Tampa Bay Automobile Museum
The Tampa Bay Automobile Museum, located in Pinellas Park, Florida in the Tampa Bay Area, displays historic automobiles from the 20th century. All of the vehicles displayed are from the collection of Alain Cerf, a French entrepreneur and the Cerf family.
 Tampa Bay Automobile Museum | |
  Location within Florida | |
| Established | March 19, 2005 |
|---|---|
| Location | Pinellas Park, Florida |
| Coordinates | 27°51′8.50″N 82°40′44″W |
| Type | Automotive |
| Collection size | 80 cars Automobilia |
| Director | Alan Morin |
| President | Alain Cerf |
| Curator | Olivier Cerf |
| Website | tbauto.org |
The collection is focused on cars which demonstrate special creativity and imagination in their history and engineering. This includes rare early front-wheel drive cars, Tatra rear engine cars, rear-engine Mercedes-Benz, Citroën cars, the only surviving car by French engineer Émile Claveau, and a unique working full-scale replica of the first self-propelled mechanical vehicle, the fardier of Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot.[1]
Gallery
Fardier de Cugnot
1929 Ruxton
1956 Claveau
1967 Tatra 603
1973 Citroën SM
1929 Ford Model A Gazogene
1928 Tatra
1953 Hotchkiss Gregoire Coupe
DKW Meisterklasse
1933 Derby V8
Chenard-Walcker T9T
Citroën 2CV Sahara
1965 Ford Mustang AWD
Tatra T75
Jensen 541 Prototype
Hanomag Kommissbrot
1950 Talbot-Lago
References
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- Fardier replica at the Tampa Bay Automobile Museum Archived 2011-11-07 at the Wayback Machine
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