Cars of Dreams Final Event (private museum to be auctioned off)

The cars of Dreams Museum, located in an old Sears, was a wonderful collection of cars owned by John Staluppi  (http://carsofdreams.com).  Open by invitation only, Mr. Staluppi also opened the museum up for charity events, such as the November 4, 2012 Shop With A Cop event which benefited the Palm Beach County Sheriffs Department.  

The event was also a last hurrah of sorts, as the entire contents of the museum will be sold at an RMAuction on December 1, 2012.  The collection of nearly 120 cars plus memorabilia will be sold. The auction catalog is online at:  http://www.rmauctions.com/digitalcatalogs/2012/ST12.

I was fortunate to get to tour the museum twice and as a Palm Beach County resident I am sorry see such a fine collection sold.  As part of the last show, nearly 500 collectors cars turned out, with 50s and 60s muscle cars being predominant.

Inside the Museum

Batmobile

A Caddy Camino

Guitars and Cars

My favorite, a last year Corvair

Corvettes Galore

Rare Desoto

The museum has several staged areas, including a soda shop and a 50's garage

Model T visitor.  The Museum also has a while collection of unrestored Model Ts

including postal trucks, delivery trucks, tow and dump trucks

Modern Firetruck

Dennis with an Olds

Large N gauge train set

Fins

VW Van

A beautiful cool weather cruise-in in sunny South Florida

The weather has finally broken here in South Florida, and with only

 one week until early darkness, everyone was out for a busy cruise-in in Royal Palm Beach.

Nice to see some German Muscle!

A Rare early 90's twin turbo Supra

My Corvair

Trip to the Tallahassee Automobile Museum a/k/a Tallahassee Antique Car Museum

What do you get when you combine substantial wealth, an obsessive personality and a love of Cars, Knives, Batman, Pianos, Golf and Cash Registers....You get one man's passion, the passion of DeVoe Moore.  

Mr. Moore has assembled a unique museum in Tallahassee, Florida

 (the state capital and home to Florida State University - Go Noles!)

I have made two trips to the TCM and if you are nearby I higly recomend visiting.  

The collection is eclectic, spanning nearly 150 years of transportation history, from an 1860 hearse (that carried Abraham Lincoln to his grave) to a 2001 Plymouth Prowler.

(complete list here:  http://www.tacm.com/carmuseum/thecars.htm)

Here are some of the most memorable cars:  

Lincoln's Hearse

Original Batmobile

Wrecked faux Tucker (movie prop)

Amphicar

Second Floor View (and my son, Christopher/FSU 2015)

And Now for Something Completely Different....Fish

Went snorkeling in Hawaii and took a few snaps with my 

ancient three megapixel Minolta....No Fisheye, but lots of Fish Eyes!

Two Classic Cars and a Race Car

I love attending car Shows and Car Museums.  

I tend to take a ton of pictures and here are some shots from older car shows:

Rare BMW Z-1 at the Zentrum in Spartenburg, SC