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The Tampa Bay Automobile Museum, located in
the Tampa, Clearwater, St. Petersburg area of west central
Florida, features a unique collection of vintage
cars and vehicles that demonstrate special creativity
and imagination in their history and engineering. They
include pioneering front wheel drive and rear engine cars
from the 1920’s and 1930’s, and each vehicle was chosen
based on the engineering achievements that made it an
important part of the evolution of the automobile. These are
the cars that set the standards for the engineering of
automobiles today. Visitors enjoy a provocative blend of art
and science in 12,000 square feet of gallery space.
Featured automobiles
include
Tracta, Citroen, Panhard
and
Voisin (France); Tatra and Aero
(Czechoslovakia); DKW,
Auto Union and Mercedes
(Germany); Alvis, Allard and BSA (England):
DeLorean
(Ireland), and Willys Knight
and Ruxton (USA). A
special feature at the Museum is the world’s only replica of
the French 1770
Fardier de Cugnot, the world’s first
self-propelled vehicle. This vehicle is on loan from the
Deutsche Bahn Museum in Nuremberg, Germany. |
