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Heaven in the city of angels: what the Petersen Museum reveals


A pair of Eagle IMSA GTP sports racers sit wing to wing, surrounded by Formula 1 machinery, while on the other side Saddam Hussein’s Mercedes-Benz 600 ‘Grosser’ nudges up to the De Tomaso Pantera that Elvis Presley shot in a rage about its unreliability.

I spend what feels like five minutes but in reality is closer to an hour and a half wandering around this exceptionally special place, slack-jawed in amazement at the metal on show.

It all rotates, too: exhibitions change often, with cars from the basement being placed on display upstairs and vice versa.

If you ever get the chance to visit, you must. Few car museums on the planet have a collection this fantastic and fewer still display what they have this well.

Our favourite exhibits

V12 Concept trio

One for the PlayStation generation, this. It’s easy to forget that each of the American ‘big three’ made a V12 hypercar concept in the late 1990s or early 2000s, and they’re still exceptionally cool.

The Cadillac Cien could only look more like a fighter jet if it had wings, the Chrysler ME 412 wouldn’t look out of place if launched today and the Ford GT90 is simply so bonkers that you can’t help staring at it.



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