Long Island Automotive Museum

[DougPulver@aol.com]

As I sit here in my office looking at one of the 4 Automobile Quarterly "The Magnificent M.G." posters, there is a 1948 MG TC from the Long Island Automotive Museum. I went there as a kid and still have the pamphlet. While I don't think the museum still exists, does anyone know what happened to (or own) that TC? Doug Pulver TC 5850 San Diego, CA [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[joecurto@aol.com]

Doug the Long Island Auto Museum in Bridgehampton was owned by a fellow named Austin Clark a real old time auto enthusiast, he was collecting cars in the 1950s and was a bit of a wheeler-dealer, I never met him but I knew guys who did, you can see him in some old Simonize auto wax ads sitting in some sort of tiller operated velocipede. The Museum went down hill when the state rerouted some highway It was pretty neat as you could just wander around thew place, he had stored the Collier Brothers MGPA there (the really slick cycle fendered one) It probably closed in the late 70 or early 80s, Clark passed away Joe Curto [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

[Jay Lockrow]

The big demise of the museum was the takeover of Cuba by Castro. Austin Clark was in the sugar business and he lost million$ when Castro took over. The museum was more of a hobby than a business and he could no longer afford to keep it going. I met him a few times, he was and interesting character... I have no idea what happened to all of his cars but he had some really choice stuff! joecurto@aol.com wrote:

> Doug the Long Island Auto Museum in Bridgehampton was owned by a fellow named > Austin Clark a real old time auto enthusiast, he was collecting cars in the > 1950s and was a bit of a wheeler-dealer, I never met him but I knew guys who > did, you can see him in some old Simonize auto wax ads sitting in some sort of > tiller operated velocipede. > > The Museum went down hill when the state rerouted some highway It was pretty > neat as you could just wander around thew place, he had stored the Collier > Brothers MGPA there (the really slick cycle fendered one) It probably closed in > the late 70 or early 80s, Clark passed away > > Joe Curto > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >

[Stew Koesten]

My dad was an early enthusiast. I remember as a kid meeting folks like Austin Clark. One of my dad's friends was a gentleman named Alec Uhlman. He had a fine collection and was a terrific gentleman. Stew Koesten -----Original Message----- From: mg-tabc@yahoogroups.com [mailto:mg-tabc@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Jay Lockrow Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2005 7:43 AM To: joecurto@aol.com Cc: DougPulver@aol.com; mg-tabc@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [mg-tabc] Long Island Automotive Museum The big demise of the museum was the takeover of Cuba by Castro. Austin Clark was in the sugar business and he lost million$ when Castro took over. The museum was more of a hobby than a business and he could no longer afford to keep it going. I met him a few times, he was and interesting character... I have no idea what happened to all of his cars but he had some really choice stuff! joecurto@aol.com wrote:

> Doug the Long Island Auto Museum in Bridgehampton was owned by a fellow

named

> Austin Clark a real old time auto enthusiast, he was collecting cars in

the

> 1950s and was a bit of a wheeler-dealer, I never met him but I knew guys

who

> did, you can see him in some old Simonize auto wax ads sitting in some

sort of

> tiller operated velocipede. > > The Museum went down hill when the state rerouted some highway It was

pretty

> neat as you could just wander around thew place, he had stored the Collier > Brothers MGPA there (the really slick cycle fendered one) It probably

closed in

> the late 70 or early 80s, Clark passed away > > Joe Curto > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >

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