The Miami Auto Museum at the Dezer Collection was a privately owned museum in North Miami, Florida, that exhibited automobiles and related memorabilia collected by

Michael Dezer Michael Dezertzov ( he, מייקל דזר; born 1 April 1941), known as Michael Dezer, is an Israeli-American real estate developer, car collector, and billionaire. He is the founder of Dezer Properties and is known for his investments in New Yor ...

. It has closed and is being moved to

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, to be opened as the Orlando Auto Museum. The museum was housed in two large warehouse buildings, one for the Hollywood Collection, the other for the Classic Car Collection. The Hollywood Collection displayed cars and vehicles used in movies or by the stars, among them a collection of James Bond cars and

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cars. The other collection showed classic American and European cars, micro-cars, military vehicles, motorcycles, scooters, bicycles, and various related memorabilia. The exhibition areas exceeded 250,000 square feet and was capable of displaying more than 1,000 vehicles. Cars included in the collection are the 1948 Ford from '' Grease'', the 1959 Cadillac from '' Ghostbusters'' (a replica), the 1981 DeLorean from '' Back to the Future'', an original Batmobile, the Land Rover from '' Skyfall'', and a T-55 Soviet tank from '' GoldenEye''. In 2011, the museum acquired the original Pursuit Special driven by Max Rockatansky in '' Mad Max'' and '' Mad Max 2''. The collection was started by Micheal Dezer, an Israeli-born real estate developer, after he got a Vespa scooter at the age of 16. The museum evolved from the holding place for his collection and was opened in . It incorporated the

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purchased from England.

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Dezer Collection websiteOrlando Auto Museum
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