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Join our man Jim as he delves into the captivating world of iconic celebrity vehicles and those featured in film and TV at the renowned Petersen Automotive Museum in the vibrant city of Los Angeles!

Prepare to be mesmerized by the likes of Transformers, Batman's sleek rides, the legendary KITT, and the beloved Lightning McQueen. The Petersen Museum isn't just an exhibition; it's a thrilling adventure through the most legendary wheels in entertainment history! Join Jim for an unforgettable exploration that will ignite your passion for the extraordinary vehicles that have graced the big and small screens.

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00:00 (upbeat music)
00:02 Hello folks and welcome to Men and Motors.
00:04 I'm personally ticking a huge box off my bucket list today
00:09 because I'm here at the Peterson Automotive Museum
00:12 in Los Angeles, one of the coolest motor museums
00:16 in the United States, if not the world.
00:18 And to start things off,
00:20 we've got the prototype Tesla Semi here.
00:23 This is capable of three to 500 miles of range,
00:27 nought to 60 in 20 seconds.
00:30 Obviously it's a big thing
00:31 and it's got top speed of 65 miles an hour.
00:35 So there we go.
00:36 Not many people have seen one of these.
00:38 Well, you're now seeing the first one, the prototype.
00:42 Let's get in the museum and we're gonna show you
00:44 some absolutely amazing vehicles in this video.
00:47 So get yourself a nice cup of tea,
00:49 wrap up nice and warm and enjoy.
00:52 So to get you started at Peterson,
00:53 we're gonna go through some of the movie cars
00:55 and we're starting off with this 1976 Chevy Camaro Z28.
00:59 You may recognize it as Bumblebee
01:01 from the "Transformers" movie.
01:03 And then moving over here,
01:04 we've got the more modern versions, the 2007 version.
01:08 It's the Camaro concept prop car for Bumblebee.
01:12 - So yeah, Bumblebee is portrayed
01:13 by two different Camaros, of course,
01:14 not by a Volkswagen Beetle like he's supposed to be,
01:16 but regardless, '78 Camaro that is all original,
01:21 of course made to intentionally look rusty and old,
01:24 but all the parts are actually original
01:25 as opposed to the 2007 Camaro,
01:27 which if you look closely is not a Camaro at all.
01:30 If you look at the discs, those aren't real brakes.
01:33 There's no caliper on them, right?
01:36 These winter wipers aren't real.
01:37 These door handles aren't real.
01:38 It's because those, you know,
01:39 those disc brakes aren't real
01:40 because they're covering up drum brakes
01:41 because this is a 1978 Pontiac.
01:43 They put a nice looking fake Camaro body on top.
01:46 And the reason why they had to use one real one
01:48 and one fake one was 'cause the fake one,
01:51 well, the real version of this car hadn't come out yet.
01:53 Most cars debut at car shows, right?
01:55 Where only people watching are car journalists
01:57 and car nerds, which is great,
01:59 but doesn't get a ton of attention outside of the car world.
02:02 This car debuted in the 2007 "Transformers" movie
02:06 and go figure, it was a huge hit.
02:07 People even paid extra to get the Bumblebee trim level,
02:10 which was just this paint scheme that you see here.
02:13 And so as long as it looked good enough on camera,
02:15 that was good enough for them.
02:16 But if you really look closely,
02:17 it's clearly not a real Camaro.
02:20 And so this was the first purchase they made
02:21 after opening the museum.
02:22 - Was this an actual movie car from the movie?
02:25 - Yes, all of these are actual movie cars
02:27 and most of them are the A car, the hero car.
02:29 So the car that's gonna be using most of the shots,
02:30 the most detailed one,
02:31 'cause it's also needed for interior shots.
02:33 Same with like the DeLorean you'll see downstairs.
02:35 But this one, it's really interesting how it was made.
02:37 So the guy who made it, I actually got to meet him recently.
02:40 He sculpted this out of clay, about yay big.
02:43 And Tim Burton goes, "I love it.
02:45 "How the hell does Batman get in the car?"
02:47 And the designer goes, "To be honest,
02:49 "I didn't really think about it."
02:50 So what they had to end up doing
02:52 was making it like a fighter jet.
02:54 This whole thing slides on forward.
02:56 Now the way the car was actually built,
02:58 obviously this is all custom fiberglass body.
03:00 The chassis is two Chevy Impala chassis all together.
03:04 Some of the other ones were half Chevy Impala,
03:06 half Plymouth Cutlass,
03:07 but either way, there are always two cars.
03:08 Chevy small block 350 carbureted, by the way,
03:11 Batman didn't even opt for fuel in the accident.
03:13 So kind of funny.
03:15 The turbo fans from a bomber jet from the '60s.
03:17 The jet on the back is from a Harrier jet from the '80s.
