Tampa Bay Automobile Museum- Virtual Tour

The Tampa Bay Automobile Museum displays historic automobiles. The museum’s unique collection of vintage cars and vehicles demonstrate the outstanding creativity and imagination in their history and engineering.

The museum includes pioneering front-wheel drive and rear engine cars from the 1920s and 1930s. The vehicles were chosen based on the engineering achievements that made them an essential part of the evolution of the automobile.

The collection includes:

rare early front-wheel-drive cars
Tatra rear-engine cars
Rear-engine Mercedes-Benz
Citroën cars
The vehicle created by French engineer Émile Claveau
A full-scale working replica of the first self-propelled mechanical vehicle, the Fardier (wheeled cart) of Nicolas-Joseph Cugno, 1770

Citroën 2CV – Tampa Bay Automobile Museum

Highlights of the Tampa Bay Automobile Museum

SALMSON S4E convertible, 1950, French – the engine is made of aluminum with OHC, an electromechanical Cotal gearbox, and torque bars for the independent front suspension
DKW MEISTER KLASSE, 1939, Germany – exported to the United States before the war, the lightweight wooden body was inexpensive to manufacture
STOEWER V8 GREIF, 1934, Germany – features an aluminum V8 engine block, only four have survived, and this is the only one with the aluminum engine
DETRA, 1928, Germany – a Czech design assembled in Germany with new technologies: an air-cooled engine and a simplified chassis composed of a central tube and an independent suspension
CITROËN 7CV, 1937, France – the first new front-wheel-drive car made available to the public by Citroen
FARDIER DE CUGNOT, 1770, France – Nicholas-Joseph Cugnot ‘s steam-powered Fardier (wheeled cart) was the first self-propelled vehicle in the world

1770 Fardier de Cugno

Tampa Bay Automobile Museum

Museum: Tampa Bay Automobile Museum
City: Pinellas Park, Tampa Bay Area
State: Florida
Country: United States
Established: 2005
Type: Automobile Museum, Specialist Museum
Location: 3301 Gateway Centre Blvd, Pinellas Park, FL, United States

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