iPetersen Automotive Museum · Miracle Mile
Jeff Zwart: Life at ZwartSpeed
Photographer, filmmaker and Pikes Peak racer Jeff Zwart's four-decade life with Porsche, told through his images, films and historic cars in The Vault.
Somewhere in this room is a camera with masking tape on it. Zwart's mother wrote "Jeff's first camera" on the tape, and he found it again while going through his archives for the show.
Almost everything here came from those archives, packed into one room in the Vault: eight Porsches, a wall of his racing helmets, about 25 film slates, trophies, and stills and clips from four decades of car advertising. You walk from a 1953 356 to the Mobil 1 911 GT2 he raced up Pikes Peak in 2002, past the Safari rally 911 built by Tuthill. One of the eight Porsches is a tractor. Zwart told Forbes the Petersen is "not really used to having tractors on display."
The title is his film crew's name for his shooting pace. Come for Porsche history and for how car ads get made. It's in the Vault, so you need a Vault ticket: $52 for adults, $25 for ages 4 to 11.
Look for
The Porsche System P 312 tractor
A 1954 Porsche farm tractor that Zwart himself calls "a wonderful kind of art deco caricature of itself."
The Panama-Alaska 914-6
Zwart's first car, still wearing the livery from his second-place finish in the Panama-Alaska Rally.
The Pikes Peak 911 GT2
The 2002 car in Mobil 1 graphics that stands for his Pikes Peak wins, shown with his 1990s trophies and Hall of Fame plaque.
The Carrera 6 on Luft's platforms
Look under his 1966 Porsche 906: it sits on the wooden platforms from Luftgekühlt, the Porsche show series he is creative director of.
The skibob and the mountain bike
Tucked into a corner, an Arova-Porsche 212 Skibob, a bicycle frame on skis, paired with a mountain bike.
Good for
- An Hour Or Less
- Nerding Out
Skip if
You don't care about Porsche: all eight vehicles in the room are Porsches, tractor included.
With kids
Tickets for ages 4 to 11 are $25 and include the Vault, where this show is.
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- Jeff Zwart: Life at ZwartSpeedCourtesy of Petersen Automotive Museum
- Screenwriting: Takes on LA NoirCourtesy of Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
- Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood IconCourtesy of Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
- Studio Ghiblis PONYOCourtesy of Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
- Petersen Automotive MuseumDavid Zaitz / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Academy Museum of Motion PicturesDowntowngal / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)ArchEyes Magazine / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
- Craft ContemporaryPaul Esposito / Wikimedia Commons, Public domain