Behind the Scenes Stories from Our Top 15 Videos of 2025
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Brand
Pirelli
Pirelli is a company that makes tires for cars and motorcycles. They are famous for making high-quality tires that help cars perform better, especially in racing.
Car
Porsche 968 Turbo
The Porsche 968 Turbo is a high-performance version of the 968 sports car made in the early 1990s. It's known for being fun to drive and has a strong following among car fans.
Car
Saturn Vue
The Saturn Vue is a practical and affordable SUV that many families used for everyday driving. It's designed to be spacious and easy to handle, making it a good choice for various needs.
Car
Porsche 914
The Porsche 914 is a sports car made by Porsche that was produced in the 1970s. It has a unique design and is known for being fun to drive.
Car
Porsche 356
The Porsche 356 is an old sports car that many people love for its speed and design. It was made a long time ago, but it still has a special place in car history.
Term
Rolex 24
The Rolex 24 is a famous car race that lasts for a whole day. It takes place at a big racetrack in Daytona, and many different types of fast cars compete in it.
Company
Auto Atlanta
Auto Atlanta is a business that helps people find parts for their Porsches. They have a lot of different parts, especially for older models that are hard to find.
Car
Porsche 944
The Porsche 944 Turbo is a faster version of the Porsche 944 sports car. It has a turbocharged engine, which means it can go faster than the regular model.
Term
restorations
Restorations mean fixing up a car to make it look and work like it did when it was new. This can include repairing parts and repainting the car.
Term
Carrera 3.2
The Carrera 3.2 is a version of the Porsche 911 that was made from 1984 to 1989. It has a 3.2-liter engine and is popular for its sporty performance and classic look.
Car
Porsche 928
The Porsche 928 is a type of sports car made by Porsche from 1978 to 1995. It was known for its combination of performance and luxury features.
Car
Porsche Carrera T
The Porsche Carrera GT is a rare and very fast sports car that many people dream of owning. It's known for its incredible speed and unique design, making it a standout in the car world.
Car
Porsche 911
The Porsche 911 is a famous sports car that many people admire for its speed and style. It's been around for a long time and is loved by drivers who enjoy a thrilling ride.
Term
raw
'Raw' means that the car feels more connected to the road and less cushioned by modern comforts. It can make driving feel more exciting and engaging.
Term
CAN bus
CAN bus is a system that helps different parts of a car talk to each other. It makes sure everything works together smoothly, like the engine and the brakes.
Term
vacuum-actuated components
These are parts in a car that use air pressure to work. If the tubes that carry the air get old or break, those parts can stop working properly.
Term
air suspension
This is a special kind of suspension that uses air instead of metal springs. It makes the ride smoother but can sometimes have problems if the air bags leak.
Term
road presence
Road presence is how noticeable and impressive a car looks when it's driving on the road. Some cars just have a way of standing out more than others.
Term
open exhaust
An open exhaust means that the exhaust system is designed to let gases flow out easily, making the car louder and sometimes improving its performance.
Car
Porsche Taycan
The Porsche Taycan is a fully electric car from Porsche. It's known for being fast and high-tech, showing how traditional car companies are moving into electric vehicles.
Company
Porsche Naples
Porsche Naples is a car dealership that sells and services Porsche cars. They are known for giving people a good look at how their cars are maintained and repaired.
Car
Porsche Macan
The Porsche Macan is a smaller luxury SUV that feels fun to drive, just like a sports car. It's a good choice for those who want a stylish vehicle that’s also practical for everyday use.
Car
Porsche Cayenne
The Porsche Cayenne is a fancy SUV that offers a mix of comfort and sporty driving. It's designed for people who want a stylish vehicle that can handle both city roads and rough terrains.
Car
Guntherworks F26
The Guntherworks F26 is a new car that takes inspiration from an older racing car called the Porsche 935. It's designed to look similar but has modern features and technology.
Concept
Slantnose 935
The Slantnose 935 is a famous racing car from Porsche that has a special design with slanted headlights. It was known for being very fast and successful in races.
Brand
Koenigsegg
Koenigsegg is a company that makes very fast and expensive sports cars. They are famous for their unique designs and powerful engines.
Company
ProDrive
ProDrive is a company that helps make race cars and works with car brands to improve their performance. They are well-known in the motorsports world.
Term
four cam flat four
A four cam flat four engine is a type of engine with four camshafts that help control how air and fuel enter and exit the engine. It's known for being powerful but also complicated to work on, which can make repairs take a long time.
Concept
Pebble Beach
Pebble Beach is a famous car show in California where people display beautiful old cars. It's a big event for car lovers, but not everyone knows about the older cars shown there.
Term
Hagerty
Hagerty is a company that helps people insure classic cars and also holds auctions where rare cars are sold. They are very popular among car collectors.
Term
freight elevator
A freight elevator is a big elevator used to move heavy things, like cars or furniture, between different floors of a building. It's not meant for people.
Car
Porsche Carrera 4 GTS
The Porsche Carrera 4 GTS is a sportier version of the 911 that has all-wheel drive. It's made for people who want a fun car that can also be used every day.
Term
hybrid powertrain
A hybrid powertrain is a system that uses both a regular engine and an electric motor. This helps the car use less fuel and be better for the environment.
Term
Monroney
The Monroney label is a sticker on new cars that shows the price and details about the car's features and fuel efficiency. It's like a price tag with extra information for buyers.
Term
PDCC
PDCC is a system used in some Porsche cars that helps the car handle better by adjusting the suspension. It makes the ride smoother and helps the car stay stable when turning.
Concept
Tech Tactics East
Tech Tactics East is a gathering where Porsche fans can learn about car maintenance and improvements. It's a chance to meet people who know a lot about Porsches.
Concept
Porsche Parade
The Porsche Parade is a big event for people who love Porsches. It's a week-long celebration with activities like car shows and driving events.
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Welcome to the Porsche Club Insider, your one stop for all things Porsche and PCA.
Here's your host, Vu Gwin and the Insider crew.
Welcome everyone to episode 203 and today we're going to be talking about the top 15
videos of 2025.
But before we get into it, we want to thank our presenting sponsor, Pirelli.
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Porsche. Manny, can you believe it's been 15 years when we uploaded, I guess, to the
national PCA YouTube channel? It feels like not too long ago, but I can't believe it's been 15 years.
And I'm so thankful that, you know, the Executive Council at the time, including
yourself, was really, you know, they embraced the fact that we were going to
events and having incredible experiences that we wanted to share with the rest of
the membership. And 15 years later, we are now at about 975 videos on our channel.
And of course, with our plaque over, I think, what are we now, 124,000 subscribers?
Yeah, a little bit over 124,000 as we record on January 7th. So by the time we hear this,
it hopefully is 125. And these numbers that we've chased over the years, it's kind of funny,
because what do you consider our first quote unquote viral video that we uploaded 15 years ago?
The viral would probably be the center seat 997. Yeah, that one. The Centro 997.
Centro. That is the one that went over 100k. And you're right. I do agree with that.
But I remember when we were just kind of elated with 1500 to 2000 views,
and there was one car that went over 40,000 views. And we're just like, what the heck? How?
