(Photo: FloridaToday.com) – If you live in the Melbourne, Florida area and you like muscle cars you have basically hit the jackpot. A wealthy businessman is opening the American Muscle Car Museum inside a massive 90,000 square foot building that he’s having constructed and it will house more than 240 cars, scads of cool stuff like signs and other memorabilia as well as hosting parking lot autocross events and more. While the place will not be open daily to the public, the owner Mark Pieloch claims that it will be open frequently for shows, fundraisers, and other events like the aforementioned autocrosses. A kid who grew up in a junkyard family and went on to become a mega-successful entrepreneur in the field of pet pharmaceuticals, Peiloch moved his company to Flordia a couple of years ago and has been going full bore on this project for almost as long.
The facility sits on 42 acres and there’s a solar farm being installed that will provide the electricity for the building which is a pretty slick idea. Along with the museum there will be a 15,000 sq/ft shop, offices, and all of the other stuff necessary to operate the outfit which Pieloch says with suck up about $500,000 a year. But what about the cars? This thing is going to be a sight to see if all of his stuff lands there because the man has good taste. He owns something like 35 Indy pace cars, nearly two dozen Yenko cars, eight ford GTs (one in every color available), 40 rare cars with less than 100 miles on the odometer, and a couple hundred more neat pieces to go with that stuff.
The guy honestly seems to get it and understand what the cars are about. In the story linked below he talks about his first car and his love of cars that flowed from that point forward. Lots of people get onto the backs of wealthy guys for all the stuff that they have but we’re happy someone has it and keeps it in good condition. This place sounds like it is going to be incredible and hopefully we can someday don a pair of those fake glasses with the fake mustache and sneak inside for a peek.
The story below has lots of details on the building, the area, the museum, the cars and Mark Pieloch. It is a great read. Check it out.
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