FULL TOUR OF MUSEUM VAULT | 250 RARE CARS

Hello, my name is Dana Williamson, curator and collection manager here at the Petersen Automotive Museum and welcome to another one of our virtual

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s of our

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, our

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deep in the

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, here presented by Hagerty while the

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is closed, We are conducting several virtual

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s of the vault. museum tours, many educational programs, so look up the schedules on our website and for a small donation, there are many things available and we would like you to participate in whatever you want, so without further ado, let's go and take a look. in the vault, so now we are entering the vault area of ​​the museum.

I don't know how many of you have heard of the vault, but the vault is an exhibit space that sits deep inside the Petersen Automotive Museum and takes up an entire city. block I would say we probably have over 250

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, motorcycles, trucks,

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here on display and what I'm going to do is take you on a general tour so you can see what we have here and Then when the museum opens, I would love for you to You come and take a guided tour where you can hear stories of all the cars, motorcycles, stories about the historical owners and really interesting stories about the cars, so what am I going to do right?

Now, as we do this tour, I'm going to touch on several things, several cars in particular that might have some stories that I think you'll find interesting, so what we're going to do is on my left here, we're going to start with These two vehicles that you see and I say vehicles because the on the right, this black one here, is actually a Studebaker, which is a 1904 Studebaker, of course, a horse-drawn carriage, so it doesn't run on its own. You would buy it, but you would need it. a horse the horse could pull the cart and that was the case until around 1903 this is a medical carriage as you can see you are sitting very high you have a whip and rings for the horse harness and right next to it this maroon The car you see is a Cadillac 1903/4, so we're basically starting from the beginning, this is the beginning of the automobile for automobile production here in America, this particular Cadillac would be the first Cadillac model produced and it's not a horse. -drawn, this is powered by an internal combustion engine and I'm going to walk back here and just show you what it looked like, it's a big chain driven open valve single cylinder engine, so that's what powers this catalogue. in 1904 you could have a car like this, let's say this Cadillac with an internal combustion engine, or you could have a horse-drawn carriage, but this Cadillac in 1903 cost you $750, something that a lot of people didn't have at that time, it's a lot. of money $750 now, as we walk to our left you will see many cars from the era and to my right you will see many motorcycles and in our motorcycle collection this is just a sample of what we have.

Others in other parts of the museum I have off-road bikes for Husqvarna here two of them were Steve McQueen's this was Steve McQueen's personal bike that he rode through the desert the one next to it is the bike that Steve rode in the movie any Sunday, the The one in front is Bruce Brown's, who was the director of any Sunday, that's the one he rode and the other husky here was also used any Sunday, we have Vespas, we have scooters, we have some cuts, we have a custom. Right here, which belonged to Tim Allen, Tim Allen made this especially for him, he wrote it for a while and then he donated it to us here at the Museum, behind that we have a Jordan, this brown bicycle that is actually a motorcycle with a transmission per axle.

In addition to a belt or a chain, other motorcycles we have the number one Honda, which was the motocross champion. We have another Steve McQueen bike here. This is an Indian chief from 1929. Steve actually had hundreds of motorcycles. We were told this particular one was one he drove. quite next to that, we have a 1932 harley-davidson highway patrol bike, then we have a bull cue, this bull cue actually in the '70s won its class and the tourist trophy, as you know, the Island of Man in the back, we have a couple of motorcycles with a sidecar, the one on the right is one of the first Harley-Davidsons with a sidecar and the one on the left is a Norton with a sidecar.

As you'll notice, the sidecars are on opposite sides, of course, the sidecar in America was on the right and in Europe it was on the left and this was this closed sidecar that was very popular in Europe at the time because they were taxed on it. number of wheels it had when you were registering a vehicle, so this particular vehicle has three wheels: on the motorcycle, one on the sidecar and you could actually fit two people on the sidecar and two people on the motorcycle, so only you could pay taxes on three wheels to transport a family of four, whereas if you had a car and you had a family of four, you would pay taxes on four wheels and the bike in front this Harley was owned by the late Jesse Owens this was his bike what she used was grand marshal of Sturgis in 2019 and there was a part of the bicycle this was her bicycle we have other Indian customs that we do she had the motorcycle camera, which is a studio bicycle, a bicycle with a camera, so this was a motorcycle , had a sled where two cameramen sat, one with a handheld camera with a pedestal mounted camera that the bike was synchronized with and could sync with the cameras, so they could sync with the camera speeds and make it much easier to transition from one scene to another.