Let me guess. Let me guess. Was it the HPI or Traxxas RC car thing? No, no, that one did pretty
well. That one did pretty well. But it was the yellow 968 Turbo from Canada that we did. I think
we were on a Traffin or something, and we covered that car. That was in Panorama too,
if I remember correctly, was it? Yeah, I remember that car. Absolutely. Yeah. But now we're not
satisfied unless it's six figures. I do remember we did a kind of like an R group build at maybe the
first works reunion. And somebody, I wonder if I remember, saw it on the east coast, asked how
we could, how they could contact the owner, and within a week bought the car. Oh yeah, I remember
that. Absolutely. The car was, I don't know if the car was even for sale. We certainly didn't mention
it because we don't mention one car for sale. But the guy was like, that was, I watched your video,
and that was a perfect car. That's the car I wanted, and I bought it. And those early years,
we weren't nearly as sophisticated as we are today. It was really where we were traveling,
if we had the opportunity, we came across something, and we had time, we did it. And
we were editing, there was no Damon, there was no team, it was a MacBook that I had. And
you can tell, you can tell by the early edits that it was very amateurish. I remember we'd be
flying back on South West. I wasn't going to give them Southwest any commercial
advertisement, especially since they're changing their policies. But I remember we'd be in the
side by side in the airplane as you were editing. And you'd say, what do you think about this? And
let me listen to it, and then we'd go back and forth. And usually after three or four hour flight,
by the time we landed, you had the video all done. Much simpler times and very basic edits.
I look over to my left and I see Damon's master command control there and all the tools that he
and Bogdan have to contribute to our channel. It's pretty cool to see how we've grown. But
we get the question quite a bit, and I think this is why you chose the topic of the day,
is how do we decide videos now? And what's the planning involved? Obviously, there's a team of
us and the schedule and such. So why don't you kick it off of where you thought this conversation
might go? So people asked that they'd like to hear behind the scenes stuff, I guess,
and how we operate. So we're a very small group. PCA, of course, is very cognizant of members fund.
So we don't have a huge staff that works on these videos. It's really... We don't have a dedicated
team. No, I mean, Damon, obviously Bogdan is part of the social media. I'll help out with the podcast
Tech Tactics and of course, when we're at events, YuVu. It's not really much more after that. It's
simply... I know Damon has some help that people he hires that helps with edits and whatnot.
Yeah, definitely. It's one of those things where I can do a good amount of the editing,
most of it. But each month, and I have to give a shout out to Will Cahon because he's an amazing
videographer, cinematographer, and editor, but he takes off a little bit of the pressure for me.
So every single week we have a video, at least one week per month, I don't have to edit a whole
video and allows me to focus on other things that need attention while Will is editing that one
video per month. So yeah, we set that aside and every once in a while if we have a video,
for example, the first one that really I think people can see the difference is when we have to
cover something that has to be done right the very first time to the highest level,
we usually hire Will Cahon. Maybe some other videographer, you know, if Will isn't available
or it's a different location, but the White Collection is one of those all the classic club
coupe videos that we did at PCNA. Yeah, when it has to be done, we hire Will, but I do the
bulk video editing and shooting. Well, would you say 90% of our videos we do in a house?
Yes, 90% of our videos. But this is where out of survival, out of minimal budget in the early years,
perhaps, Manny, you can explain one take productions.
Oh, well, that was, as Bruce said, he was doing all the editing. So it didn't take a genius to
realize we can make this easier on Vue and everyone and get the video out quick if we can do everything
in one take and not have to do a reshoot, reshoot, reshoot. So I don't think either one of us had
any experience. I certainly didn't. Other than my family home videos. I didn't have that.
It was just what I saw on TV. I knew what I liked when I saw someone presenting on TV.
But that was it. There was no, but then again, we didn't think a lot of people would be watching
it. So there was no fear of, oh my God, there's hundreds of thousands of people watching this.
Me screw up. It was like, if we're going to get a handful of people watching us, our friends,
it's not that bad if we mess up. So that gave us a lot of freedom, I think, in experimenting and
trying different things and not worrying what the mass of people would think or how they would
criticize us. But we still go into each shoot with sort of that mentality of one take productions,
because I take, for example, when we were at Amelia Monterey, or even Parade for the matter,
there's so much going on that we have other responsibilities at these events. But we still
want to make sure we take the time, a short window to cover the events. And it's still one take
productions, because we don't have two and a half hours, and maybe the cars won't even be there
anymore. So Manny and Damon are very good with scouting and then developing sort of the pathway
in which we will shoot the video. But then we really do only have one take production opportunity.
And usually, so like an event, a video like Worst Reunion, that'll be coming up in March,
we'll walk around and we'll, we talk to the owners of the cars, because we're not just
looking for a car that looks pretty, but one that has a great story. And sometimes the ones that may
look like a plain Jane, let's say a seal gray 996, but you find out this car has 300,000 miles.
And it's been original owner or something that makes it that we think what members would love
to hear about this story, that becomes key. So you try not to go to the GT threes automatically,
because you know, that's an easy way to do things. But you try to find where the decent story. So
take some time. And then you, you get together and we'll usually text each other and say,
Hey, I found this great 964 has a great story. Here's a picture of it. And then we have everything
lined up. We start developing. Okay, here's the eight cars we're going to feature. And
eight cars. That's what we tell ourselves and it ends up being 15. That's all we tell Damon
and 20 cars later. And the things you don't see behind behind the scenes is,
yeah, it's one take productions, but then sometime do will like see a car midway that wasn't on our
path. And he said, let's look at this. And, and I got to quickly read the description on the car
to get some kind of story. Cause yeah, it may be a 914, which I know about, but what's special
about this 914, what I would hate to do is just talk in general about the 914 and then find out
this car in particular was really special, but I completely glossed over that because
I didn't have a chance to talk to the owner or read the description or maybe they didn't write
it in the description. So we do a lot of pre-work when we do event videos talking to
to the owners about the cars. Yeah. And I think that's maybe something we should share
with our listeners and those that are at our events and they wonder, why did you cover this car?
Why did you cover that car? First off, we love all your cars, but there's no way we cover every car.
And some cars just have, you know, just stand out a little bit more, maybe because of its
presence, its look. But then as Mani said, some of these cars really stand out because of the
wonderful story behind it. And, and sometimes we get to hear those stories. So we know it. So
that's why we cover it. And sometimes we don't hear your story. So don't get offended if we,
we don't cover it, but we try to cover as much as we can. And if we don't catch you at one show,
you know, you know, tap us on the shoulder when we're not recording and share your story with
us. I also like, you know, this is where, you know, we really put Damon to work is when we go to,
say, auctions or other events that there's so many cool cars out there. And we try to,
you know, try to cover the unique ones as well. Those are kind of, how would you say,
freestyle, because we don't have. Maybe for you ahead of time, I'm, I'm really, I'm spending
weeks ahead of time looking at the auction sites saying, okay, here's the cars that I think we
should cover. These are really important cars, cars that our members will be interesting to see.
And then we get there, we may see some other cars that have been added or they look interesting on
the website, but suddenly you hear about it and suddenly it becomes interesting. Yeah. And that's
where the pre-planning that Mani does come in handy because there's so much to know about these cars.