03:20 Of course they don't actually work.
03:21 The taillights, if you go look,
03:22 are very distinctly Ferrari taillights,
03:24 and the headlights are Honda Civic headlights
03:26 turned upside down.
03:27 And then, you know, filming with this car wasn't easy either.
03:31 You know, of course it doesn't turn very well,
03:33 it doesn't move very fast.
03:34 And getting Michael Keaton in and out wasn't easy either
03:37 because, you've seen the movie,
03:39 he kicks about this high,
03:40 he can't turn his neck without turning his whole body, right?
03:43 So he ultimately, the first few days of shooting
03:46 before they just realized, just make him wear pants,
03:48 he's lowered in with a crane.
03:50 And then on the first day, they lower him in and get ready
03:54 because it's the most useless fun fact
03:56 you're ever gonna learn.
03:57 - Good.
03:58 - They lower him in, they close the door,
04:00 and the tips of his bat ears got snipped off.
04:03 They didn't measure the ears on the costume
04:04 with the door itself.
04:07 And so they had to make a new cowl.
04:08 Every time he is in the Batmobile,
04:10 his ears are about half an inch,
04:11 three quarters of an inch shorter
04:13 than when he is outside of the Batmobile,
04:15 and that is the least useful fun fact you'll ever learn.
04:18 - But it is a fun fact.
04:19 - Yes, and you'll never forget it.
04:20 You know, you can read all the placards in here,
04:22 you'll never forget that his ears
04:23 are a little bit shorter.
04:25 - I was like 11 or something when this movie came out.
04:28 So for me, this is the Batmobile,
04:30 and I still think to this day, it's the coolest one.
04:32 - I think it's the best looking one.
04:33 - Yeah.
04:34 - I mean, there've been some cool ones since,
04:35 the Tumbler is cool, but it's just a big tank.
04:37 - Yeah.
04:38 - I quite like the new one from the last movie last year,
04:40 where it's like a Corvette with a rocket on it.
04:42 - Yeah.
04:43 - Just 'cause this is so high tech
04:45 and it has machine guns and grappling hooks
04:47 and you know, all this stuff.
04:48 And the other one's just like, oh, it's a big muscle car
04:50 and we put a jet on the back.
04:51 - Exactly, yeah.
04:52 - And it doesn't do anything else.
04:53 - Yeah.
04:54 - Also gas caps from an 18 wheeler, that's some other stuff.
04:56 - Oh, that's cool.
04:57 - I mean, it's all just hodgepodge together, you know.
04:59 - Yeah.
04:59 - In a really cool way.
05:01 - Nice.
05:01 - One of my favorite ones.
05:02 - Love it.
05:03 - Yeah.
05:04 - Another very cool movie car here,
05:06 1958 Plymouth Fury, better known as Christine.
05:10 Just check this one out.
05:11 All you Stephen King fans will be very jealous of me,
05:14 I'm sure, but a real piece of history here
05:17 and yeah, what a car.
05:20 You might recognize this 1966 Ford Thunderbird
05:33 as the car from Thelma and Louise
05:35 and that's because it is.
05:37 This one was used in most of the driving shots in the movie
05:39 where it was mostly sat in the back of a trailer
05:41 and being pulled, but obviously it gave the impression
05:43 that they're driving the car.
05:45 As you can tell from the condition,
05:46 it's not the one that they used to chuck over the cliff
05:50 at the end of the movie.
05:51 So this is a 1981 DeLorean.
05:58 It's actually the 1981 DeLorean from Back to the Future
06:02 and this is the hero car.
06:03 This is the one that's used in most of it.
06:06 It's not a prop car, not a stunt car.
06:08 This is the one that they're in in most of the movie.
06:10 This is not just from Back to the Future,
06:12 it's also from Back to the Future 2
06:13 and Back to the Future 3.
06:15 They use the same car throughout.
06:17 I cannot believe I'm standing next to it right now.
06:19 Absolutely adore those movies.
06:21 I did growing up, I still do to this day.
06:24 What a thing and everything's in here that you'd expect.
06:27 Obviously, can't film too much of it
06:30 because we're a bit restricted as to where we can get to,
06:32 but let's just say everything you saw in the movie
06:35 is in that car.
06:37 It looks incredible.
06:38 I cannot believe I'm here.
06:40 I need to change my underwear.
06:42 Some of the other epic cars we've got here
06:44 from TV and movies, the 1976 Gran Torino
06:48 that was in almost every series of Starsky and Hutch.
06:51 We've got 1966 Batcycle from Batman.
06:55 And then we've got one of my favorite cars ever,
06:59 one of my favorite TV shows as a kid.
07:02 We've got Kit from Knight Rider.
07:04 And once again, this was driven in Knight Rider.
07:07 It's not a prop car, it's one of the hero cars.
