Executive Director, Petersen Automotive Museum VR: Can you tell me a little bit about how you first came to cars...
The Petersen Automotive Museum Chairman of the Board Steven E. Young has announced that Terry L. Karges has been appointed...
It never gets old looking back on one of the most famous pioneering efforts in the evolution of the automobile, the “Blitzen-Benz.” It’s placeholder in transportation lore needs no exaggeration: Four-cylinder engine with a displacement of 21.5 liters and 147 kW (200 hp) Magic mark of 200 km/h is broken...
Lyon Air Museum, Santa Ana, CA July 1-August 1, 2016 1937 Mercedes Benz 540K alongside a Douglas DC3. 1941 Mercedes-Benz...
All images by: Virtual Motorpix/Glen Smale Some Le Mans 24 Hour Background Do you remember when your favourite band or singer released their latest, long-awaited album? Perhaps it was Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, JJ Cale, or some obscure group that you really liked. You would go down to the...
April 28, 1957 may not be remembered as a day that changed history, but to a group of scrappy, stubborn...
Mathis VL 333 Alain Cerf, whose collection makes up the Tampa Bay Automobile Museum, is an inquisitive man with an...
A genuine display of vehicle craftsmanship and ingenuity, The Nationales Auto Museum: The Loh Collection, showcases an assemblage of approximately 150 automobiles that chronicle 135 years of motoring heritage. The museum boasts artifacts from over 50 distinguished marques, a testament to the motoring rarities and the ubiquitous cultural symbols that...
The Petersen Automotive Museum has announced its grand reopening celebration will take place Saturday, December 5, 2015, at the museum...
Photos from opening night at the Petersen Museum’s new “The Porsche Effect” exhibition, which will run throughout 2018....
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum has announced the IMS Hall of Fame Class of 2023 Inductees will include Tim Cindric and Tony George. The two inductees will be formally celebrated at the Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, and Dinner presented by Shell and supported by National Bank of Indianapolis, to...
The Petersen Automotive Museum and Checkered Flag 200, the museum’s premier membership group, will present another gala tribute this November...
In celebration of Ferrari’s 70th Anniversary, and with Ferrari President and CEO Sergio Marchionne, Vice President Piero Ferrari, Director of...
Sixteen racers were inducted into the United States Road Racing Championship Hall of Fame during the annual USRRC Tribute dinner last Saturday evening at the Wally Parks NHRA Museum in Pomona, California. The USRRC was a road racing series for big-engined sports racing cars that ran from 1963 to 1968,...
An evening of reunion and tribute to the United States Road Racing Championship, which ran from 1963 to 1968 and...
By Dennis Gray, Bill Wagenblatt, & Rex McAfee On my way home from the Velocity Invitational held at Weathertech Raceway...
The Velocity Invitational is a festival of food, wine, luxury, and motorsports. Formerly known as the Sonoma Speed Festival, they recently announced an exciting addition to their lineup which is the James Hetfield Collection, courtesy of the Petersen Automotive Museum. Some of the vehicles that will be part of the...
While closed during the Coronavirus pandemic, the Newport Car Museum has launched its first in a series of videos reviewing...
Are you a Steve McQueen or Jaguar enthusiast? Leslie Kendall from the Petersen Automotive Museum provides an outstanding overview of...
All words and photos by Matt Stone. Transportation museums around the world vary—from purpose built, factory backed, artistic (and often architectural) wonders to old warehouses thinly repurposed into museum or personal (or foundation) collection display (and/or storage) duty. To take in and fully appreciate some of the world’s best, a...
Appearing for the first time in North America in over 30 years, “Andy Warhol: Cars – Works from the Mercedes-Benz...
Porsche lands on American soil The story of Porsche’s phenomenal success in America is one of many chapters and couldn’t...
After decades spent amassing one of the most significant private collections in the world, restaurant magnate Herb Wetanson has decided to bring three of his most unique and collectable cars to auction at RM Sotheby’s December 8, 2018 auction at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, California. The vehicles...
Southern California’s Automobile Driving Museum in El Segundo debuted a new exhibit, “A Woman’s Touch,” on January 27, it focus...
Supercar, Hypercar, and now Megacar; is a nuclear-powered Gigacar next? Back in the early 1980s, Road & Track magazine published...
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