1926 Miller 91 Armacost Special Indy Car

Miller 91 Armacost Special Indianapolis 500 car, Pertersen Auto Musueum, Los Angeles.

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Miller, Los Angeles, USA.  Harry Miller became a a builder of engines and racing cars especially for the Indianapolis 500 race.  They were very successful in the nineteen twenties and thirties.  This particular car raced 4 times at Indy but only managed a best place of ninth in 1929.  The 91 refers to its engine size in cubic inches.  The engine was supercharged and the car had a top speed of 155mph.  Today this car is part of the Charles Nearburg collection.

1934 Voisin C27 Roadster

1934 Voisin C27 Roadster, Petersen Auto Museum, Los Angeles.

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Automobile-Avions-Voisin, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France.  This car has bodywork by Figoni and was originally owned by the Prince of Persia. It has a 6 cylinder 3 litre engine. Although a military aircraft and luxury car maker, perhaps the most famous Voisin was the 1923 Voisin C6 Laboratoire Grand Prix car that competed against Sunbeam, Fiat and Bugatti in the 1923 French GP. A Voisin finished fifth.

1937 Delage D8-120 Coupe Aerosport

Delage D8-120 Coupe Aerosport, Petersen Automotive Museum, Los Angeles

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Delage, France.  The coarchbuilder was Letourneur et Marchand in Neuilly-sur-Seine on a Delage chassis that by this time was built in the Delehaye factory.  This car was restored after being found in a barn in the early nineties.

1970 McLaren M8D Can-Am

McLaren-Chevrolet M8D, Petersen Automotive Museum, Los Angeles

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McLaren, Colnbrook, England.  McLaren dominated the Can-Am series from 1967 to 1971.  The M8D won the 1970 Can-Am championship in the hands of Denny Hulme.  Pre-season Bruce McLaren had been killed testing the car at Goodwood.

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1938 HRG Airline Coupe

1938 HRG Airline Coupe, Petersen Automotive Museum, Los Angeles, 2016.

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HRG, Croydon, England. This was a one-off car.

1954 Mercedes-Benz W196

Petersen Automotive Museum, Los Angeles, 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196 Grand prix car.

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Mercedes-Benz, Stuttgart, Germany.  This streamliner F1 car won the 1954 Italian Grand Prix in the hands of Juan-Manuel Fangio.  It had a top speed of about 186 mph.   15 W196 were built to contest the F1 World Championship in 1954 and 1955.  Fangio was champion in both years.

1936 Bugatti T57SC Atlantic

Petersen Auto Museum, Los Angeles, 1936 Bugatti T57SC Atlantic.

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Bugatti, Molsheim, France.   Only 4 Atlantics were made and thus a very rare and valuable car.