07:10 So Kit's actually a 1982 Firebird Pontiac Trans Am.
07:14 And although obviously this is the car from the screen,
07:18 everything on it is perfect as you would expect.
07:21 I have tried talking to it
07:22 and it doesn't unfortunately answer back.
07:25 Some other notable vehicles we've got in here folks,
07:28 1966 Beetle Herbie.
07:31 This was in the 2005 Lindsay Lohan movie,
07:35 Herbie Fully Loaded, which is a reboot
07:38 of the Herbie franchise.
07:39 We've got an S2000, 2001 model from Too Fast, Too Furious.
07:44 And we've got a 1932 Ford Flathead Roadster.
07:50 And this one's quite special.
07:52 It's from Iron Man, it was in Iron Man one and two.
07:55 And you can see the scene from the movie just there.
08:00 And what's even more special about this
08:02 is it was owned by Jon Favreau.
08:03 This is actually part of Jon Favreau's personal collection.
08:06 And he's obviously lent it to the Peterson Museum.
08:09 Jon Favreau of course, actor and director
08:13 in the Iron Man movies.
08:14 And then finally, got to show you this really.
08:19 This is a 1972 Bedford and it's the mystery machine
08:23 from the Scooby-Doo movie,
08:25 which we've got a picture of up there,
08:27 Freddie Prinze Jr., Matthew Lillard, et cetera.
08:31 And there you go.
08:33 You might recognize this 2002 Jag XKR
08:36 from the Piers Brosnan James Bond movie, Die Another Day.
08:40 In the ice chase scene, this was actually being driven
08:43 by the villain in that in pursuit of Bond.
08:45 You'll see it's got rockets, it's got a Gatling gun turret.
08:49 They weren't factory fit options from Jag.
08:52 So this one has been specially adapted for the movies.
08:55 But I personally loved Brosnan as Bond.
08:58 I know he's got his critics
09:00 and it's a real pleasure to be seeing this here today.
09:04 Does the name Memphis Reigns mean anything to you?
09:07 If so, you're probably aware of what I think
09:09 is a modern day classic gone in 60 seconds.
09:12 Now this car here is the one, it's Eleanor.
09:15 It's the car they spend most of the film trying to get.
09:18 It's a '69 Mustang designed by Chip Foose
09:22 and Steve Stanfield, this one.
09:24 It's designed to sort of replicate a GT500,
09:28 as you would expect from any kind of cheap Chip Foose car.
09:31 It's certainly got some custom touches
09:33 and little bits of artistic flair added throughout.
09:36 This is a gorgeous looking car.
09:37 I actually prefer it in the flesh to in the movie.
09:41 I love Mustangs personally,
09:42 and this is one of the nicest ones I can recall seeing.
09:46 Absolutely epic thing.
09:48 I only wish I could take it out for a spin.
09:50 I think they might get a bit upset if I did.
09:53 You might recognize this chap, of course.
09:55 It's Lightning McQueen from the Disney movie Cars,
09:57 Disney Pixar movie Cars.
09:59 I've seen pretty much every car in here
10:02 that's got a no touch rule,
10:03 and this one used to have a no touch rule,
10:06 but they had to give up
10:07 because kids just would not stop touching it.
10:10 So you'll see there are quite a lot of fingerprints on this.
10:12 Very cool, it is actually a full scale model,
10:15 and they've obviously used it for promotional events
10:18 around the movies and merchandise and what have you,
10:20 and it now lives here at the Peterson Museum.
10:23 And obviously we can't talk about Lightning McQueen
10:25 without talking about Sally.
10:26 She's also here.
10:27 2002 Porsche 911 Carrera.
10:30 Check it out.
10:32 (traffic humming)
10:35 If any of you watched the TV show American Hot Rod
10:41 back in the day,
10:42 you'll probably be familiar with Boyd Coddington.
10:45 Actually, Chip Foose, who you may also know,
10:48 sort of cut his teeth with Boyd Coddington
10:50 as one of his chief designers
10:52 for quite a long period of time
10:53 before Foose went off and set up his own business.
10:56 This one here is a 1992.
10:57 It's called the Aluma Coupe.
10:59 It was built obviously by Coddington.
11:02 320 horsepower, two liter turbocharged engine.
11:05 It's an inline four.
11:07 It's obviously one of one,
11:09 completely custom in every way.
11:11 One word, stunning.
11:13 This is a very special 911, particularly for music fans.
11:17 This one's called Turbosaurus Rex,
11:19 and it used to belong to Slash from Guns N' Roses,
11:22 one of my favorite guitarists.
11:24 This is a special custom paint.
11:27 It's the paint service that Porsche do.
11:29 It's called paint to sample.
11:30 This is forest green metallic,
11:33 and it basically alludes to Slash's love of reptiles,
11:36 dinosaurs, lizards, snakes, et cetera.
