Travel anywhere in the world, and you’ll probably run across a Jeep. And if you don’t, you’ll find a vehicle that has been influenced by the Jeep. The history of the brand is rich, and the worldwide following is enormous. And yet, somehow, there’s no proper museum for the World War II hero. It makes no sense.
Live in Los Angeles? Got a day off of school thanks to a bomb threat? LACMA and, more importantly, the Petersen Automotive Museum, are both free today for LA public school students.
Ninety percent of the human population, give or take, already regards the automobile as an appliance. At best. The Petersen Automotive Museum, newly emerged from the most radical of transformations, is the 10 percent showing the 90 percent why it isn’t.
The XB-70 Valkyrie is one of the most amazing machines that ever took flight. Not only was it absolutely huge, with its “six pack” of General Electric YJ93 turbojet engines, but its long forward fuselage, feathered trailing edge and folding wingtips gave it an almost swan-like signature appearance. Now, you can view…
After a week of RV living, I finally have made it to North Carolina, but I made one very important stop along the way: the Lane Motor Museum in Nashville, TN. I've been aware of the Lane for quite a while, but I don't think I was really prepared for how incredible their collection actually is. It's stunning, no joke.
With the troubling news of a sinkhole eating eight of the best cars in the National Corvette Museum, I think it's a good time to reflect on the best car museums out there.
If you ever chance to visit the Lane Motor Museum in Nashville, Tenn. – and you really should – one of the first things you'll notice is that whoever dreamt this place up thinks differently abut cars than most people you know. Wading through the rows of gleaming Tatras and Steyrs and Reliants and other cars the…
Tucked away in an obscure warehouse in Detroit sits the almost inaccessible Transportation Collection of the Detroit Historical Museum. Lacking facilities and money to display them, the museum keeps its classics entombed in protective bubbles. Here's a rare look inside.
There is an unofficial Datsun heritage museum in California. Which is unofficially fantastic. [Autoweek]
The Mercedes-Benz Classic Center is one of the finest restoration facilities in the world. Vanity Fair's Brett Berk recently stopped by to drive a vintage Gullwing, giving Jalopnik this exclusive behind-the-scenes peek. —Ed.
As part of an exhibit dubbed "Engines Exposed," The Henry Ford museum has opened the hoods and removed the engine covers on dozens of vehicles in its collection. Ever wondered what the inside of a Bonneville streamliner looks like?
This fall, the General Motor Heritage Collection will be shipping all three of Harley Earl's turbine-powered Firebird dream cars, first to Pebble Beach and then to Hershey, PA. The 'birds normally reside in Michigan, so if you live near CA or PA, now's your chance to see retro-futuristic turbine optimism in the flesh.
Commenter Danny Boy, who'll come back when summer's in the meadow, went and checked out the Steve McQueen exhibit going on at the Pete until April 9th and now we've got Sheryl Crow stuck in our heads again. Gah! Featured are McQueen's legendary XKSS, his Fuelie '57 Chevy convertible, his Porsche from Le Mans…
The noted, legendary and highly-influential founder of the So-Cal Speed Shop (resurrected by equally noted and highly-influential rod builder Pete Chapouris), Alex Xydias will be presenting a series of very early hot rod and drag racing flicks at the Wally Parks NHRA Motorsports Museum in Pomona, starting on February…
Opening tomorrow at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Fabulous Los Angeles, California is a redux of an exhibit they ran a few years back featuring significant cars of rock 'n' roll, including the Pantera Elvis shot full o' holes, a Nancy Sinatra movie Mustang and Snoop's golf cart from his Chrysler spot with Lido…
Art Astor may have made his bones peddling soft rock to the 909, but let's not hold that against him (too much, anyway), because he's sunk some cash into the Astor Classics Event Center in Anaheim. The facility houses his collection of cars, as well as vintage telephones, radios, and well as the website eloquently…
Something sad happened to us this morning: upon reading that the Petersen Automotive Museum in LA is running an exhibit on the life and cars of Steve McQueen, Lance Armstrong's girlfriend's song from that one annoying commercial with Dale, Jr. embedded itself in our brain. We immediately dislodged it with Lalo…