If you stop to think about it, nothing really goes together better than metal and motor cars. When even the drumbeat is described as driving, you know you’re on to a winner.

So it makes sense that the frontman of one of the world’s most famous metal bands would also turn out to be a car lover. A proper, dyed-in-the-jet-black-wool classic car lover, it seems.

Yep, put away your lust for squared-off Eighties retro for a minute and take in the maximalism, the presence, the sheer swooping goodness of James Hetfield’s custom car collection, on display now at the Petersen Museum in the US of A.