This particular bike was used in several Arnold Schwarzenegger movies. From time to time we have the Yates chip electric motorcycle, so the electric motorcycle you see here with chip-chip. Yates set a world record for the fastest electric motorcycle in a big pod on the back that you see there, that's where the batteries were kept. Looking again, as I mentioned, as we were going up the row, we saw the 1903 Cadillac. 1904 Studebaker horse-drawn carriage, these are another ones in front of us, you see, so a couple of Model Ts and a Chevy, and you can see how over the years, these are late teens, car design changed, you started getting windshields, you started getting closed cockpits lower driving position left hand drive chrome plated brass started turning into nickel into chrome they were thinking not just about transportation but what the vehicle looked like and the amenities and they started, it's really as the automobile started to evolve, it became more and more about the driver and less about just transporting a person now. , as we go down the line, we're going to go forward many years and you'll probably see that you know pre-war luxury, what pre-war luxury looks like.

We're talking about the United States, you know, from the '30s to the '40s, you know, right before the war broke out, we have a couple of Packards, this Packard you see is called, it looks like a lollipop, it's orange and beige, was actually the daily driver for a fan dancer in the late '20s and early '30s. I don't know if any of you would remember what name Sallie had, but she was very famous by now. The fan dance at that time was basically an exotic dancer, but what she would do is she used fans in her routine and hid what she didn't want to show behind the feathered fans next to that we have two front wheel drive cars these are the first front wheel drive cars in America 19 29 and 30 we have a Ruxton in a crazy paint scheme and this was the Roxton marketing department thinking you know people would want to buy their car not just because it was front wheel drive but because it was very stylish with those crazy paint jobs, they had a car called bumblebee. it was painted black and yellow they had a blue and lime green car they had all these crazy plans but unfortunately that didn't help the sales of the car much what car what front wheel drive one car that was most successful was the one we have below and this is the cable, but it was still front wheel drive at that time back in the '29s and '30s, you know, it wasn't

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y developed yet and people didn't like the heavy steering, they didn't like the fact that there was no transmission tunnel. or that they were, that the cars were lower but the steering was very heavy, it jumped in the corners, so it fell out of favor and then everything became rear wheel drive, but as you know, what goes around comes around and and then you know that In the future everything became front-wheel drive.

Probably the most luxurious car from the '30s that you see here is the Duesenberg, so this is a 32 Duesenberg SJ SJ, which means supercharged, so this was the luxury car of the time here in America. To buy this car the same way you bought a Duesenberg, you will buy a chassis and you will buy an engine from Duesenberg and then take it to a coachbuilder or of course you will ask Duesenberg to recommend one to the coachbuilder or I would say the coachbuilder , whoever the coachbuilder is, they will build the body, the interior, the fenders, the accompaniments, everything would be done by the coachbuilder, this particular Duesenberg was built by Murphy, who was here in Pasadena, California, now, as I said, this It would probably cost about ten thousand dollars to get the engine and transmission back in the early '30s, then you would have to pay for the coach work, so it was a very expensive car and the expression "Z" came from the Duesenberg because the Duesenberg Supercharged had a very distinctive exhaust note, so if you heard that sound, you knew it had to be someone with a lot of money, someone who was very important to be able to drive a Duesenberg.

In front of us we have a European luxury car Rolls Royce from 1927 and this was Fred Astaire's car, this was the car in which his driver took him to the MGM studios every day, where he danced with all his companions making movies. and I'm sure most of you are familiar with Fred Astaire Ginger Rogers and her career. as an actor and dancer, a very, very majestic car, very, very beautiful, as you can see, the driver's car was basically unprotected, you could roll up the windows and there was a fabric hood that stretched over it, but the passenger compartment komarin, excuse me. very luxurious, it has silk upholstery, normally it would have flowers and wool rugs, in fact I'm going to open the store so you can take a look and see how beautiful the inside of the car is and also the back of the car. the car is a Louis Vuitton trunk now the trunks in car trunks got their name because they started with their trunks these would be trunks they would be travel trunks theater trunks whatever you needed to carry a lot of your belongings went into a trunk the trunk was then attached to the rear of the car became the trunk and therefore now our trunks are an integral part of a car rather than something that is attached to the rear on the right side.

We have a Woody model. We have several Woodys here at the Museum. It's a model 32 A, they call it a tank trick, it's a wooden body that would transport people. I was used to transporting people, luggage, baggage, any type of merchandise to and from their train depot, the sides were fabric and they rolled up and we have like I said several Woody's here at the Museum and the same thing Ford was very smart when he started to build wooden wagons which were very popular because he bought several forests so he grew his own trees and supplied his own wood so he never had to worry. about a shortage or someone saying they didn't want to sell you any wood now when we enter the outer vault, as you can tell, it's like a sieve.

We have classic cars here, we have hot rods, we have custom race cars. Let's just stroll down a couple of lines here we have a little white car on the left side here that's a Honda a '64 Honda 600 and that's actually serial number zero zero one so that's the first Honda that the first production Honda 600 was exported to the United States, it arrived in the United States as I said in the 60s and the interesting thing is that it is very small, so they took a big risk by sending it to the United States in the late 60s .

