{"id":459225,"date":"2000-05-01T03:05:46","date_gmt":"2000-05-01T10:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=124761"},"modified":"2024-12-02T20:45:48","modified_gmt":"2024-12-02T20:45:48","slug":"sports-car-collectors-gather-for-symposium-held-at-the-collier-automotive-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/sports-car-collectors-gather-for-symposium-held-at-the-collier-automotive-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports Car Collectors Gather for Symposium Held at the Collier Automotive Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Collier Automotive Museum in Naples, FL was the recent site of a 4-day symposium on the collection and restoration of sports cars. Entitled \u201cConnoisseurship of the Sporting Car,\u201d the event was sponsored by the Collier Museum and Christie\u2019s Auction House to benefit several underprivileged children\u2019s foundations in Southwest Florida.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speakers for this unique event included author and motorsports historian Doug Nye, American F1 Champion and restorer Phil Hill, corrosion authority Robert Baboian, David Gooding of Christie\u2019s, Miles Collier, archivist Ray Nugent and restorer Paul Russell, amongst others.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_814606\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-814606\" style=\"width: 755px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/05\/n5-200005-p1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-814606 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/05\/n5-200005-p1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"755\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/05\/n5-200005-p1.jpg 755w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/05\/n5-200005-p1-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/05\/n5-200005-p1-716x1024.jpg 716w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/05\/n5-200005-p1-70x100.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2000\/05\/n5-200005-p1-293x419.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 755px) 100vw, 755px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-814606\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Art Eastman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Over the course of the 4-day program, participants split their time between formal talks, hands-on demonstrations, museum tours, informal discussion groups and catered meals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The symposium concluded with a hands-on exercise for the participants to demonstrate what they had learned. Broken down into groups of 5-6, each group was assigned a car to evaluate in the museum\u2019s shop and then report their conclusions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">For more information on the Collier Museum or for information regarding future events check out their web site at www.colliermuseum.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Collier Automotive Museum in Naples, FL was the recent site of a 4-day symposium on the collection and restoration of sports cars. Entitled \u201cConnoisseurship of the Sporting Car,\u201d the event was sponsored by the Collier Museum and Christie\u2019s Auction House to benefit several underprivileged children\u2019s foundations in Southwest Florida. Speakers for this unique event included author and motorsports historian Doug Nye, American F1 Champion and restorer Phil Hill, corrosion authority Robert Baboian, David Gooding of Christie\u2019s, Miles Collier, archivist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":814606,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263,11441],"tags":[17152,894],"class_list":["post-459225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-culture","category-museum","tag-car-culture","tag-museum"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sports Car Collectors Gather for Symposium Held at the Collier Automotive Museum<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sports Car Collectors Gather for Symposium Held at the Collier Automotive Museum\" 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