FIRST TIME EVER! FULL PETERSEN COLLECTION TOUR | HETFIELD, SUPERCARS, PORSCHE, OVER 200 CARS

hi everyone my name is michael bodell i am the deputy director ceo here at the peterson automotive museum uh and today is a really special day today is the first ever full museum tour so we're gonna go all three levels of the museum and the vault on today's tour so sit back it'll be about 90 minutes long and today is also another special day because it's giving tuesday so it is a suggested donation all of your support is so so generous and it really makes the museum continue to function uh tours like this our education programs have all moved online and so in order for us to continue these your support is needed so thank you so much and let's get started with the tour so we're on the third floor of the museum right now the otis booth history floor and uh the newest exhibit which actually has not been seen by the public is the history of the supercars and when you walk into the exhibit the first car you see is this beautiful 1988 lamborghini countach this one happens to belong to a friend of the museum matt farah so if you're familiar with matt you can give him a shout this is his car and we thank him for for lending us this uh but the lamborghini countach really embodies what we think about when we think of supercars especially modern day supercars it's got an extremely aggressive styling that really makes the car look like it's moving when it's not even in motion it's got the iconic scissor doors the car is immensely powerful this had the rear mounted v12 engine uh with over 400 horsepower and this was a gandini design and uh also for those of you who don't know a young horatio pagani design as well he actually was the inspiration for some of the composites used on this car at the time the countach was a poster car you saw this on the walls of a lot of children along with the porsche 959 which it was going against and really sets the tone for this exhibit so let's keep going through you'll see a couple of the cars out of place this exhibit is not complete yet we are still in the process of putting it all together before we open to the public we have been closed since march and one of the cars that's not really part of the exhibit but fits into our timeline of the history floor is the 1886 patent benz and this car really is the inception of motorized travel uh for our society uh mobility really dates back further the graphic on the wall that the car sits in front of is a 1776 kuno sorry 1769 kuno which was a steam-powered vehicle um but the patent benz was you know media and attention to cars uh bertha benz who actually financed the project because carl was the designer and engineer went on a 65 mile stress test uh of this car just to show what it could do and that's what really set the tone for for cars and juxtaposition to the benz is our 1900 smith which was the first gasoline-powered automobile built in california and this one features a lot of the kind of creature comforts we expect on cars today it's got four wheels it's got a little bit of padding on the seat for comfort it's got suspension two headlights and a little bit of storage you'll notice those little embellished rings on the front that's for if the vehicle broke down or you got stuck in the mud and this car obviously with its which is la story is really important to the museum and our mission to highlight and preserve uh la-based vehicles so getting into supercars uh this is a really perfect place to start so this is our 1913 mercer raceabout and when you think about the inception of speed you really do think about mercer mercer was a extremely successful competition car the mercer was known at the american grand prix which took place in santa monica california as a winner it competed and unfortunately lost in the first indianapolis 500 but if you look at this car compared to other cars in the teens you know it's so low which is more aerodynamic the car was capable of upwards of 60 plus miles an hour and this one so happens to be in pretty much original condition so over a hundred years old and this car has it was painted once in the 50s but other than that is completely original so it's still a beautiful running vehicle it's one of the crown jewels of our collection and it really is a masterpiece of engineering if you think about something that's really stood up to over 100 years of time so this sets the tone for the supercars exhibit and we go from the teens into the next car which is the 1923 mercedes 28 95 targa florio and so as you got into the 20s you know a vehicle with a very high bonnet and long nose was to showcase that you had a big engine uh and this car certainly had a big engine this was actually mercedes first aircraft uh derived engine it was a 7.2 liter inline-six had 95 horsepower and this car was campaigned from 1914 all the way through 1924 and the targa floyo name was given to it because it was successfully competed in the targa florio race in italy and you look at this car and it just screams elegance engineering and speed and it's also at a time when you know art deco was really starting to get off so you can see a lot of the embellishments highlighted the form is being highlighted as sculpture and function going from the 20s again we're kind of on this chronological journey into the 30s you've got our 1933 duesenberg model sj bodied by murphy the sj stands for supercharged and if you had a duesenberg that was supercharged you could have upwards of 320 horsepower duesenberg's with a special high performance manifold on a supercharged engine can get upwards of 400 horsepower like our model here and that gave it a top speed of over 130 miles an hour and you have to remember in the 30s most of the roads were unpaved you know in urban areas they were paid but everywhere else it was unpaved so can you imagine 400 horsepower on this kind of technology i would say lack of technology and dirt roads so the old saying was you can only pass a duesenberg when they chose to have you pass them and this car its speed is really wrapped in this beautiful body work by murphy a local pasadena coach builder going from the duesenberg into the late 30s we have the 1938 delegate 145 uh and this one is a coupe that's been bodied by chapron uh henry chapron was a coach builder and a lot of you who do not know cars coach building was essentially the process of buying a chassis and a powertrain and having an artisan or a coach builder create a unique body for the car ferrari did this throughout its years with pinafarina scaglietti and delahaye did this with chaprone and many other coach builders like fagoni falashi this car is special because it's one of four uh grand prix cars so this really is a race car for the road underneath this beautiful you know blue and purple body uh sits a completely capable v12 uh grand prix car so one of the things that um is kind of you'll see ripple through this exhibit uh is that a lot of the cars were derived from race cars or had the purpose of race cars and then turned that into road cars some of it through homologation was required and some of it just through the uh the essence of the owner wanting to go fast so as we go from the delahey 38 we're going into our 1952 ferrari barchetta and that gap of time and speed was mostly due to the war so you know resources were low around the war so you see this gap in time where cars kind of go go quiet and then come back up so in 52 um this car is really special not only because it's a very rare it's a 212 uh ferrari barcata but this one happened to be purchased by the ford family so we call it the henry ford ferrari in 1952 ferrari and ford were essentially courting each other and when this car was purchased from ferrari by ford henry henry ford actually put it in the design studio and used it for the inspiration on some of the cars and you'll see that with little design characteristics in the thunderbirds so the superleggera emblem kind of looks like the thunderbird logo or thunderbolt emblem the eighth-grade grill in the front is very similar to the thunderbird uh but what's cool about this car is enzo wanted to show henry ford what he could do to road cars so instead of the stock uh 212 v12 that would be in this car it's got a bigger 225 racing motor and it's kind of been americanized i mean when you look at it you wouldn't typically see a wide stitch like that around the cabin you wouldn't see white wall tires on a ferrari or a white interior so this car is a long wheelbase it's been made bigger for the american market and it's something that was you know a unique piece in history along with the mercer this car also is fully original 1952 that's original paint original engine the interior's in its original configuration this car is a perfect example of preservation and it's one of the gems of the peterson collection one of the things i should mention in this exhibit as well and other exhibits in the museum is that not all these cars belong to us so some of them are some of them are our cars but some of them are also cars from other collectors and when we call on them to mount an exhibit like this we're always greeted with such a great response and we really thank the lenders who participate in our exhibits because they just make better content for us to share with the community and talking about lender cars right in front of us we've got bruce meyer's 300 sl goal wing and this is 55 bruce's goal wing is done up probably in one of the most beautiful configurations you can have a goal wing with the custom luggage you've got the knockoff wheels um you've got the you know black with the the red interior which is one of my favorite combinations but the sl was uh really meant for racing sl stood for super light um uh sterling moss uh drove an sl to to victory um this this car was probably the best engineered supercar of its time in 55 you know this had a tube frame uh which gave it better handling characteristics at speed it was capable of 150 miles an hour which again for 55 was blistering fast it had amazing acceleration and i think that's the joy of looking at this evolution of supercars is just to see how much refinement it takes just to hit that next threshold of speed so going from 55 we actually jumped just over to 56 with my favorite car in the museum which is a 1956 jaguar xkss the xkss was based on the jaguar d-type the d-type was jaguar's successful lamar racer and this car featured a 3.4 liter inline-six about 250 horsepower was capable of over 150 miles an hour this particular model was owned by steve mcqueen which makes it even more rare there was only 16 of these built steve customized this car so originally it was white with a red interior uh he had the car painted this kind of british racing green and he had tony nancy do the interior and von dutch build them a little custom glove box cubby but in 1956 this car was uh very much capable of getting you into trouble um you know with that top speed and the acceleration i mean in 1956 this car would do uh zero to 60 in under six seconds which was unheard of it would do zero to a hundred in 14 seconds which even by today's standards is immensely fast so you know steve got into some trouble with this car there's a lot of great stories online if you have questions on it we've got a lot of history around this car so definitely leave them in the comments and we'll get to them going on to the next car we've got the 1959 ferrari 250 long wheelbase this has ferrari's famous three liter v12 in it again an extremely capable car we're kind of moving through the 50s slow just because this was a really important time in supercar history as cars just began to refine their speed much better the 250 gt long wheelbase interim uh was the bridge interim was the kind of intermediate between this and the short wheelbase uh this one was much more rare i think they made about nine of these and the longer wheelbase gave a little bit of extra room in the back of the car for storage uh made it a kind of a more supple ride uh but was not a race car like the short wheel base that was used uh you know to to speed and anger uh this one was used for for road use so we've covered you know british german italian and now we're going to get over to the american story so over here you've got the 67 427 cobra jet this is the big block and for those of you who have seen ford versus ferrari this car is paired with another really important car but this featured the seven liter v8 this was the car that people were deathly afraid of because of its speed and this was the car that really you know everybody wanted in its day it was america's supercar it was a car that carol shelby built and campaigned cobras both the 289 and the 427 are extremely desirable today because of just how raw and usable the performance is um and it really tethers you to the road and this car sits next to the gt40 which you know without the cobra that you know the gt40 america wouldn't have had its competition at le mans um and so our 67 gt40 is one of seven um it's one of four that was left-hand drive um the gt40 had the 4.7 liter v8 had about 300 horsepower could go over 160 miles an hour and this was the road going version it's called the gt40 because it's 40 inches off the ground so it's extremely low i mean in comparison you can see just how low this car was uh dan gurney who famously drove this car to victory uh had the bubble in his in his doors just because of his height dan was you know six four six five so he was a big guy and this was a tiny car um but again just the beauty of these cars as they developed through the 60s is amazing i am a big fan of