S1 Ep203: Robert E Peterson: The Most Interesting Car Guy in the World

Past Gas

Donut Media

Leisure, Comedy, History, Automotive

4.9 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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June 11, 1994. It’s the opening night of The Petersen Automotive Museum, and Hollywood is out in full force. But it’s not the celebrities we usually think of - it’s the cars they drive. None of this would have been possible without the charity and automotive passion of the museum’s namesake: Robert E. Petersen. How did he turn his passion for hot rodding into the modern car show? How did he, without a formal education, turn an 8-page, 25 cent magazine into one of the world’s premier publishing companies? And how would he come to create an automotive mecca in the heart of LA? Today on Past Gas: The story of Robert E. Petersen and The Petersen Automotive Museum.

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1:30.3	another episode. Today we're talking about Robert E Peterson the founder of the
1:34.9	Peterson publishing company. You know his work hot rod magazine which he started
1:39.0	with like 200 bucks and just real grassroots magazine that turned into an
1:43.8	entire publishing empire. You know the Peterson Automotive Museum we go there
1:47.4	all the time. That's also him. This dude had an insane life. Yeah it's crazy.
1:52.4	James is very jealous and you're going to find out why. Welcome to the episode.
1:57.1	Let's begin. Have you ever had Melinda's hot sauce? No. I've had anus destroyer hot
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