In the states we were in we were starting to get our big V8 muscle cars, like the cars in front of us here, these are pre-'60s, it's '50s, but we have a '57 Chevy convertible, now our convertible and next to it From that we have the Nomad. The Nomad was a family version of the Bel Air and very, very popular, very popular among surfers like me, it was great, you could put surfboards on it, it was basically the precursor of the beach wagon, a car that did. I want to show you that I overlooked a little bit here is this red one so this is a 1957 caddy beer it's bromb and at that time in 1957 this was the most expensive American car you could buy.

It's beautiful, it's extremely long, but it is. well equipped, it had air conditioning, it had power seats, it was just a beautiful car, but like I said, it was the most expensive car I hadyou could buy at that time. As we go along, you'll see more vintage brass. The cars on our right, excuse me, they are not brass, we have a press that you need, but it looks like it has nickel trim, as you can see, nickel was available until the late 20's and early 30's and became Chrome and, as it got into its 30s, as we saw. with those luxury cars, the cars became bigger, they became more comfortable for the driver and they had a lot of details like mirrors and multiple lights, parking lights, headlights, chrome radiator casings and trim and things like that in our middle row here we have several hot rods and hot rods and custom rods we have Foose Coddington Troy Barris we have a gasser and a gasser as a drag car it's this particular kind of drag car this is the time of the hammer but we have next to it we have a Corvair Corsa now the Corsa Corvair was a turbocharged car, so this is a very early car that you could buy from Chevy and it was a factory turbocharged custom Chevy.

Next to the one we have a custom Ford Galaxie, this is a

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engine twin turbo Ford Galaxie. roll cage we have someMore hot rods on our right we have a 32 Ford powered by a Porsche 928 engine behind that we have another 32 Ford, this yellow 32 Ford Phaeton was actually a pickup truck that was owned by Van Halen and was used in a couple of music videos. the most famous one I think was hot for the teacher, where David Lee Roth is, it says painted on the side, it says hot for the teacher, he drives it with a lot of girls in bikinis in the car, we have a 4-4-2 to me left, very restored. car that is close to a hundred points, every nut and bolt is as it would have left the factory. we have a Kirkland and this was a Bonneville car and it was the first car to use a parachute at Bonneville. we have several fords we have a ml roadster we have these fords here on the left side we have a key hero 50 57 ranchero 57 fairlane 55 fairlane 57 s convertible 55 we have a nice little ford 32 hot rod pickup that has air conditioning brakes power automatic transmission steering this was done by Brizzy Oh great car some more customs on the left is the Studebaker called Franken that custom has been on many covers lets look at more hot rods like I said Foose and Cottington and as you can see when said we have over 250 cars, motorcycles, trucks, they would probably have that advantage and as we move forward, we will go up to the center island in the center aisle, we have some heads of state cars, we have some Hollywood cars and then as you know, If you didn't know mr.

Peterson rose to fame the first time he was editor, but the first magazine he published was actually Hot Rod Magazine and this is Mr. Peterson's daily driver is a twin-turbo Bentley with a hot rod license plate. If he saw that license plate and wondered why mr. Peterson founded and owned hot rod magazine. You own the Petersen publication, of course, you had it at the peak of his career. He had 42 publications including Motor Trend Field & Stream Guns & Ammo, auto crafts, all things automotive and sports. He also had Peterson Aviation and Petersen Publishing. I also made a lot of self-help books.

You've probably read them. It's one point or another. How to take your small block Chevy out of the hot rod year. How did the Ford 289 come about? What we're seeing right now is a LAN delay on the Mercedes LAN delay, which is a very

rare

model of Mercedes in which the passenger compartments are convertibles, the drivers, the drivers compartment is a hardtop, this particular car has little steps on the side, it looks a little beat up and that's because it was Saddam Hussein's car, so this was the car that Saddam Hussein drove until the fall, the fall of the Shah, the car finally arrived in Jordan, it was a couple of industries.

They left me in bad shape in Jordan. and mr. Peterson was able to acquire it as a backlog from LAN and then when he bought it, he realized they figured out it was Saddam Hussein. On the other side we have a couple of Hollywood cars, we have a 1941 Cadillac that Clark Gable had. customized here in Los Angeles directly by the dealer to give to his love Carole Lombard as a birthday gift, unfortunately, if you know the story of Carole Lombard, she didn't get to drive it much because, on her way back from selling war bonds, the plane crashed and she died and if you notice there's a pink car next to it, this is a pink Lincoln Imperial and this Lincoln Imperial was her daily driver of Jayne Mansfield, the actress and Jayne Mansfield, of course, died in a car accident, This is not the car he died in, but the one he died in was hit in the back of a tractor trailer and what happened was basically the car went under the back of the trailer when the trailer stopped. suddenly, so now, if you're ever following. a tractor-trailer and you see these bars underneath and they usually have safety tape or something, they're called Mansfield bars after Jayne Mansfield after her accident.