Obviously, I don't know all this stuff and, and he feeds them to me and it may seem like I just,
you know, memorized the cards, but, you know, he, he, he guides me through it. And then I also,
when it gets into super details or the story of the owner that he knows more about than I do,
that's when I kind of pass the baton to him. So you'll see that interaction on camera and it
works, works pretty well. So I wonder if you guys think of our little setup. If you want to call
us the three core team members for, for YouTube videos, Mani has become sort of the scheduler
and planner, whether that comes to the podcast, which he schedules, all of them, I believe. I don't,
I, I know I haven't scheduled, you know, or booked a guest or anything like that. And even many of
the videos, we might do it parade or video ideas that the, the model guides, for example, you know,
in the tech tactics live. That's what Mani does. Voo can walk in having not done any of that stuff.
Mani gives him a sheet of paper or a quick five minute walk down and Voo can slide in and be the
presenter and Voo is the presenter for most of our videos, I want to say still, if not the majority.
And then I'm kind of the guy who I don't worry about the scheduling all as much or the presenting
unless I have to, but I worry all about the, the camera equipment and the audio and everything
needed to make the video and for the edit. So if any one of us is walking into a video,
or most of these videos with the most knowledge, it's Mani. And then probably we sort of follow
his cue through the rest of it. And I will, I freely admit them. I am not an artist or a
photographer. We're very good photographer. So I rely on Voo, Damon Boggs. Like when we set up
cars for Unstock, we know people are going to be doing a lot of Instagram shots. So I will ask
them, will the car look better facing this way, facing this way. And they tell me, and then I
logistically set it up to how we're going to bring these cars in. But as far as how we're going to
place the cars, or where exactly it's going to place for you photographers, I let them advise
us on, on what we're going to do. And a lot of that goes also for, I don't even, I just tell Damon,
here's the cars we're going to do. And he flies with it. I trust him 100% how the shots he's
going to take. And unless there's like something in particular like, Hey, remember to take this
little part, because we're going to be talking about this, this little section of the car.
You know, we just, I guess we know our own, our own strengths and we capitalize on it.
Yeah. And speaking of strengths, I mean, I think all of you listeners can probably tell how much
technical knowledge Manny has in his head. And in fact, his title is, you know,
he is in charge of all the technical things. I don't know everything. But you don't know
everything, but you know how to get to that, that in solution or the answer. And I guess
where I'm going is, you know, the opportunity for us to share these stories and these cars
and this technical information through YouTube or through Instagram.
I feel like there's, there's other clubs out there that don't take advantage of that opportunity.
And I think a lot of, especially the younger younger members that might necessarily not
necessarily go seeking out technical knowledge in the traditional sense through books or,
you know, the reading magazines and such that this is the way that they consume their technical
information. So I think it's a vital part of our club that this integrates because the, you know,
we do surveys year after year and Porsche Panorama is, you know, at the very top of why people join
PCA. Technical information is at the top of why people join PCA. Obviously the camaraderie and,
and what the club brings to the ownership experience is top tops. But we've, we've learned to utilize
this new communication channel 15 years ago, you know, to, to our advantage. And I think it's
contributed to the growth of PCA and people reference it all the time as we're traveling around.
So, so here's some trivia. Actually, what, what is the year, date, month, day and year that our
YouTube channel was started? I don't know if that's the first video, but when it was started and
created. The initial videos were put on booze. On my personal, because I know this because to pull
stats, I have to put this in every time. But yeah, so it has to be like, I would say
February, March of 2000. Yeah, you basically got a February 15th, 2010. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Oh,
well. Yeah. I think that was from when we started off. And actually the first maybe four or five
videos, those were hosted on my personal YouTube account as we were testing it out. And then they
were like, wait a minute, maybe it shouldn't be on Vue's personal account and create a national one.
That's, that's when I uploaded all of them. So I think we've told the story before, but
when we decided, because YouTube was fairly, fairly new when we said we should take advantage of
this YouTube and show, and take some videos and show members and it was the 24 hours of Daytona.
And I just remember the first one, I, it's not the first one listed on the YouTube channel because
like I said, the first few were on Vue's channel. But the first video we did together was Mark
Probanek with his famous 356. And he was parked, early parked at the PCS Vitality Tent on a
Thursday night, I think we got there. Right before Rolex. Yeah, right before the 24 hours. And we had
gone just to scope things out. And I said to Vue, I'm like, let's go talk to this guy. And we'll do a
test video. And we walked out, we introduced ourselves, we asked him, Hey, would you mind if
we tested our equipment and we interview you about your car? He was like, sure. And one take
production and we just winged it. And I asked some questions and I think it was, it was a short video.
And we posted it in the next morning. I think we had like 80 views and we were like,
so excited about like Steven Spielberg viral, man, viral, we're going to cross over 100.
But we started it all with that video. And it still stands true to the cars that we feature
today, right? Mark's story, you know, the unique story about his 356, I think he's only washed
it 10 times or 15 times since he drives it everywhere. But he drives it everywhere. His
enthusiasm, his passion. Yes, the car is very cool, mice in blue 356. I think it's a 58,
if I'm not mistaken. But the story of what, you know, he'll hop in it and drive to Rensport.
He had the whole back filled with firewood. I forgot my attention was,
he not only was camping with it, but he had firewood in the back.
Yeah, so very cool. All right, before we get into the top videos of 2025, let me thank our
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since 1978. All right, drumroll. And I don't think this will be a surprise for our listeners and
our viewers on YouTube, but the top video for 2025 includes the man that is, we often say,
is the savant when it comes to all things Porsche. And honestly, if he lived on the east coast near
us, he'd probably be in every single video. Yeah, exactly. Certainly would be in a podcast every week.
Nathan Merz, of course. Yes. And that's the Carrera 3-2 versus 964 versus 993 video. And
before we talk about that specific video, I do want to thank Nathan for all of his time over
the years, not just in 2025, but over the years, things that he's done for us on YouTube, he comes
to Tech Tactics East. Is he coming to Tech Tactics East this year? Yeah. Okay, so if you want to see
Nathan and talk to Nathan, I know our local folks are always excited to be able to literally sit
at the lunch table with Nathan and ask him any questions. His presentations at the event obviously
are very cool too, but he hangs around and he wants to talk to everyone. So just a cool, genuine
dude that volunteers his time. And on the side, he's got this little business that does pretty
well and he's helped several members find their Porsche for their garage. So very cool. So I will
say actually on this video, so Manny put it on this list and I agreed with him and we ended up
publishing it with this video on the list. It was actually published, it was the last video
published in 2024 and it was on like December 28th or something. But it has like over 100,000 views
now. Yeah, we've never gotten that many views in three days. So we ended up including it on the
2025 video. And funny enough, the last video of 2025 was also a Nathan Merz Tech Tactics video.
Not by plan, just happened to be. So is this the video that you went and filmed or he had that
filmed? Yeah, this was a video that I went to film. Let's see if I can get it playing here. Yeah,
it looks like it. And I went out there, what did we have there? It was right before the Trefinet
Sea. Okay. If you remember when I was out there and I filmed with Nathan the 996.1 and .2 GT3 video,
the 928 review that we did last year, this one and then also the 991.2 and versus 992.1
Carrera T video. So we got three, four or five videos done in that period and this was one of them.
Yeah, and I can certainly understand why one, Nathan, the knowledge that he drops on this video
is as you would expect tremendous. But it's a question that I get a lot. I like my nephew who's
in the market for 9-11. He dreams of a 993, but then he's also saying, well, maybe I should do a
964. Maybe I should do Carrera 2. What are the differences? And a lot of people will try to buy
one of these and they've never even driven them. And so that's what I asked. I always ask, what
are you driving right now? Have you ever had an air cold? And most of them say no. What are you
driving right now? And he's usually a later model Porsche. And I go, you should really drive one of
these and not like a five minute drive down the block and back again. But if you can borrow one
or rent one for a couple hours, just to see if you really want to live with this. I love air
cold. Everything about them. But if you're used to a 991 or 992 and you're going to a 964,
it's going to be a little bit more raw than what you're used to.
