Airborne Airstreams
The Petersen Automotive Museum’s popular “From Autocamps to Airstreams” exhibit will close February 8, and if you hang around Los Angeles for a couple days after the exhibit closes, you…
The Petersen Automotive Museum's popular “From Autocamps to Airstreams” exhibit will close February 8, and if you hang around Los Angeles for a couple days after the exhibit closes, you might get to catch a few of the trailers hanging, literally, from the top of the museum. The exhibit is in the second floor and requires craning 9 of the pre-1940 trailers down to street level, because they are too large to go through the curved ramps of the parking structure. It will be quite a spectacle on Fairfax Avenue on Tuesday, February 10th. If you missed the installation craning last June, this will be a good time to experience and record something that you are not likely to see again.
Angelo Van Bogart is the editor of Old Cars magazine and wrote the column "Hot Wheels Hunting" for Toy Cars & Models magazine for several years. He has authored several books including "Hot Wheels 40 Years," "Hot Wheels Classics: The Redline Era" and "Cadillac: 100 Years of Innovation." His 2023 book "Inside the Duesenberg SSJ" is his latest. He can be reached at avanbogart@aimmedia.com