Vehicles, Vessels, & More

Yesterday a very windy cold front blew through, so we took the opportunity to go to the Elliott Museum, which is beachside in Stuart. This was another wonderful surprise and we couldn't see everything in one visit. Sterling Elliott loved inventing and came up with prototypes of bicycles that he improved, along with a quadricycle with his patented kingpin steering knuckle. These cycles ended up leading to the eventual invention of the automobile.

Other Elliott inventions included addressing machines and business machines.

The museum is filled with donated vehicles, bicycles, motorcycles, and boats throughout history...

This is a signed 1926 Bugatti and one of the visitors said he looked up its worth... $17 million!?!

1931 School Bus...

Hugh Willoughby's Pelican Hydro-Aeroplane...

There were so many vehicles donated that the museum now has the only one of a kind, 3 level car racking system in an American Museum. It is run by a computer and you can choose which one of the over 50 cars on display you would like to see, and it will come down on a robotic tray and rotate on a turntable to for all to view. 

The second floor had a re-creation of what Stuart looked like in the late 1800's, a hand-carved miniature circus display, Evinrude motors, and much more. The museum also has a gallery that has changing exhibits. In March it will be featuring British Motorcycles, so we know we will return to see that!