It is. Every generation, the older the generation, it gets a little bit more raw. The creature
comforts are a little bit less. And there's things that you give up for that purity of that rawness.
And as Mani said, you do yourself a favor before you, because you're going to fall in love with
the first one you see and the first one that you have an opportunity to buy. That just happens.
But if you're really considering between the three, drive them and see which one will fit
your needs the most. Because the newer ones are just going to be a little bit softer,
a little bit more comfortable, a little bit faster in a lot of cases too. So a three, two on
by papers, 215 horsepower, doesn't sound like a whole lot. It might not be too exciting. The
shifting might not be as accurate as the newer cars, but there's that charm about it. And you
feel like you're driving super fast. So if that's what you like, then by all means go for a three,
two. But if you want a bit more than the later models is where you're going to look at.
Yeah, it's great, great video, very informative as all Nathan Merz videos are.
Check that one out. Number two, if we didn't count that video because it was in 2024,
the top one would still be a Nathan Merz video. It would be this one not surprising in the sense
of it doing well, but it would probably surprise people of the model car to be a top video. Because
I think some people are kind of polarized with the 928 and may not always think of a 928, but
this video did really well. And I think it did well for the 928 community. I think I'm the only
920 or X 928 owner here. You are in this group. I had one for five years and 81.
I can't say I loved it. I mean, it was a great car. I just never fell in love with the car.
So that's probably why I sold it after five years. But they are their unique cars. They
looked like nothing else on the road. And I think if they got older, they've just become more and
more desirable. In a world where cars now look so similar to each other, this one really stands
out. But as I always tell everyone, make sure you buy one that's been maintained all its life
correctly because these things, when they're neglected, can get real expensive. Yeah, you can
get upside down on this car very quickly if it's not well maintained. All you have to do is take
a look at that fuse box and see the amount of wiring. This is pre-cambus electronics that modern
cars have. So it looks like a 747 wiring panel. Not that I've seen a 747, but that's what I would
imagine one would look like. And a lot of vacuum-actuated everything, which we just learned. There's
a good chunk of vacuum-actuated stuff up to what, 2020, and a lot of modern Porsches,
man, headaches if they're not taken care of. Yeah, those lines are plastic a lot of times. They get
brittle, they break, they get a leak. I'll just think of every air suspension car.
All those hoses, all those plastic lines, at some point, they do break down. I remember
when these came out, this is right around my school age, Trapper Keeper posters and in the
80s, them being in a bunch of movies. It was a spaceship then, but still today,
I think the lines are so unique. But then also remember, do you remember that car used to be a
big car? Oh, huge. That used to be a big car, but you put that next to a 992 today? It looks like a
mini. I first noticed that a couple years back, I think when the 992 first came out, we were having
an open house and a 928 happened to come in between two 992s. When I was backing them into
the parking spots, I looked and I remember turning around to say to somebody, I cannot
believe I'm going to say this, but the 928 looks tiny compared to these two 992s.
Especially the early ones. The early ones without their cladding and the wide fenders
and stuff like that, they look very compact. I will say as well, with a lot of cars,
and the 928 is probably out of all the Porsches. The one that I think this about, but they look
awesome when they're sitting still. When you see them on the road, there's something about them that
looks even cooler. And I don't know what it is. It's just the road presence. When you see them
driving, it hits differently than when they're just sitting in a parking lot. I'm just going to
Pennsylvania on my way to Wisconsin with salt and brine all over the road, which is one thing.
But again, it sort of looks like a 928. They look nothing. The front engine Porsches from
the early 90s look and I guess 928, late 70s, mid 80s just look like nothing else on the road.
The unique headlights, the hatch and everything. Again, if you're going into this world,
buy it right. There's a huge community and all 928 owners are fanatics and make sure you have one
with you or take it to a place that knows 920 as well so that you buy the right one. And I'm sure
you'll have a fabulous experience. And speaking of fabulous, if you've never listened to, we used to
have a fairly stock 928, but with a little bit of an open exhaust, the V8 of a 928 sounds incredible.
Enough about 928. Number three, we talked about how PCA members love tech information.
And it's kind of funny that something that's fairly basic, I think in maybe our world here in
the office about inspect tires, but the presentation at this was tech tactic.
So when I came to work for PCA, one of the first things I said we should start doing is recording
tech tactics, but recording in the best way possible so our members could really enjoy it.
And so, first it was Robert, then Damon took over, and I can't wait to this year with Damon's new
setup. It's been so impressive so far of tech tactics. Yeah, in the setup you're seeing right
now, if you're watching the YouTube version of this podcast, I'm showing the presentation was with
Ed Glyce and all that good stuff. I believe if I remember correctly, I was having some technical
issues that year, so it should be even better this year. So I was a little bit disappointed
with that. The tech tactics sprayed things went over pretty well. So this video here is not the
entire presentation. And this happens sometimes because the presentation itself was somewhat
basic as far as tire knowledge and whatnot. And I thought, unfortunately, I think people watching
may tune out before they get to the really good stuff. And so I told Damon, I said, why don't we
just use this part about inspect tires, because I think it's really informative. It's not that long
and people can relate to it, especially if they have a later model car. So we just basically
used that section of the tech tactics video for this video and it turned out to be a pretty good
move. And this is where our experience, Manny's experience, Damon's experience has come into
play because when we first started this, we just kind of propped up the camera and then we filmed
the whole thing and the presentation was washed out because it was in a lit room. There is background
noise and they've refined capturing and sharing just the key moments of the presentation, actually
having the presentation in the video as opposed to us filming the whiteboard, which looks terrible.
So it's just getting refined over and over and you have to make these decisions so that people
can enjoy it more because it's like people that say, oh, I take great photos versus a true photographer
that just takes an amateur will take 100 photos of the same thing and a true photographer takes
five. But the five that they take is incredible and that's what we want to share. We don't want to
share with you the 100 takes we want to share with you the best pieces of. So I agree with that,
but I'm going to have a little fun with this. A pro also takes 100 photos. Yeah, yeah. But
he doesn't share the bad ones. That's where we make the call. We don't share those 100 shots.
I don't want to do 100 takes.
Exactly. So number four, we continue on with the popularity of technical information and this
one is pretty cool. Obviously, because we're entering into the electrified world and another
volunteer went to a dealership, David Bankston, our national EV coordinator, went out and did a
video on the Taycan battery repair. Yeah, and I have to give a shout out for this one to Portion
Naples because man, like the access that David got, there's no other video like it. And I'm
even surprised in some ways that they gave him this much access in front of a camera. So kudos
to Portion Naples on that one. And they give you behind the scenes how it works. So David had sent
let's say raw footage of this. And so Damon watched it. I watched it. And I did what Damon
talked about. I went and said, what other videos are there out there that do this? I couldn't find
any. And I said to him, I said, this may do pretty good because I can't find any other video. It
really shows you how they repair these batteries. But I think Damon had to do some sound work,
I remember, because the technicians microphone wasn't working. And it was just relying on David's
microphone. Yeah, there was something like that. But he did a pretty good job of making that sound
come through. So it would be and obviously our viewers didn't cares all that much because look
at all the views. Yeah, never never. But it makes a big difference when you're showing something
that no one else has ever done. Yeah. And that's that brings up a good point is when we're considering
videos, especially technical pieces, either myself, Manny or Damon, we kind of scour on YouTube of
what's been done before. Obviously, when we did our IMS series, when we did, say, the Macan
spark plug changes or the water pump video, like I watched other water pump videos for
Cayenne. And I said, what did they not cover? Manny is really for making it more realistic where,
you know, if we have a difficult time removing one bolt, like we'll show that as opposed to
a lot of videos magically taking the toughest bolt out and then don't tell the person that's
viewing and then as a viewer, you see that. So so we're very realistic. But we also compare
what's out there and we try to bring the best possible version out for our viewers.
