The rooftop of the Petersen Automotive Museum on Wilshire Boulevard opened at 9 a.m. Sunday morning, May 24, for the May edition of Sunset GT — the curated supercar gathering presented by O’Gara Coach Beverly Hills that has quietly become one of the more honest read-outs on collector taste in this corner of Los Angeles. Free to spectate, three hours start to finish, and by noon the rooftop had emptied, owners had peeled off back down Wilshire, and the cars that mattered most had already been catalogued by every collector and dealer who came up the elevators.

This edition mattered for a specific reason: it landed the day after the Petersen’s World-Class: 100 Years of Mercedes-Benz exhibit opened its public doors. The Centenary show is downstairs through April 25, 2027 — 42 vehicles spanning 140 years of Mercedes history, the Walt Disney Pagoda, the Clark Gable 300Sc Cabriolet, the El Hadji Babacar Kébé six-door 600 Pullman Landaulet — and a meaningful share of the Sunset GT crowd had already booked admission for after the rooftop wrapped. The two events together turned the Petersen’s footprint on Wilshire into the busiest enthusiast morning Beverly Hills has hosted since the Beverly Hills Art Show closed a week ago at Beverly Gardens Park.

What Sunset GT Actually Is — and Why O’Gara’s Presence Matters to Collateral Conversations

The format is simple. Owners submit their cars in advance through the Sunset GT calendar. Approvals come back via email — submission does not guarantee a spot, which is part of why the rooftop reads more like a curated cars-and-coffee than an open meet. The vehicle mix skews heavily toward modern hypercars and limited-production supercars: Ferrari’s recent Special Series cars (488 Pista, F12tdf, 812 Competizione), Lamborghini’s V12 lineage (Aventador SVJ, Revuelto), McLaren’s flagship line (Senna, 765LT, P1 on rare mornings), Porsche’s GT department output (911 GT3 RS, GT4 RS, 992 S/T), and the occasional Bugatti Chiron variant or Pagani. The free spectator policy keeps the crowd large; the curated-display approach keeps the cars on the floor honest.

O’Gara Coach Beverly Hills is the title presenter. That detail matters more than it looks. O’Gara’s Beverly Hills showrooms — the Bentley, Aston Martin, Rolls-Royce, McLaren, and Lamborghini operations along the Wilshire corridor — represent one of the highest-volume luxury auto retail clusters in the United States. When O’Gara is in front of a Sunday-morning crowd of two hundred-plus owners and prospective buyers, the rooftop functions as a soft price-discovery venue for the brands O’Gara moves through its doors. Cars get talked about, transactions get sketched out, and a meaningful share of the conversations that begin on Wilshire close out the following week at a dealership three blocks south or at a private collector’s storage facility off Mulholland.

For the Borro / Beverly Loan collateral conversation, this is where Sunset GT earns its place on the calendar. Recent-edition Ferraris and Lamborghinis are among the most actively pledged collateral classes in Beverly Hills. A modern V12 Lamborghini at the right specification — the right color combination, the right miles, the right documentation — clears collateral underwriting at lender desks across the city the same week the owner brings it in. The rooftop on Sunday gave a real-time read on which specifications still command attention and which have softened in the spring market.

The Rooftop Floor on May 24 — Where Modern Supercar Values Actually Sit

The Lamborghini line was the busiest stretch of the rooftop by foot traffic. Revueltos — the V12-hybrid replacement for the Aventador — drew the longest crowds, which is consistent with the spring 2026 trade pattern: the model launched at MSRP-plus pricing through 2024, settled near sticker through late 2025, and as of this spring is trading on the secondary market within reach of original delivered cost. Aventador SVJs in correct colors continue to hold the strongest residuals of any Lamborghini V12 since the Murciélago LP670-4 SuperVeloce, and a low-mile SVJ Roadster on the rooftop Sunday is the kind of car that prints at $625,000–$700,000 in a quiet private sale this quarter. Huracán Sterratos and STOs continued to read steady. Standard Huracán Performantes are softening into the $300,000–$350,000 band — useful for buyers, slightly painful for owners who paid more in 2022.

The Ferrari floor was tighter and quieter. 812 Competiziones still command above-MSRP — the closed-coupe car especially, with allocation-driven scarcity keeping the trade between collectors rather than out on the open market. 488 Pistas in correct paint and with full Tailor Made specifications continue to sit at premium levels; the Pista Spider commanded the most attention of the open-top Ferraris on the rooftop. F8 Tributos are now at or below MSRP across most configurations — the depreciation curve has caught up. A single Roma Spider on display reminded the floor that the open-top GT segment Ferrari built around the Portofino has gotten thinner since the Roma generation came in.