the gt40 and everything that's been done with it and to see this car come back and win at le mans again in 2016 it was just spectacular so as we come around the corner you're going to see some of the cars displaced again you know this is a behind-the-scenes tour the museum is closed uh but carrying on with the theme of the 60s you've got the 68 lamborghini mira and the mira was built in response to ferrari right so everybody knows the story the lamborghini brand was built out of trying to make a better ferrari essentially when ferrari sent a very snarky note back to the owner of lamborghini uh saying that the the problems that he had with this car were not the fault of ferrari but they were the faults of the driver so um lamborghini's response was this v12 supercar and a lot of people consider the the miura the grandfather uh of supercars and you know looking at this compared to the countach you can really see where the countach got its design inspiration from uh this car looked like a spaceship when it landed in 68 you know it was low slung it had the rear engine powertrain and its performance matched everything with this v12 engine so going from the mira over into the 70s you've got the lancia stratos delancia stratos used the 2.4 liter engine out of a ferrari dino and this was a homologated car the stratos was created for one purpose and really one purpose only which was going rally racing so it was extremely lightweight extremely capable on any surface and this car just looks fun i think that you know it's one of those cars that you look at you just want to get in and try driving it one of the interesting features on it because it was a race car is that the door cards actually have helmet holders so that you can store your helmets in case you want to drive it to the track or you know to the gravel road and just begin you know tearing apart the uh the asphalt or the dirt um that sits next to uh the bmw m1 and you know i think it's interesting to have an m1 in this display because the m1 is one of those cars that you really just never see you know a lot of these supercars in the exhibit you'll see out of cars and coffee or at a car show m1s are very much unicorns they started life actually as a lamborghini project that was scrapped and picked up by bmw you know having a mid-engine bmw is not something that you really think of and this one that we have in the exhibit were extremely fortunate and i apologize for the lighting on it these cars all kind of all displaced but it's the most original i'm told m1 that currently exists and if you can get into the light you can see it's actually this beautiful like blue it almost looks black and underneath that bonnet is a three and a half liter inline six that powers the m1 to a really amazing speed and m1s were successfully campaigned uh as race cars as well and if you see them race you'll understand that you know everything bmw did with that car just kind of makes sense so as we go into the 80s you've got the ferrari testerosa and this one is a black with a tan interior testerosa typically when you see testurosas you think of red yellow white black kind of hides the lines that make this car special but those side fins uh for cooling the engine were really unique to the time i mean just like the lamborghini countach the ferrari testerosa was you know a high-performance car that was usable in the era and it was campaigned i mean um you know this car was in miami vice not this particular car but the ferrari testerosa and uh made people want ferraris it was a time in the 80s when supercars were getting more and more usable and you'd see them out on the road more often next to the ferrari testerosa you've got the porsche 959 uh the 959 at the time uh in the late 80s at 88 was going against the lamborghini countach which was a little bit more of an aggressive take on a supercar porsche approached the supercar in a very refined way the 959 was born out of homologation as well it came from the paris to the car 953 rally car it stole the technology out of that which was mostly its all-wheel drive system and its sequential turbocharging and applied it to an extremely advanced road car um 959 is capable of 0-60 in 3.9 seconds and about 190 miles an hour which for the late 80s was extremely fast and uh s variants like this one were capable of 210 miles an hour which just absolutely blew the competition away and it was at 210 miles an hour that was usable a lot of the cars in the 80s you know had top speeds that were kind of theoretical because they were extremely difficult to reach because of the driving characteristics of the car porsche knew how to race i mean porsche's history is steeped in racing competition so this car is extremely refined and an absolute pleasure to drive and it sits right next to essentially its own competition so uh roof uh was a basically a porsche hot rod company uh that would take a porsche and modify it to its limits um you know changing the driving characteristics changing the engine and wrapping it in a package that didn't look too different from a stock 911 and uh that was something that really took everybody by storm if you're like myself you know you saw this car in rodent track or you played in video games with this car uh but the roof yellow bird this one happens to be serial number one was capable of 211 miles an hour so just that extra little nudge above porsche but so much more aggressive there's amazing videos of the yellow bird this car drifting on the nurburgring which you would not expect for a porsche as it is refined but this one is i would say a little bit more aggressive sitting next to the roof yellow bird you've got the acura nsx and now you're going into the 90s so the nxx the nsx was really created uh out of you know the the need for a usable supercar honda took the approach of if you're going to have a performance car why not be able to use it every single day without fail hondas are known for reliability and that's what they really wanted to showcase is that you could make a high-performance car that was also reliable and so you've got a mid-engined performance car that had its suspension and power telemetry tested by the best aerosena and our board member bobby rahul uh did the testing on this car to make sure that it handled exactly as it was intended to um there was a very famous scene in the film pulp fiction than an nsx took place in and nxx is featured a three liter v6 it had 270 horsepower which for its weight was just enough a lot of people didn't like the fact that they were considered underpowered under 300 horsepower for supercars light but they were still capable and this car really was the anchor for every other car after it to make a reliable supercar uh gordon murray who made the f1 modeled a lot of those characteristics of usability on the nsx and a lot of companies like ferrari and lamborghini chased acura in the reliability sector if you're going to have a car that can perform why not have it perform every day sitting next to the nsx is our 1992 jaguar xj220 the xj220 another one of my favorites uh was in a race for top speed so the 220 on the name was uh a theoretical top speed of 220 miles an hour um it's got this extremely slippery design so that it could punch through the you know the air at a very high speed when it was tested it was tested at a 217 mile an hour top speed at this time in the early 90s this was during the dot-com boom and so a lot of big manufacturers were trying to create supercars for new wealth uh and this was one of them so the xj220 went up against the you know ferrari f50 the eb-110 you know porsche with their 959 you know in this competition for who's got the fastest most outrageous car on the road um and i think it did a pretty good job it had a v6 engine which was really kind of frowned upon because they originally planned a v12 however the v6 engine was turbocharged and was still immensely capable of speed with the 217 mile top speed which held a top speed record for quite some time next to the xj 220 is the saline s7 the s7 again born out of racing from le mans saline was a performance company that would modify vehicles to have higher performance particularly fords uh this one used the seven liter ford v8 as its power plant uh over 220 miles an hour for the saline s7 so an extremely fast and capable car and if you look at the scale of this i don't think the video can do it but the saline is just so much bigger than all other cars i mean it is basically as wide as a lane and about as long as a truck so when you really look at it it is huge and a car like this makes sense on a track but as soon as you bring it onto the road you're gonna have some issues uh which is trying to keep it in your own lane and next to the saline and kind of at the end of this aisle is the maserati mc12 corsa the mc12 was really a homologated race car and its underpinnings was a ferrari enzo so it used a 6 liter v12 everything underneath is essentially ferrari and then it's wrapped in this extremely gorgeous coach work i think maserati did a wonderful job making this a beautiful shape that just looks fast standing still and it's sculpturesque uh michael schumacher was used in the development of the mc12 and this one is really special in that it's the only black mc-12 that's on the road so typically these cars were white and blue which were the colors of maserati and this one is painted in this very cool metallic black i'm not sure it picks up on the calendar but it's got a great flake in it so we kind of take a gap in between supercars uh in the chronology and we go up into these little separate side stories so one of the unfortunate things with kovit being closed and having an opportunity like this is this is typically our photo op uh for those of you who follow freddie hernandez on youtube his his youtube name is tavaresh freddy took the fast and the furious 2003 murcielago which was a film car and just absolutely abused and brought it back to this beautiful shape of what a murcielago kind of should be freddy lent us this car and is currently lending us this car for the exhibit and you know we hope we can open up to the public again so people can enjoy this but there is that really strong symbiotic relationship between cars and film because cars typically play characters in film and fast and the furious is probably the prime example of that where you you follow the cards just like you follow the people so going from the lamborghini murcielago uh this row here is typically filled up with ferrari power cars so you know right here we've got the 85 288 gto which i like to call like it's the 328 that's on steroids the 288 was a 180 plus mile an hour ferrari supercar it used their 2.9 liter turbocharged v8 and it was an extremely rare car and really was the the starting point for ferrari to build the f40 the f50 the enzo and the laferrari so typically behind this car we would have our ferrari f40 and the enzo we only have space for three cars so we chose to skip the f50 and you can get angry with me if you want but unfortunately that was our decision so we have to live with it and uh the f40 and the enzo uh were again those two big power cars that took homologation to the next level f40 was a race car for the road enzo was a race car for the road and typically they would sit in these spots our final two cars in here are the halo cars of the exhibit when you think about supercars you can't not think about mclaren and most people think of modern-day mclarens or the f1 as the starting point but bruce mclaren was an extremely uh talented engineer and race car driver you know bruce won in the gt40 at le mans in 66 and that was the very controversial win uh with ken miles he also you know built and designed his own cars and this is one of them so this is the m6 gt this was based off of basically a can-am car can-am was the most unrestricted form of racing you could do any aero any power plant this one uses chevy v8 in the back it's over 300 horsepower but the car is feather light um and during this time you know bruce mclaren passed away you know shortly after uh in the in the 70s uh racing his m8 uh which we will see down in the vault but this is a really cool chance for people to see the m6 um not a car that you typically will see on the road and you know we're delighted to have it and it sits across from the mclaren f1 which is i think the unicorn of all supercars and uh the mclaren f1 took and held the speed record the top speed record for such a long time 242 miles an hour uh was the standard from 1990 you know two or three all the way up until the bugatti veyron came around uh you know and broke that record but um what this car was capable of was so spectacular it used the bmw 6.1 liter v12 had over 650 horsepower um you know a center seating position just like a race car so you could have your two friends on both sides of you as you went you know for that top speed glory the engine bay was lined with gold the car was all composite you know gordon murray who designed this car had a strong influence in motorsports and really is still a strong influence in motorsports and he's actually just come out with the new t50 but it shows you how capable this car is when it was applied to the track so the um mclaren f1 gtr and lms you know went to the law and won their class and won you know five or six positions um you know basically as stock cars i mean there is a little bit of tweaking to the power and the arrow uh the gearboxes were changed to straight cut gearboxes but for the most part the car was completely as is and for a road car to basically just go from where it was into le mans