The Peterson Auto Museum is a MUST SEE for any car nut..!! It is a large place with many floors and the exhibitions change all the time. I first went there to visit Skip Marketti and see Mickey Thompson's Challenger
I was so intrigued by these videos, that I actually want to visit, which is probably the whole point of the series. I just wish there were more cars covered, because Csaba seems to ask the right questions and the whole dialogue comes out so smoothly structured. It was a true pleasure to watch.
My uncle who was a bus driver for the city of Napoli in Italy taught me how to drive back in 1980 and his first rule really was focus what’s in front of you not what’s behind you except when changing lanes. Learning how to drive in Napoli was a great experience, I only drove a stick till I moved back to the U.S. 17 years later.
It was very cool to visit the museum on my roadtrip to South California in the fall of 2012. Very interesting cars to admire and learn about. Cant wait to go back!
in 1957 I saw a 49 sedan which was offered for $150.00 and all things worked! I rode in a 2 door in Wisconsin and the 2 door was so large, I was in the back seat, it was huge.
Nearest auto museum to me is Elliott Museum here in FL. They just went through a huge ‘green’ re-building of the whole museum and just reopened, so i haven't had to check it out yet.
Is this scripted? Or is the curator that amazingly knowledgable. He literally answered every single question without any hesitation. I have a lot of respect for that man.
The Mercedes "Grosser" 600 as a Landaulet was significantly more expensive than the "normal" Pullman Limousine which was significantly more expensive than the "Limousine". My dad was a car dealer in the 1977-1982 period and I remember looking into a price list of " Daimler-Benz" from 1978 and the price of a Limousine was in Excess of 130,000 DEM, the Pullmann was around 159,000 DEM and the Pullman Landaulet was at about 187,500 DEM. That would be today about 385,000 euros.
The 1939 Bugatti 57 bodied by Vanvooren for the then future Shaw of Iran on his wedding day that was sold 1959 for $275.oo. Well even if you adjust that for Inflation to $2,447.64 it is still a bargain price.
The controversy is, that the 300SL wasn't a "production" car, more of a homologation of the race car, because it was produced in such small numbers. The Chevrolet's were mass produced, on a much larger scale.
Just as a post script regarding the Jaguar XK SS. I understand that the reason behind these particular Jaguars is that the race cars were becoming obsolete and uncompetitive and Jaguar were finding them difficult to sell. So it was decided to turn them into "road" cars. If you call a car capable of 170mph uncompetitive! !!
Jokes on him, Ferrari 308s sky rocketed in price. They seemed to have settled but I’m sure they raise again. Great car. I owned a 328 GTS when they were affordable. (I’m poor now).
It would be nice to transform "The Vault" into a show able part of the museum... or at the very least charge a premium for "Vault Tours". Or a "behind the scenes" tour. Always nice to have a garage tour with in progress restorations. It just seems all that extra space down there it would be interesting to enlarge the museum. But Hey, at the end of the day. I am not I'm sure there are logistical issues that would prevent that.
that isnt the Daytona Spider in Gumball Rally. the spider in the movie had Cast Crommadora Wheel's, Not Borrani's. and the interior was tan, not black.. the front trim on top of light's was red not silver. Id take the Daytona Spider over the Cobra 427 anytime, anywhere.
***** This is the internet and you're wrong. I fail to believe that you, of all the idiot RU-vid viewers, knows more about that Ferrari than the guys that actually possess it and have access to any information about the car. You need to get off the internet now, your sister wants her computer back.
Chris Pappas there where two Daytona's used in gumball rally and this one wasn't the main car,the main Ferrari was also used in the film a star is born also 1976 and was smashed up badly,a guy bought the car and had it rebodied into a Ferrari nart spyder ,sad but true.
Chris Pappas there where two Daytona's used in gumball rally and this one wasn't the main car,the main Ferrari was also used in the film a star is born also 1976 and was smashed up badly,a guy bought the car and had it rebodied into a Ferrari nart spyder ,sad but true.
Who replaced the Chromodoras with Borranis, removed the Cibies and painted the front of the Gumball 365!? Apocryphal!! Raul is bouncing off the rev limiter where ere he is... Franco wouldn’t stand for such!
Craig Pilgrim it was Detroit that Saddam got the key to. Evidently he donated several hundred thousand dollars to a church, which seems inconceivably weird. Then again in the world of politics evil is on a sliding scale.
The 300SL was not the first production car with fuel injection, that was the Gutbrod Superior. People talking in this show should know at least a little bit about these cars.
I think the curator can be forgiven for not knowing about an obscure car never imported into the USA and never documented in any English-language publication prior to wikipedia. Wikipedia's fuel injection article gives a long list of gasoline and diesel engines that used fuel injection before the Gutbrod Superior. The gasoline engines were intended for airplanes, but people back then could and did put aircraft engines in cars. "Immediately following the war, hot rodder Stuart Hilborn started to offer mechanical injection for race cars, salt cars, and midget racers,[9] well-known and easily distinguishable because of their prominent velocity stacks projecting upwards from the engines on which they were used." This is the first cited automotive use of a technology that was already commonplace in the airplane industry and on diesel engines. "The first automotive direct injection system used to run on gasoline was developed by Bosch, and was introduced by Goliath for their Goliath GP700 automobile, and Gutbrod in 1952. This was basically a high-pressure diesel direct-injection pump with an intake throttle valve." So Gutbrod was not an exclusive user of the Bosch system. In 1952 it was also used by Goliath. And it was a simple adaptation of diesel engine technology to a twin-cylinder two-stroke gasoline engine. The Gutbrod wikipedia article makes clear that the Superior did not get this engine upgrade until 1953: "An updated version of the Gutbrod Superior introduced in 1953 benefited from developments towards fuel injection undertaken by Mercedes-Benz dating initially from 1935..." Therefore it is more correct to give the Goliath GP700 the honor of first production use of fuel injection in an automobile, despite the rest of this sentence giving the honor to Gutbrod.
will the owner of the grew Mongrow "T"with the junk all over it and the surf board seats please go to the parking lot. There's no problem. The attendant and i only wants to see what you look like!"
