hi craig great to see you you too well i'm glad you
could make it to the american muscle car museum here in melbourne florida
um you're walking into the front showroom so we have about 18 000 square feet here all types of
beautiful items here for memorabilia we have old gas pumps coca-cola pepsi rc crown coolers
neon signs pedal cars balloon tire bikes everything you see here is 100 original
okay craig if you like the front showroom i think you're going to love the main showroom itself
you could have two football games going on at the same time in this building just a
stunning facility you got three acres of land the walls are solid concrete tied in with steel
every eight feet and steel rebar running through every concrete block so very very well built
building been told it's the best built building in brevard county left a couple buildings at the
kennedy space center as you go through you can see a lot of beautiful cars here you're going to see
some ultra low mileage original vehicles and every vehicle here is kept in 100 running condition
the facility itself here we maintain the temperature at 74 degrees inside and we maintain
35 relative humidity just some really good environmental controls to protect the quality of
the vehicles and as you walk through you're going to find all different vehicles here
this is mostly a shelby row and then mopars i tell people we have about oh 40 general motors here 30
ford mercury shelby 10 percent mopar 10 porsche and about 5 other
some of the others are oddballs it is mind-blowing walking through here
well the museum is incredible but now we're back in the shop and this is where all the cars are
carefully cared for but i think what is really incredible is the attention to detail that is
put into the authenticity the paperwork building the books for every car the high-res photographs
that have been taken for the collectors out there the quality of the cars here the presentation
the environment that they're in with no humidity everything is air conditioned it is really going
to take great care of these cars over the long term of your ownership because as we talk we
are only caretakers of these cars and you are a fabulous caretaker as well as gathering up all the
history on these cars mark well thank you craig here at the american muscle car museum one thing
that we pride ourselves is in the quality of the vehicles that we have today in the collection we
have 385 vehicles it's hard to believe but we have 160 vehicles with less than 100 original miles
so one of the first vehicles i'd like to tell you about is the 1958 chevrolet impala convertible
rio red really beautiful car frame off restored and the thing that i love about this most is the
beautiful tritone interior just really stunning color combination loaded with factory options
has the autotronic eye has the traffic signal indicator factory spotlight and even has factory
air conditioning next vehicle over here uh 1959 ford retractable this is a aaca
national show winner um 1959 ford made retractables in 57 58 and 59.
stunning frame off restored vehicle this has the correct original indian turquoise color with ivory
just a really stunning vehicle we had a car just like this as a kid growing up
yeah we used to actually have a mom and a dad and five kids squeezed in that car
no seat belts but we all had a great time packed you together kept you in the car yeah my mom had
a lead foot she drove like you wouldn't believe i'm talking about lead feet we're moving up to
the next vehicle 1991. we have actually four dale earnhardt vehicles here at the auction that we're
going to be uh selling off this is a race truck that was actually been recreated uh multiple show
winner it's one actually over that's the show over 30 different times wow so stunning uh restoration
quote customization uh just a very beautiful looking vehicle as we move ahead we got a 1969
mercury cyclone spoiler the beauty of the mercury cyclone like i always said the 428 power plant i
know the 428 for ford um that motor came out i loved it as a as a kid still love it today you
could really get some great quarter mile times on that motor moving ahead we got another 1969
this is a 1969 chevelle in daytona yellow black interior black top beautiful top-down car to
enjoy has a 396 375 horse of course these two cars were competitors back on the street in 1969
right next over we have a another unique vehicle 1966 plymouth satellite we used to call these the
grandma cars but this is not a grandma car with a 318 in it this has the real 426 hemi
the 426 hemis were definitely something to record with on the streets next car over 1968 corvette
427 400 horse automatic beautiful red with red interior has actually the factory hard
[ __ ] this is another vehicle i've owned for a lot of years this vehicle i've owned since 1994.