win really shows just how amazingly engineered it was um and so our supercar exhibit ends here uh with this 98 lm mclaren we have an exhibit in the future that will carry on this theme starting with the bugatti veyron and continuing forward which we are looking forward to sharing with you in the future and so what we're going to do now is we're going to go down to the second floor which is our industry floor and go through all of those exhibits we'll go down to the first floor after that and then the vault so we're gonna head down the stairs and we'll just jump right down now so we are on the rob and melanie walton industry floor and i'm standing in front of our newest motorsports exhibit in the charles nirburg family gallery which is chip ganassi racing and so we're going to head inside the gallery and this exhibit highlights the different aspects of essentially winning that chip has created over his career in motorsport and so you've got three different sections to this gallery you've got sports cars you've got indy cars and you've got nascars which is a three different categories that chip races in and you know the nascars you've got the 2001 dodge interpret you've got the impala and actually that newest vehicle edition is something we added earlier today so we're always changing cars here uh in the museum and then the middle section features indy cars and the the cool thing about indy cars is chip was a kart racer we actually started this exhibit with chip's car right here in the middle uh and it switched out uh but now we've got cars from you know his his drivers or hit you know his family um you know ranging from scott dixon um to to other other very famous drivers uh in india and you've got uh you know dalara indy cars which are his most modern cars with the earliest car being the renard um and i think the thing about indy that a lot of people uh who watch racing don't expect is just how fast indy cars top out at um you know indy cars have a higher top speed than formula one cars and what the drivers are put through is just absolutely um intense and so when you think about the threshold for error on that it's a very minimal one so india is one of those you know extreme pinnacles of racing and sports cars as well i mean when we opened this exhibit we had the 2016 ford gt right here in the middle of the sports car section and that was the 50th anniversary win at le mans which was a you know a tremendous effort we've got other cars in this gallery we've got the two rileys which is what you know chip uses for a sports car category in imsa these ones feature lexus v8s in them um but you know this this gallery is supported to really highlight the importance of motorsport in uh our hobby and right next door to this gallery unfortunately we can't go in there right now is our forza motorsports racing experience which is supported by bobby ray hall and that gallery allows you to look at all of these amazing race cars and then get behind the wheel wheel digitally uh and actually race them in fours and motorsports so we're so fortunate to have chip uh as one of our you know partners um you know all of these cars have been supported uh through chip and his partners so a huge thank you to target and honda and chip for allowing us to have this amazing display of motorsports and as you come out of this gallery you've got our newest motorcycle exhibit in the richard varner family gallery and that's silver shotgun and silver shotgun was a paint color on the desmo ducati it was this metallic flake uh paint that was on you know the fiberglass body of the ducati and what a lot of people don't give the italians enough credit for is in the 1970s italian bikes were the highest performing bikes of their time uh benally's mv augusta ducati yamanda all those bikes were just absolutely so fast and so this gallery highlights not only the beautiful italian design of these bikes but the immense speed and racing pedigree of the two and four cylinder models that came out of italy and this gallery is actually we can kind of dart over there really quick but supported by an italian design car with an american power plant which is the pantera and for those of you who have been to the peterson the pantera this one is very special this 71 pantera was owned by elvis presley and if you don't know the story uh elvis was in a bitter argument with his uh then spouse uh wanted to go for a drive after that argument and like a 70s italian car uh this did not start so he pulled out his revolver and shot it three times so if you look at the steering wheel and the a-pillar and the dash you'll see three bullet holes in this car luckily not ruining the beautiful guia body work but giving this car just that extra level of elvis pedigree to it so amazing story it's a car that we love having the collection because again it's it's got that celebrity ownership and that extra layer of story to it so kind of that is the the only car along with the fiat chalet in the silver shotgun exhibit so we're about to go in the bruce meyer family gallery and before we do we have to really call out uh the owner or previous owner of the vehicles in this exhibit so this is james hetfield for those of you who don't know james he belongs to a band called metallica a very large band called metallica and very recently james was so generous to donate all the vehicles you see in this gallery to the peterson and what you'll see is one of the most spectacular custom car collections that we've ever seen assembled and again this gallery is again kind of in transition just with charging cars and cleaning them so you will see uh some of the gallery not in the shape that you typically see it when we're open but the first car that you you kind of walk into is the 1948 black pearl it's based on a 1948 jaguar uh and black pearl um if you're a frequent car show enthusiast was at sema show it's it's kind of made its rounds at custom car shows and is really you know celebrating that beautiful era of art deco cars this vehicle was built by rick dore it features a 302 v8 in it it runs on air suspension but just you know you look at it and it's got those beautiful teardrop fenders that kind of matte gold accent the suicide doors you know it looks like it belongs in the late 30s but it is a modern car um and again an amazing creation uh between the the minds of rick dorr and james hadfield and the sister car to that and the car that's on the the turntable in this room and kind of the centerpiece is aquarius and aquarius again is a car that was built to embody that perfect era of design of art deco another rick d'or creation um rick was inspired by the fagoni falashi delahay 165 when he designed this car it features a 376 cubic inch crate motor it's a v8 again rides on air suspension it's this gorgeous uh you know silver and blue color you don't really get the scale of this car until you're near it but this car is probably about 18 feet long so that body line is really able to continue through and one of my favorite features on aquarius and black pearl is their instrument clusters if you take a peek on the inside of the car you can see the really cool instrument cluster on it that again looks like a watch from that era coming down the row you've got this beautiful auburn boat tail speedster uh this one is a reproduction it's a custom the nickname of this car is slow burn it features a 350 cubic inch chevy engine in it it's called slow burn because it's got this kind of really rich deep copper paint again another suicide door car but just you know the the coolest thing about custom cars is that they really they are you right you build a custom car to what you like um and the diversity in this room shows the spectrum of creativity that james has for his cars there are cars of all different colors in here and there are cars of all different specs and uses uh one of the cars in here that is completely dif you know deviates from the first three that we saw is this one and this is straight uh straight edge and straight edge is a 1956 ford f-100 um it's got a huge 455 cubic inch oldsmobile v8 in it um this one is not a rick door this is scott munford who built this car and again you look at this car and if you were to see it on the road you would never imagine the other cars in this room as part of the same collection so just you know an amazing amazing uh combination of cars as we kind of work our way over to this corner you've got iron fist um you know iron fist was really kind of a rat rod um rat rods are the kind of more derelict hot rods and customs they're meant to not be super clean like the other cars in this room uh they're meant to look and have a little bit of patina this one is based on a 36 ford coupe it's actually got a 350 cubic inch chevy engine in it v8 and another uh another scott build uh but again i think it's that diversity this one just so happens to be paired with a really beautiful guitar um similar to one of the other vehicles in this collection and i think the the coolest part and we actually have another video uh that we created with james on this collection it's just how much jam james wants to to share uh his collection with the car community i mean the car community gave james inspiration for these cars and he's kind of giving back uh in front of you you've got crimson ghost and uh you know crimson ghost is another uh 37 ford coupe this car uh i don't know if the lighting shows it but when the light hits it again you've got this beautiful you know crimson color it's this deep red and you know all these cars the paint on them is just so spectacular uh this is another rick door creation one of the favorite my favorite features on this car is the grille the grille and the headlights have this really unique aspect to them that give the car dimension when you look at it from different angles across some crimson ghost uh is a 63 linking continental for those of you who know james and his car collection this car didn't always used to be the matte black with the metal flake top it actually used to be green and it is kind of in its second life james built this car himself and you know the 63 continental was a very cool car it was the most expensive american car at the time it featured the the suicide doors um and was just a really kind of cool luxurious car and he customized it into something uh that he loved and one of the takeaways at the bottom that reminds you that it's still green is the little green side markers on it and so as we go from the continental we we kind of go right into the skyscraper buick skylark this is a 53 buick skylark this is another rick door custom and this car really needs to be appreciated in direct light you get a little bit of it because it's spotlit in here but the paint is very similar to a balloon it's this kind of violet color but when the the light hits it it's got tones of yellow and green very much like a balloon and this car is paired just like iron fist with a guitar this guitar is from esp who's one of the supporters of this gallery which we're extremely grateful for and an amp so amazing car again i'm not doing any of these cars justice there's a tremendous write-up on our website and there's a book that you can get on these cars that's now available and we'll put the link in the description if you want to read about them finally you can't have a good custom collection without a 32 ford and this 32 ford is called blackjack it may look black on the screen it is actually like a chocolate brown um blackjack has a a 296 ford v8 it's got a kind of cognac colored interior josh mills built this 32 and you know it's just it's a classic hot rod the 32 ford was the car of choice of hot rodders because it was ford's first v8 it's got this iconic stance as well so if you're building customs and you have hot rods you know 32 is one of the essential cars you want in your collection and the final car in the gallery is voodoo priest which is a 37 lincoln zephyr and this is a riktor custom as well this one actually belonged to a vietnam veteran and was brought back to life and i think if you look around the room you know it's called a reclaimed rust because all of these cars were given a second life um i think their second life was better in that these have all been really really meticulously um you know put back together and if you look at the paint on the the cars in this room it's just so deep i mean it looks like it's endless and uh i love these cars we are so grateful to james for sharing these cars with us and sharing them with the world and if you have a chance definitely come by when we reopen and check this gallery out so we're going to go from reclaimed rust to our newest exhibit which is extreme conditions extreme conditions is off-road vehicles and when you enter the gallery what you'll see is probably not the off-road vehicles that you're typically used to this whole theme is centered around cars that have been modified for off-road use these are not off-road cars that have been built with the purpose of off-road these are stock cars that were modified to go off-road and it starts right here with the 1970 chevy nova it's called snorton norton this one is on loan from the off-road motorsports hall of fame it's sporting some pretty cool casey lights in the front uh you don't typically think of a american muscle car as an off-road car um but you've got this great example of a car that has had you know some pretty good pedigree uh in the baja and mint uh races off-road it sits next to a 72 ford f-100 again this one's from the off-road motorsports hall of fame this one was modified um by charlie hega and you know when you think