American Muscle Car Museum

09/02/2026

Even if you can't make our first fall event to support Candlelighters of Brevard, Inc., you could still win this awesome custom guitar from Kantor Guitars! For only $20, you can show your support for Candlelighters and have a chance to win this unique Fender Stratocaster based guitar! Click the link for more info!

One very unique way to raise awareness and funds this Childhood Cancer Awareness Month is to participate in our Guitar Raffle featuring a donated custom Candlelighters guitar by Robert Kantor Guitars.

🎗Grab your chance today🎗
http://e.givesmart.com/events/ObL/page/order-form

Please share this post to help us raise support for our kids fighting cancer! Thank you for your generosity!

08/28/2026

Of everything in the American Muscle Car Museum, our Pink Shoe may be the most photographed vehicle. It has been part of the AMCM since the beginning, and hundreds of people have climbed in for a photo at our events.

We were asked to borrow the Pink Shoe from Audi of Melbourne, which hosted the Women, W**e, and Shoes event last week. Before putting it back inside the museum, we did some maintenance and gave it some exercise outside on the grounds. Here is a quick look at our much-loved Pink Shoe.

08/27/2026

We had out one of our most popular vehicles in the AMCM, and had Destination Brevard stop by to celebrate the occasion. While definitely not the fastest thing in the museum, it may be the most photographed. This pink shoe has been a part of the museum from the beginning and was a featured item at our first event, Rev Up for a Cure, supporting the American Cancer Society back in October of 2016.

In this video, we cover a bit about the pink high heel shoe, and highlight our first two events on our fall calendar to support Candlelighters and Jingle Jet. More info on those events, and all of our event can be found:
https://www.americanmusclecarmuseum.com/muscle-car-events.html

08/26/2026

We have a bunch of great local car shows to share with you, including a Cars and Guitars rally that stops here at the AMCM for our upcoming Candlelighters charity event. The weather is getting better, and more and more shows are coming each month. If you know of another show, please mention it in the comments!

Our next car show at the AMCM is for the Satellite Beach Lions Club on Saturday, October 3rd. For more information about the car show, or any of our upcoming Fall events, check out:
https://www.americanmusclecarmuseum.com/muscle-car-events.html

08/21/2026

Our upcoming fall season is upon us, and our first event is to support Candlelighters. Even better, we will have a custom Candleighters-themed guitar from Kantor Guitars up for grabs, and you don't have to be present at the Saturday, September 12th event to win. Tickets start at just $20 each, with six for only $100! Support a great cause, and have a chance at winning this awesome custom guitar. More information can be found here:
https://e.givesmart.com/events/ObL/page/order-form/

Want to join the event in person and see the nearly 500-car collection? We have added many cars over the summer, and we would love to have you! For tickets, check out:
https://e.givesmart.com/events/ObL/

08/14/2026

We recently participated in the 2026 Great Race, and used the amazing Revology Cars Boss 429 Mustang for the trip. Not only did we compete in the race, we went coast to coast, covering 5,700 miles in the process. Check out this article covering the highlights of this awesome trip in this amazing Revology Boss 429!

As the owner of 13 Revology cars, Mark Pieloch is clearly a big fan of the company.

08/10/2026

Please join us in wishing a very happy birthday to our friend, Robert Kantor!

Robert has been a great friend and supporter of the American Muscle Car Museum over the past several years. He played an important role in helping create our amazing guitar display, along with much of our model car display.

Robert is also an active member of our local Space Coast Region PCA, where he serves as editor of the club magazine.

His support extends well beyond the museum. Robert also donated the special charity guitar that will be raffled off at our first event of the fall on September 12th, benefiting Candlelighters of Brevard.

We have really enjoyed getting to know Robert over the past few years and appreciate everything he has done to support the AMCM and local charities.

Happy Birthday, Robert, and thank you for all that you do! Here are some photos from today's birthday gathering along with other times here at the AMCM.

08/07/2026

This week, while traveling back home to Indianapolis, AMCM's Andrew Mackey stopped in to see the amazing collection belonging to Ray Skillman in Greenwood, Indiana. Ray has been a fixture in the Indianapolis automotive world for decades and owns well over a dozen new-car dealerships representing a variety of manufacturers throughout the area. At 84 years old, he remains active in the day-to-day operations and was even present during our visit.

Hidden behind the Ray Skillman Ford and Hyundai dealerships along U.S. 31, the building dates to 2006 and originally operated much differently than it does today. Skillman had been collecting automobiles since the 1980s, and the facility initially served as both a showroom and collector-car dealership. During its early years, hundreds of classic cars passed through the building as vehicles from the collection were regularly bought and sold.

Over time, the facility evolved into a much more private collection, with a particularly impressive emphasis on American racing history. Around 200 vehicles are housed inside the nearly 50,000-square-foot building, which also includes space for maintenance and restoration work.

The racing collection spans decades of Indianapolis 500 history, including everything from early roadsters and open-wheel racers to much more modern Indy cars. Highlights include a 1968 Lotus 56 turbine-powered Indianapolis car driven by Graham Hill and the car driven by Arie Luyendyk to victory in the 1997 Indianapolis 500.

The Ray Skillman collection is not regularly open to the public and does not maintain set museum hours, making opportunities to visit somewhat rare. We were grateful for the chance to look around and see a collection that preserves such an incredible cross-section of Indianapolis racing history, classic automobiles, and automotive memorabilia.

08/07/2026

While visiting Keuka Lake during a summer trip, AMCM’s Andrew Mackey had his curiosity get the best of him and stopped by an old automotive service station in Penn Yan, New York.

Located along the main road into town from the west, the building was originally home to the Shay Oil Company, which opened in 1924. At the time, gasoline sold for around 17 cents per gallon. The property continued to serve as a gas and oil business for decades before the original station building transitioned to office use around the mid-1980s.

Today, the property is owned by Tom Podsiadlo, who was nice enough to show us around the historic 102-year-old building and his impressive collection of Corvettes. In addition to being home to Penn Yan Mini Storage, the property has also been home to Lakesides Corvette Enterprises for nearly twenty years.

Although this wasn’t a planned stop, Tom welcomed us inside the office portion of the original station and showed us the later-added shop, which is filled with old tools, signs, equipment, and plenty of local automotive history. One of the projects inside was a 1963 Split Window Corvette receiving a modern engine. The shop had a great atmosphere, with rarely seen signs and plenty of Penn Yan-specific touches throughout.

Equally impressive was Tom’s personal Corvette collection, housed in a newer storage-style building behind the original station. Another pair of 1963 Split Window Corvettes, finished in Sebring Silver and Daytona Blue, sat alongside several other Corvettes.

Perhaps the most significant car in the collection is one Tom purchased new himself. On April 1, 1965, he bought his Rally Red Corvette convertible in nearby Rochester for $4,791.90. More than 60 years later, he still owns it. The car is equipped with the 350-horsepower V8 and a four-speed manual transmission.

We really appreciate Tom taking the time to show us around and share some of the history of the property and his collection.

Here is a look at our unexpected stop at Lakesides Corvette Enterprises and Penn Yan Mini Storage in Penn Yan, New York.