But sometimes we can plan and do all that. But sometimes there are just opportunities that
present itself. And we may go to events for, like I said, Amelia Island for our own works
reunion or Monterey. But there are other events going on. And we might come in early or we might
stay an extra couple hours before we catch a flight. We don't dilly dally, like we go to other
events to see if there's anything that we can capture to share with our members because there's
so much going on Monterey. Obviously, we can't cover it all. But can we cover something that's
different or can we cover something that is going to be new? The beauty of what we do is a lot of
times we can turn like Mani was talking about how back in the day we would go to an event
on the flight home, I'd be editing a video very simply, but I could put it online within a couple
hours. Even today, even with the more sophisticated videos, you know, the turnaround time for a lot
of our videos that Damon does is much faster than any corporate video because they have so much red
tape, they've got 10 people to sign off on it. So the video number five was an opportunity that
presented ourselves to us because we were invited to Laguna Seca and that is the Guntherworks F26,
the homage to the Slantnose 935. And that was a private event that we were invited to. We had no
idea what exactly was going to go on, what was going to be there. It was just Guntherworks
inviting us out to Laguna Seca for a private event. So we went, as always, Damon charged all his
batteries and all his equipment. Might have not done anything at all, but at least we were fully
charged and ready to go. I bugged on with the same way with this camera equipment.
And lo and behold, Peter Noms there, the founder of Guntherworks, and he agrees to give us a tour
of this car. And it was just absolutely perfect timing. Peter had some free time.
We were there with the equipment, the car was parked there, and we took advantage of
the opportunity. And you could tell Peter was so proud and excited about this car.
We said, we just have to capture this so we can show our members. And that's exactly what we did.
Yeah. And we, again, with pretty much one tape productions, we spoke to Peter about it. I had
seen a couple of social media posts on it, but not in-depth. And we were busy with Works Reunion,
so I didn't know all the details. So we did a quick walkthrough with Peter, and we had one take.
And we got it done. And sure, there's things, people are like, well, why didn't you start it up?
Why didn't you do this? Yeah, if we had more time to prepare a true full-on, in-depth video,
we could have. But this was, they were running a live event. They were cars flying.
With Koenigsegg, too. Yeah, exactly. But for us to be able to churn out what we did in the
circumstances and the timing, it's very cool to see that it made it to number five.
So they're trying to sell cars to customers. They're inviting potential customers to come out
and get rides. They have ProDrive. They have Patrick Long there, I think. Yes. Yeah, he was
giving rides. So, yeah, there was a lot going on. It wasn't like they were waiting for us to show up.
No, not at all. And we want to be respectful of their time, too. Like Manny said, Peter's there
to sell cars. If I'm going to do something with Peter, we're going to try to knock it out in a
couple of minutes and let him do his thing. So, number six is a cool one. We, just like all of
our members, we are very inquisitive about how things work. And sometimes we hear about very
exotic things, but we've never seen them in close up or really truly understood them. And
this was the case with the video that made it to number six. And this was one where we may not
have, we didn't actually go there to film this. We just had the opportunity. We just saw the rig
that Simon Briggs uses to time these engines. Exactly. And what's that? And this is for the
four cam, how a four cam flat four works and how it gets to 8000 RPM and understanding why is this
a quarter of a million to half a million dollar motor, right? And why does, why does a four cam,
is it like 20 hours or something like that? Maybe more to set the timing, cam timing on these engines.
You know, what's the myth behind, why is it so labor-intensive to set cam timing? And not many
people can really explain it except like David said, Simon and a few others in the world that
can build these engines correctly and articulate how they operate. And how this came about is we
were just touring the shop at Rhodes Scholars. We were doing other videos and we naturally gravitated
to this and Simon so eloquently shared the details of, you know, of this. We're like, wait a minute,
why aren't we recording this? And David was like, okay, let's just, like, we, we, we didn't even
think that this would be a incredibly well-received video. We just wanted to record it because...
How I remember it is I saw the tool and I'm like, we have to do something on it. It's right here,
ready for us. And the, you know, the, the, the risk, you know, of taking an hour to do this
video was so low that might as well. Yeah, exactly. And what I also like about this and why we do a
lot of our videos is if we don't do this and no one else does this, like some of this knowledge
could totally be lost, right? This could, if, you know, maybe 20 years, 30 years down the road,
when someone's working on a four cam and Simon's no longer around, they'd be like, there might be
a nugget of information that we captured in here that, that some mechanic years from now be like,
oh, that's why, you know, it's an alternating spline or blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, like,
that's why we're doing all this. So, all right, next up, you know, when we talk about the market
and how well Porsches are doing, we can be pretty assured that it's going to do well. And the video
at number seven was when we toured the auctions at Amelia Island, the high dollar Porsches at the
2025 Amelia Island auctions. So what I like, I always tell people about a video I saw, and I
couldn't tell you who did it, but it was at Pebble Beach. And I'm not a big fan of Pebble Beach,
because I'm not, I don't know that much about pre-war cars, so I can't really appreciate them.
But so whoever, whoever filmed this video, it was a very low budget video where you saw the car
and you could hear the person, but you didn't see the person. And he was walking around. Now,
normally you can walk around and just take videos of the cars and cover every car there.
And but he was going through a certain car and he would stop and explain what was special about
this car. And I found myself sitting there watching this entire 90 minute video. And I thought this
is the kind of person I need next to me when I go to an event like this, because I will walk
right by these cars, not appreciating. Had I known this car was that important and why,
I would stop. So I like to do the same thing for our members when we go, we get access to these
auction places, tents, buildings, and be able to talk about some of these cars are coming up for
auction and why why they're special. And then we can look back and see that they meet the prices
that they they were asking. Yeah, twofold. I think just like when you go to a museum,
if you don't have a docent with you, you can't truly appreciate what you're looking at. And so
Manny gathers all the data and we share, you know, some of the highlighted cars and why they are as
special as they are. But also from archival 20 years from now, when we look back at these videos,
did that 100,000, whatever, was that insanely cheap? Like, well, or will we say, man, I can't
believe someone paid $100,000 back in the day. If it's anything with the way history works,
we're going to be saying I can't believe we should have bought more. Yeah, we should have
bought everything we talked about. I do have to say, though, this video as well, two things.