We have a red Delahaye that was Elton John's car. We have a fat ray. from Grease this is from the musical Grease is not the movie but the musical it toured the country with Olivia Newton-John and this was the car that Barris built and was used for that musical cross from there we have the popemobile which is actually a new Pope , evil because it was never used by the Pope. Unfortunately, the Vatican commissioned it from General Motors. It was built, but just as it was finished, the Swiss Guard said they did not want the Pope traveling in an unprotected car. because there had been an attempt on his life, so all the cars had to be convertibles, so the Pope blessed this car, got in the car, blessed the car and now it resides here in the Petersen museum.

The seat in which the Pope sits is interesting. in that he will get up and down to make it easier for you to raise the seat so you can stand up, just lie back in the chair and then get down when the doors open. General Motors put in these stairs that come out automatically, it was easy for the Pope to get in and out of the car, so unfortunately it's a great popemobile but unusable, moving back to Hollywood cars, we have a newer spreader from the 1800's that has been converted into a hot rod with a small block mid-engine.

The Chevy Conestoga truck top was a gift to Bob Hope from Excuse Me and was commissioned by Bob Hope to give John Wayne as a birthday present which is a pretty crazy gift but it definitely has the western cowboy motif and in the future, we have a custom Mustang, so this is a 1965 Ford Mustang highly customized by George Barris for the movie Married on the Rocks with Frank Sinatra and Nancy Sinatra. They were both in that movie. It has zebra fabric on the sides and zebra upholstery. It's quite nice. A wild car next to a 1948 Chevy Fleetmaster convertible donated to us by Jack Nicholson.

This particular car was used in the movie The Two Jakes and I think we probably also have Austin Powers' cell phone from the movie The Spy who fucked me in Chinatown. The Austin Powers time machine where he returned to the 60s and in the movie and they used it and a VW was used perfectly because it had that vibe of the 60s, next to that we have the Magnum PI Ferrari that he used in his series and this is a car, this is a car that he actually drove in the series, so they lowered the driver's seat, they repositioned the bottom cushion and it was still so high that he could never drive the car with the top up, so if you ever watch the series, you'll notice that no matter what happens, he always drives that roadster, which made a lot of sense because it was filmed in Hawaii and the weather is pretty good most of the time in Hawaii.

Back, we have Heike and This is a Russian car. It was commissioned by Nikita Khrushchev. He had two of these made and this particular one he gave to Yuri Gagarin, who was the first man in space, the first Russian in space, and Yuri had the car for a short time. Over a period of time, he passed away and then Khrushchev became the owner of the Russian government again, so it would be a car of the Russian head of state. I was convertible, the top would come down and the Russian dignitaries would sit there and greet us. you have Little Miss Sunshine's Volkswagen and you can notice there is a dent they make in the movie, it's right there on the side, this was the car driven in the movie and that's the great thing about a lot of the cars here in the museum are the original cars from the movies shown on television or used for promotional purposes, but they are the actual cars that were used.

Chrysler Imperial, a Catherine Hepburn daily driver, in front of me we have a Hong ji, another head. of state car, so this Hong ji was a Chinese car. Hong ji means red flag, as you can see it has two red flags on the front. It was not for any particular dignitary or head of state, but for any important person who was visiting China. It is the car in which they would travel. It is also said that the Dalai Lama had traveled in this car several times. Continuing down the line, we have a Chrysler camera car that Chrysler made.

Three of those, this one in particular was given to Howard Hughes at RKO studios. and up until that point, camera cars were whatever the studio could find, which had put all these tubes and pipes on them to carry cameras, but this one in particular, which Chrysler built, convertible air conditioning, Platteville platform in the back Very easy to assemble camera. stands out and made a big difference at the start of filming Italy we have a Creed Mustang to film the yellow car right here it's worth letting you know that this was Elvis Presley's car Elvis Presley had bought this for his girlfriend Linda Thompson this is the car the stories go and you've probably heard them and it's true that Elvis shot three times and there are some Nick on the steering wheel the holes in the floor where the bullets went through Elvis had a bad temper I didn't just shoot cars he also filmed on television when He didn't like what he saw on television.

Three more Hollywood cars. We have Herbie from the Lindsay Lohan Full Loaded Movie and that is a NASCAR certified Herbie which means this car could race on a NASCAR oval which it does in the movie and was timed at the Oval doing 136 miles per hour with a modified 200 horsepower VW engine. Next to that we have Thumber and Weeze Thunderbird that were used in the movie, there are no mirrors and you can notice the mirrors are missing on the sides. that's where the camera mounts were and of course this caused the car they were driving to go over the cliff, but it's the car they used in a lot of the driving sequences where they were sitting in the car talking together To that one, we have the Plymouth.

