cars mostly from the 1950s on display.
Tours are given on the first Saturday of the month by John Montgomery. Make sure you schedule your visit.
500 W Wade Hampton Blvd
Greer, SC 29650
P: 864-662-9850
Email: John@bensonfiat.com
Donation
Plan: 1-2hr
First Saturday of the month 10 am – 5 pm
Image via John Montgomery
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Miles Through Time Automotive Museum has over 100 years of must-see automotive history on display. This unique, co-op-style museum is located inside of Vintage Garage Antiques which is in an old textile mill called the Old Clarkesville Mill in Clarkesville, GA....
AACA Museum, Inc. at Hershey is a professionally staffed, collecting institution presenting semi-permanent and temporary exhibitions. Exhibitions are supported by educational programs for school and community audiences. It sponsors workshops and other activities...
The Cole Land Transportation Museum collects, preserves, and displays (before they disappear forever) a cross-section of Maine's land transportation equipment from which this and future generations will gain knowledge of the past. We also wish to remember, record...
With its creative architecture and great attention to detail, Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum is home to over 1,400 motorcycles that span over 100 years of production. More than 650 bikes can be seen on any given day, and 200 different manufacturers from 20...
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Unfortunately, only private tours can view the collection. The location in Salem, Oregon, and the identities of the owners are a closely-held secret.
This is why you won’t find Brother Car Collection listed on the map or in the state of Oregon as a car museum you can visit on a regular basis. However, the collection is so impressive, it is worthy of an honorable mention.
There are opportunities to visit the collection during fundraising events. Most often tickets to visit are about $25.
Miles Through Time Automotive Museum has over 100 years of must-see automotive history on display. This unique, co-op-style museum is located inside of Vintage Garage Antiques which is in an old textile mill called the Old Clarkesville Mill in Clarkesville, GA....
AACA Museum, Inc. at Hershey is a professionally staffed, collecting institution presenting semi-permanent and temporary exhibitions. Exhibitions are supported by educational programs for school and community audiences. It sponsors workshops and other activities...
The Cole Land Transportation Museum collects, preserves, and displays (before they disappear forever) a cross-section of Maine's land transportation equipment from which this and future generations will gain knowledge of the past. We also wish to remember, record...
With its creative architecture and great attention to detail, Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum is home to over 1,400 motorcycles that span over 100 years of production. More than 650 bikes can be seen on any given day, and 200 different manufacturers from 20...
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Please scroll to the bottom of the email to see the three featured automotive museums and where they are.
If you don’t care or don’t have time to do anything other than just glance at the three automotive museums at the bottom of the email to see if you are interested in them or not, that is okay. You can skip all of this.
The fact that you are even opening this email is impressive to me.
Did you know that the average open rate for emails is only 20-30%? Social media is even worse. The average organic reach is less than 10%, depending on the platform.
I suppose I am lucky since at least 50% open this email every week. Most people don’t realize how hard it is to reach your core audience.
Whenever I am at Miles Through Time Automotive Museum, and I am talking to visitors from out of town, I tell them about automotivemuseumguide.com. I assume that if they are enjoying one automotive museum, then they’d like to visit others.
Last Saturday I was mentioning the guide to visitors and one of them already knew about it. This seems to be happening more and more. People are discovering automotive museums all over the country easily with the Automotive Museum Guide, which also helps them plan their trips.
There is also no shortage of people I meet who tell me they get these emails. I say tell, because some read them and others don’t. I get it, most of us are busy and bombarded with spam emails.
You won’t hurt my feelings if you don’t read all of this, but I do hope you take the time to scroll to the bottom and check out the 3 featured automotive museums. Click on each one to learn more about the specific museum, and hopefully it’ll become some place you’ll visit in the future.
Sometimes we don’t have another opportunity. The Soviet Car Museum put up a valiant effort to provide a unique experience for visitors, but sadly, the museum has been permanently closed.
Sergerstrom Shelby has had better luck. This museum and event space opened at the end of 2021 and is still going strong with close to 100 vehicles in their collection. As you can imagine by the name, they have a few Shelbys.
