The Petersen Automotive Museum closes out April with one of the most ambitious collector-car weekends on the Los Angeles calendar. From Friday, April 24 through Sunday, April 26, Drive Toward a Cure and the Petersen co-host “Get Me to the Greek” 2026 — a three-day Parkinson’s benefit built around canyon drives, a private-vault tour of the Petersen’s 300-car subterranean collection, and premium seating for the 50th-anniversary Neil Diamond tribute concert at the Greek Theatre. For Beverly Hills collectors, it is the rare event that combines enthusiast-grade driving, first-access museum programming, and a major cultural night in one curated weekend.

The Weekend at a Glance

“Get Me to the Greek” 2026 runs from 6:00 p.m. Friday, April 24 through 9:00 a.m. Sunday, April 26. It is the signature fundraising event for Drive Toward a Cure, the Los Angeles-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded by Deb Pollack in the wake of her mother’s death from Parkinson’s disease in 2006. Since 2016, the organization has raised more than $1 million for Parkinson’s care and research — contributions routed primarily to the Michael J. Fox Foundation and to regional Parkinson’s Foundation Centers of Excellence.

The weekend is capped on Saturday night, April 25, by “Neil Forever: Love at the Greek,” a 50th-anniversary tribute to Neil Diamond’s legendary 1976 “Hot August Night” follow-up live album, performed at the Greek Theatre by David Jacobson and his 14-piece ensemble. For anyone who followed the 1976 run — or inherited the vinyl — this is the rarest kind of tribute: the show is performed at the same venue, in the anniversary year, with a full period-accurate band.

The Petersen Component: Behind the Velvet Rope

The piece of the program that matters most to Beverly Hills collectors is the Saturday itinerary inside the Petersen. Participants lunch at the Meyers Manx Café on the ground floor, then receive a personally guided docent tour of The Vault — the Petersen’s subterranean collection that holds more than 300 of the rarest and most iconic vehicles in the museum’s inventory, with cars spanning more than 120 years of automotive history.

The Vault is not open to general museum admission. Standard Vault tours run on a scheduled basis at an elevated ticket tier and are docent-led; the “Get Me to the Greek” access is a dedicated tour with curated access timing that keeps the group small and the pace slow enough to actually look at the cars. The collection inside the Vault includes the kind of hardware that appears in Petersen exhibitions on rotation — presidential limousines, pre-war concours winners, celebrity-owned cars that have cycled through the main floor — plus the working reserves that rarely surface at all.

For collectors tracking the Petersen’s programming arc, the timing also matters. The museum’s new 25-year Fast & Furious exhibit opened on April 11 and will be on display in the main galleries during the weekend, which means participants have open access to a freshly installed exhibit in addition to the Vault tour. The exhibit covers a quarter-century of the tuner-culture cars that moved through the franchise — a category that, after years of being dismissed by traditional concours circles, has quietly become one of the more actively traded segments of the collector-car market.

The Drive: Los Angeles Canyon Roads

The rally portion of the weekend runs on Friday and Saturday morning along a curated route through the Los Angeles area canyon roads that have become the defining enthusiast driving terrain in California. Event organizers have kept the specific route closed to participants, but the general structure of previous Drive Toward a Cure events places the weekend on roads that move through the Santa Monica Mountains, up into the canyon network that threads Malibu, Topanga, and the Angeles Crest — the roads that have made Southern California the de facto testing ground for every luxury-performance car released in the last two decades.

Drive Toward a Cure’s history with these routes goes back to its inaugural event, the “California Adventure,” which hosted 70-plus drivers across 600 miles of coastline between Northern California and Los Angeles in 36 vintage, luxury, and other notable cars. The format has stayed consistent since: small group, no-race tempo, curated stops, and a fundraising throughline that keeps the cars and the cause in the same conversation all weekend.

The Greek Theatre Night

The cultural anchor of the weekend is Saturday night at the Greek Theatre in Griffith Park, where “Neil Forever: Love at the Greek” plays as a 50th-anniversary tribute to Neil Diamond’s 1976 live run at the venue. Drive Toward a Cure participants receive premium seats for the show and an invitation to a pre-concert private reception on the Greek Theatre’s Redwood Deck — a hospitality space tucked into the park’s canopy that catches the tail end of L.A.’s spring dusk. Food, drink, and camaraderie are on the reception menu; so is the opportunity to meet the organization’s leadership and the other drivers on the weekend before walking into the amphitheater.

The Greek’s capacity sits around 5,900 seats, and the venue has been on an upward programming arc across the 2026 season — major pop and country acts have been working their way through the amphitheater’s calendar since March. The Neil Diamond tribute is a different kind of booking: a nostalgia play targeted at a demographic that overlaps almost exactly with the collector-car community and with Beverly Hills’ legacy residents. That overlap is the reason this weekend works as a fundraising vehicle — the crowd at the Greek on April 25 is the same crowd that lunches at the Petersen earlier that day.

Why This Matters for Beverly Hills Collectors

Beverly Hills collector-car culture has always been defined by a small set of benchmark weekends — the Concorso Ferrari events at Rodeo, Racers Night at the Petersen, the Monterey run in August. “Get Me to the Greek” has quietly slotted itself into that same tier for the last several years, with a format that combines enthusiast-grade access with a clear philanthropic purpose. For residents of the Beverly Hills–Malibu corridor, it is a weekend that pairs driving, the Petersen, and the Greek Theatre in a curated sequence most calendars never manage to match.

For asset-focused collectors, there is a second reason to pay attention: these weekends matter to the market. Events that bring high-end collectors into sustained contact with each other — and with curators at institutions like the Petersen — are where consignments surface, where quiet trades get done, and where the next two auction cycles’ worth of top lots begin to move. “Get Me to the Greek” is smaller than Monterey and shorter than Amelia, but it is precisely the kind of closed-loop, high-quality weekend where the Southern California collector market tends to set its tone.

If You’re Going

Event: Drive Toward a Cure — “Get Me to the Greek” 2026 Weekend
Dates: Friday, April 24 (6:00 p.m.) through Sunday, April 26 (9:00 a.m.), 2026
Anchor Venue: Petersen Automotive Museum, 6060 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles
Concert: “Neil Forever: Love at the Greek” — Saturday, April 25 at the Greek Theatre
Beneficiary: Drive Toward a Cure for Parkinson’s Disease
Registration: drivetowardacure.org (partner registration also available via the Petersen’s events page)