No, that’s not a typo. We checked, and the number is real: The Petersen Automotive Museum Foundation announced Tuesday that the Museum Foundation has received a gift of approximately $100,000,000 from Margie Petersen and the Margie & Robert E. Petersen Foundation. According to the press release, This donation is comprised of a substantial unrestricted financial […]
Announcing your grand opening date more than a year in advance may not be typical for most automotive museums, but then again, the LeMay – America’s Car Museum is no typical automotive museum. The gargantuan LeMay, based on the 3,500-car collection of the late Harold LeMay, will have its grand opening on May 19, 2012. […]
We hear plenty of fretting nowadays about overzealous zoning committees, out-of-sight scrap prices, indifferent inheritors and other causes for the disappearance of project car fodder, but John G. Tennyson’s article in SIA #94, August 1986, taking a look at one man’s outdoor collection of old cars, mostly Studebakers, shows us that these are not new […]