3 Dog Garage opened their doors in 2022 in a 3-story, early 20th century brick building. The building looks amazing and when you add over 100 vehicles in the 75,000-square-foot space, it solidifies the urge to want to visit.
The last museum I want to share is a unique one and an important one. The Malcolm Pray Achievement Center has over 100 years of automotive history on display, but also really emphasizes the discovery of entrepreneurship and success with free guided tours designed to insure the youth.
All automotive museums should be doing that on some level, but for the Malcolm Pray Achievement Center, it is the core of their existence thanks to Malcolm Pray, who sadly passed away in 2013, but his legacy continues on over a decade later.
That’s it for this week. If you want even more automotive museum info, you can join the Automotive Museum Guide Facebook Group HERE. If you want to follow more of my adventures with automotive museums, including Miles Through Time Automotive Museum, my social media links are always at the very bottom of every email.
Until next week.
Have a great week!
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Sean Mathis
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Founder of Miles Through Time Automotive Museum
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3 Dog Garage is a unique, not-for-profit, historic-vehicle museum located in Boyertown, Pennsylvania, and occupies a restored, three-story, early 20th-century brick manufacturing building.
The Segerstrom Shelby Event Center opened in Late Oct 2021. There are antique gas pumps, antique neon signs, Memorabilia of Carroll Shelby, Mustangs, and Shelbys on display.
The Malcolm Pray Achievement Center is located in Bedford, NY, and houses a collection of antique and collectible automobiles spanning over 100 years of automotive history.
I hope you had a great 4th of July weekend. I know many people have been traveling. I've gotten to see friends on social media visit automotive museums while they travel.
Over the weekend, the museum I founded, Miles Through Time Automotive Museum, just celebrated our 9th Annual Car Show.
I am obviously a big proponent of automotive museums. I'll be excited when new museums open, and I'll be bummed when they close.
One of the vehicles was an old fire truck, and they took it on the Tail of the Dragon, which should give you an idea of the types of cars these guys were in.
Is it really a museum? Or just a private collection being stored in a business that is open to the public? Does it really matter? You be the judge.
This week, I'll share three museums that are also personal collections, but they took it one step further.
The phrase "car museum" gets thrown around so much you'd almost assume there is at least one car museum owner in every city.
If you don't care or don't have time to do anything other than just glance at the three automotive museums at the bottom
I created the Automotive Museum Guide six years ago, and today marks the 200th email I sent sharing automotive museums.
Last week I shared my vision for the future of Miles Through Time Automotive Museum, which then broke automotivemuseumguide.com. A lot of people reached out to me saying they were not able to access the website.
Klima-Lounge Museo CCC, that is the art, to pair talent and capability, to connect culture and innovation and to create an environment full of generosity, fantasy and technical magic, to find fulfillment in the work and to be able to grow into new dimensions.
Klima-Lounge Museo CCC, that is the visionary concept for the success of our company. We, those who are dedicated to this concept, accept a very special cultural legacy.
Heinrichsburg 1, 88436 Eberhardzell, Germany
P: +4973559332860
E: info@klima-lounge.com
Museo guided tour*2 € 150,00
Adults € 25,00
Children (<14) € 10,00
Children (<6) Free
Parking spraces for cars from € 110,00
Plan: 1+hr
Image via Dr Torjale Ahmad
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Miles Through Time Automotive Museum has over 100 years of must-see automotive history on display. This unique, co-op-style museum is located inside of Vintage Garage Antiques which is in an old textile mill called the Old Clarkesville Mill in Clarkesville, GA....
AACA Museum, Inc. at Hershey is a professionally staffed, collecting institution presenting semi-permanent and temporary exhibitions. Exhibitions are supported by educational programs for school and community audiences. It sponsors workshops and other activities...
The Cole Land Transportation Museum collects, preserves, and displays (before they disappear forever) a cross-section of Maine's land transportation equipment from which this and future generations will gain knowledge of the past. We also wish to remember, record...
With its creative architecture and great attention to detail, Barber Vintage Motorsports Museum is home to over 1,400 motorcycles that span over 100 years of production. More than 650 bikes can be seen on any given day, and 200 different manufacturers from 20...
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