Fury Christine, as you know, Christine is the evil car. Christine kills people and then when she is damaged, she can transform them herself. In front of Christine we have an imperial. This was Eisenhower's parade car, also used by astronauts for ribbon parades. Richard Nixon actually. They also used this card, they made three of these. Chrysler made one for New York, one for Los Angeles, and one for Detroit, so that wherever the president, an astronaut, or a parade was, they could use the nearest car, this was the Detroit car. and this is the only car that is in private hands, the other two cars still belonged to the cities of Los Angeles and New York, in front of this, looking over here, we have a Nash Healey used by Clark Kent in a television series of Superman, we have cheese. satalia we have a Fiat 8v Delahaye while we go down the line a Porsche Continental several Porsches we have the Mercedes until the end 600 that was used in the movies the movie the witches of Eastwick that also came to us from Jack Nicholson worth mentioning this little Porsche Continental alone It was made for a year, actually it was three in shape.

They made the 356 when they supported it in the United States. They wanted to. They decided to call it Porsche. They decided to call it Continental when he landed here, of course. Ford said you. We can't do that, we own the Continental name, so this was just for one year in '54 and then it went back to the Porsche 356, a Pedrosa designed and built by the Spanish, the son of the Spanish king, which we have like us. come down here further down the line, as you can see, as we look at these cars, you see some Woodies there, you see a truck, a custom truck, a hot rod, I mean, it's endless, we could go on and on, and on, but we're trying to give you a quick taste of what we have here and all of these cars have extensive histories.

I mean, you could stand here and talk about its history, its mechanics, the people who owned it, the people who drove it, where they were. Incredible amounts of information were used, everything, every car is unique, passing by of course I would say probably our crown jewel, this is a 1925 Rolls-Royce that was restyled in 1932 as the Round or Rolls-Royce specifically to win shows in Europe. Did you win every show you participated in? As you can see, it is called round or Rolls-Royce becauseIt has round doors. It's an aerodynamic coupe. It looks like the inside of an airplane cockpit from the 1930s.

It has a sloping grille that rolls further. -Royce purists don't care but that's how it was designed, it was built in Belgium by Yaqui air coach builders and they had never made a car before, in fact this is the first car they made, they usually made trucks and trucks. and commercial vehicles and maybe that's why it's so big, it's over 20 feet long and weighs 8,000 pounds, but it retains the original 100 of our engine, so it takes a while to accelerate and then stop, but it's impressive. The car is really beautiful, it has some fins on the rear grilles, it has matching luggage in the back, in front of that, here we have another 8,000 pound car for a different reason, this was FDR's armored car, you know, After Pearl Harbor, the American government realized that.

FDR needed an armored car, so this is actually the first presidential armored car. Armored limousine that belonged to FDR. The glass inside is 1/8 inch thick like lead lined doors. It has steel mesh surrounding the engine compartment so it could still be cooled, but could stop bullets if necessary and, like I said, it weighs almost 8,000 pounds. Actually, when they first built it, it broke the rear end and the frame, they had to put a truck differential on it and they reinforced the frame, but it served its purpose and protected the president who came here, we have some independence, we have a Tucker of 1948, as you know, with a helicopter engine in the back and it's a rear-engined car and Preston Tucker really cared about safety.

It has a lot of safety features to protect the occupants and it has a cyclops headlight that turns with a steering wheel and then on the other side we have another freestanding Davis and it's called a three wheeler. You see green, it's a Davis divan called a die van. because it has a seat and that seat is a bench and that seat was advertised to seat four people facing each other and it was built here, in reality, the risky airport is where it was being built, but they ran. in financial difficulties, long story, but it was also a not very stable three, a Kaiser Darren with sliding doors, a very unique feature of the doors, this light goes in and out of the front fenders, a good idea and not so good idea when the doors got stuck.

It would become a safety issue, but I would say it's probably America's first fiberglass car because it's actually a fiberglass body that predates the Corvette in the line we're looking at here, so we'll just touch on a few. cars. here on the left we have blind faith mid-engined El Camino El Camino powered by an oldsmobile toronado engine is right behind the front seat and is the first Hot Wheels car then we have some lowriders actually this particular turquoise lowrider belongs to this Chevy Impala a Billy Gibbons from ZZ Top and it's called slam shovel because he crashed a very famous lowrider, The King, into the ground, and also L lifted, I call him the king son, we have several hot rod customs, the May thong, we have mathematics in v16, which is Basically two Siamese small block Chevys together and then as we go down we'll see the amber winners.

The most beautiful hot rods in America. We have winners from many different years. I think we have about ten, ten first place winners. Here we have Sniper, which is a highly customized Viper, it has the v10, we have the winners in amber, the custom Cadillac Huggy Bear lowrider and next to it we have the Triton, which has probably been in every custom in Hot Rod magazine. It's a 59 El Camino and a 60 Cadillac which I miss, miss. along with many custom features, next to it we have a 1951 Hudson Wasp that was Steve McQueen's daily driver, that's what Steve drove when he didn't want anyone to know Steve McQueen was driving, but look we have the first amber.

