The Petersen Automotive Museum will host the May edition of Sunset GT @ the Petersen, presented by O’Gara, on Sunday, May 24, 2026, from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM. The event runs on the museum’s Wilshire Boulevard campus in the Miracle Mile and continues one of the most consistently watched curated supercar mornings on the Los Angeles calendar.

For collectors based on the Westside, Beverly Hills, and the Hollywood Hills, Sunset GT is the recurring touchpoint where the cars that normally live behind garage doors come out together in daylight. It is also one of the few standing events on the West Coast calendar where the cars in the parking lot are routinely as interesting as the cars inside the museum. With Memorial Day weekend running Friday May 22 through Monday May 25, the event lands squarely in the middle of one of the most well-attended long weekends of the spring.

What to Expect

Sunset GT is described by the museum as a curated gathering of supercars and hypercars — and ‘curated’ is the operative word. This is not an open cruise-in. The roster is selected, the cars are positioned with thought, and the show floor on the museum’s apron typically holds a tight, high-quality field rather than an open lawn. Past editions have drawn a routine mix of modern hypercars (Ferrari LaFerrari, McLaren Senna, Aston Martin Valkyrie, Bugatti Chiron variants, Pagani Huayra), boutique limited builds, and the kind of Porsche, Lamborghini, and Ferrari production cars that collectors here actually drive on Sunday mornings rather than trailer to events.

The O’Gara presenting role matters. O’Gara Coach is one of the dominant retail and collector advisory operations in the Los Angeles luxury-automotive ecosystem, with deep relationships across Beverly Hills, the Westside, and Orange County collector circles. Their presenting touch on Sunset GT is what keeps the roster pulling the cars it does — the show benefits from the same network that turns out for O’Gara’s other curated activations through the year.

Who Comes Out

The audience is the other half of the value proposition. Sunset GT pulls a working collector crowd: people who own and drive serious cars, dealers and brokers who run boutique inventory, restorers, fabricators, and the advisors and asset specialists who quietly support the Los Angeles collector-car market. The conversations on the apron tend to be about provenance, builds, allocation status on the latest releases, and where the market is moving across specific models and years.

That is exactly the audience Beverly Loan Company has worked with for over 80 years. As a federally licensed pawnbroker offering discreet asset-backed loans against high-value collateral — including collector and exotic automobiles — we tend to see the same names that turn out at Sunset GT in the long-term collector advisory conversations that happen quietly around any serious car. Curated events like this one are where that part of the Los Angeles market actually meets itself in person.

Why It Matters on the Calendar

The Petersen has structured its 2026 calendar so that Sunset GT alternates with the museum’s other recurring formats — the open Cruise-In (the next one runs Sunday, May 31), the Italian Car Cruise-In (next on June 28), and tentpole programming including WagonFest, which ran May 3, and the upcoming Collectors’ Summit on June 7 and the Le Mans Beyond the Race programming on June 13. Sunset GT is the format that consistently delivers the highest-end roster, and the May 24 date positions it as the centerpiece supercar morning of the Memorial Day weekend in Los Angeles.

For collectors looking at the late-May to mid-June window in Los Angeles, the schedule essentially runs: Sunset GT on May 24, the Cruise-In on May 31, the Collectors’ Summit on June 7, Le Mans-themed programming on June 13, and the Italian Car Cruise-In on June 28. Sunset GT opens that run on the strongest note. The Petersen’s own Father’s Day weekend programming, plus the 31st Annual Rodeo Drive Concours d’Elegance on Sunday, June 21, fills out the weeks that follow.

Practical Details

• Event: Sunset GT @ the Petersen, presented by O’Gara
• Date: Sunday, May 24, 2026
• Time: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
• Location: Petersen Automotive Museum, 6060 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036
• Format: Curated supercar and hypercar gathering on the museum apron
• Registration / Ticket Info: Spectator access via the Petersen website at petersen.org/events; supercar registration through the museum’s Sunset GT registration page
• Parking: Petersen subterranean parking and Wilshire-corridor lots; arrive early for the prime spectator window

What Goes With It

The Petersen’s full Vault tour and current exhibitions remain open during Sunset GT hours, which is part of why the format works for an early-Sunday window — the morning runs from 9 to noon, leaving the rest of the day open for a Vault walk-through, a lunch on Wilshire, or a roll east toward Larchmont or south toward Beverly Hills. The museum’s permanent Hollywood and motorsport galleries are routinely refreshed, and the current exhibition slate is worth checking before the event so that the post-show Vault visit is intentional rather than incidental.

Why This Event Lands on the Beverly Loan Calendar

Sunset GT @ the Petersen sits squarely in the kind of Los Angeles collector ecosystem we pay attention to. The cars on the apron — modern hypercars, boutique builds, blue-chip Italian and German production — are exactly the asset class that supports a meaningful share of high-value collateral conversations in the Beverly Hills market. Curated events like this one are where collectors compare notes, where dealers and advisors meet quietly between the cars, and where the next round of allocations, sales, and discreet liquidity events tends to be informally previewed.

If a collector car is part of your asset picture, Sunset GT is one of the standing dates worth marking on the calendar. Beverly Loan Company has provided discreet, federally licensed asset-backed loans against luxury collateral — including collector cars, watches, jewelry, and fine art — out of Beverly Hills for over eight decades. Sunday, May 24 on Wilshire is exactly the kind of morning the Los Angeles collector calendar is built around.