Porsches from the Petersen’s New ‘Vault’ Exhibit
Petersen Automotive Museum ‘Vault’ experience features largest guided automotive museum tour in America…and so many Porsches!
The Petersen Automotive Museum has unveiled a new vault experience as part its 10-year partnership with Hagerty. Entitled ‘The World Tour Vault presented by Hagerty,’ the revamped excursion through the museum’s underground treasury in Los Angeles, California will offer guests a chance to choose the length of their experience, with longer tours representing a longer educational opportunity and a more exclusive view of the rarest vehicles from around the world.
Housing some of the finest sports cars, collector cars, Hollywood movie cars, racecars, and motorcycles ever shown to the public, the Petersen will allow visitors to experience global car culture with more than 250 iconic vehicles from the past 120 years grouped by country, including rarely-seen favorites.
“As the world’s preeminent automotive museum, we constantly strive to educate our guests about automotive history, technology and design and how it has impacted both local and global culture,” said Petersen Automotive Museum Executive Director Terry L. Karges. “The Vault presented by Hagerty will offer the pubic an opportunity to now select their tour experience and see compelling new content that has never been displayed before at the Petersen.”
Guests of the new vault will have an unprecedented experience to see rare, famous, and one-of-a-kind vehicles such as the two-time Le Mans-winning 1966 “Gulf” GT40, a 2018 Heritage Ford GT, a 1929 Bugatti Type 46, a 1936 Delahaye, Steve McQueen’s 1956 Jaguar XKSS, a 2015 Mclaren P1, a 1947 Cisitalia, and much more.
“Car fans are going to be blown away by the vault tour,” said McKeel Hagerty, CEO of Hagerty. “Most people haven’t had the opportunity to see a lot of these icons up close before, so we’re thrilled to give them that chance. Cars this special should be seen by everybody.”
Since its reopening in 2015, the Petersen has housed more than 120 years of automotive history in the vault, representing the only museum of its kind to offer a behind the scenes look of this size. The expanded tour will present more than 100 new cars and 40,000 square feet of additional display space, nearly tripling the size of the original vault. The docent-led tours will give visitors an even greater look at history’s most iconic Porsches, Ferraris, Bugattis, coach-built cars, hot rods, Hollywood cars, presidential cars, racecars, and art cars.
Rennlist was lucky enough to get a preview of the vault, and we were blown away by some of the coolest, historical, and most unique rides we’ve ever seen.
To learn more about ‘The Vault presented by Hagerty’ and the Petersen Automotive Museum, please visit the website.
Photos for Rennlist by David M. Ciminelli
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