Elliott Museum, Stuart, Florida

Friday 3rd May - 2019

Earlier today, David & I visited the Elliott Museum in a town called Stuart, Florida, approximately 120-miles south of where we are now located in Cape Canaveral.

The Elliott Museum offers a variety of collections, including vintage cars, baseball artifacts, artwork, Americana, rotating exhibits in the Changing Exhibitions Gallery, an art studio with classes, a theater, a tribute to local philanthropists Frances Langford and Ralph Evinrude, a Museum Store, a student art exhibit, and much more.

A 1925 Springfield Rolls Royce Silver Ghost

Pall Mall Tourer

I wanted to check the Elliott Museum out because I had been advised that this Museum exhibited the best assortment of AA Ford Trucks (just like my '29 AA Ford truck - ‘Hoover’) in America, I definitely was not let down by that advice.

A ‘57 2-door Chevy Bel Air on display

Not only was I surprised about the AA Food Trucks on display, this Museum also had many other Classic vehicles on display. I was delighted to see a ‘57 2-door Chevy Bel Air [above] in the collection, almost identical to my '57 Chevy Bel Air at home in Sydney.

A great collection of Ford AA trucks

This Museum featured something that I have never seen before in any Museum anywhere else in the world.

Cars from as early as 1886 are exhibited along with early bicycles and motorcycles. Having viewed the main exhibits it was interesting to see how one could choose a car from the stacks to study at closer quarters. Your choice is brought down on a 3-storied automated lift system and arrives on a turntable for your viewing pleasure.

Cars available on the Museum's Automated

Vehicle Racking System

If you care to read the photo [above] about the ‘Automated Vehicle Racking System’ you will understand exactly what I am talking about as you can witness in my couple of photos.

Cars are retrieved by a robotic picking system
and the offered on a revolving turntable for misapply

The last time that I was here in Cape Canaveral was in 1971, I wanted to see some ‘Moon Rock’ that the Apollo 11 expedition had bought back to earth from their mission. David has never been here so, seeing that we were more or less passing by the front door of the Kennedy Space Centre here we are.

Cars are retrieved by a robotic picking system
and the offered on a revolving turntable for misapply

Tomorrow we will spend exploring this wonderful facility here at the Cape, tours start at 0900 in the morning. Tomorrow is also Kentucky Derby Day, what a pity we can’t be there, as we are headed up that way once we leave here.

Tennessee also awaits us, I am especially looking forward to the Smokey Mountains National Park.

So that’s about all from ‘Ken’s Magical Mystery Tour’ for now.

Cheers

Warbo.