The Petersen Automotive Museum will have a good time “Dream Vehicles” from the Nineteen Fifties with its latest exhibit, “GM’s Marvelous Motorama: Dream Vehicles From the Joe Bortz Assortment,” which is able to open on March 16. The exhibit will characteristic six idea vehicles, collectively for the primary time below one roof, initially displayed at GM Motorama exhibits in 1953, ‘54 and ‘55.

Situated within the Audrey and Martin Gruss Basis Gallery, the exhibit will discover the historical past of Basic Motors’ touring Motorama exhibits. Legendary GM stylist Harley Earl used the exhibits to current experimental non-production vehicles that featured design and technological ideas a few of which discovered their technique to manufacturing vehicles. A couple of fashions, just like the Corvette, even went into manufacturing.

Six vehicles shall be featured within the exhibit, together with three rescued from close to destruction at Warhoops Auto and Truck Components in Sterling Heights, Michigan. After their time within the highlight, the vast majority of “Dream Vehicles” have been despatched to scrap yards to be minimize aside and crushed. Amongst these preserved have been 4 vehicles saved by Warhoops workers and squirreled away amongst junked automotive our bodies. After listening to rumors concerning the saved “Dream Vehicles” within the mid-Nineteen Eighties, collector Joe Bortz bought the 4 vehicles from the scrapyard.

Museum guests will see the 1955 LaSalle II Roadster and 1955 Chevrolet Biscayne, which Bortz painstakingly restored after each have been minimize in half in preparation for the crusher, in addition to a 1955 LaSalle Sedan in its “junkyard recent” situation. Further vehicles featured within the exhibit are the 1953 Pontiac Parisienne, 1953 Buick Wildcat and a very authentic and unrestored 1954 Pontiac Bonneville Particular.

“These vehicles are the Picassos and Rembrandts of this automotive technology,” mentioned Bortz. “To see six of them collectively, all from the ‘50s, and all the actual deal is a once-in-a-lifetime alternative.”

“Joe Bortz has an extremely distinctive assortment of historic vehicles, the likes of which have by no means been displayed on the museum,” mentioned Petersen Automotive Museum Government Director Terry L. Karges. “The Motoramas have been an essential a part of automotive historical past, and we’re excited to share these ‘Dream Vehicles’ with fanatics from around the globe.”

“GM’s Marvelous Motorama: Dream Vehicles From the Joe Bortz Assortment” shall be on show by means of March 2026. To buy tickets or for extra details about the Petersen Automotive Museum, please go to Petersen.org/displays.