of off-road cars you really do kind of think of pickups at least in my mind this one did the 77 baja 500 and has again been modified for off-road use finally this is one of my favorites in the gallery we have a 59 triumph tr3 probably the least likely car that you would think of uh when you think of an off-road vehicle and this triumph tr3 um did the mexican 1000 and pretty much you know a triumph tr3 you know has a 2.1 liter you know four-cylinder engine top speed of like 95 miles an hour and you look at this thing and it almost looks like it belongs in mad max and it really shows that you know any car with enough will can become an off-road vehicle and that's a pretty good transition over to the next car which is jeff schwartz uh porsche safari car and safari porsches have actually become extremely popular in recent years this one is an 89 which is the 964 body style jeff calls this one desert flyer it's got a 3.6 liter flat six about 300 horsepower um and it's the 50th anniversary of the car that competed at the nora mexican 1000 um you know jeff drives his cars porsche safari cars uh are are wonderful pieces of machinery and when porsche really tried to do you know off-road and rally with the 953 uh we got the 959 so only good things have come from putting porsches uh on you know off-road environments next to it is the 65 baja bug we couldn't have done this exhibit without a baja bug baja bugs are kind of the quintessential desert racers they were created for this purpose uh being air-cooled is extremely beneficial to off-road racing um this one came first in its class in 2017 and 2018 in the nora mexican 1000 and just a cool car i mean bugs you know you look at the body style and it doesn't really make sense as an off-road car until you you know you lift it up and you put big wheels on and then everything starts to really come together again another car that we couldn't have uh you know done the exhibit without is a jeep this one is an extremely important jeep to us this is the 2013 goldie rocks this is the the vehicle that belonged to jesse combs you know jesse combs really did drive this car you know modify this car um and you know when you look at cars that are on the road today that pull off-road history jeep and land rover really are the two you know both jeeps and land rovers started off as vehicles with the intent of uh you know moving people around in war and then you know when people were done with them they wanted to modify them to continue that off-road journey and that's how we really got the recreational sport of off-roading is because of jeeps and land rovers so i don't know if you can see it from this angle but this power wagon has a pretty impressive chassis and this one happens to be fitted with a willock swivel frame and the swivel frame allows the car to essentially split in half of the frame of the car to split in half so they can attack almost any terrain and we have that next to the 58 jeep the jeep is fitted with a a track system almost like a tank and these two vehicles really perfectly represent you know just the extent that people will modify their their stock vehicles um this one was the jeep was displayed the fj at uh at sema uh and you know cars like these are kind of you know stem from uh you know the modification and custom that we talked about in the headfields collection um you know people want to make these cars to their own specifications and uh that's what they've done in this corner we've got our little land rover corner land rover is our partner in this exhibit and we couldn't have done this exhibit without them right here is a 66 land rover series 109 and this one is fit with a doormobile camper this was an extremely desired in-period modification these were made for not just land rovers but other vehicles over landing is a very popular trend and in the pandemic you see more and more people going to uh you know on road trips and doing uh camping outdoors uh you know camping in your car right now is probably the safest thing you can do so this is like a perfect throwback to what's being done today and then you've got the modern equivalent right so this is one of my favorite cars new cars right now is the 2020 land rover defender one of my favorite features on these new defenders is uh the see-through hood it's one of the coolest things for off-roading in that on the heads-up display you can basically look through the hood of the car with the camera system it has to see if there's any rocks you're about to hit so these two cars kind of wrap up our extreme conditions exhibit this exhibit sits in the hot rodding custom gallery of the museum so this gallery is always a tribute to you know hot rods and custom cars these have been you know customized again stemming back to our roots with bob peterson and there's a little tribute to the peterson legacy on this wall over here and this exhibit probably butts up against the polar opposite which is called alternating currents and alternating currents takes you through uh electrification uh you know cars started off uh electric way way back in the late 1800s with the loner porsche and others and this gallery takes you from the beginning of time with our 1915 detroit electric all the way to modern times so you've got cars like the uh the tesla roadster which was based on a lotus elise we actually have two roadsters in our collection you've got the gm ev1 for those of you who don't know the ev1 the ev1 is a car that caused a lot of controversy uh in the in the 90s as gm tried to release an electric car and then retracted them this one is one of the few it's a 96 that are out there you know these were heavily endorsed by celebrities and then if you've seen the movie who killed the electric car most of them were unfortunately crushed um you've got the 1996 corbin sparrow the sparrow was a kind of a project of entrepreneur mike corbin uh these were made famous in my mind by their deal with a pizza company and there were cars like this called the pizza butts next to it you've got the u.s electric this is probably one of the most intact u.s electrics that are around the u.s electric car gtp was an effort to basically show how you know electric cars could not uh function only as you know transportation they could function as you know a beautiful designed car um these were sold for 75 000 in the 1994 neiman marcus catalog they were not successful but kind of took that same thought process that elon musk had of you know you start with a car that people want like a sports car then you go to a you know a sedan and then you make a cheaper version of that that was that same kind of thought process and talking about tesla we actually have a prototype model s here which is very rare um you know we are very good friends with the people at tesla they're very kind to us and that they allow us to display a lot of their concepts and uh the model s is a really cool one i think that you look at this car and it really does look like a model s but there are just certain design characteristics that are different on the production car but it's always amazing to see how a designer kind of imagines a car to be and then how it changes when it actually goes into production tesla is pretty famous famous in i would say over delivering on the production models right here you've got the faraday future ff01 this was a racing concept with a thousand horsepower for those of you who don't know faraday future you can you can search about them this car was intended very similar to what the ferrari fxx was intended which is a track oriented car that would be delivered to the track and race for you along the back wall you've got the bollinger the electro mechanica and the karma all brand new electric models the bollinger is is kind of reminiscent of uh you know an early land rover design it has a range of about 150 miles this solo is a three-wheel vehicle it's electro-mechanical the original company was actually intermechanica and they made a really amazing sports call card the spyder it's one of my favorite cars and they have since developed into a you know electric car manufacturer and then you've got the 2020 karma this is the rivero no longer fisker you know fisker had karma left and it was purchased by another company and turned and basically revitalized into this model here finally the gallery is kind of capped with our 1915 detroit electric uh what i love to say about the detroit electric is you know the range on it is so impressive for a car in the teens it got 80 miles range and if you look at cars today like the fiat 500e or you know some of the other smaller electric cars that's about the range that they get and this is you know 105 years old granted the battery technology and the infrastructure was not there you know these cars potentially took up to a week to charge and only got a top speed of about 20 25 miles an hour the the engineering behind them was extremely impressive and you know again the prevalence of electric cars in the early development of the automobile was high and it wasn't until you know cars hit the assembly line that electric cars began to fade but a great example of a detroit electric um henry ford's wife drove an electric car um and it kind of just shows you that the technology has been there they just haven't been given the adequate attention to be you know massively adopted we're actually starting in this exhibit backwards but this is our building an electric future uh exhibit with volkswagen so this is our production gallery and kind of carrying that same electrification theme through the exhibit we chose volkswagen as our partner because they are really leading the race when it comes to mass distribution of electric cars and they've done that with their id line this again is the end of the exhibit so it shows the id buzz which is their vw bus kind of for 2022 and this is a concept car and you can see when we enter the last bay of the exhibit we have a micro bus that you know both of these kind of bookended in this section this is kind of our vr section so typically you have the ability to hop inside the factory where the id line is being built you know we have headsets in here that are typically working again we're closed right now and all of our tactiles are no longer available so unfortunately this portion of the exhibit is closed and then in the middle of the gallery you've got the id.3 and this is the i would say most crucial part of the assembly process it's called the marriage and it's where the body of the car is you know married it's lowered down onto the chassis and the powertrain this one is the id.3 the id.3 is the first id car to be delivered to the public it features their meb platform which is extremely impressive it's the platform that essentially is modular for electric vehicles in their lineup so it can have a single or dual motor configuration but it's kind of you know supported by this power pack in the center of batteries across from the id.3 we can jump across into our our bugatti display still in the volkswagen family but we've got the eb-110 from 1994. this is our car the eb110 had a top speed of 210 miles an hour these ones were built in italy and famously uh tested by michael schumacher and these cars were so ahead of their time unfortunately the endeavor was just not successful from a business perspective but without this car we wouldn't have the the veyron or the sharon or the devo uh this car was so advanced in 1994 it had active aerodynamics four turbo chargers uh all-wheel drive you know over 600 or this one was close to 600 horsepower i think it was like 560 horsepower um but yeah they just were not a successful um uh business endeavor but now they're really starting to be appreciated um you know they featured that glorious three and a half liter v12 that was quad turbocharged and then across from that you show the next iteration right this car allowed the veyron to be created volkswagen purchased uh the bugatti brand and the veyron was uh the first model that hit production uh i i should say you know real production and it became the fastest car in the world this took away the title of the mclaren f1 by going 250 uh two miles an hour and this kind of leads in to our hyper car exhibit so after a super car exhibit we'll do hyper cars and it really starts at 2004 with the bugatti veyron being a a true hyper car a thousand horsepower uh featured that humongous eight liter w16 engine uh you know 250 miles an hour these were you know million dollar cars when they came out and you know just absolutely uh one of the most spectacular engineering feats that man has created in automobiles i mean it was a car that you could essentially daily drive but also go 250 miles an hour and there's some great videos on the internet of these doing those top speed runs this was replaced by the shiron and then the shirons that recently did 300 plus miles an hour so hitting that next benchmark of speed as we go into these last two bays of building an electric future you've got some of the maquettes you know little scale models you've got the id buggy which was uh you know inspired by the myers minx you've got the idr which was volkswagen's electric race car that is just shattering all the records around the world and up in front you've got the id vision which was the concept that really started it all for the id lineup so this kind of trio is the the future of electrification and around the corner is where you know our love for volkswagen started it was you know volkswagens were fun cars that uh you know anybody could have and we've got two examples we've got the 64 myers minx this one is called old