This is actually one of those will K own edited videos. So I, I filmed this. And this is one
where so much was going on after works that, you know, I had will edit this video to so I
could work on some other things. The second thing is, is that the next car, if you're watching the
YouTube version of this video, this yellow bird, six over $6 million sale, it was actually
Haggerty's sale of the year. Yeah, I'd surprise everyone. So and then I think what several other
roof yellow birds or CTRs, I should say, were sold for not that much, but like a lot. Yeah,
I'm pretty sure. So Oh, yeah, no, it was a shock. I was a shocking as that 93 we saw that was
300 and some thousand, I think. Yeah, this C4S C4S, the green C4S. But will we say, man, that was
cheap 20 years from now? I think we will. You think it's not like it's not like looking at
panorama at the ads, you pick up a panorama or go online, if you're a member, you can access
all the panoramas and just go to classified and look what they were 20 years ago, especially the
and it's just painful. Do you think we are far from
where you step into a Porsche dealership and no Porsche can be bought for less than six figures?
We're almost there. Almost there, right? Sure. Yeah, we are there unless
well, yeah, because no 718s, right? We are there. I mean, the base,
McCann is still under six, if you want a four door, you can have a sports car.
What's car? Well, and not only that, but no one's shocked. I know, they're like standing in line.
I'm not in that income bracket. I'm shocked. I'm shocked, but there are people waiting in line
hoping that they can spend that good for them because then that means there's a wonderful
pre-owned car in my future. Yeah, the other thing too about that, though, is that, you know, like
over decades, inflation happens and if you go and look back at what we're paying for new Porsche
sports cars now in 1995 money, I bet you I'm pretty sure that the difference, you know,
adjusted for inflation is not as big. Some cars, yes, some cars, I was about to say. Yeah,
it just depends on the car. Yeah, I mean, I think it's the fact that we've reached that
six figure number that, you know, 100,000 is a lot more than 999,999, isn't it? Yeah, like 964 is
I would have never guessed they would have gone up. Let's say when I bought mine,
I thought you paid a lot. Well, I mean, to me, I thought this is the lowest they're going to go.
And I told my wife that they're not going to go any higher, but they weren't going to be lower.
Yeah. So I didn't, I felt comforting in that I would, I reached the bottom of the
appreciation of the car, but I certainly wasn't banking on appreciation.
Should have bought five of a many. We also, like I said in the previous episode,
I would have should have bought Apple stock, not a 964. True. True. All right.
To number eight, we continue to talk about the values of Porsches. And this time we do it with
Nathan Merz at Parade, which has somewhat become a tradition for us at Parade now.
And so the behind the scenes story on this is we can even do it without cars.
This isn't usually the way we do what's my Porsche worth. So we started doing this once
when I came to work for PCA, I thought it'd be pretty cool to do this, do this live video with
Nathan. And at the time we were doing it live, Robert had a setup so we could do a tech tactics
live, which added much more stress and complexity to the event.
But I would spend three or four days looking for number one, someone who's going to be around
until Thursday, who would want to have their car on there. And then originally setting up the
logistics for them to be at a certain place and blah, blah, blah. So it's actually a lot of work
for that one hour show this year because we're not at least, I'm not nearly as David a member of
the Parade planning committee. I was kind of relying on Melanie, our events manager, to give
me information. And through it all, it was very hazy as to whether we could get cars into the
showroom at this hotel or ballroom. And when we got there, they said, well, you can get cars
because Porsche had cars. But here's what's involved. And it was involving a flatbed,
you got to put the car elevator, freight elevator, all this stuff. And I thought,
and then the day we wanted to do the show, which is always a Thursday of parade, was also the day
that Porsche would be moving things out. So there they would be blocking all the freight docks with
their equipment, which meant we couldn't get a flatbed to bring the car up to dock level. So
long story short, we decided we can't do this with cars. We're going to have to do this with
pictures. That was good and bad, bad because we didn't have a car like we were always used to
having a car in and on the stage good in that in the sense that now that I could spread my
choices of cars. So I went to my region and we have a chat board and I put out a, hey,
is anyone with their car featured on what's my Porsche worth? And a lot of people like to watch
the show, but they think, well, my car is going to get torn apart. So I don't want that. So
but we did get enough people who volunteered and I really appreciate that they did. And Nathan went
by the pictures and by the description that the people sent in and did a what's my Porsche worth
and it went pretty good. Yeah, exactly. Made it all the way to number eight. All right. So number
nine, again, this is a lot of Manny's pre-planning because there's hundreds, if not thousands of
cars being auctioned in Monterey. And the question is if we head to some of these auctions, which
ones are we going to feature? What are the predictions that these auction houses are
calling for the numbers for these cars? And then also after we get that footage,
Damon and Manny go back and see where those cars landed in reality.
Yeah. And a big thank you to Elko, who helps set this up with the with the auction houses,
as well as the auction houses for giving us access, media access to a lot of these cars.
We pretty much had free reign whenever we went to record these these cars. And Monterey is probably
the Mac Daddy of all the events for auctions. So we had a lot to choose from and a lot of cool cars.
Yep. Number 10 is a very special one for PCA because it celebrated our 70th anniversary club
coop and going behind the scenes somewhat to share folks what it takes to build a special car like
that. I don't know. Let me think. Is there any other car club that has had a manufacturer build
70 cars or the appropriate number of cars for a celebration of an anniversary?
Not the club coop brand. And I say brand because now they've had several club
club coops. I'm sure they can use that name forever more. I know they've done like
Porsche Singapore. Yeah. They celebrate the club, but they haven't done it yet.
Yeah. And there's only so many. They've told us that we were the only clubs since we were the largest.
But I'm not sure Porsche Club, Great Britain, which is the second biggest. We might have had something.
Either way, the behind the scenes on this was this is where I guess we have very understanding
wives because this was a Mother's Day we filmed this. Oh, yeah. Do you remember we had to fly
down to Atlanta on Mother's Day? And for the classic club coop, it was Valentine's Day. Oh,
this is a very common theme. In fact, we're doing stuff. This Valentine's that I might not be home.
So to our significant others, thank you for understanding. So we went down and we were at,
it was a Sunday, obviously, and we were at PEC Atlanta, which was closed on a Sunday, but we
were there with this very secret club coop. No one had seen this car before. It was the first time
we were seeing it in person. I think Vue had seen it, Aaron had seen it in Germany, but it was
they were like super secretive about this car. So there was only, if I count on one hand,
Porsche employees at the thing, but we were there all day. Porsche had their own photographer.
We were taking tons of pictures on their track. And then we did our interviews inside,
which you see the product. Is this something you edited, Damon, or is this Will?
This was Will once again. Yeah, it's just, I recognize greatness when I see it, and Will
is great at editing it. You're good too. That's why he asked it was you. I'm good. But yeah,
this is another example of one of those videos where we need to knock it out of the park.
And as I said, whenever that happens, Will's oftentimes the person I call.
Yep. And there's a lot to cover. We also arranged for, PEC has the 50th anniversary club coop in
their inventory, but a volunteer, Alex brought up his 60th. And here's the behind the scenes is
when we took photos of all three cars together, Alex was doing a tour. He didn't even get to see,
because we were unveiling the 70th club coop at parade, which would be months later. So we
had his car parked next to the 50th. They went on a tour. We bring out the 70th really quickly,
do the shots of the family, you know, three cars together, take away the 70th. And then he
heads back home. And then we take more videos and shots. So there's a lot behind the scenes
and orchestrating all of this stuff. But to get it right is. I think that was also the trip that
we did. Is that the trip? I think we did one or two podcasts. We did. And my dad Calvin Kim.