then as you you look here we have actually three more dale earnhardt vehicles we have a darrell
earnhardt camaro they'll earn hot monte carlo and the 2010 one of one hall of fame vehicle this
vehicle here right now is in the shop like all of them we want to make sure we go through our nine
page checklist to address any deficiencies and since we have a 15 000 square foot maintenance
facility here that's you know air conditioned and dehumidified we have all the modern equipment for
exhaust and you know you know whatever you need for uh compressors or whatever you need etc uh
beautiful shop to work in and so we take care of all of our own maintenance as much as we can here
now we come to the dale earnhardt couple more vehicles we have a dale earnhardt camaro one
of six we actually have a photograph of dale actually signing this vehicle as well as the dale
earnhardt monte carlo so monte carlo has less than a thousand original miles and the camaro
hit has a little over 5 000 original next vehicle coming up 1986 corvette pace car when the pace car
came out i said i have to get a pace car so i'm actually the second owner on this vehicle i bought
it way back in 1994. when i bought it had about 2 000 original miles today has 9 000 original
the pride of what we're bringing to auction here this is a 1968 yanko camaro
stunning color combination grotto blue with the blue vinyl interior this is a jerry mcniche
documented vehicle has the mcnish certification magazine feature card been featured in several
books known history and we have every piece of original factory paperwork
from when this car was purchased brand new cannonsburg pa the american muscle car museum
starts at 1955. i actually have two 1955 bel air convertibles and this vehicle is in gypsy red a
heavy factory option vehicle has 35 factory options uh it's a frame off restored 1.8 miles
it's only gone on and off trailer since i've owned the vehicle and as i show my vehicles through the
years i try to pride myself in all the little details so in other words like you'll see that
we have you know a reproduction of the original operating power top a factory manual a factory
service manual go ahead open up the hood here and the beauty of this car is it's frame off restored
tremendous detail the gentleman who has restored my 55 to 57 chevys prides himself in every vehicle
he restores i love the way you take care of the cars the way you document them the way that
they're showcased out in the main museum then they come back here so every car coming to the auction
is going to go through this entire process here give you a sense that the car has been well cared
for it is well documented and it is presented in the proper way of what the car actually is
what we try to do is get every piece of factory documentation from day one if at all possible if
it's a newer vehicle of course you'll have the window stickers the build sheets bill of sale
documentation every vehicle that we're going to bring to the auction as well as every other
vehicle we have at the american muscle car museum we have a flash drive with anywhere from 100 to
200 high resolution photos of every part of that vehicle and quality is what you are bringing and
that's why i personally wanted to come here and showcase your cars and your paperwork
now when it comes to documentation and and every car at the auction is going to have a
book similar to this so what we're going to have here is this is on the 1955 belly and they'll be
one of these books with each car at the auction and when you open it up you're basically going
to find a basic back sheet on the vehicle and then we're gonna have a series of about 20 to 24 photos
which are actual real photographic four by sixes on each vehicle just tremendous documentation
the yanko here has some unbelievable documentation if you please share that you'll be amazed at what
you see so we basically will go ahead and have a highlight sheet of the vehicle and we'll go
through and we'll have the color copy of the current title bill of sale history
and and the beauty of this vehicle behind us it's also a multiple magazine feature car
it's been featured in the copo book so this has a tremendous amount of history it's been celebrity
owned the original documentation that you find is is priceless today it absolutely you're welcome to
look at it it's amazing well this is incredible the the attention to detail that you have the
way you have archived everything and protected everything just speaks to the quality of the
car and what we want to represent when somebody out there wants to buy a grade a collector car
it doesn't get any better than this yanko yeah beautiful cat really beautiful and a beautiful
color too the grotto blue is really striking i think barrett-jackson will be very pleased with
the vehicles that we'll be sending there and i know i've been extremely pleased with with all the
vehicles and i put my name behind every vehicle so well that's what counts and uh i commend you on
the work and what the facility is that you built just going into the main museum is awe-inspiring
but coming into your shop the attention to detail on physically taking care of the cars all the
paperwork all the digital photographs all those will be on our website so please check them out
this is your opportunity you want to buy a great car selling at no reserve or palm beach auction
2022 april 7th through 9th get some great cars coming out the american muscle car museum mark
thank you very much thank you craig thank you gonna be awesome great opportunity see you there
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