The winner, this is the Knee Camp roadster from the first competition, it was a 1951 model and this is the car that won the amber competition in 1951. Looking back, we have a couple of important gods here: we have two Hanson cobras, these They are the Hanson brothers. They wanted to get into the car manufacturing business. They designed and built these cars themselves. These are the two prototypes they built. There was another car. They look alike but they were similar. They had. They are similar but had differences. Unfortunately they see each other. I really think they look a lot like Corvettes, they use Corvette windshields and they just couldn't get the financing and were able to go into production.

We have dragsters here, we have flathead cats, the fastest in the world and they have two flatheads. Ford Siamese together, the crank was machined in one piece then cut in half and then knurled and then here behind me we have John Forces funny car, this was the last Ford Mustang funny car that John Force raced , after this now it's he moved to Chevy, so now he's racing Chevy and his daughter also grew up very successful and donated this to us, which we were very grateful for because it's an amazing car. I mean, you know they go from one stop. to the end of a quarter mile and they're going over 300 miles an hour so you can imagine you know you go in there turn the thing on and hope for your life a couple more customs to our left there the the yellow is the Illuma coupe which is actually a Mitsubishi the one on the left the red one is actually a Lexus ls400 will pass this truck we are passing here is what they called a wood stove during the second war in Europe, farmers and merchants could not carry their products to the market, so inventors and entrepreneurs discovered that superheated coal gas was actually fuel without special equipment, so this particular truck has a furnace sticking out of the back where the wood would be burned with the that the truck would start.

With gasoline, you would burn wood, which gives off carbon gas. When the carbon gas reaches the proper temperature you would do so and it would be injected directly into the intake manifold, as I said no special equipment required. You would stop using gasoline and turn on coal gas. and they were able to bring their products to market and just run on coal gas, of course the efficiency was probably 30% of that of gasoline. We have Malko Gasser's funny car. We have the set of 57 said Co, what Chevy drag car could you. You can buy at Chevy dealerships.

We have race car samples here on the left. I'm still going down the road. You can see the gold star. You can see root beer with hints of orange. Alien xr6. All winners in amber. We have a Renault Alpine and a 1800. CC, this is this particular car, it was one of the factory team cars that won the first World Rally Championship in nineteen, I think it was '72 and very, very sixth, which led to a very successful career for Renault and Alpine. We have Eddie Lawson's BMW. Matt Kenseth Kenseth's Winston Cup winning car, he actually won the Cup with this car and after he did that he only won one race and he was able to win the Cup so there was a rule change right after he won the Cup and now you.

Listen to the Cup chase, the Cup race, that's because of the rule changes and we have a couple of gold cars, we have a gold DeLorean, which is actually a, there were three of these that American Express made a commission when they launched the Gold Card. They are 24-karat gold-plated DeLoreans. This particular one belonged to a Texas banker who never drove it, Mr. Petersen got the car and has never driven it five miles just by pushing it, there is no way you can repair it, the body is badly scratched and once something happened to the gold finish you won't be able to repair it unless I took it to a jewelry store .

I'm guessing a million Mustangs will be built. 50 million Mustangs will be built, all painted gold. You couldn't buy them, but you could win them in a lottery. You would go to a Ford dealership and enter a contest. and next to the Mustang here we have a 1964 Dodge Coronet, so this was a Dodge race car, actually okay and right next to the gold Mustang we have a 1964 Dodge Polara. Sorry, yeah, and right next to the Gold Mustang we have a 1964 Dodge Coronet so this is a race car you can buy right off the floor it's powered by a 426 Hemi it has all the deletes and by deletes I mean there are no wheel covers , no radio, no air conditioning, nothing that could steal power and add weight. the car was removed, you could buy it that way so you could drive directly from the dealership to the race track we have in front of.

I would say another jewel in our crown is a Kia Cadillac, so this 1954 Ghia Cadillac was one of two cars, so Cadillac sent its engine and chassis to Italy for Ghia Agia to build this beautiful body and it showed at the Paris Motor Show. I never went into production, only two of them, this one, although it was bought, was bought by the richest man in the world. Once Ali Khan gave it to his wife at the time Rita Hayworth, the red-haired dancing actress and he gave it to her as a gift in the hope that it would improve the relationship in their marriage, but she kept it and was the daily driver. of the. and then behind that is another gear, this is a Plymouth Kia, so as you can see some similarities in the bodies, but the automakers, the American automakers, would send their chassis and transmissions to Europe to different coach manufacturers. to build a concept car and we call most of them dream cars.

