The Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles - Walk Thru Tour of Movie / TV and Classic Cars
A visit to the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles California . An expansive collection of cars and vehicles spanning thru history as well as a lot used in tv and movies.
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today's adventure brings us to the
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corner of Fairfax Avenue and Wilshire
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Boulevard Los Angeles
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California this amazing
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facade on this rather large Museum the
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Peterson
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Automotive Museum to be
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exact let's head over I have been here
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once before a little over a year ago to
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check out the a car from Back to the
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Future which has been restored and is on
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display inside this building welcome
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everyone Adam the woo here but I'm back
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for a full tour not just that one
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particular vehicle but a detailed walk
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through of the premises there's a lot to
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see here and it's been a while since I
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was on site I'm inviting you to join me
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shall you add in the fact that they are
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celebrating their 25th
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anniversary in
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2019 it's pretty
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exciting I just can't get over the
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exterior of this place pretty
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wild sleek and aerrow
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dnamic in
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proportion all right I think parking
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prices are as follows if you want to
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make a quick mental note before arriving
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and once in the structure you will be
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parking next to official Vehicles which
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are also down here
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including this
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Porsche with decorative backdrop by
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making your way to your spot you'll also
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pass this
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1924
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Franklin just chilling here right next
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to where you pay for parking and that
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little machine to the left is this
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screen used vehicle moon rover that was
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used in the prequel to alien the 2012
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Ridley Scott film Prometheus once in the
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lobby you are presented with these
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cars and the gift shop right across the
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way there sponsored by
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Jagermeister this thing gets up to 235
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mph
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it's pretty fast 1932 Ford Roadster it's
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located just next to where the desk is
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to purchase tickets look at this teeny
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tiny item pretty much comes up to my
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waist I don't even know if I could cram
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into that car I'm doing the regular
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admission they also have a vault tour
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that's 75 minutes long for an additional
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$23 but they do not allow filming press
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the button
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here wait for the doors to to open no
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not the
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doors not the not the doors the gwing
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doors the
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doors to the
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elevator second
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floor doesn't really need an
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introduction if you've seen the Disney
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Pixar movie Cars Lightning McQueen and
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he's not the only one check it out back
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here following suit in SLE file line I
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always like the the eyes on the
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windshield creates a personality
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speaking of racing inside there is the
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Bruce Meyer family Gallery some of these
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are really cool looking there's more
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than a few in this room including this
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1964 World Record holder a th000
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horsepower known as the belly tank but
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my first impression is how how teeny and
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Tiny the compartment where you sit is
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it's like very little room the first
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production
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Cobra right
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here yeah most of these not made for
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Comfort but for Speed not with comfort
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in mind stepping into another section of
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low
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riders and hot
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rods it's pretty fancy
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just look how low down to the ground it
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is if you hit a speed
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bump would not be good or you have to
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take it really slow you have to go over
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it very minimal speed according to the
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information placard in front it says
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this was used in the 2003 movie Too Fast
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Too Furious the opening
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scenes be hard to
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forget it's pretty obvious the Ray Brown
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Roadster was sold years ago four decades
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later forgotten about was found in
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1991 in this pristine condition solar
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powered and if that's not beneficial
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enough the little Archway acts as a
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saale for
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aerodynamics not
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aerodynamic the interesting thing about
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this however is the inside look at the
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seating arrangements the thing I'd worry
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about with this is if someone was
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driving towards you and front ended you
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they wouldn't crash they would just ramp
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up over the side the the hood is like a
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ramp it's so close to the ground it's
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like Up Up and Away an interactive walk
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through of a
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Maserati facility in Italy basically all
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you have to do is take your finger and
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you get a
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360 view who I'm kind of like I think
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I'm doing something wrong just shift it
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okay let's go slower
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all right that's bad whoa whoa whoa now
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I'm looking at the at the there's an
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there's an employee okay that's
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better and you just get your own private
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tour and if that view is not good for
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you slowly I'm going go slowly now shift
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it this way and I can look in the
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opposite
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direction get the inside scoop along
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this line of motorcycles noticing the
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name on this one the crap
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shoot some items that belong to Robert
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Peterson this replica of the Olympic
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torch that he carried for a leg during
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the
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1984 Olympics and this Viking helmet
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that he kept in his office to show his
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Heritage a camera here on the left that
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he used during the early stages of Hot
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Rod Magazine to take photos for for the
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publication that's him right there in
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the center of this wall
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display right in the middle took this
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winding staircase upward to the next
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level just so much to see here and multi
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floors a replica of what is considered
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to be the first practical car the 1886
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bz motor wagon only went 10 mph which
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even if you had this in current day
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would be fine in Los Angeles cuz that's
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about as fast as you could go
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in rush hour traffic and that old photo
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in the background shows what it would
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have been like to drive around the
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streets in that day and age not referred
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to as a motorcycle but a car on two
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wheels see right there car on two wheels
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notice the crank on the back near the
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exhaust back bumper a little turn switch
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this kind of reminds me of Chitty Chitty
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Bang Bang in a way it's not from the
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movie but it's just kind of jars my
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memory of that film you certainly will
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not blend in with this
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item no you will not be Incognito or in
