Beep! Beep! Hoods Up Week rolls into Tampa Bay Automobile Museum

Tampa Bay Automobile Museum will have all of the museums car hoods up for visitors to get a more detailed look into each and every car at the museum.

Heads up, or should we say hoods up? Hoods Up Week returns to Tampa Bay Automobile Museum on Sunday, September 8, 2024.

This popular and exciting week-long event offers visitors the opportunity to explore the mechanics of the museums unique collection of cars by seeing under the hoods.

Hoods Up Week is included with regular admission to the Museum and runs during regular hours from September 8 - 15.

General Admission is $16, with Seniors (65+) $14, YouthS (9-17) $10, and Children Under 8 Free (with paid adult). Groups of 10 or More $10 per person.

The Tampa Bay Automobile Museum is centrally located between Tampa, Clearwater and Downtown St Pete in West Central Florida.

This hidden gem features a unique collection of vintage cars and vehicles that demonstrate special creativity and imagination in their history and engineering. The museum features the pioneering front wheel drive and rear engine cars from the 1920’s and 1930’s that played an important part in the evolution of the automobile.

Housed in the museum galleries are many of the most innovative early approaches to aerodynamic shapes and packaging, front-wheel drive and rear engine-rear drive engineering, unibody construction, pioneering uses of materials like cast aluminum, pressed steel and more.

The innovation of engineers such as Paul Jaray (designer of the Zeppelin airships), Gabriel Voisin (aircraft designer from World War I), Edmund Rumpler (aircraft designer from World War I) and Jean Albert Gregoire (Tracta front wheel drive) are present in many automobiles throughout the collection.

For more information: https://www.tbauto.org/.

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