Yeah. And Aaron and. Oh, yeah, we did. Yeah, we did. Michael and Michael Cam. Yep. And
yeah, so we tried it once again. We maximized it. We looked at it, not to pat ourselves on the back,
but when I schedule stuff, I worked these guys hard. It's like morning until until we're really
tired at night. It's a tough schedule because I don't want to lose daylight, certainly. And
there's the opportunity to get more content and use it later on. Obviously for us,
Atlanta is a trip. Yep. So the more we can get there, the better. Exactly. Exactly.
Let's see, video number 11. This is, I think also another technical lesson on a particular model.
Nathan brought this to our attention because we were heading out to Oklahoma. Damon was coming
out. And I think you even went out early to cover this one with. To a different city. Yeah.
Yeah. So I drove the Cayenne. I got the Cayenne first off. I got the Cayenne ready and I was
comfortable driving it to Oklahoma City and back and it made it. But I needed that because I was
transporting a ton of equipment and it might have actually been a ton of equipment. But so Parade
was in Oklahoma City. The collection, you know, I'm not going to say the city it is. I forget if
we actually mentioned it in the video, but it's in a nearby city in a couple hours away in Oklahoma.
And, you know, it's what better chance to go find the
Carrera 3.0 collection and do a film about it with Nathan than on this trip. And this,
so Tom Burkhart, the guy who got these cars together, runs the Carrera, Carrera 3.0 registry.
So it's Carrera30.net in case you guys are wondering. And yeah, these, these cars were
not sold in the U.S. They were European only, but not a lot of people know about them. A lot of
people mistake them for a pre-production or a sort of 9-11 SC. A Euro SC. A Euro SC. But what you
would will learn about these cars is that they are absolutely not that. And since, you know,
they passed a 25-year rule, it might be something you consider if you want the feeling of an early
air-cooled RS, but don't have the money for something like an RS 2.7 or some of those
more iconic cars. Yep. And evidently, not that everyone who watched it wanted to buy one, but
they certainly got educated. And I like it because of that, that we know we have in our archives and
our library a, with a two-year car. Yeah, 1976 and 1977 only. Yeah, a two-year car only that
if you want to find out about it, come to PCA and you're going to learn all about this car.
Exactly. And education continues with video number 12. And we talk about the latest hybrid,
and that's the Carrera 4 GTS. And this is exactly what Mayo was just saying, is a video,
we do these videos to educate our viewers because they don't necessarily understand
how the hybrid powertrain is integrated into a 911. And we, you know, thank you to Porsche and
the folks at PEC, Calvin Kim and all the Frank and all the folks down there that give us access
to cars. We don't get them all of the time, but, you know, they do try to make it available.
Timing might be interesting to try to coordinate, but we try to, especially the new models that
are rolling out, we try to cover that in a way that's not just a typical journalist. I drove it,
feels this, feels that, but we try to get deeper into the technical side of these new products.
Yeah, and this was one of my videos as well. So there are a couple funny stories about this one.
I think enough time has passed to where I can talk about one of them.
You guys know about it. That's right. But so we had, the plan was, because we were here for,
it was also the 70th stuff, I want to say, what were we, were we there for initially?
I think it was 70th, and we had that at the same time. Yeah, and it was the Macon turbo,
right, EV, and then this car were available to review, and I was going to try and fit two reviews
into four, four hour. Yeah. It didn't happen. Yeah. I only got one car done. And part of that is
because, so yeah, first off, I wrote the script because I didn't have the Monroni to check out
what options were on this car. So this was, this video was literally, like I did the research,
but didn't know everything about the car and the options until I got there. Michael Tamm came out
and thankfully probably saw me frantically trying to do this and explain some things that came out
really helpful in the video about the infotainment, and what's unique about seeing the hybrid system
working on the screen in front of you as you're driving it. And so yeah, really quick turnaround,
but I think it turned out pretty well. I made a couple of mistakes. I think I said I had PDCC
when it did not. But overall, I'm happy with it. And I think a good chunk of people are as well.
But here's the funny thing about testing cars. Often times, I mean, things don't go wrong
almost ever, but they do go wrong. Knock on wood. Sometimes, you know, you have to admit that, right?
Camera angles, batteries. Yeah, exactly. And so as you can see from this video,
it wasn't a cloudy day in the sense it wasn't gloomy. It was fairly sunny and the clouds were
light. So it was very bright outside. In fact, sun was poking through most of the time that day.
And so I take it out. It's still sunny with patches of clouds. And you know, I have my GoPro
set up and everything. And for about, so all of a sudden out of nowhere, and it's sunny out,
it starts raining. So I hit the windshield wipers. There was a GoPro on the windshield that I had
completely forgotten about. Was a GoPro. No, no, no. The GoPro stayed. The GoPro stayed on the
windshield. The windshield wiper broke off. Oh, the windshield wiper. So it was the blade.
And I believe they're made to come off like that instead of breaking the whole system.
Right. But man, it wasn't the video. You were just testing the failsafe system.
Yes, exactly. I was beside myself. It was. You said behind the scenes, it came to me all of a
sudden. I'm like, that's the last car you shall review, David. I know these things happen,
but man, I absolutely hate when they happen. No cars were harmed. I remember that happened
with the 73 RS. We did a review on when I was driving it and I did a U-turn to come back down
the hill and the GoPro came off the mount. Yeah. And we were, David and I were like just
total shock and fear in the owner. Well, it's so cool about it. He was like,
no problem, no worry, nothing happened. And we were like scanning the entire hood.
And I'm like, I don't think it hit anything when it came off and just flew off and hit the ground.
And I managed to find the GoPro and it survived, but we were more worried about the hood.
Yeah, exactly. And it was funny because, you know, you can probably hang off the ceilings
on these GoPro's and these Suctions. But what happened there was that that Suction was probably
two, three years old and just one of the plastic pieces was brittle. So now I've replaced the
GoPro Suctions every year or so. That is experience. All right, episode or video number 13.
Again, you know, we get to go to these events and a lot of our members,
believe it or not, will never make it to a PC event. So we want to capture all the fun,
all the cars, all the stories and the 2025 Workshare Union Monterey video comes in at 13.
And I would say, the more you write about your car, because the car's featured and judged,
have an area where you can write, the more you write about your car,
the better chance it has of making the video. Because ahead of time, we're all looking,
I'm looking at all the entries for all the cars, both Corral and Judge,
to see if there's anything unique. And once again, I can't tell the story of your car,
but I can look to see if you have a rare car that and the pictures help out a lot too.
And I'll make my list and I'll say, okay, here's ones I want to look at,
and then we'll run into ones that we didn't see or lost on person was much different.
But that's a quick way to get your car in. It's the right as much as possible as you can.
Now, before we get into the last two, if it's okay, I'm going to remind everyone to head over
to PCA.org, sign up for PCA's newsletters, performance news, e-brake news and mart fresh
all free. I want to also mention the events that are coming up Tech Tactics East February 21st
and 22nd in Eastern Pennsylvania. Again, Nathan will be there. So if you want to meet him and
our other presenters, come on out works reunion Amelia Island on March 6th. The judge area is
sold out, but Corral still open. It's going to be a full house folks. So if you're not doing anything
beginning of March, come down to Florida and join us. Porsche Parade registration opens January 28th.
The event itself is June 14th through the 20th and we'll be heading to Lake Placid, New York.
And because of the way we're recording this little out of order last week's podcast,
we'll have had or had Jack Stevenson the chair and check that out if you have any.