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Disguise let's put it that way 1957 Ford
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Thunderbird yeah that's nice it's real
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nice I 100% would take a road trip in
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this one 100% would hit the road in this
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thing only one of seven built this was a
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street legal race car used in the James
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Bond film You Only Live Twice this can
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be seen as we all
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know you don't live twice at least I
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don't I don't think you check out this
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mural here this painting of Los Angeles
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you can see the cars driving down the
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freeway got city hall and then we're
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getting into Hollywood Capital Records
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building the Chinese
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Theater it's pretty cool oh up here
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Griffith Observatory and and that iconic
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sign and below the Hollywood Bowl that's
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pretty neat right there all
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along the side of that wall sometimes
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they have music playing in here and I
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have to wait for the song to stop to
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record and other times it's eerily quiet
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as it is right now you could hear
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basically a pin drop if a pen did drop
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I'm not saying a pen is dropping but if
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a pen were to drop I would probably hear
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it this was used the television show
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Outer Limits and a Jerry Lewis film for
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some reason I missed what was on the
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bottom floor so I came all the way back
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down here in the 1980s Porsche designed
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a few years worth of these miniature
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versions for children even had an active
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engine and transmission
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top take a look at some screen used
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movie Cars now of course Herby the Love
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Bug this was not in the original but in
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Herby fully loaded it was
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modified specifically for the film
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2005 the number 53 right there on the on
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the hood and the door used in a
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television series this is the Gypsy Rose
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and next to that is the Plymouth Fury
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used in the horror film Christine and
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even though there were over two dozen of
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these made there were only two stunt
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cars and this is one of those
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stunt cars the fascinating thing as they
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always had the windows tenden so you
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never knew if the car was driving itself
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or if the kid was in there driving
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Batman side car attached to the
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cycle holy sidecar Batman and I'm not
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just saying that on my own accord it
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states that wording right down there and
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from the 1989 Tim Burton the Batmobile
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right there
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Michael
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Keaton that's pretty freaking
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cool and and Batman Returns after
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reading the placard not only in the
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first film but also the second
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one keeping up with that series or at
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least in the same vein the same
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Batman phenomenon The Dark Night
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Rises this piece of mobile machinery and
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then the great gadsby which came out
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2013 you could see this vehicle just
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make my way down the road appeared in
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Iron Man 1 and 2 2008 and 2010 this 1932
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Ford
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flathead Roadster Thelma and Louise now
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obviously this is not the one they drove
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off the
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cliff it is another one but nonetheless
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this could be seen in the movie says
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here that it was used primarily for the
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closeup shots and sitting next to the
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DeLorean Tom celix 1982
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Ferrari for Magna Pi that has had to be
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customized his seat because he was tall
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kind of like me in order to fit to fit
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in there they had to adjust a few things
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to make it happen over in this case are
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a few items that you could use if you
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were polishing
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up and clinging like a Brill pad high
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gloss there's a magazine down here with
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Steve McQueen's cartoon image on it and
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a few
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trophies most items you are not allowed
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to touch or get into to their personal
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space except for a few like this Model T
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that you can sit behind the wheel prend
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you're driving it even in this I don't
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have a whole heck of a a lot of leg room
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being tall has this advantages you know
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I can get things out of the cupboard
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easily and reach things at the grocery
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store on the top shelf but sometimes you
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know airplane seats and mobiles make it
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a little bit difficult to change the
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gears and see I got to move my knee to
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shift
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this you win some you lose some there's
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advantages and disadvantages to anything
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I suppose I got to keep rolling on just
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realized this thing's not really driving
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it's just sitting still but kind of
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pretend out of all these I'm going to
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show you which could you picture me most
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in
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a b or lastly
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C I think this would be the most gas
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efficient so I'm hoping you choose this
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one
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because gas prices am I right now
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heading back down from the third floor
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down to the second down to the first and
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then the
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lobby this thing in the middle almost
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looks like a thermometer but it has
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numbers on it I'm not 100% sure what it
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is and what the numbers
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mean maybe there's a information plaque
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at the
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bottom this looks very this like a I
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mean like an alien stomach looking down
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the staircase
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back outside now discovered the reason
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they have this particular item out here
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is to Showcase that in a couple months
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May of 2019 there's going to be a new
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exhibit imaginative automobiles used in
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film television and video games that
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would probably be worth coming back to
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check out basically in the section where
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all the Porsche pair falia is will be
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removed stuff like this well maybe not
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this very large item but other items 40
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of them will be placed in that room so
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basically right inside there behind
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behind these windows is where it's going
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to be if you're in the snck of the woods
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around that time frame that's going to
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exiting in the parking lot in the
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structure there's a few more vehicles
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that probably at one point were on
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display this
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police cycle and trailer and this little
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teeny
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tiny thing not sure about these however
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those might be for personal use maybe on
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the roof of the fourth
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floor you can get a perspective of that
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facade that runs the entire perimeter of
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the museum building and as I pan to the
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left you will see some
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skyscrapers off over there zoom in a
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little more if you've ever seen the 80s
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film Die
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Hard nakatomi
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Plaza is over there to the left not the
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far left but pretty close to the to the
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left of your