red this is the first myers minx and um you know the myers minx were built uh based upon uh volkswagen beetles they were shortened uh and uh bruce myers who created these was a pioneer in fiberglass and built these bodies for off-road there's a huge graphic on the wall behind this car that shows the id buggy which is the electric uh you know 20 21 2022 concept that this car um you know essentially inspired and you know it sits next to the the micro bus and that really is the origins you know the new lineup of electric cars at volkswagen is producing is meant to be enjoyed just as these cars were they they're not just transportation they're kind of an extension of your own personality and so these lead into our newest porsche exhibit which is called redefining performance and so again we're kind of going the opposite direction that we normally go but it it starts off with the 1951 gamund sl which is the first porsche to win at le mans in its class in 1951 and then it's supported by these two rsrs you've got a 1970s uh rsr and the 2016 rsr um you know this one is kind of that iconic uh shape that everybody expects this is a 77 it's got the famous turbocharged three liter flat 6. the 2016 is their successful endurance racer in modern day daytona sebring le ma and our good friend patrick long who is a porsche driver uh just recently won sebring and a new gt3 spec porsche so congratulations to pat and very similar to that rsr um you know definitely worth giving this 51 a good look uh the car if you think about it you know by today's standards was so underpowered but it really showcased the efficiencies of a lightweight car you know lightweight cars were better at braking handling and were just less abusive to the rest of the powertrain and chassis so they were able to go for longer uh they were more fuel efficient this one had a one 1.1 liter flat 4 engine and you look and you're thinking okay it's got a 1.1 liter engine it's got about 40 50 horsepower uh you know 100 mile an hour top speed how did it win le mans it won at le mans because you go for 24 hours and in order to be successful you've got to actually complete the race and so this was one of the ways that porsche did that and obviously paired it with some pretty spectacular drivers behind the porsche exhibit you've got art center college of design and that's paired with our pixar discovery center both of those areas are kind of the younger and older students art center college design is the kind of most renowned transportation design school and it's where a lot of these cars are being created and typically that's a studio that we use for students to kind of demonstrate uh you know what they're doing their midterm or their final projects and the discovery center is where the next generation kind of builds that passion for cars and these are cars you can definitely be passionate about this is continuing that porsche display bruce myers uh porsche 910 again another successful lamar car the 910 was a kind of a feat in lightweight technology using composites it featured a 2-liter flat 6 was capable of 165 miles an hour in 1967 which is immensely impressive and it's just a beautiful car i mean you look at these cars from the you know the 60s and they were race cars that you just wanted to look at all day um behind that is the 1980 924 gtp the 924 was a porsche transaxle car and the transaxle cars really set the tone for the modern cars that we see today that porsche produces um you know the 924 the 944 the 928s you know all of those cars were uh you know leading into cars like the macan uh the panamera and um you know they were front engine rear wheel drive which deviated from the typical 911 format of rear engine rear wheel drive with all the power being you know pushed into the ground with the weight of the engine but this is a really rare one the 924 gtp car was not a car that they produced many i think they built like two or three of these cars and so we're we're extremely privileged to have one here in the museum as part of our racing exhibition so uh this is the again the robin milly walton industry floor we're going to head down to the artistry floor and check out our hollywood dream machines exhibit we're going to jump down there so you don't have to see me walk down the steps and i'll meet you there and then we'll go in the lobby and then we'll go in the vault so we'll head down now so we're just walking down now from the rob and melanie walton industry floor to the peter and merle mullen artistry floor and that's kind of the transition of the or the last transition of the museum so you really learn about the origins of the automobile on the third floor it's application on the second floor and then you can really appreciate its artistry here on the first floor and the exhibit that starts you off and it's the biggest exhibit in the museum right now is hollywood dream machines which is vehicles of science fiction and fantasy and the exhibit starts right over here and you'll see we're still we've got things moving around so i apologize you know the exhibit's not uh you know fully in place but it starts with metropolis so metropolis if you haven't seen it uh was from 1927 and it was really the first science fiction film to have a car play a character and that car was the rumpler wagon and we've got these little scale models uh in the case that you can see and the models were used uh to depict that world uh in the time and so when they were you know showcasing the city to scale in the film those little uh scale models were used and that kind of transitions around to our tron corner uh we've got tron legacy items you've got the light cycle uh you've got the the disc you've got his suit and above it you've got the original flynn's arcade sign which is typically lit up when we are open so again all these things will be filled in when we open back up but the cool thing about this exhibit uh is the objects you know that uh support the vehicle so you've got the fifth element taxi here uh you've got uh probably one of the halo cars in this exhibit the 1981 delorean from back to the future this is the a car so bob gale and a team crowdfunded the restoration of this car because it had been sitting on the universal back lot for such a long time just you know deteriorating and really brought it back to its original shape we are extremely fortunate to be the caretakers of this car at the moment and when you think about cars and culture this probably is one of the best representations of it um you know this this car embodies so much uh of colt's classic in the 80s that you can't really deny it when you think of movie cars you typically think of the back to the future delorean as we kind of go around the corner you'll see i guess what you can call a car now but wasn't really a car in the film but this is the 1977 land speeder from a new hope and the land speeder really was a character in the film i think one of the cool things about this is you really see how the car is not imperfect or the the vehicle is not in perfect condition um you know a lot of times films will use the you know the shape of the vehicle to paint the picture of where the character is and luke obviously was not a wealthy individual who had a new land speeder his land speeder was a little bit you know beat up and put together and that was that was the beauty and the storytelling component of it when this car or this vehicle was used in the film it was displayed with a mirrored skirt around the bottom of it and if you if you look it up you can see pictures of it with that skirt it does have a honda powertrain in it it's still to my knowledge is a functioning vehicle and just again another kind of halo car uh it really deserves the birth that's given in this exhibit because of how special it is to us as you move on you've got more movie cars you've got the minority report lexuses down this row the two vehicles that were used i believe these were based off lexus sc430s and the far vehicle in the corner was the vehicle in the highway scene with the magnetized highway they sit across from the cadillac cn the cadillac cn was a real functioning car it had a seven and a half liter northstar v12 unfortunately cadillac never built this car but if they did it would have been absolutely spectacular uh this was used in the film the island with ewan mcgregor and scarlett johansson it was also chased by the wasp which is that vehicle above it uh like a hover machine and then as we go down this next row we've kind of got it split in between a lot of different films and then a whole tribute to blade runner so you've got you know the syd mead and gene winfield design spinners and you've got you know harrison ford's police vehicle and then that transitions into the blade runner 2049 where ryan gosling played the leading role but again the amazing story building in world building that went into this you can see in these depictions on the wall um you know science fiction uh and reality have this really amazing symbiotic relationship where um you know science fiction essentially inspires you know what we create in the future uh for technology and cars and film have that same symbiotic relationship and in cars like this the audi rsq it was a car that was built for a movie but inspired the audi r8's design this rsq was used in the film irobot with will smith and cars like the gm ultralight which is a few cars down were built and then used by film uh they were so futuristic looking that um you know they placed well into the future and in that case in demolition men about 50 to 60 years in the future ahead of its time the cricket and the helicopter are from the film a.i which was another early 2000s science fiction film about robots or cyborgs i should say here is the gm ultralight again the gm ultralight was used in demolition men it was a car that was already built but was so future looking that they were able to put it into the film and demolition men featured sylvester stallone uh as uh the good the hero and wesley snipes as kind of the villain but this vehicle was essentially depicted as a car from 2042 because it was so advanced looking behind this you can kind of see we've got a very sad looking bumblebee uh and a bumblebee vw bug they are covered right now just because um the we don't want them to get dusty and they are very difficult to dust with at the height of bumblebee over in this corner we've got our our tribute to to batman but before i get into that i should talk about the big car in the room uh or the elephant car in the room uh which is the halo warthog this halo warthog is built it's a real running vehicle on a hummer h1 and as part of the world's reimagined experience we have with microsoft microsoft is our partner in this exhibit and created an augmented reality experience using hololens and that uh experience elevates the storytelling for both the back to the future delorean and the halo warthog so getting into the uh the batman of it all we've got the 1966 adam west yamaha which was the adam west batman and robin in the passenger seat the passenger seat's interesting because that is actually a real go-kart that kind of ejects out of that sidecar that sits next to our 1989 batman returns batmobile this was the tim burton batman where michael keaton played batman and when people think of batmobiles this is typically what they think of in its shape and you either think of this one or you think of the futura which is the batmobile here the original adam west batmobile this one just so happens to be a reproduction uh but a very very good reproduction and sits next to the george barris built mongrel tea which was the joker's car and so you've got a really good representation of new and old batman and that's one of the things we tried to focus on in this corner 2019 was the 80th anniversary of batman and so we really wanted to highlight um the chronology of batman and there's a really great little set of models there in the corner that you can see and it shows you how batman's vehicle has evolved over time one of the vehicles being the dark knights bat pod and the bat pod injects itself from the tumbler which is christian bales i might as well just say a tank um and becomes its own standalone vehicle uh christian barrel being the you know most modern batman and i believe he's being replaced now by uh a new batman very very soon so there'll be yet another batmobile to add into this sequence but if you take a look throughout history um you can see that the batmobile has evolved from pretty much a regular car into something that is nowhere close to a regular car and their visions of the future batman in the 30s started off actually very dark similar to how the dark knight is depicted and got much much more um more family-friendly and then started to get darker again as you got into the tim burton era so what we're doing is now we're gonna go down into our vault uh we'll skip ahead of me going down the stairs but i'll see you down in the lower level and we'll stall start the the tour down there hi everyone so we are down here in the lower level which is the final level of our tour um for those of you who know this level this is as we walk past these doors the vault of the peterson a lot of people don't know this but the peterson automotive museum takes up an entire city block so we have a full city block underground of vehicle storage and that's what the vault is so as we pass through these doors some of the things you'll see um are cars that are in progress so as we go into the shop um you know the shop and the rest of the vault is much more intimate what you'll notice down here versus