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title: "Your Private Garage Would Look Like Bruce Meyer’s Private Garage"
description: "Ferraris, the first Shelby Cobra, big-displacement race bikes and a Le Mans-winning turbo Porsche. This is what happens when someone like us hits it big."
date: "2015-11-16"
modified: "2015-11-16"
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  - name: "David Traver Adolphus"
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url: "https://www.thedrive.com/vintage/901/your-private-garage-would-look-like-bruce-meyers-private-garage"
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# Your Private Garage Would Look Like Bruce Meyer’s Private Garage

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Bruce Meyer is a man worth emulating. He’s a prominent old-car evangelist, co-founder of the Petersen Museum, with a proper racing résumé to boot: He holds a hot rod land speed record, and only recently gave up “serious” big-displacement motorcycle racing. Myers (not Bruce Meyers of [dune buggy](<https://www.meyersmanx.com/>) fame) is a player in the collector scene, too, but a relatively quiet one—a low-key guy, who was racing trials bikes during the *[On Any Sunday](<https://www.brucebrownfilms.com/about/filmography/on-any-sunday/>)* era before making it big in real estate. But don’t let the money fool you; he’s one of us. (Example: Myers won a cabinet of ribbons at [Pebble Beach](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/197/wish-you-were-here-pebble-beach>), at the same time bothering them until they let his beloved hot rods into the Concours). He’s machines first, everything else second. But he never really had a proper garage.

Instead, he kept a two-story converted shoe warehouse in Beverly Hills that he’d used as an office since 1968. When he turned 70, in 2010, he gave himself a little present: a private sanctuary. He never intended it to be well-known, but with completion coinciding with the Jay Leno celebrity car collector era, his friends have coaxed him out. It’s still not public, so a peek inside is a treat, considering it holds some of the most amazing cars in the world. That includes a lineup of important Ferraris, the first production 1962 Cobra and a Briggs Cunningham Le Mans Corvette. Also: The 1979 Porsche 935 that won Le Mans overall, which [his buddy Bruce Canepa pretended to have seized](<https://www.sportscardigest.com/le-mans-winning-porsche-935-k3-seized/>) by the DEA. Then there's the Wall Of Bikes...

The folks over at [V3LLUM](<https://v3llum.com/>) recently got the chance to take a tour of Meyer’s “garage,” and it’s approximately every automotive dream rolled into one. “It’s a fun place that I can enjoy with my friends,” he said. Here’s hoping Bruce wants more friends.

https://youtube.com/embed/nijlNVL6xLI

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