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How about some eye candy for Valentine’s? Massive Porsche exhibit coming to Petersen

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You’d have to travel to Porsche’s global home garage in Stuttgart, Germany, to see a display anything like this, the Petersen Automotive Museum says of its new show opening this weekend.

Fifty of the brand’s most legendary models will be on the Petersen’s stage in “The Porsche Effect” show starting Saturday, including the 1938 Berlin-Rome Type race car, the Porsche 935 K3 Le Mans winner, the Gulf 917K and the X83 Turbo S Flachbau 964.

For the record:

12:07 a.m. Feb. 2, 2018

Changes Porsche 953 to 935.

The Petersen’s own 901 and Continental and 906 race car will also be among the show’s main draws.

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The yearlong exhibit is being staged in partnership with Porsche Cars North America and will be staged in the museum’s Mullin Grand Salon.

General admission to the museum includes access to the Porsche exhibit. Tickets are $16, $13 for seniors and students and $8 for children 3-12.

Additional Porsches will be on display in the vault tour, the museum’s underground treasury. Separate $20 tickets are required for that.

Info: (323) 930-2277. The museum is located at 6060 Wilshire Blvd., in Los Angeles. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., seven days a week.

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