Petersen Automotive Museum, in partnership with Coker Tier who will be the presenting sponsor of the showcase recently announced that...
Although the Petersen Automotive Museum remains closed to the public due to COVID-19, the museum will continue its eight-year tradition...
The Motorsports Hall of Fame of America will celebrate its 25th Annual Induction Ceremony on Wednesday, August 21, 2013 at the Fillmore Theater in Detroit. Inducted into the Hall that night will be racing industry legends Jack Chrisman, Harvey Firestone, Masten Gregory, Brad Lackey, Bud Moore, Robert E. Petersen and...
The Petersen Automotive Museum and Checkered Flag 200, the museum’s premier membership group, will present another gala tribute this November...
The Petersen Automotive Museum honored motorsports legend Dan Gurney with its 2016 Robert E. Petersen Lifetime Achievement Award — in...
The “Eagles Have Landed” exhibit honoring Dan Gurney at LA’s Petersen Automotive Museum opened last Friday night with a reception at the museum. A full house heard welcoming comments from the museum’s executive director Terry Karges before board member Charles Nearburg, in whose Family Gallery the Eagles are being displayed,...
Barrett-Jackson will host a nine-day celebration of the company’s 45th anniversary in Scottsdale, Arizona, from Jan. 23-31, 2016, at WestWorld...
Museum Co-Chair Bruce Meyer (right) and project architect A. Eugene Kohn. The Petersen Automotive Museum announced at the Pebble Beach...
The Peterson Museum in Los Angeles is filled with wonderful automotive treasures. The eye-catching post-war muscle cars, sports cars, exotic supercars and racecars are amongst the most popular with visitors. We are all fascinated with fast cars and the technology used to create them. One of the greatest performance cars...
Pete Lyons Partway through an evening of kind words, warm recollections and congratulations, the moderator came on the mic and...
Beginning February 3, the Petersen Museum in Los Angeles will present “The Porsche Effect,” a new exhibit of 50 of...
• Correction—In last month’s Villa d’Este Photo Gallery, the 1925 Rolls-Royce Phantom I “Round Door” was attributed to Rene Herzog, when in fact the car is owned by the Petersen Automotive Museum, in Los Angeles. • RM Auctions further expands its 2012 calendar with the addition of The Charlie Thomas...
The Petersen Automotive Museum has opened the second of two Luftgekühlt exhibits, Prototype Giants, which focuses on the history and legacy of...
The Petersen Automotive Museum has announced the opening of its first-ever exhibit dedicated solely to Formula 1. “Pole Position: The...
On November 14, Sunday, Britweek – the annual celebration of British culture and innovation in Los Angeles – will be holding their highly anticipated car rally. The event is co-hosted by Petersen Automotive Museum, Magnus Walker a celebrity car collector and artist, and the City of Beverly Hills. 75 of...
The Petersen Museum on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles is preparing to open a new exhibit honoring Dan Gurney called...
For readers in the Los Angeles area — or, conceivably, further afield — a couple of upcoming events at the...
A new exhibit at the Petersen Automotive Museum will appeal to both the automotive enthusiast as well as those who love avant-garde design. Aerodynamics: From Art to Science opened June 16, 2012, and will run through May 27, 2013 in the museum’s Gordon R. Howard Gallery. During more than a...
Art Chrisman, a drag racer who could do it all — design, build, prepare and drive record-breaking racecars — has...
As noted each of the last two weeks, The Peninsula Classics Best of the Best award, celebrating automotive design and...
In conjunction with its ongoing exhibit The Porsche Effect, L.A.’s Petersen Museum will commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Porsche 964’s debut at the 1988 Frankfurt Auto Show by hosting “Luft X Petersen – 30 years of the 964,” a VIP Reception on Friday, April 20, during the weekend of...
The Petersen Automotive Museum has announced an upcoming two-part exhibit series curated in partnership with renowned Porsche-themed event organizers Luftgekühlt....
Charles Gordon-Lennox, the Duke of Richmond, Lennox, Aubigny and Gordon — previously known as Lord March — will be honored...
Everyone in the automotive and publication worlds was sad to note the recent passing of Robert E. (Pete) Petersen at age 80 on March 23. He succumbed after a short battle with cancer. A veteran of WWII, he launched Hot Rod magazine in 1948. He became a familiar figure at...
The Bugatti name is widely known in the automotive world for the selection of exquisite roadcars and racecars produced by...
The newly released documentary film chronicling Bruce McLaren’s life, McLaren, will have its Los Angeles premiere on Saturday, June 24,...
Bruce Meyer, the quintessential “car guy,” was recently named Enthusiast of the Year by the Concours d’Elegance of America at St. John’s, in Michigan. The event’s board members are recognizing Meyer for his decades of automotive contribution, which include being a “founding father” of the Petersen Automotive Museum. He served...
• British racing legend, Formula One television analyst, 2009 Motorsports Hall of Fame inductee, businessman and all-around raconteur David Hobbs...
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Chevrolet Corvette “America’s Sports Car,” the Petersen Automotive Museum is hosting two days...
The Petersen Automotive Museum will present a new exhibit celebrating the 60th anniversary of the James Bond film franchise through a highly diverse selection of iconic screen-used vehicles. Opening September 25, 2021, in the Mullin Grand Salon gallery, Bond in Motion will be the largest official Bond vehicle display to...