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| Jasnuary 24th 2016, The Breakfast Club Cruise-In at the Petersen Auto Museum in Los Angeles. |
The
Petersen Auto Museum in Los Angeles has recently been refurbished and was only
recently reopened in December 2015. One
of their regular events is a Breakfast Club Cruise-In and one of the first
since since the reopening in December was held on January 24th 2016. As I was in the area I decided to attend but I wasn’t prepared for the awesome number of cars that attended. Vintage cars, Classic cars, Sports cars,
Custom cars, Hot Rods and Super cars turned up in force and over 200 cars were
spread over two floors of the multi-storey car park. Here are some
of the more interesting cars I spotted:
VINTAGE
Only a few
vintage cars turned up but they were rather interesting and included a rare
LaSalle Roadster and A Pebble Beach winning Bentley.
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| 1928 LaSalle 303 Roadster. La Salle was one of the Brands used by GM for cars just below the luxury quality of Cadillac. However, this car would still have cost over $3,000 when new. |
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| 1925 Bentley Speed 4 cyl. This car has been a Pebble Beach winner and is in absolutely immaculate condition. |
CLASSIC
As well as
the inevitable Chevrolets and Fords they was quite a variety in this group.
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| Beautiful, big 1967 Pontiac GTO convertible. |
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| The Hell's Belles were there with their girly cars. Great to see them and this this pink Ford Rambler. |
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| 1948 Nash arriving at the Cruise-In. |
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| Stunning Maserati Sebring. |
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| Chevrolet Impala Convertible. |
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| Nash Metropolitan. |
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| Fiat 500. |
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| Chevrolet Camaro SS |
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| A Ford Capri. |
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| Circa 1980 Ferrari Mondial Convertible. Rather nice condition. |
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| Cadillac |
SPORTS CARS
For us Europeans there were a few cars that we don’t often see amongst
the sports cars.
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| Dodge Viper SRT |
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| Saturn Sky Roadsters |
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| "Honda" Acura NSX |
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| Lange Concepts LCIIISPider - a one-off. |
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| Morgan |
CUSTOM CARS
& HOT RODS
Given that
Robert Petersen originally started his publishing company with Hot Rod Magazine,
it was appropriate that a number of them turned up.
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| Chevrolet Alternomad custom car. |
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| Very low slung custom Mercedes-Benz. |
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| Custom Ford truck. |
SUPER CARS
I was
particularly impressed by the number of Ferraris, Lamborghinis and Aston Martins that
turned up.
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| Ferrari |
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| Lamborghini |
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| Aston Martin |
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| Jaguar F Type Project 7 |
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| Jaguar F Type project 7 |
It was
great speaking to some of the owners of these fantastic vehicles. If you get a chance, do attend to one of
these cruise-ins either as an owner or enthusiast. Sometimes they are open events like this and
sometimes specialist events for a particular marque.
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| Cosworth engined single seater road car - The BAC Mono. A 2.3L 280BHP engined F3 chassis made street legal. |
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| Vector Avtech prototype. |
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| Tailpiece - A tool room replica Ford GT40. |
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