American Muscle Car Museum
  Location within Florida | |
| Established | Fall 2016 |
|---|---|
| Location | 3500 Sarno Road Melbourne, Florida |
| Type | Automobile |
| Key holdings | Muscle cars |
| Collection size | 250 vehicles |
| Founder | Mark Pieloch |
| Website | American Museum Car Museum |
The American Muscle Car Museum at 3500 Sarno Road, Melbourne, Florida is under construction and scheduled to open in the fall of 2016. This 123,000 square foot facility will display over 250 muscle cars, many considered rare versions.[1] The collection belongs to Mark Pieloch and the estimated worth is 32 million dollars.[2]
The 501(c)3 museum, located on 42 acres will include 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. This private museum will host non-profit activities, fund raisers, and invitation car shows, and will not be open to the general public.
The museum includes a conservation area to restore cars. The facility is a "green" to include 100% solar using 1,200 solar panels.[2]
In addition to automobiles, the collection will include vintage balloon tire bicycles, auto related neon signs, antique gas pumps, jukeboxes, pedal cars, vintage soda coolers, motorcycles.
Exhibits
- More than 35 Indianapolis 500 pace cars and trucks
- More than 30 Shelby’s
- 18 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
- Mustangs
- Galaxies
- Ford GTs
- Cobras
- Cougars
- Cyclones
- Camaros
- Corvettes
- Chevelles
- Novas
- GTOs
- Firebirds
- Trans Ams
- Hurst Olds Cutlass
- Cudas
- Chargers
- Challengers
- Superbirds
- Daytonas
- Vipers
Engines
- Boss 302s
- Boss 351s
- Boss 429s
- K-Code 289 HPs
- 283 Fuel Injection
- 327s
- 350s
- 406s
- 413s
- 421s
- 426 Hemis
- 427 R codes
- 427 - 425 HP
- 428 Cobra Jets
- 440 - 6 packs
- 454 LS6s
- plus many more!
Notes
- ^ Neale, Rick. ON YOUR MARK, GET SET, GO IN OCTOBER (Melbourne, Florida: Florida Today, 19 January 2016), p. 1A and 8A.
- ^ a b Datzman, Ken. American Muscle Car Museum is a showcase facility; ACS event set, Brevard Business News, vol. 34, no. 40 (Melbourne, Florida, 03 October 2016), p. 1.