Your thought about coming to Parade because I don't answer a lot of your questions
about Parade. You've never been to one and you're thinking about coming.
Yeah, it's a lot. I'm not going to lie. A parade is intense, but we'll have all the
tools necessary for you to have a wonderful experience. The veterans that go understand
all the protocols and hotels and registration and signups and stuff. But we will have people,
if this is your first Porsche Parade, don't worry. We'll walk you through it. We'll have
videos. We'll have bits of information as we get closer to registration. The key thing is
for you to take a look at the information before the day registration opens up and just have an idea
of how many days you're going to be there, what kind of events you want to do. If you have questions,
you can even write to us and ask questions in advance so that when registration does open,
you're just simply going through the mechanics of registering. We won't sell out, quote unquote,
Parade. There's room for registration. We have, I think, 10 to 12 hotels that are booked for our
group. It's going to be a good one and it's going to be in beautiful Lake Placid. I mean, it's going
to be a crowd. I also want to remind folks that we are heading to the West Coast from Vancouver
down to LA. We've got some very special guests on Princess Cruise Lines with Treffen at sea
and we will depart September 19th and registration for that is already open. So just head over to
PCA.org and join us. It's a cruise experience like no other. Even if you've been on one before,
going on one with a bunch of PCA members is a very unique experience and if you've never,
like Parade, if you've never been on one, we'll walk you through it. The cruise is even simpler
because it's just one fee and once you get on the boat, they take care of everything. You leave
your wallet and your keys and you're safe and we take care of you for seven days. So with that,
back to number 14 and this is the case of sometimes controversy builds traction and that is the
detailing and cleaning tips brought to you by cleaning extraordinaire Damon Launey.
Yes, yours truly. I still maintain and I don't usually love that shot with the car before I
clean it next to the garbage can. I still maintain and the car looks way cleaner than it did before.
I'm happy with it but I do concede and I conceded right away as soon as I started hearing from
people and Voo and other professionals. Yeah, I did some of these things maybe 60% right.
Here's the thing, Damien, I would say most of the club probably land on your side of
detailing education. So for you to do this live, I know we make fun of you and stuff like that,
but there's other people that are watching you go, oh man, I'm glad Damon did this and I learned
that what not to do. Yeah, from the comments. Like I'm taking it from a very positive spin that
you like the disclaimer. If you're watching YouTube, do not do as I do. This is my favorite
comment was when you put too much polish, the guy who said you're polishing the polish. Yeah,
yeah, that was stuck in my head when I put polish on now. I'm like less is better, less is better
because I'm also from the more is better camp and after learning that I'm like, huh, that makes
sense. You should put less than, I don't think more would be better but that's actually kind of
perfect. But I still think if you're trying to learn some more detailing tips, it is a good
there are things to learn. Just, you know, read the comments and you'll get the full picture. I
think the Swiss wax that gave you the all the product. Yeah, well, they gave a PCA that we
actually still have a ton of product, which I think that they were really happy with the video,
weren't they? Yeah, they were super happy with it. Carla good. The car looks good. And their motto
should be even Damon Launey could use our product. And what's funny is I use way too much product
in man, Swiss fact stuff is expensive. Yeah. But yeah, I loved using the product. I think
they were happy just they wanted to get their product in front of people's faces and it did.
All right. All right. Coming in at 15, this gentleman is actually by the time you hear this,
we'll have he will say that he's not retiring, but he's his career at Porsche technically
has come to the end of the road. And this is a peek into the design process of the 997 with
our dear friend Grant Larson. Yeah. And you know, we we we get used to having Grant that parade and
whatnot. But it's so special to have someone like Grant or Tony Hatter when he would come
to to the events because these guys are legends. And what they've done in Porsche history and
decades from now will still be reading about their work and to be able to capture stories and
the fact that Grant is so generous with PCA and giving us behind the scenes. And it's not like
he just sits down and starts thinking about it. He spends the time to develop a presentation,
he goes and finds photos that he thinks our members would like. And now that we capture them
at at on tech tactics for video, we get to share it with the rest of the membership. And he
enjoyed that too, because instead of just 100 and some people, it can be thousands of people. So for
any 9-11 fan, especially 997, they got to see a really inside look of how the 997 was developed
in the era of coming off the cost cutting measures from the 996. Yeah. And this will obviously be
the last video we have, Grant. I think now that he's quote unquote retired from Porsche,
I think we will have even more opportunities to have him at events. And as Mani said, he loves it
when, you know, he's in front of a PCA crowd because we truly are technical nerds and we
just love to consume all the behind the scenes photos and stories he has to share. And perhaps
because he's not employed by Porsche, like he'll feed us a little bit more, a little bit deeper
and go a little bit edgier on some of the stuff that that happened back in the day. And I have
to say, if you haven't gotten your Grant Larson fix yet, we dropped a another video in early
January, 2026 with both Grant and VP of individualization and classic Alexander Fabig. And they
go into inside, really inside details on Sunderwunch, highlighting the auto speedster or auto yellow
speedster that was the first really big Sunderwunch product or project, as well as some other things
that I think I believe they're working on. But it's, you know, these are the two really high
up people who get are involved with top level projects. It's definitely a benefit, a member
benefit that you can attend parade and hear and ask questions from these two guys who
obviously were intimately involved in the development of some of these cars.
So there you have it, ladies and gentlemen, our top 15 videos of 2025. Thank you for your
support, not only of the videos on our YouTube channel, but of course, your support of PCA
Insider. If you're looking to race with fellow PCA members online, check out PCA SimRacing.com.
There you've got a big schedule for 2026 and might be time for you to try your hand at racing some
of our folks online this year. Insider swag, as you see across our table, we have mugs, we still
have bottles and tea search, just go to PCAWebStore.org. And if you're looking for insider decals,
just send us your address information to podcast at PCA.org and we'll send you a couple. And with
that, anything else, Manny Damon? Nope, I can't believe January is coming to a close and pretty
soon we'll have the cars back on the road around here. Well, I tell you what, today we're about
almost 50 degrees and I brought the 356 in today because I know it's going to get cold again,
so I'm taking advantage. The other day it was 35 degrees and that was good enough for me to wash
the car. Yeah. At least hand wash it with the bucket and rinse it with a bucket because my hose
had ice in it, nothing was coming out, but I just couldn't stand the salt. Yeah, exactly. All right,
folks, well, thank you for listening. Be sure to like, comment and subscribe. Consider sharing our
show with fellow Porsche enthusiasts. Until next time, stay safe and we'll catch you down the road.
About this episode
Dive into the behind-the-scenes stories of the top 15 videos from the PCA YouTube channel in 2025. Hosts Vu Gwin and the Insider crew reflect on their journey over 15 years, discussing viral moments, the evolution of video production, and the unique stories behind featured Porsches. Notable highlights include insights from guest Nathan Merz, technical discussions on various models, and the challenges of capturing the essence of Porsche events. The episode is packed with nostalgia, technical knowledge, and the camaraderie that defines the PCA community.
Original notes
On this episode we look back at the top 15 videos that PCA produced in 2025. You’ll hear behind the scenes stories for each video as well as insight into how we decided on the topic. We even chat about how the channel first started back in 2010 and how it has evolved since then. If you’ve ever watched any of our videos, you’re sure to find this episode interesting. It’s filled with the typical humor and insider information.
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