Car lovers rejoice! Start your engines and head to The Petersen Automotive Museum on L.A.’s Miracle Mile. It is back open following a $90 million renovation that lasted 13 straight months. Everything is brand new from the inside to the outside. A special grand opening ceremony was held on Thursday, December 3rd just a few days after the 2015 Los Angeles Auto Show closed for the season. “We thought, you know what, we need to keep up,” said Leslie Kendall, a curator at the museum. “We need to do something different. We need to communicate our message in ways that we’ve not been doing for a while. Instead of gigantic dioramas, we’re kind of taking that car out the context. We’re putting cars in a place where they can be studied individually. They can take as deep of dive as they want into any particular topic. It’s how people learn today and that’s what we wanted to do.”
The third floor is known as “History”
1955 Chevrolet Biscayne XP-37
1913 Mercer Type 35-J Raceabout
It is considered the most significant sports car of the era.
It had a top speed of 60 mph and a price of $2,600.
AmericaJR.com’s Jason Rzucidlo
This 2016 Aston Martin DB10 was used in “Spectre”
2015 Jaguar C-X75 stunt car
It was also used in the filming of “Spectre” (2015)
1989 Batmobile based on the Chevy Impala
It was featured in “Batman” (1989) and “Batman Returns” (1992)
Cars in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre (1933).
The second floor is known as “industry”
A bird’s eye view of the second floor
More of the cars on the industry floor
Peeling back the Layers: 2016 Jaguar F-Type R AWD
A satellite campus of the Art Center College of Design
The 2012 Fisker Karma electric vehicle
It was designed by Henrik Fisker, an Art Center alumnus.
2020 MINI Cooper student volume study
Art Center students spent 1,000 hours on this concept.
The history of Maserti manufacturing
The Original Maserati factory in Bologna, Italy (1935)
2016 Maserati Quattroporte S Q4
Body shell
The finished product
2016 Maserati Quattroporte S Q4 V6
1967 Ford GT40 Mark III
It has a V8 engine producing 306 hp.
AmericaJR.com’s Jason Rzucidlo with the 2017 Ford GT
It was the standout of the 2015 North American Int’l Auto Show.
1915 Detroit Electric Model 61 brougham
It was produced from 1906 to 1939.
The Detroit Electric had a range of 80 miles.
Edison EV battery (1915) and General Electric EV rectifier (1914)
Lester EV charger (1965) and Mobilette EV battery (1960)
1914 Galt gas-electric hybrid
This Canadian hybrid featured a range of 70 miles.
