Museum Co-Chair Bruce Meyer (right) and project architect A. Eugene Kohn. The Petersen Automotive Museum announced at the Pebble Beach...
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Chevrolet Corvette “America’s Sports Car,” the Petersen Automotive Museum is hosting two days...
For its fourteenth year of celebrating Legends of Motorsport, the Petersen Automotive Museum, along with the Checkered Flag 200 Group, will present a “Tribute to George Follmer” program to be held at the Petersen Museum in Los Angeles on Thursday, November 8, 2012 beginning with cocktails at 6:00 p.m. The...
Although the Petersen Automotive Museum remains closed to the public due to COVID-19, the museum will continue its eight-year tradition...
One year after its grand re-opening, the Petersen Museum in Los Angeles will unveil the most comprehensive retrospective on the...
One year after its grand re-opening, the Petersen Museum in Los Angeles will unveil the most comprehensive retrospective on the Bugatti family ever seen, showcasing the art, sculpture, furniture and automobiles of the family that changed automotive design, engineering and racing during the art deco period. “Art of Bugatti” will open...
The newly released documentary film chronicling Bruce McLaren’s life, McLaren, will have its Los Angeles premiere on Saturday, June 24,...
The Petersen Automotive Museum has announced a new exhibit that explores the world of hypercars, the fastest and most exclusive...
A special display of more than a dozen famously red Ferraris will open at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles on April 29 as the museum presents “Seeing Red: 70 Years of Ferrari.” The Prancing Horse exhibit will run through April of 2018. Included among the fabled Italian cars...
“Staying current” in the automobile industry is no easy task, especially when your first responsibility is to preserve the past....
The Bugatti name is widely known in the automotive world for the selection of exquisite roadcars and racecars produced by...
Charles Gordon-Lennox, the Duke of Richmond, Lennox, Aubigny and Gordon — previously known as Lord March — will be honored at the Petersen Automotive Museum’s 23rd annual gala on October 14. The special event will be emceed by Late Late Show host James Corden and sponsored by Porsche. In bestowing...
The Petersen Automotive Museum (above, David Zaitz photo) is the recipient of the 2016 International Historic Motoring Award for Museum...
The Petersen Automotive Museum will host Bruce Meyer’s ALL- AMERICAN CRUISE-IN with special programming celebrating Carroll Shelby and “Ford v...
The Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles is going through a metamorphosis. The Museum Foundation, headed by chairman Steven E. Young, has recently received a gift from the foundation of founder Robert E. Petersen that has been valued at a stratospheric $100 million. Included are the 300,000 sq. ft. building...
The battle that everyone expected at Petit Le Mans lived up to its billing. Audi remained unbeaten at Road Atlanta...
The Petersen Automotive Museum has freshly announced a two-part exhibit series that will be curated in partnership with the Porsche-themed event...
The Hill Family and L.A.’s Petersen Automotive Museum marked the 50th Anniversary of Phil Hill’s 1961 World Championship for Ferrari at the museum last November with a tribute to America’s first F1 titlist during which various contemporaries shared memories of and stories about him. The evening was highlighted by a...
For its thirteenth annual fall celebration of the Legends of Motorsport, The Petersen Automotive Museum, along with The Phil Hill...
This year’s second annual Philadelphia Concours d’Elegance has been scheduled for the Saturday of Fathers Day weekend, June 16, from...
A motorsport photographer has raised £7,000 for charity in the last 18 months, by donating the profits from the sale of his books, which feature much of the action from two historic motor racing series run by Motor Racing Legends. Photographer John Retter is a stalwart supporter of Teenage Cancer...
The National Media Museum in Bradford, UK, is currently in the process of raising a photographic treasure. The project, which...
The Pikes Peak International Hill Climb is the second oldest motor sports race in America and a long-standing tradition in...
In 2022, the Pininfarina Battista set a series of performance world records at its test base in Nardò, Italy. Battista’s unique launch control technology contributes to Formula 1 car-beating acceleration, with 0-60 mph achieved in 1.79s, 0-100km/h completed in 1.86s, 0-120 mph executed in 4.49s and 0-200 km/h obliterated in...
The romantic notion of vintage cars racing on a woodsy road, bordered by cobblestone walls, bridges, hay bales and snow...
The Porsche Museum will again showcase racing vehicles from the marque’s successful history at classic car events around the globe....
Porsche AG’s museum is set for an eventful year in 2016 on the world’s roads and at classic car events around the globe. The ‘Rolling Museum’ was out and about beyond the museum walls with over 280 vehicle appearances in 2015 alone. This year the historic cars will be taking...
By Andrew Newton Featured in this classified ad from May 1972 issue of Road & Track is a fine example of...
The next installment in Sports Car Digest’s therapeutic look back at classified advertisements features two rare Porsche racing cars offered...
HPI survey reveals Porsche 911 as ultimate 80s car With the hit BBC TV series Ashes to Ashes drawing to a close this week, the Porsche 911 took almost a third of all votes 29%, just pipping the Audi Quattro with 28%, to be crowned the decade’s most desirable car,...
