This is not a publicity stunt for the Petersen Automotive Museum, it's merely moving day for an exhibit of vintage travel trailers. They're moving out, not in, but they wouldn't fit through the narrow corridors of the Petersen's parking garage, so they had to be airlifted from the second floor to the street.
The pre-1940 trailers were part of an exhibit called From Autocamps to Airstreams: The Early Road to Vacationland. They were cleared out to make way for the latest exhibit called What Were They Thinking? The Misfits of Motordom. According to the Petersen museum, the new display explores vehicle ideas where "thinking outside of the box" didn't live up to the success that it may have promised.
Care to guess which cars are in that exhibit?
stovt001 says:
04:31 PM, 03/14/09
The trailer display was great. I think I'll have to go down and see the new display. It sounds very intriguing.
firstwagon says:
12:53 PM, 03/15/09
Hmmm... old trailers suspended from cranes makes me think of this....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtztZz7A4xA
Great bit even though it's painful to watch the Musketeer get destroyed. I have a 1971 Sprite Musketeer that's a great old camper.