Also, these were cars that were supposed to be futuristic looking for the time, but the Italian styling is incredibly beautiful as we move down the line, we have the XR. We have a Nash Healey but this is the coupe version. We have a 56 Continental and at the beginning of the tour I told you that the '57 Caddy Biarritz was the most expensive car you could buy in the United States, while the 56 Continental was the most expensive. expensive car that you could buy in '56 and Cadillac didn't like that, that's why they brought out the beer. That particular car was bought in '56 and when you buy the cars they came fully loaded, you couldn't add anything to them at all no, there are no add-ons as they are, but it was fully loaded and going into the interval we have a lot of sports cars and supercars in my right side, we have three carbon fiber MacLarens, we have the MSO on the right in the middle we have the McLaren p1 and on the left of the p1 we have the new McLaren Senna, which of course is named after the famous F1 driver Ayrton Senna, next to them we have an older supercar which is a Jaguar xj220 powered by a biturbo V6. unfortunately that was the car that was supposed to come out with a v12 that was supposed to work too 20 they couldn't do it the v12 didn't work in their engineering they ended up putting in a twin turbo v6 and it only got me Think about a top speed of 217 miles per hour, so it didn't make it to 220, which angered a lot of people to our left.

Here we have a Porsche 928 next to the Ferrari barqueta, but this little orange Mazda here is actually a solid clay car, excuse me. I was thinking about something else, this was the prototype, so it's a fiberglass body car and it has no doors, it doesn't really have an interior, it seems like it's the concept, so this would be what they had. the design studio and all of Mazda's bosses were able to look at the car and decide if they liked it or not, it was at this point that they were able to make any styling changes before it went into full production.

Also, we have the 55 Thunderbird. and of course one of my favorites we have the 1952 Ferrari boat. This is a totally original car. Original painting. Original interior. It was built specifically for a Henry Ford by Enzo Ferrari. Next to it we have a 59 scale Corvette Yeti. There were three Cal Yeti Corvettes. is done this is one of the three we have a Jaguar SS 100 and then my all time favorite in the entire museum we have the 56 57 Jaguar xkss Road version of the Jaguar type d owned by Steve McQueen 56 Corvette Ford 427 second generation and then , in the corner, the red car is a Porsche 901, which is probably just one of the few that still exist in the world today and was the precursor to the 911.

Pujo made Porsche stop calling it a 901 before to go into full production, although that had been produced they were supposed to have been destroyed this is one of the ones that has survived so when this is 64 901 right after it went to the 911 in the middle here we have a 1961 Jaguar off the latch II type coupe one of Actually, there were only 20 beautiful, beautiful cars built, the E-type coupes. I think they are some of the most beautiful cars. The two in the middle are old screamers. They were built by Max Bell Chomsky. He built about 10 of them, from mark 1 to mark 10. one here in front is a mark 3 the one in back is a mark 9 both powered by Buick nailhead's have been called old screamers after the Disney movie Old Yeller Old Yellerit was about a dog that was left with a junkyard that Dog Max used to build these cars with junkyard parts, he wouldn't buy new parts just the engines, Buick would give him the engines, people say he was probably the guy at Buick and would work on the engines, do research for them and report back to them.

They never quoted horsepower figures, they always said they could get more speed out of a Buick engine than anyone else now behind us we have on our right we have the maroon car on the far right it is one of the first two Ferraris produced 1947 it was the first Ferrari, we think we hope Ferrari Classic validates it in Modena. They have inspected the car too much. They are doing the investigation. We believe it is the first production Ferrari. The first Ferrari to use the Prancing. The horse badge that they were going to build, we believe this is the first of those next to the Dodge Viper.

Dodge Viper was powered by the v10. You probably saw a sniper before custom that I said was a v10. This is the real kuiper. It is one of the six pre-production models, if you want to know what these cars are, if you want to learn more about these cars, you can go to our website and search drive with Dana. I have driven several of these cars and in driving. I talked to them about the performance figures of the cars and you can actually see the cars on the road, we have the 70th anniversary of Ferrari, we have the 456 Challenge car painted by Tyler, the title is a family artist hanging from a trapeze and dropping paint, this is how he painted that and then we have the third generation GTO, this is the Ferrari 599 599 GTO, of course, they made the 250 GTO 288 and the 599 in front of me, we have to compete with cars from the 20s, The one on the left ran in a sister car race. lamal and the Indy 500 is a 1929 DuPont and the one on the right is a Mercedes and this this Mercedes is otago Floreal they made three of these it was made specifically for the Flora Tiger Tiger race in Italy and it's powered by corsets and Mercedes before that Mercedes was Mercedes-Benz or but the engine it has is a Daimler at that time Daimler was building airplane engines and that is the only engine that Mercedes thought would work for an endurance race because it could run all day with the torque maximum. and horsepower at just 1,800 rpm on the right we have the new generation of the Ford GT powered by the EcoBoost twin turbo v6 next to us we have the 2006 Ford GT and this one in particular was built for Ford's centennial and pays tribute to the Ford gt40, We are lucky to be on the third floor of the museum here to have a 1967 GT40, one of the road versions that is left-hand drive.

