Tampa Bay Automobile Museum

Tampa Bay Automobile Museum

Tampa Bay Automobile Museum
Location within Florida
Established March 19, 2005.
Location Pinellas Park, Florida
Type Automobile museum
Collection size 44 cars
Automobilia
Director Alain Cerf
Website tbauto.org

The Tampa Bay Automobile Museum, located in the Tampa, Clearwater, St. Petersburg area of west central Florida in Pinellas Park, displays historic automobiles from the 20th century. All of the vehicles displayed are from the collection of Alain Cerf, a French entrepreneur.

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]

Cugnot's fardier  
1929 Ruxton  
1956 Claveau  
1967 Tatra 603  
1973 Citroën SM  

References

  1. ^ Fardier replica at the Tampa Bay Automobile Museum