the rest of the museum is that there are no barriers between you and the cars which is i think what really makes the vault special and one of the kind of fun places that you don't typically get to see on the tour is our shop it is a working shop so we have cars you know being maintained at the moment alongside other cars being displayed and we've got everything here you can see you know we've got our nissan transporter being worked on this is a recent donation it's a beck 550 kit car you have the 46 curtis indy car which was the first curtis post-war you've got this new donation which is a 1939 packard that used to be on a rolls-royce chassis we've got our 1948 davis devon right there in the corner getting worked on that's one of 16 davises built it was three wheels and way ahead of its time we actually did a crowdfunding campaign back in 2015 to have that car restored to its original condition and we did so the whole lineup on this side is all motor sports cars so we are in the tom and sharon malloy workshop and tom malloy if you know him is steeped in motorsports with ed pink engines and to start this row off you've got the 1961 brabham bt-8 which was jack brabham's first race car next to that you've got the mclaren m8e slash f it's an e chassis and powertrain and an f body you've got the toyota gtp eagle next to that you've got the george foamer lola t70 a movie car in between and then you've got bobby ray hall's reynard indy car another gurney eagle indy car and an aj foyt indy so a spectacular row of cars here and i think the coolest part about all of them is that every single one of those cars was a donation to the peterson so as you go through the vault the majority of the cars down here are cars that were belong to the peterson or were donated to the peterson and these two are great examples of just you know the kind of history that you'll pass through as you're going on your tour you've got a 1922 studebaker paddy wagon police car next to king george v 1910 daimler uh and that daimler is sitting right next to a little triumph spitfire hot rod so as you come down to the vault there are so many uh different cars and diversity in cars that you'll see the xeno 3 this was a concept car from a student at art center you've got another one of our project cars which is an audi s4 that's being converted a wagon you've got a tactile so this was in our children's area before closing it's from chip ganassi and it's actually a car that you can get into so it gives kids and older kids like ourselves an opportunity to actually sit in a real life indy car that was campaigned across from that you've got an amber winner amber is the most america's most beautiful roadster a porsche 9146 a electric wind and solar-powered vehicle so again this is all just kind of the flavor of the vault and we haven't really even entered it this area is kind of like the holding area so what we're going to do is we're going to adjust ourselves down the center row and do like a big horseshoe as we go through the vault i'm not able to cover everything down here and if there's something that i pass by or i didn't cover in detail that you want to see let us know in the chat and we'll come back to it on another day and do a video around it so really quickly right now i'm standing in front of bob peterson's bentley turbo r uh one of the things that's unique about this is that it's hot rod red it's got that vanity plate hot rod on it and this was his one of his daily drivers um so this car is really special to us the exterior red on the color of the museum is also hot rod red hot rod is our you know origins bob peterson founded hot rod magazine in 1948 without that we wouldn't have car culture like it is today so a huge thank you to bob peterson um and this car is super special across from it is a car that's much smaller but also equally important is the 1968 honda n600 and that just so happens to be serial number zero zero one and so we're very fortunate to have the first honda imported into the united states uh hiding down here in the vault for people to enjoy and this center row is is kind of themed in three different areas so the center is presidential and diplomatic cars the right side my right side is all hollywood cars and the left side is european so we're going to start right here with the lincoln zephyr this was fdr's lincoln zephyr it is the first armor-plated presidential vehicle that was commissioned from the factory you can see it's got seven layers of laminated glass here the car weighs just about 8 000 pounds you know it's been retrofitted to have these steps for secret service to hop on grab onto the bar and just ride along you'll see that kind of theme of armor-plating interpretations and protection interpretations as we go down this aisle fdr's car is across from one of the biggest crown jewels in the collection which is our 1925 34 round door rolls royce we call it the round door it's a phantom one and it's been modified heavily so it was originally delivered to india the car was shipped to belgium to the coach builders jacquire to re-body it in this amazing 20-foot long design the car had been painted in a lot of different configurations it was painted white at one point and lived in a japanese car dealership it was painted again with six pounds of gold flake and toured around the u.s by an entrepreneur named max obi and then that beautiful picture on the wall shows bob peterson and margie restoring this car back to what they believed was its original condition which is the black lacquer paint and the oxblood red interior it is a perfect example of a car that is really just meant to be appreciated and a car that you probably don't want to drive but you want to arrive in being based on a phantom one it's got about a hundred horsepower on a good day and weighs over 6 000 pounds so again a car that you probably don't want to drive but is absolutely spectacular to look at and one of the things i should definitely mention you probably saw it on the picture is that the vault was recently renovated two years ago through the partnership with hagerty so hagerty is our partner in the vault the vault is presented by them and without them we wouldn't have the preservation standards that we have today in the vault we added all led lighting we added air locks a much stricter hvac system down here because this building used to be a department store so this is just general parking underground parking of department store but now it's at a level that we can you know properly maintain the dust and the temperature for all the objects we have in our collection so a big thank you to hagerty uh behind fdr's car is another presidential vehicle this was eisenhower's chrysler parade feyton this car was used by eisenhower and then later used again by the astronauts when they came back the car is a car we still use today on parades the car was you know over engineered to run cool so it's a perfect car for us because older cars don't typically like the california sun especially when they're sitting still or going slow like they do in a parade across from eisenhower's we go into more movie cars so you've got the uh plymouth fury christine for those of you who like horror films you'll definitely recognize that car next to it is the thelma and louise thunderbird next to the thunderbird you've got herbie the love bug next to herbie you've got the too fast too furious honda s2000 driven by tsuki and next to that you've got mach 5 speed racer so again all of these were screen used cars um we're going to continue them we're kind of jumping back and forth and we're jumping back and forth because there are so many cars down here and one of the another important uh presidential vehicles is the um 500 sel that was owned by president marcus of the philippines and this car really is like a james bond car it's armor-plated it's got airplane landing lights on the back so you could blind whoever was coming at you you know from behind and then it also has smoke screen and oil slick so that you could you know again continue to get away as they slipped off the road next to president marcus's car we've got two important cars as well all the cars down here important but two very important cars you have our 1947 chase italia and the chase italia was a pinafarina design uh it was also a car that was featured in moma's exhibition of the most beautifully designed cars of that era this car is probably one of the best examples of a chase italia in north america and it just so happens to be this gorgeous kind of maroon color with a maroon interior it's sitting right next to our 1955 porsche continental and the continental was a car that was created by porsche for the american market very rare um you know you don't see these these were kind of americanized they wore white wall tires they had more padding on the interior a little bit more roomy ours is this beautiful gray color with a blue top so i'm not sure the lighting down here gives it the justice it deserves but two spectacular cars um on the opposite side you've got more diplomatic cars you've got the hung chi which was the chinese diplomatic car and the chaica which was a russian diplomatic car on the far side you've got more hollywood cars you've got the stutz italia that was owned by evil knievel and wayne newton you've got the howard hughes chrysler camera car um howard hughes purchased the company rko and rko had these chrysler camera cars in their fleet more much more hollywood cars you've got the little miss sunshine t2 transporter uh vw bus next to that you've got the dye another day jaguar xks xkr the magnum pi ferrari 308 and the austin power shag mobile all of these cars again screen used cars so the magnum pi car has lower seats because tom selleck was a very tall gentleman and the vw bug fun fact was they were supposed to have the convertible version of that car but it hadn't come out the convertible bug was still new so they just chopped the top off of a standard box so this was technically the first production convertible vw bug going down the row um we've got the chevy from two jakes with jack nicholson a little george bearish tribute corner here with his mustang from marriage on the rocks with frank sinatra the texas scraper that was a gag gift from bob hope to john wayne on his birthday grease lightning which was used for the theatrical version of marketing purposes across from these you've got kind of a good and evil combination you've got pope john paul ii popemobile directly next to the 600 land delay owned by saddam hussein and there's an interesting story behind the the 600 in that um bob peterson wanted a 600 land delay for his collection and um the team found him one but didn't know who the true owner was until some research was done so this car was purchased without knowing that it's its ownership uh was to saddam hussein so the car was stabilized and in the trunk was used water bottles documents sand uh that are all now part of essentially our object archive so a very interesting story you know the land delay was uh kind of the most luxurious car that royalty and celebrities bought and we have the 600 not the long wheelbase that was owned by jack nicholson from the witches of eastwick continuing hollywood cars we've got the chrysler imperial black beauty which was from the original green hornet and in the back we've got the cato doll right next to black beauty is clark gables 1941 cadillac and next to that is jane mansfield's 57 lincoln premiere and as we kind of go down this aisle we're going to do again a big horseshoe you can see a lot of other cars down here so again we're not going to cover everything but there are some really great mentions so we've got one of the best collections of hot rods i think we did we certainly have the largest collection of amber cars we have over 12 amber cars in the collection but the back row here features a lot of deuces so it features a lot of 32 fords a couple notable ones are the yellow 32 which has a blown chevy motor in it is the van halen hot for teacher car uh you've got the doyle gamble 32 ford and the mcgee roadster owned by bruce meyer meyer the mcgee roadster is the kind of first official hot rod it was the cover car on the 1948 hot rod magazine which was the first issue of hot rod and the car in front of all these uh was actually just recently donated and it's a bel air a gasser that michael hammer one of our board members and donors uh generously donated to us so you've got a little bit of everything down here and we'll continue a hot rod theme in a motorsports theme as we go down our next aisle you'll see some engines we've got a cool engine display featuring indie engines duesenberg engines just miscellaneous examples of engines that have kind of innovated through time you've got john force's funny car right here right next to an alpine a110 group 4 rally car one of the fun things as well is you have two of the hanson brother cobras the hanson brothers built these concepts for the peterson motorama and what a lot of people don't know about the petersons was the peterson created the motorama auto show which was at the pan pacific park not too far away from the peterson here um and this year is actually the 70th anniversary of the peterson motorama so these cars are really special especially on this anniversary year across from them you've got two other show cars you've got the donut media hi-lo cars for those of you who watch youtube you'll know these cars they were done by the donut media team and essentially it was two examples of project cars being modified at drastically different budgets so you can see the difference