11:39 Gorgeous looking thing.
11:41 It's got loads of factory upgrades.
11:42 552 brake horsepower, 3.8 liter flat six.
11:47 I would take this car home right now,
11:50 but I think they might get upset about it.
11:52 The paint job, by the way,
11:53 I know we've talked about the color,
11:55 but it's so well done.
11:57 It really is a stunning, stunning paint job,
12:01 and I'd imagine a lot of hours have gone
12:03 into getting that up to that standard.
12:05 It looks amazing.
12:07 Now you might look at this and think,
12:09 well, it's just a Porsche 911,
12:10 but this is a very special one.
12:11 It's a 1976 930 Turbo Carrera,
12:16 but possibly the most interesting thing about this car
12:19 is it's the last new car purchased by Steve McQueen
12:22 just four years before he died.
12:24 The other interesting thing about this,
12:26 this is a three liter engine.
12:28 It's a rare non-intercooled early production model,
12:32 but just the history of that car,
12:34 the fact that it was Steve McQueen's last car,
12:36 means that I would imagine there's a fairly hefty value
12:39 attached to this one.
12:40 So here's something you don't see every day.
12:43 We've got a 1949 Porsche,
12:45 but over here we've got a 1948 356 wooden buck.
12:49 So back in the day, they would use this wooden buck,
12:53 put sheet metal on top of it,
12:54 and then hammer the bejesus out of it
12:56 until they got the form.
12:57 Obviously they didn't have really fancy sort of presses.
13:01 These were handmade cars.
13:02 And if you can imagine the craftsmanship
13:05 that goes into that,
13:06 and then to get a super smooth panel at the end of it,
13:09 it really gives you an appreciation for these kinds of cars
13:12 and the way they were built
13:13 and just how different it is from today.
13:16 Very cool.
13:17 This is a 1967 custom Porsche 911.
13:23 Like no other, really.
13:24 It was commissioned by Texas Porsche dealer, William Dick,
13:28 who wanted a larger Porsche car
13:32 to accommodate all his family, basically.
13:33 So he had it custom built by Troutman and Barnes.
13:36 He added 21 inches to the car's wheelbase.
13:40 And I mean, it's just mad.
13:43 I've never seen anything like it before.
13:44 Obviously never will again.
13:46 The paintwork on this one is starting to go in a few areas.
13:49 Certainly on the sides,
13:50 it's cleaned up very nicely on the bonnet, not so much.
13:53 But what a thing.
13:54 You'll never see another one, folks.
13:56 Now of all the cars I've seen at the Peterson Museum,
14:01 this has to be the most visually impressive thing.
14:04 First, it's huge.
14:06 And second, it's stunning.
14:07 And third, it's completely unique.
14:10 This is a 1925 Rolls-Royce Phantom One aerodynamic coupe.
14:15 It's called the Round Door Rolls.
14:19 Bit of a special project here.
14:21 Bit of very custom coachwork.
14:23 You can see the door is completely round,
14:25 hence the name Round Door Rolls.
14:28 And just look at that for a bit of engineering,
14:29 the way the windows open.
14:31 Obviously, semicircular glass,
14:33 that meat in the middle, absolutely awesome.
14:36 Huge covers over the wheels.
14:38 And just look at this for a back end, folks.
14:40 What an absolutely beautiful thing.
14:46 Let's get it from this side as well.
14:49 And it looks just as good on this side.
14:52 I'm just absolutely blown away by this thing.
14:56 It's absolutely huge as well.
14:58 And there's a little glimpse
15:03 of this equally stunning interior.
15:06 And look at that for a set of rims.
15:08 I bet they don't stop those tires in quick fit either.
15:11 And if the back end wasn't impressive enough,
15:16 look at that for an imposing front end.
15:18 And then we've got this seemingly tiny
15:22 little rates windscreen,
15:25 meaning that you'll be completely unaware
15:30 of the poor people that you're running over in this thing.
15:34 Look at that chrome work as well.
15:36 What a piece of design.
15:39 And so well executed.
15:43 Unbelievable.
15:44 Now this is a very special car here.
15:48 It's one of possibly only four or five.
15:52 No one's really entirely sure.
15:54 But it's a 24 carat gold 1981 DeLorean DMC 12,
15:58 2.85 liter V6 engine.
16:04 And you might think was fairly understandable
16:06 apart from the fact that it's covered in 24 carat gold.
16:11 And you'd be right, I guess.
16:13 However, this was built for American Express.
16:18 It was a promotion for their gold card.
16:20 And DeLorean, I think originally planned
16:22 to make about a dozen of these,
16:24 but in actual fact, ended up making only a handful.
16:27 No one's really sure how many they did make,
16:30 but I believe this one is number one.
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