The Petersen Museum on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles is preparing to open a new exhibit honoring Dan Gurney called...
The Petersen Automotive Museum (above, David Zaitz photo) is the recipient of the 2016 International Historic Motoring Award for Museum...
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 Petersen Automotive Museum honored motorsports legend Dan Gurney with its 2016 Robert E. Petersen Lifetime Achievement Award — in...
The Bugatti name is widely known in the automotive world for the selection of exquisite roadcars and racecars produced by...
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...
As noted each of the last two weeks, The Peninsula Classics Best of the Best award, celebrating automotive design and...
• British racing legend, Formula One television analyst, 2009 Motorsports Hall of Fame inductee, businessman and all-around raconteur David Hobbs...
The Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles hosted the Brock Racing Enterprises (BRE) 50th Anniversary Reunion last Saturday. The legendary team, featuring principal Peter Brock and driver John Morton, took the SCCA C Production Championships in 1970-1971 and the 2.5 Trans-Am Championships in 1971-1972 with Datsuns. A large standing room...
For readers in the Los Angeles area — or, conceivably, further afield — a couple of upcoming events at the...
Following a 14-month total transformation that shrouded the exterior with ribbons of stainless steel and packed the interior with priceless...
Barrett-Jackson will host a nine-day celebration of the company’s 45th anniversary in Scottsdale, Arizona, from Jan. 23-31, 2016, at WestWorld of Scottsdale. Barrett-Jackson is filling its docket with more than 1,500 rare and collectible vehicles. Two exceptional collectibles crossing the block include a 1939 Mercedes-Benz 540K and Boyd Coddington’s “The...
Following a 14-month total transformation that shrouded the exterior with ribbons of stainless steel and packed the interior with priceless...
Executive Director, Petersen Automotive Museum VR: Can you tell me a little bit about how you first came to cars...
Art Chrisman, a drag racer who could do it all — design, build, prepare and drive record-breaking racecars — has been chosen as the 2015 recipient of the Robert E. Petersen Lifetime Achievement Award, presented at this week’s SEMA Show in Las Vegas. Following the end of World War II,...
The Petersen Automotive Museum has announced its grand reopening celebration will take place Saturday, December 5, 2015, at the museum...
Bruce Meyer, the quintessential “car guy,” was recently named Enthusiast of the Year by the Concours d’Elegance of America at...
The second annual Benedict Castle Concours D’Elegance was held in Riverside, Calif. on March 28. An eclectic mix of more than 300 cars were featured on the terraced lawns surrounding the historic castle including Pebble Beach-winning classics, Grand National-winning hot rods, prized low riders, perfectly restored and customized Japanese classics, Ferraris,...
A rare Cadillac, once owned by 1940s Silver Screen starlet Rita Hayworth, will be one of several iconic automobiles of...
• The second Bund Classic Concours d’Elegance will be held at the iconic Villa at No. 1 Waitanyuan from October...
Museum Co-Chair Bruce Meyer (right) and project architect A. Eugene Kohn. The Petersen Automotive Museum announced at the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance that it will celebrate its 20th anniversary in 2014 by commencing a complete exterior transformation and a dynamic redesign of the interior, resulting in a world-class museum that...
Photo: Peter Harholdt This summer, the Frist Center for the Visual Arts will present Sensuous Steel: Art Deco Automobiles, an...
Philanthropist Peter Mullin is founder of the Mullin Automotive Museum in Oxnard, California, as well as Chairman of the Board...
The Motorsports Hall of Fame of America will celebrate its 25th Annual Induction Ceremony on Wednesday, August 21, 2013 at...
The Petersen Automotive Museum has announced that Peter Mullin has been elected Chairman to its Board of Directors. Joining him...
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Chevrolet Corvette “America’s Sports Car,” the Petersen Automotive Museum is hosting two days of events and educational exhibits. On March 1-2, 2013, the Petersen will be filled with fabulous Corvette racecars, historic concept cars and rare production models, along with experts and icons...
Pete Lyons Partway through an evening of kind words, warm recollections and congratulations, the moderator came on the mic and...
• Paris’ famed Retromobile automobile exhibition has announced that its next event, February 6–10, 2013, will pay tribute to the...
The Petersen Automotive Museum Chairman of the Board Steven E. Young has announced that Terry L. Karges has been appointed Executive Director of the Museum. Karges has succeeded Buddy Pepp effective August 15, who is retiring following a successful two-year run as Executive Director where he made significant contributions to...
