Last updated: 5/14/2013
Mount Dora, Florida
Address
206 North Highland StreetMount Dora, FL 32757

Hours

Monday - Friday
10 AM - 5 PM
CALL ABOUT POSSIBLE SATURDAY HOURS FOR LARGE GROUPS, 20 minimum.

Admissions

We do not take credit / debit cards...sorry for any inconvenience ..

General Admission: $10
Military (with ID): Free
Law Enforcement (): Free
Admission with Tour: $12

Staff

Description

Your visit to this Private Museum is a chance to 'take a Déjà trip' through time, RELIVE THE PAST, walk through our facility, and enjoy some of America's Finest Classic Muscle, "Pro Cars" & Foreign Cars, plus a 40+ Year collection of "Automobilia" (Auto Antiques).

We built the all new Mount Dora Museum of Speed , so we could share our hobby and a lifetime of antique collecting with the General Public... moving to Central FL. and opening for business in Mt. Dora mid-August 2001. Since we travel often to buy cars PLEASE, it's always best to call in advance to clear your arrival. If you've never been to Mount Dora, get out your Future Events Calendar....the town is a must see. A mandatory visit while near Orlando, it's the home base for the Renniger's "Antique Extravaganza Show(s)", "Wooden Boat Show in Tavares" on Lake Dora, Ice House Theater, "Bicycle Rally", "Christmas Parade & Walk", "Plant Show", "Art Festival", "Spring Festival of Music" various Antique Car Shows, and "Crafts Fair"....it's listed Nationally in several magazine's as "One of The Five Best Places to Retire.

The year long Special Events calendar garnishes a major turnout (almost a quarter million visitors per year), so Dora's not your typical 'small potato' Central Florida town. Flower-laden Mount Dora is just 43 minutes N.W. of Orlando Airport. Many view it as the East Coast's version of Carmel, California or a sleepy New England Village. It not only offers the highest elevation in the State of Florida (whoa, 184 ft. above sea level) but, visiting it is like taking a trip in a time machine back to 1950. A vintage community loaded with over 100 antique shops / fine dining, Lake Canal Cruises, Century old Architecture, Beautiful Inns / Bed & Breakfasts', 26 churches and some genuinely nice people....all this while residing in a picture perfect community. It's surrounded by 1001 Fresh Water Lakes and large Oak trees, laden with Spanish moss and cooler temperatures than So. Florida's normal.

Artifact Collections

Vintage Road Signs, Autographed Guitars & Backstage Passes from famous 'Rockers' & Country Artists (featuring Stevie Ray Vaughan / Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Aerosmith, Ozzy Ozbourne, Montgomery & Gentry, Bon Jovi, The Rolling Stones'; Ron Woods, The Eagles' Don Henley & His group, Journey, Billy Ray Cyrus, Graham Nash, George Thorogood, Chicago, All Member's of the '99 Lalapolooza Tour, Montgomery & Gentry, & Chet Atkins), Madonna's Autographed underpants, the entire Cast Signed Guitar from "Pawn Stars" including 'ChumLee' and the "Old Man", Brooke Burke Autographed Guitar ("Dancing w/The Stars"), Vintage Jukeboxes, Quarter Midget Race Cars (4), an actual Vintage 1940's Texaco Gas Station (built within the Museum walls) w/ period Texaco Gas Attendant & Vintage Signage, 1920's Penny-farthing Big Wheel Bike, 9 Mannequins dressed in original Period Clothing for the 40's-50's-60's, 1920-1957 Pedal Cars & Taylor Tot Baby Stroller, Large Vintage Neon Sign's in their original Cabinets, Vintage Luggage w/ Travel Stickers, 2 'Dealer Incentive' Promo Kid-Size Corvette's for Chevrolet Dealers, Ton's of Signed Posters & Framed Artwork, working 1950's Black & White TV's featuring Vintage programs ( "I Love Lucy", "The HoneyMooners", "Long Ranger", etc) a real Cedar Point Amusement Park Bumper Car from Ohio, an original California 1950's Bob's Big Boy statue, Classic 50's Ambulance Driver & Nurse Attendant in full uniforms, a classic Route 66 Desert Trading Post w/ Rattlesnake Display (real- but, gladly dead), Vintage Gilmore Gasoline Race Car Dummy, Antique Longboard & Shortboard Surf Boards, over 200 Porcelain/ Tin/Canvas Signs, Vintage Weight & Fortune Scale, "Elsie" Borden's A&P Supermarket 'Talking Cow', Coca Cola Porcelain School Crossing Guard, a real [rear clip] '59 Cadillac Sofa, NASCAR Display (Race Uniforms or Jackets from Robbie Moroso, Bobby LaBonte, Dick Moroso w/ NASCAR crashed car parts), a Great Dedication to Our Servicemen : with WW I & II Uniforms, Leather Flight Jackets from Vietnam & WWII, Dummy (Practice) Bombs, WW I Airplane Propellers, Leather Pilot Helmet WW1, Morse-Code WWII Spy Radio, '60's TWA Uniformed Stewardess & Eastern Pilot Display, Giant 1943 Defense Bond Poster & 1941 "Battle Cry" Recruiter Poster, Hubley Antique Toy Mobil, Desert Storm Helmet plus: 7 Vintage 30's to 50's Gas Pumps, Air Towers, Oil Dispenser Displays, Greyhound Bus Driver Display w/ original Aluminum Bus Side Signs removed from a Greyhound & Continental Bus, Antique Oil Bottles / Cans, 50's Soda Bar Furniture & Display w/ 50's Waitress on Roller Skates, Cola Machines, Exact dimensions Jane Mansfield Mannequin, 'Silver Springs' Display Vintage Fire Extinguishers, and even MORE Automobilia galore

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