Weekend eye candy: The new supercar exhibit at the Petersen Museum

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  Supercars: A Century of Spectacle and Speed is a new exhibit at the Petersen Museum in Los Angeles. [credit: The Petersen Museum ]

Identifying the world's first supercar is harder than it sounds. The problem-to me at least-is that there's no universally agreed-upon definition of what a supercar actually is. If you'd asked me yesterday I'd have probably said Lamborghini-when it introduced the Miura in 1966.

Its body was dramatically styled by Gandini, writing checks that the mid-mounted V12 could definitely cash, sending notice to establishment names like Ferrari that the game had been changed forever. But my answer might be 50 years too late, according to a new exhibit at the Petersen Museum in Los Angeles.

It's called Supercars: A Century of Spectacle and Speed, and our friends at the museum-which was just named Museum of the year by The Historic Motoring Awards-were kind enough to send over photos of some of the cars in the new exhibit. And that's as much excuse as I need to put together a gallery to give people something to click through this fine November Saturday.

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