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Simeone Automotive Museum hosts supercar exhibit

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A 2015 Aston Martin Vanquish will be one of the modern supercars on display | Simeone Museum photos
A 2015 Aston Martin Vanquish will be one of the modern supercars on display | Simeone Museum photos

Twenty of the world’s greatest supercars will be on display April 4-19 in a special exhibit at the Simeone Foundation Automotive Museum in Philadelphia, featuring an international selection from the US, Italy, England, Germany and Japan.

“Supercars at the Simeone Museum” will highlight high-performance road-going sports cars from the ’90s through today by Lamborghini, McLaren, Aston Martin, Bentley, Porsche, Rolls-Royce, Corvette, Viper, Ford, Nissan, Lexus and Acura.

The 1964 Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe will run at Demo Day
The 1964 Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe will run at Demo Day

During the exhibit, the world-renowned motorsports museum will host one of its Demo Days, in which cars from the collection are demonstrated in action for spectators. April 11, the Demo Day will include two important cars from the museum, the 1964 Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe, which was the first car inducted to the National Historic Vehicle Register, and a 1966 Ford GT40 MKII.

The cars expected for display in the supercar exhibit are:

  • 2002 Acura NSX
  • 2015 Aston Martin DB9
  • 2015 Aston Martin Vanquish
  • 2012 Aston Martin V12 Vantage
  • 2015 Bentley Continental GT
  • 1993 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1 40th
  • 2009 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1
  • 1996 Dodge Viper GTS Coupe
  • 2012 Dodge Viper ACR 1:33
  • 2006 Ford GT
  • 2001 Lamborghini Diablo VT
  • 2015 Lamborghini Aventador
  • 2015 Lamborghini Huracan
  • 2012 Lexus LFA
  • 2015 McLaren 650S Coupe
  • 2015 McLaren 650S Spider
  • 2013 Nissan GT-R
  • 2015 Rolls-Royce Wraith
  • 1997 Porsche 993 C2S
  • 2001 Porsche 996 C4S

For more information about the Simeone museum and the supercar exhibit, see SimeoneMuseum.org.

 

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Bob Golfen
Bob Golfen
Bob Golfen is a longtime automotive writer and editor, focusing on new vehicles, collector cars, car culture and the automotive lifestyle. He is the former automotive writer and editor for The Arizona Republic and SPEED.com, the website for the SPEED motorsports channel. He has written free-lance articles for a number of publications, including Autoweek, The New York Times and Barrett-Jackson auction catalogs. A collector car enthusiast with a wide range of knowledge about the old cars that we all love and desire, Bob enjoys tinkering with archaic machinery. His current obsession is a 1962 Porsche 356 Super coupe.

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