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Six concept cars featured at Petersen Museum

LOS ANGELES — The Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles has unveiled a new exhibit featuring six General Motors Motorama concept vehicles from the Joe Bortz Collection. The new “GM’s Marvelous Motorama: Dream Cars From the Joe Bortz Collection” opened March 16 and will spotlight cars from the 1953, 1954 and 1955 GM Motorama shows together for the first time.

The vehicles feature the experimental design and vision of legendary

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