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The Petersen Museum in Los Angeles will open a brand-new display of vintage scooters next Saturday, proving that you don’t need a big machine to make a big splash. It will be running concurrently with the supercar collection at the Petersen that opened in March; however, the scooter exhibit is slated to remain until on […]
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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 […]
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Tagged Hemmings Daily, museums and collections, Petersen Automotive Museum
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History tells us that the Lamborghini Miura was the first exotic to be labeled a “supercar.” This hyperbole was fitting, considering its ground-breaking transverse mid-mounted V-12 engine and breathtaking Marcello Gandini-penned styling. Of course, the term has been applied to many exotics since the mid-1960s, even retroactively, to describe those ultra-expensive, limited-production sports cars with […]
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