between a high budget and a low budget car as we go down this line you'll see some of the amber winners we were talking about earlier we've got the george barris xr6 which was the 1963 amber winner you've got alien you've got the kneecamp roadster the kneecamp roadster was actually the first amber winner it won the 1949 show in berkeley um behind these cars you've got steve mcqueen's 53 hudson wasp that's original unrestored it's got a great patina on it in that kind of aqua color um the wall cars you'll see with the numbers behind them you've got some chip foose cars or chip foose designed cars i should say and a boyd coddington car on the end um you've got double o 32 which was an extremely famous chip foose car and sniper sniper is uh i believe and i can get corrected in the comments but the first custom car to use mercedes headlights it also used lexing glass and a viper v10 you've got candy root beer you've got the two ernie ernesto cars orange twist and golden star and those are kind of flanked by the top custom so you've got the hirahata mercury which is considered the pinnacle of custom cars next to billy gibbons cadzilla those are in great company with some amazing low riders you've got gypsy rose right there in the middle gypsy rose was built by jesse valadez el rey which is the red car at the end was built by jesse's sun and slam paula on the end and you know again all of these are probably the most important custom cars uh that are in our current history um across from them you've got some beautiful uh custom coach work cars so you've got two italian bodied american cars you have the plymouth bodied gea explorer and you have rita hayworth series 62 cadillac that was given to her by ali khan this ghia bodied cadillac is one of two it is believed that ali khan gave this to rita hayworth as a parting gift when they we're no longer together he wanted to build a car that was as beautiful as she was um and i think it's one of the most beautiful cars we have in our collection it's this gorgeous merlot color and the line of the car just carries through with the chrome fins and the chrome detailing so again all this all these cars you know such great diversity you know you've got an extremely elegant car sitting next to a v16 hot rod and you know there's probably no other place in the world where you'll see this kind of spectrum and diversity uh in car collections uh over here you've got the 24 karat gold delorean so this car is real 24 karat gold when american express launched their gold card as one of their marketing campaigns they put this 24 karat gold card in their christmas catalog it was 85 000 uh they were intending to build 14 they never actually built all 14. i think they built only a handful like less than half a dozen uh this one was purchased to put in a texas bank and never driven so the odometer reads less than 15 miles on it and it's a car that we joke about because it really does fluctuate with the the value of gold deloreans wore a stainless steel body so that allowed them to be anodized so that the golds could stick to and plates next to the gold delorean there's a gold mustang uh so that's the 66 uh gold anniversary mustang when uh mustang originally launched uh with their car the 64.5 65. uh their first year production they were thinking they would do six figures they ended up doing a million cars in production uh so to celebrate that they made 50 of these um gold anniversary editions this is one of them you've got the big block dodge mopar uh muscle car right next to it the car is an auto so it's not super special but you know we don't actually have a lot of mopar muscle cars in the collection for those of you who watch netflix car shows you'll recognize the exner this was generously donated to us from the the team car masters after they produced the show and the plymouth exner was a design concept uh that was done and you know really embodied how radical uh vehicle design was taken in the in the 60s you can see this huge wing on the back uh the underpinnings are you know a plymouth valiant um but still such an amazing design study and we're fortunate to have a reproduction of the car because there was only one so we've essentially got the mirror to it across from that uh you know most people start their car journey with hot wheels and this car has an amazing tie to hot wheels this was harry bradley's car so harry bradley was the one of the first designers for hot wheels uh this car was a rear-engined el camino called blind faith and it's got a really good story it's a story that we haven't validated but it's a fun story anyway so i'll tell you um one day harry was leaving a meeting at mattel and one of the gentlemen who was in a meeting with him looked at this car which was his car and said man you've got some really hot wheels on that car and uh that is an unverified story but if it is true this car you can thank for the great brand that has been created out of it um in front of that you've got another tremendous innovation you've got our 1948 tucker this is tucker number 30. this is a very special tucker as well because it was owned by preston tucker and his family the tucker was the pinnacle of safety and innovation in its era it was powered by a helicopter engine that was mounted in the rear and you know helicopter engines are air-cooled he created a water cooling system so that the engine would work uh and again helicopter engine think super amounts of torque he had the passenger crash compartment so if you were going to have you know a low impact crash there was a padded compartment for the passenger to roll into it was famous because of its structural rigidity the doors wrapped up into the top of the frame so on impact you would essentially have a crumple zone the center headlight or the cyclops headlight would actually track with the steering wheel as you turned it and all of these things are features you'd imagine on modern cars preston tucker dreamed up ideas like run flat tires seat belts and cars and this is in 1948 you know pretty much 30 years before all these safety things were actually implemented you know the center tracking light that turned with you is a feature that's on modern cars today so you can really thank uh you know preston tucker for all those safety features on the other side you've got a 53 nash heli coupe next to that is a 57 linking continental i apologize a 57 continental so that's actually a very interesting point to point out lincoln did not have it branded as a continent i should say ford continental was a standalone brand in 56 and 57 and this is one of those cars this one happened to be owned by elizabeth taylor's third husband and was just meticulously restored so you can see it's just an absolute beautiful example of a continental next to that is another continental this was henry ford ii prototype continental uh and this work uh this car has had work done to it to to kind of customize it uh if you look down the line of the fender you see that the fender line actually carries into the door of the car which was not typical for continentals that fender line stopped right at the door so henry ford actually you know personalized this to his own tastes so we're going to go into the next section of the vault i just got to turn on the lights for you so give me one moment so this is kind of our sports and supercar section right in front of you is three mso mclarens these are all modern mclarens mso is mclaren special operations and the first car in the lineup is the p1 hyper car the p1 used a or uses a hybrid powertrain producing over 800 horsepower this car was extremely capable went up against the la ferrari porsche 918 and this one with all the others in this row are raw carbon so that's one of the benefits of doing an mso car is that mclaren will actually match the paneling and the weave of the carbon fiber so that it's one continuous pattern which is beautiful to look at next to it is a 688 custom and finally a senna on the end which is the newest one so a beautiful row of of you know raw carbon maclare hype mclaren hyper cars across from them uh we've got a really interesting sculpture of an audi r8 it is a real howdy r8 um and this ties into the exhibit we actually just covered upstairs so this is a part of our hollywood dream machines exhibit it's a audi r8 v10 it's the last year of the r8 to v10 and it's in this kind of exploding format so you can really see uh that fabulous v10 engine and the reason why it's part of the hollywood exhibit is because this particular one in this configuration was actually tony stark's car from uh iron man 2. so uh very very cool example audi just generously donated this car to us so now this sculpture is part of our collection and it's something that we'll cherish for for a very very very long time across from that you've got a couple of red beauties you've got a 550 barcata you know the 550 was uh ferrari's um gt car and uh just a great you know open top vehicle you know barketta uh was was really a car that was not meant to have a top so you know you're looking at an open open top car and it sits right next to its it's you know grandfather and probably the most valuable car in uh the vault and even in the museum this is the 1947 ferrari 125s the 125s is considered the first ferrari or the first ferrari to wear a prancing horse badge this car has been re-bodied it was raced initially it features the smallest displacement v12 engine at just one and a half liters um and and this is a really amazing car for us to be able to share with the public i don't think uh most people are able to get this close to a car that has this much historical significance and that's again one of the coolest things about the vault but you know a lot of pedigree stems from this car and you know ripples through the other ferraris that we have down here in the collection uh sitting next to the ferrari we've got a 1992 dodge viper this was one of the first 10 vipers off the assembly line so a very early production one across from the the viper we've got the xl sport volkswagen and this is probably a car that you've never seen the xl sport was actually derived from the one leader concept that pick porsche challenged the volkswagen designers to come up with and the one leader project was how could you go a hundred miles on one liter of petrol or gasoline and in order to do that the one liter concept was pretty much a like a lozenge shape it was a very long narrow car for aerodynamics it used a motorcycle or ducati engine because motorcycle engines are highly efficient and it was able to achieve that that big milestone and that one liter project turned into and developed into the xl sport which was a sports car extremely lightweight you can look at the cabin the aerodynamics of the car extremely low drag coefficient because it narrows and the passenger and the driver actually sit offset which is very similar to one of the first porsches the type 64. and it still uh is powered by a ducati engine so a car that we've you know really never seen in the states up until now and just an amazing piece of uh engineering prowess across from that uh you've got another 550 barcata you've got a porsche 928 which a lot of people will know from the movie risky business this isn't the risky business car this is just a standard 928 928's 924s 944s were all the transactional porsches that led into the modern cars today like the panamera and the cayenne the macan right next to it you've got a clay mazda rx-7 this rx-7 was debuted at the la auto show um a great example for us to just kind of highlight how cars begin their lives you know cars don't just start off as cars you know they start off as you know scale models and they go into these full clays so that you can see how the light you know reflects off of them and how they just are scaled appropriately upstairs when we covered the ferrari barketta in our collection uh you can see a lot of those characteristics here's that egg crate grill and this 55 thunderbird the little checkered flags on the emblem again very similar to the the characteristics of our barchetta you've got the bosley interstate the bosley brothers were the american coach builders there's a great book that actually is called american coach building if you want to read about the bosleys the mark 1 and the mark ii have both been displayed here at the peterson next to that you've got the 1959 corvette that was bodied by scaglietti this car was one of three it was a car that was campaigned by carol shelby but not successfully for those of you who knows you know skaglady was used as ferrari's coach builder and unfortunately uh the story goes that enzo said to their coach builder if you would like to build the cars for the americans then you lose our contract and so this whole project was scrapped unfortunately i like to compare this car and say you know it looks very much like a ferrari tour to france and if the project wasn't scrapped what your generation ii corvette would really look like today very much like a ferrari on the end you've got the 1937 ss 100 and the ss 100 uh was actually owned by mel tormey but one of the things that a lot of people don't know about ss is that ss became jaguar jaguar was ss's most successful model and they didn't want the war connotation with their brand so they switched from ss which stood for standard swallow to jaguar and the 100 stood for the top speed of the car in the middle row you've got the two old yellers mark 3 and mark 9. mark 3 wears this one which is a slightly lighter color and mark 9 was that darker shade of yellow but these were built by max bulchowski they were called