To me, we have a majestic car here and we probably have America's first supercar. This is a 1913 Mercer built here in the states of Delaware. This particular car when it was dismantled was said to go between 85 and 100 miles per hour back in the day.1913 I have driven this car, it's a handful and I say I love it, but when you get up to speed you have to manually maintain the fuel pressure and oil pressure with manual pumps. It does not have brakes on the front wheels to obtain brake pressure. I have to use the pedal and the handbrake.

It has a built-in anti-theft device and that is, like I say, it's a crank start. It takes about 15 to 20 minutes to start, but what an amazing car for 1913. About what it does for this part of the vault, we're going to end up going to the store, we have a store here, we have technicians who maintain the preservation, They do some collection restoration and we have been very lucky thanks to the generosity of Tom and Sharon Malloy who funded a project to renovate a shop area to make it worthy of the world's largest automotive museum with new cabinets, polished floors , elevators, we'll come in here now and take a quick look before we leave. the vault and as you can see on our left side, we have the first Indy car, one of the first Indy cars from the first year after World War II, when Indy Racing got back on its feet, that's a 1946 Curtis, Hauser is often a Frank.

Curtis' design specifically for the Indy 500 powered by a supercharged Hauser engine is often not a very safe car, the fuel tank wraps around the driveshaft and it's there, you're pretty exposed, so in the area of ​​the We like the workshop, I said we have the technicians. that maintain the cars, but you never know what will be here, it changes constantly, we have cars that come in, cars that go out, cars that are the stage for future exhibitions, as you can see, we have a racer, we have a Tesla, we have a 911 RSR 2016, we have a couple of Indy cars on our right, AJ Foyt Jr's Coyote, we have Robby Gordon's American racing IndyCar, we have Bobby Rahal's last ride, this is the last car that Bobby Rahal drove in his career as a driver before moving into Team Management and Team Ownership.

We are also very fortunate to have Bobby Ray Hall as one of our board members. We have Lola t70. We have an American Eagle Toyota gtp car. We have a McLaren m8te with a Denny Hulme body. We have Jack Brabham's first race car. it's the car he built himself the first car he raced the first car he designed before he became a three-time Formula One world champion and champion car designer and racer Cale Yarborough's Hardy car we have a very tall car this one It's a 1910 Daimler, this is the actual coach used by King George V, next to it we have a Detroit electric in its original state, but this is what an electric car would look like in 1914 and as you can see, the interior of the car it's almost like a lounge would be like your living room, where you would sit was designed specifically well, they were looking at women when they were designing something like this because it had head room where a woman could sit and wear her big hat. electric car so you didn't have to try to turn the car with the crank and it was very very very comfortable, unfortunately it has a short range so you were the only one with the charger and if you went too far you wouldn't be able to get home in On the right side, we have four of the four race cars from Bruce Meyer's collection.

Bruce is also one of our board members and a Beverly Hills collector and we had a show of his cars called winning numbers, they were all winning cars whether they were. the first or the fastest is the yellow grayish black poodle dragster was probably one of the winningest dragsters of the 1960s driven, as you know, by Don Purdum, known as the snake, the first number one Shelby Cobra, there were only two Of course, the first. was the prototype and this was the first production Cobra, next to a lightweight, short-wheelbase aluminum factory racing Ferrari 250gt, it took first place in its class in the 1961 women's championship and third overall next to the 65-bit Cerini that also took first place in its class in the 65th of them, next to that, there are 59 scimitars, one of three scimitars that were built, each with a different body style according to the New Yorker and as we get back to sharp, we have a three wheeler, we have some projects.

Back here in the distance is a Packard sports car powered by a Packard v12, in front is a core. What we see here in gray is a Corvette. This is a 1963 Corvette restomod that will be finished. It is powered by an LS. engine with racing suspension, but with the appearance of an original 63 split window, so we really helped my daily driver or I was awake until I had to. I am doing an engine rebuild and a transmission rebuild. This is called Tomb Raider. It is a 1973 Land Rover Series with a 388-inch wheelbase. I spent some time in South Australia with a documentary film company, like I said, it was on Jay Leno.

He's been all over the world. He is my daily driver. A fantastic car. I love it and as we return. in the middle I just want to say that, you know, I want to thank you all for joining me today on this tour and during the weeks that we will have we will have several tours throughout the week, just tune into our website and get the times you know and any donations that What you do will help us, you know, during the time that we are closed here at the museum, we are a non-profit organization and we also have an educational program so that not only do they do fall tours, but I also have programs that will tell you how build things, why, how things work, why things actually work, many, many cool things, so on that note I want to say goodbye, I want to say thank you for joining me and being healthy and safe, thank you