Hundreds of vintage muscle cars and race cars in Florida automobile museums
June 15, 2012 
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Car Museum (credit: Muscle Car City)
Visit a muscle car or racing museum on your Florida vacation
If you’re heading to the Daytona International Speedway, you’ll want to check out their race car museum, but there are museums for car enthusiasts on Florida’s other coast as well.
Muscle Car City, Punta Gorda
Lose yourself in 99,000-square-feet of more than 200 vintage muscle cars, from Chevy Corvettes and Pontiac GTOs to Camaros and Impalas. Ranging from the ’50s to early ’70s muscle cars, the museum also has a 60′s themed diner and a gift shop that sells everything from T-shirts to gas pumps.
- Cost: $12.50/adults; $6.00/children; free/children 2 and under.
- Where: 3811 Tamiami Trl Punta Gorda, FL 33950
Don Garlits Museum of Drag Racing, Ocala
All things drag racing are at Garlits Museum, from the International Drag Racing Hall of Fame to the museum itself, dedicated to the sport. Created by Don Garlit, the father of drag racing, the museum project has grown over 34 years and as you walk down rows and rows filled with vintage cars from Swamp Rat dragsters to hot rods, the attention to detail is evident.
- Cost: $15/adults; $13/senior; $13/children 13-18; $6/children 5-12; free/children 5 and under.
- Where: 13700 Southwest 16th Avenue Ocala, FL 34473
Living Legends of Auto Racing Museum, Daytona
From memorabilia and photographs to antique race cars, this vintage car museum gives you a flavor of the local history and culture, harkening right to the turn of the 20th century, when visitors to John D. Rockefeller’s Ormond Beach winter home sped their cars on the beach. Given that Daytona Beach still allows cars to drive on an 11-mile stretch of its beach, it’s no wonder that this museum was started in 1993 to bring awareness to those who started beach racing and stock car racing.
- Cost: Free
- Where: 2400 S. Ridgewood Ave, Daytona, FL
Tell us…
What do you prefer – dragsters or muscle cars?
