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Miles Carnes Collier, founder of the Revs Institute (1947 - d.)

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Birthplace: Harkness Pavilion, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, Manhattan, New York County, New York, United States
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Son of Cowles "Miles" Collier, director, Florida Chamber of Commerce and Laura Isabel Uppercu
Husband of Parker Janee [surname is TBD], philanthropist
Brother of Inglis Miles Collier and Barron G. Collier, II, President, Collier Group

Managed by: A1C Paul Alan Fine, USAF, B.A., ...
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About Miles Carnes Collier, founder of the Revs Institute

  • Mile's birth information is available in his birth announcement in The New York Times, Sunday, May 4, 1947, page 56.
  • See information about the Revs Institute, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revs_Institute and https://museum.revsinstitute.org/news/in-selling-his-duesenberg-ssj...
  • From https://turtlegarage.com/history/the-miles-collier-interview-for-sp...:
    • "Miles C. Collier is an ex–race car driver and trained artist. He is Founder of Revs Institute® in Naples, Florida, regarded as one of the greatest repositories of automobile resources in the world. He has been intimately involved with automobiles for more than fifty years and has written innumerable articles for specialist automobile magazines, academic anthologies on automotive topics, and other publications. He is well known as an advocate of the automobile as being among the most important technological artifacts of the twentieth century.
    • "Revs Institute is a haven for scholars, preservationists, and passionate connoisseurs of automotive history. The museum in Naples, Florida is a working facility and home to the Miles Collier Collections — over one hundred significant automobiles built between 1896 and 1995.
    • "The Miles Collier Collections of automobiles is a purposefully curated assemblage of the most profound and rare automotive innovations of our time. Declared the finest sports car collection in America by The New York Times, Revs Institute attracts a worldwide audience of automotive enthusiasts, preservationists, and industry scholars.
    • "The automobiles on display at Revs Institute are some of the rarest and most important cars ever built. These are cars that blazed technical pathways, redefined aesthetic standards, made history, and changed the world. Attended to by full-time restoration technicians, these meticulously selected rare vestiges of automotive history remain operational and continue to demonstrate their engineering prowess on racetracks and roadways the world over.
    • "No other venue provides the same level of intimate access to these rarefied masterpieces of mankind’s creativity than Revs Institute. That is because the Miles Collier Collections is presented as a working museum. Nearly every vehicle in the Miles Collier Collections has been masterfully restored according to exacting historical standards and is maintained in peak operational condition."
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Miles Carnes Collier, founder of the Revs Institute's Timeline

1947
April 30, 1947
Harkness Pavilion, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, Manhattan, New York County, New York, United States
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