McLaren’s representation was lighter than at the April edition. 765LT coupes were present in correct specs and continue to clear the secondary market at firm pricing; the Spider variant is the version private buyers chase. The Senna remains the McLaren benchmark — none on the rooftop Sunday, which is a separate story for another column. Porsche’s GT-department cars filled out the rest of the headline floor: 992-generation 911 GT3 Touring cars in manual configuration are still trading meaningfully above sticker, GT3 RS coupes are stabilizing near MSRP after a punishing 2024 correction, and a small grouping of 911 S/T examples — the car that brought back the manual transmission to the GT3 platform — continue to read as the strongest current Porsche collectible after the GT3 RS Weissach.

Mercedes-Benz on the Rooftop, Then Downstairs: The Petersen Centenary Tie-In

Three Mercedes-AMG GT cars on the rooftop deserve mention — a black GT Black Series, a Selenite Grey AMG GT 63 four-door, and a one-owner SLS AMG with carbon-package trim — all three of which will appreciate further over the summer in the wake of the downstairs Centenary exhibit. The Black Series in particular reads as one of the most chase-worthy modern AMG cars on the secondary market: the 4.0-liter twin-turbo flat-plane V8 has no successor in the current AMG lineup, and the Black Series badge historically traces to limited-production cars that hold their value better than any other modern AMG product.

The SLS — particularly with the carbon package and lower miles — is the car that the Centenary exhibit downstairs will most directly lift. The Petersen put the SLS gullwing in the Mercedes design lineage alongside the original 300 SL Gullwing in its curated display; collectors who walked the exhibit Sunday morning are going to look at SLS pricing in a new light Monday morning. The current secondary market for a clean, low-mile SLS AMG coupe sits in the $185,000–$235,000 range; the Black Series version of the SLS — produced in tiny numbers — is firmly past $1.2 million when one trades. Centenary tailwinds tend to push pricing on both, and a meaningful share of the rooftop conversation at Sunset GT Sunday was about how to position SLS examples ahead of summer.

What the Calendar Looks Like Next

Sunset GT runs monthly at the Petersen. The next edition lands in June, and the Petersen calendar separately confirms the Italian Car Cruise-In on Saturday, June 28, 2026 — a dedicated Ferrari, Lamborghini, Alfa, Maserati morning that historically draws a different crowd than Sunset GT and a meaningfully different car mix. June 6 brings the Petersen’s Mini Motors: Cars + Inventions, June 13 hosts Teen Auto Summer Series and Petersen Labs Steam, and June 20 brings the Detailing Workshop and Little Sparks: Car Tools. The Centenary exhibit downstairs continues all summer and runs until April 25, 2027.

For Beverly Hills collectors and the lenders who underwrite this segment, May 24’s Sunset GT did exactly what the format is built to do: it surfaced the cars that still command attention, surfaced the cars that have softened, and turned the Petersen rooftop on Wilshire into the quiet pricing floor for a corridor of luxury retail that sets the tone for collateral lending across the city. By noon Sunday the rooftop had emptied; by Monday morning, the conversations it kicked off were already moving through the dealerships and lenders along Wilshire and Rodeo.

Beverly Loan Company — the original Beverly Hills luxury collateral lender — extends loans against exotic and collector vehicles, fine art, jewelry, and watches from its Wilshire-corridor office. For a quiet, discreet conversation about a Sunset GT-grade car, the team is reachable through the contact pathways on this site.

Quick Facts

• Event: Sunset GT @ the Petersen, presented by O’Gara Coach Beverly Hills
• Date: Sunday, May 24, 2026, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
• Venue: Petersen Automotive Museum rooftop, 6060 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles
• Admission: Free to spectate; Petersen museum admission required for the Centenary exhibit downstairs
• Curation: Vehicle submission required in advance; approvals confirmed by email
• Concurrent exhibit: World-Class: 100 Years of Mercedes-Benz (open through April 25, 2027)
• Next edition: Monthly at the Petersen rooftop; Italian Car Cruise-In follows Saturday, June 28, 2026

Sources

Petersen Automotive Museum event listing (petersen.org/events/sunset-gt-may-2026); Sunset GT calendar (sunsetgranturismo.com); Petersen Mercedes-Benz World-Class exhibit page (petersen.org/mercedes-benz-100-years-exhibit); O’Gara Coach Beverly Hills (ogaracoach.com).