old yellers because they were kind of a hodgepodge of a lot of different car parts they used buick nail head engines they used jaguar suspension and brake parts to use chevy components the cars were just put together but surprisingly max was able to make extremely capable cars and these cars were campaigned and successfully won and they were so successful that they actually had a feature film focus in viva las vegas with elvis presley so if you watch that film you'll see max's shop in that film on this side you've got some ferrari cars some unique ferrari cars you've got the f-12 tdf and that's the modern tour of the france you've got the 458 art car that was created at art basel and then you've got the 599 gto again kind of all the big front engine special build ferrari cars over on this side you've got a very early jaguar e-type the jaguar e-type was considered and is considered one of the most beautiful cars ever built this one is a really rare variant in that it has the tri windshield so it's got three windshield wipers and the outside latch one of the interesting things about the e-type is actually this is the anniversary coming up of the e-type uh the first e-type was 1961 and so uh next year in 2021 we will be coming up on the 60th anniversary of the e-type you've got a 56 corvette and then a 427 cobra reproduction again two cars not a lot about them but they do sit next to a very special porsche this is a 1964 porsche 901 and the 901 is unique in that this was supposed to be the 911. for those of you who don't know the story peugeot owned the trademark for any designation number that had a zero separating it and the way that porsche created their model numbers were by project codes so uh 901 was the 901st project that porsha had ever endeavored to build but unfortunately because puja owned that trademark they went from 901 to 911 and in that trademark issue they actually produced 82 cars that were never intended for personal use and we are extremely lucky to have one of those vehicles in the collection next to the porsche we've got our 1929 dupont model g speedster um the dupont was very similar to the the targafloyo in that it was an immensely torquey and powerful car that was essentially made to run all day long at 100 miles an hour and in 1929 100 miles an hour was a very fast speed duponts were commissioned to go to le mans this one wears the lalique crystal on the hood uh if you were wealthy at the time a la leaked crystal would just kind of flash up your car a little bit uh you had to have a custom radiator grille created to hold the uh the eagle or whatever animal leak had produced for you and then it's got the the famous wool light headlights that you'll see on a couple of the cars next to it is our scimitar and the scimitar uh we're actually very happy to have back this car has been in restoration for about seven years um this car is one of three it's the first american built electric folding hard top car in the world the body features this brushed aluminum highlights and if you want to find out more about this car let us know this is a story that we would love to tell the scimitar brand goes way back and actually has ties to recaro so again let us know in the chat or the comments if you want to hear the story of this scimitar going over to more uh you know really ford versus ferrari here you've got a f-12 and you've got a 2005 ford gt and again i started this video off by saying it's giving tuesday it is giving tuesday so again you can donate by clicking the link below uh you can join membership which has its benefits even though we are not open or you can potentially win this ford gt so we've partnered with omaze and uh they have uh generously got this car and are auctioning it off essentially um for us so this car if you click the link below that says omaze gt you can contribute and potentially win this spectacular ford gt it's a 2005 with about 1500 miles on it so an extremely good example but that's just another way for you to contribute during this giving tuesday so we're going to go around the corner here and for those of you who are wondering when i'm going to stop this because we've been going for quite some time now we are almost done so this is our final row of cars before we exit the vault uh you've got a little row of french cars from the 30s you've got our 1939 type 57 bugatti bodied by von ruan this bugatti was owned by the shah or the prince of persia it was given to him by the french government on his wedding day this car has been restored and it's got a lot of amazing history behind it it's got a couple of fun features uh it's got the diplomatic windshield so you could actually roll the windshield down so as you were parading through town your photo would not be obstructed it's got these beautiful teardrop fenders and running boards that almost look like a fagoni falashi body it's got bugatti's eight cylinder engine which is just superb and this car uh was given again as a wedding gift in comparison to the americans who gave the shaw a airstream and the british who gave him a uh a tea set so if you're trying to give somebody a good present this is how you give them a good present and it's a car that is is definitely a gem of the collection next to it you've got a de la hay it's a 1938 delahaye 135m competition this one is a fagonia philosophy body we had this one at pebble beach a few years ago as well it's got this beautiful red pinstripe on it you know de la hays were kind of the step down from bugatti's it was delage delahaye bugatti we have them in that order in 1936 this car was shown in paris at the motor show but again you look at these cars and these all of these cars were performance cars um you know these cars were extremely low to the ground they were high performance engines you know if you wanted to win in a grand prix you would buy a delahaye or a bugatti because they were just extremely capable and reliable race cars and the road going variants of them were just spectacular to look at going next to it the delage d8 again delage has a little bit more aggressive lines not so sculpturesque you know the it wore its exhaust manifold on the outside which really highlighted that art deco design um but you know a beautiful trio of beautiful french cars next to the delage is a type 57 adalante this one is a long tail cabriolet which i think is the only one in existence again i can be corrected in the comments if i'm wrong it's again sporting a red and black paint job and again that perfect french curve on the fender that you'll see in you know bugattis de la hayes tellages that we love across from that you've got a 53 chapron body dehay and you know when you think about all these cars it really kind of brings you back to pebble beach i mean pebble beach is the pinnacle of motoring a dela hay like this body by chapron is how you know that pebble beach concord elegance started pebble beach started with new cars and it wasn't just the cars that were judged it was your attire it was the dog you brought with you so if you brought this to pebble beach in the 50s you know you'd have to bring a dalmatian so that you'd match and you know be able to compete but again all these cars are just you know the french um you know coach builders really knew how to you know pull the line of a car out and uh they did such a beautiful job we can skip this row here you've got a nash afford uh of lausanne again kind of just you know more you know early 20s automobiles early 30s we've got a 1935 mercedes 290c that is original unrestored believe it or not this car actually drove in under its own power it's a car that you know shows as vehicles are exposed to the elements uh you know how they patina the mercer you know being over a hundred years old um you know was meticulously maintained and this one is more of what they consider a barn find across from the mercedes uh we've got a harley earl design lasalle uh harley earl for those of you who know corvettes designed the first corvette um and he wanted to make the lasalle which was an american car look you know very art deco and it almost has a you know a french vibe to it uh next to that is our 1931 paris arrow model 43 uh this particular car was actually owned uh by the gentleman who was depicted in the movie uh oh brother where art thou by george clooney so george clooney's character at the end um the real person owned this pierce arrow so this is a very special piercero next to that is our packard super 8 which was owned by juan peron president argentina next to our packard is our 1927 rolls-royce town car that was owned by fred astaire this town car was bodied by hooper um has some beautiful coach work to it you probably can't see it in this light but it's this beautiful two-tone green and black with pinstriping you can see little embellishments along the exterior of the car which are these little a's for a stair fred astaire you can't have a car especially a rolls royce without little flower pots inside this car typically sports a real trunk but unfortunately uh it's not on the car at the moment uh but it is a louis vuitton custom trunk that sits on the back and it is a real trunk you know the the term trunk came from having a you know a separate trunk uh strapped down to the back of your vehicle and this as a town car is a car that you would arrive in so fred astaire would actually ship this around the world to arrive at his movie premieres next to fred astaire's rolls is our l29 cord and we put the cord next to our pink ruxton here because both of them have front-wheel drive and it's a very good story of competition so auburn duesenberg and cord were the real powerhouse if you wanted a luxury vehicle that was american built ruxton was a relatively unknown brand only i think 14 ruxins were built in 1929 but ruxton was actually first to sport front-wheel drive which was really the innovative feature of the cord unfortunately uh they didn't have the same resources as cord and you know parish but all of them were these kind of crazy pastel colors and back in 2014 pebble beach did a bruxton class and it was amazing to see all these cars lined up because you really never see this palette of color on a car especially a modern car next to the uh the ruxton we've got another packard we've got our 27 packard we've got our dual cal phaeton and then in front of those two you've got the kiss plymouth prowler with the uh towable trailer for your uh you know speakers and amp and everything else that you would need if you were kiss so a lot of other cool things in front of the kiss prowler you've got a 32 ford this one just so happens to be tony stark's 32 ford so in iron man when he's working on his hot rod and jarvis is giving him his compression this is the car he's working on and so it's again a great movie car great hot rod a great car to have here in the vault behind that you've got some you've got a chevrolet and two model t's you know we have an open top model t and we've got a closed top model t um the model t has a famous saying behind it you can only have them black um that's not the the case early model t's you could actually have painted in a variety of colors it wasn't until they moved to the assembly line that they had the the black paint a lot of people say they painted them black and black was the only option because black paint emulsifies the fastest it tries the fastest so again quicker on an assembly line next to that you've got the la petite special or the princess which was an la built car they only made one of them an unsuccessful endeavor by an adventurous entrepreneur next to that you've got a 19 early 19 teens rolls royce 40 50. this one is missing a headlight it's out in being worked on right now um but this is a great example of you know one of rolls royce first cars uh the 40-50 was immensely successful for rolls-royce and remember you know rolls-royce was not the coach builder so uh in this era you know roles would give you an engine and a chassis and you would have your coach builder of choice build the body for you so this one has a pretty unique you know open open top body um as we go down this row we're kind of you know wrapping up the tour we've got a regal underslung which is very similar to the mercer and that you know the regal was a performance car of its day in the teens it's called the underslung because again it's set much lower than cars of its day for performance uh you've got the peugeot beibei um the demote and then it finishes up with these two vehicles which is our 1903 cadillac sitting next to the 1904 studebaker carriage and we like to start here we kind of started backwards on our tour mostly because it really shows the transition to the automobile took some time and the automobile was adapted really in the teens it took 10 15 years for people to say i want to give up my horse and carriage and trade them in for something that is you know internal combustion um and motorized and so cadillac was making cars very early on and studebaker was being a little bit more cautious and continued to make you know hoarse carriages and it was until much later on that they adapted and started producing vehicles so that's where this tour ends thank you so much for spending time with us on giving tuesday and joining us for this full museum tour it is the first time we've done this if you haven't already and you can click that button to support the peterson below your support is very much needed we have been closed since march and a huge thank you again for your time and we hope forward to seeing you on another tour

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Published: Wed Dec 02 2020