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CARS AND FOUR STARS; L.A. legends honored at Petersen Museum.
Byline: PETE LYONS
Once upon a time, to hobnob with the likes of Bob Bondurant, Dan Gurney, Phil Hill, Parnelli Jones and Carroll Shelby, you'd have to hang out at racetracks. Hot, dirty, noisy places. On May 8, you could have done it in indoor elegance, minus at least the sunburn and grime.
This year's Cars and Stars fundraiser at the Petersen Automotive Museum (www.petersen.org) drew some 450 donors for a gala dinner with the theme "Racing Legends of Los Angeles."
Along with four of the five fabled drivers named above (Shelby had another commitment, but Bondurant filled in), the evening included historic racing-movie clips, unusually good food, memora-bilia auctions, both silent and loud, and very loud live vintage rock music.
World champ Hill, now driving a wheelchair because of Parkinson's, was able to stand and wave, to fervent applause, when he was introduced. The movie about his career, with eloquent narration by Sam Posey, was worth the trip by itself.
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Source: HighBeam Research, CARS AND FOUR STARS; L.A. legends honored at Petersen Museum.