Jerry Seinfeld's 10 Year Porsche 907 Restoration

Don't waste the juice don't waste the juice I'm so excited to be doing a show

right now I've got earth wind and fire I don't know who's who what's what do we

even know who's earth wind or fire yes we do yeah who your earth okay he's

wind cuz he talks a lot I'm fired you you ground it I got it he blows it and I

spark it and Jerry Seinfeld is here as we promised he's a summering or

wintering on the west coast yes drove down special to do this this show thank

you I'm very excited we've already had an amazing car day yeah we have you brought

a car that we're gonna show everyone a beautiful 928 that everybody knows you

bought but what I hadn't expected was today you know I was supposed to have

breakfast with you guys and my morning got blown out and I said I'll meet you

I've got to go to the doctor do this and you said come down at one I've got my

907 long long tail long tail coming out of a 10-year restoration if you want to

see it if you want to see it yeah well it wasn't really 10 consecutive years it

was a lot got interrupted by other projects okay but it was I've had a 10

years and it might as well have been 10 years for the way it came out let me just

paint the picture here so I came down there you weren't ready the door of this

hangar was open and your guys were there and I walked in and the car is sitting by

itself lit up really and man this was I mean I've seen many of your things kind

of you know these moments yeah and it's a really interesting moment it's a

compliment to you that you have them that you take a moment to celebrate this

thing and the restoration of it and Joe Cavallari and Sam the guy you know who

helped you find it and buy it and look what we've done together right right and

I get there ahead of you at I was I'm absolutely floored by this car so

you haven't seen it we've got some pictures here and do you think this is

what I saw when I first walked in the I mean the newness yet the authenticity of

it yes not perfectly restored it's one of those Seinfeld specials tell us what

you were what you had and what you did with it and how it came into this

condition okay I bought this car because it's kind of fascinating history it has

two very notable things one is it's the very first Porsche to win a 24-hour race

overall 1968 Daytona Vic Alfred at the wheel mm-hmm when he was given the first

Rolex Daytona watch yes which I also have yes and if I recall correctly this is

the year that all three 907s that Porsche that's right entered they won one

two three one two three and your car was one was number one it's a it's an eight

cylinder a flat eight seven seven one is the designation Zuckerman this this was

really an event for me personally just being there and hearing the stories from

your guys and from you I was really I don't know I had a really nice time

today there's you know this is one of the first things that blew me away Jerry was

this little luggage it's a box you had to take one one of the rules of the race

where you had to be able to carry a certain amount of luggage so that little

box is for your luggage the funny thing about that luggage holder did you hear

what Joe was saying we found a guy in Germany yeah who had a mold right I

went how and then he got distracted but I was like how did you find it's a mold

man right and he was telling me about the car I said well you know you know no I

don't I'm not criticizing but why ten years and it was an amazing story you

know as we as he got the car he noticed there are nine eleven breaks on it and

there are you know they're the wrong instruments in there and all of these

things had to be fixed and put together we literally changed everything on the

car until it was perfect I mean it was cool just as it was because it's a nine

oh seven long tail is only two of them left existing maybe five were made but

so this is what we saw Joe was taking us through the car and I guess his fellow

works with Joe Kristen yeah I love those that yellow with the X there Jerry that

that's unbelievable this car weighs thirteen hundred and twenty pounds it

has two hundred and seventy eight horsepower on the V8 look at that look

at the number yeah painted on there 907 005 I mean every the little elbow pads

like on a blazer there on the vendors and this seat pops out and we can show

you a picture later but on the back of it it says Elford here's the other really

cool thing about this car Paul this car started on the starting grid of Le Mans

68 69 70 and 71 really consecutive years it started and now you're gonna see

something that I didn't know existed this is period correct 1968 this

illuminated panel so that you would see the number of the car yeah but I thought

this was something that Joe just did with modern technology but no this is

something Porsche had on these yeah did you know about this no no I've never

I've never seen it before yeah here take a look at this video where of it

turning on and off and so you'll see what we're saying here this is no some

sort of trend yeah it's illumination panel that's controlled by voltage and a

little transistor yeah I don't know he was explained to me and I just got lost

but right that's one of the coolest things you ever seen on a race car really

cool and what are you gonna do with this I have no idea are you gonna track it yes

we have to go yes yes I drove another 907 once you and I were in I was doing

Vegas and they had a track in the hotel said good we want to give you a day at

the track is part of the deal right performing at the hotel and we went this

is 20 years ago you think yeah it's the day I blew the engine in the 996 GT3

was that car oh four or three oh four or five yeah yeah so like 20 years ago so

I'm in this car I've never driven anything like this is a you know Porsche

60s racing prototype I get in the car I go down the straightaway I make my first

turn I turn the steering wheel and I go I think that was the greatest moment of

my life feeling and I remember that I remembered what it felt like and I thought

I wonder if this one will be the same and I drove this car today really exact

same thing you guys you want to hear some of it how it sounds oh god please and

Zuckerman started right up just like this boom start oh isn't this tail crazy

it's like real it's like a plane and it's such a unique look from the back

that doesn't really belie how long the damn thing is from the side like that

it's really cool go to the next video you'll see Jerry drive off yeah here he

is this is fine look at this thing by the way the height is waist high spike

ferristan it's as high as my belt if I stand next to it that's how low this

thing is do you sit up straight in it or you know you kind of crunched down wow

and you found the driving position to be comfortable yeah it wasn't bad it wasn't

bad yeah what a beautiful car look at this thing oh man oh it's good to be Jerry

Seinfeld it's very good to be Jerry Seinfeld look at that so that's ten

years of work yeah and you well only because Joe is so meticulous he he loves

to get these details right yeah it just does it for the hell of it yeah I wouldn't

know you wouldn't know you know how does he know do you remember what he likes it

he said you know I'm happy it's it was a ten year restoration because we learned

so much in years eight nine and ten really getting more information more

photography more documentation there's a shot that I took that we can put in of

this air intake two other really cool things about this car to the right of

the yellow right there there's a panel that lifts off and you put ice in it you

put ice in it and help her a cool suit a cool really right you know would go

yes drivers so you just you know you're going to the whatever that 711

thing it was like you're dumping a bag of ice in there and then just below that

left corner and they didn't know this to remember he said he had to put a hole

just below that venting to the lower left there's a round hole that the air flow

goes in and cools the driver to that they didn't know about that they had to

carve you know year nine into the body because they had a shot that was you know

a nice low angle and he went what's that by the way it was warm out today yeah

driving around the thing is all you're all sealed up but the air was flowing

where's this air coming from it's that little hole down there it's really an

amazing thing the yellowed plastic over the engine bay let's just look at a

couple more pictures before we could night this car I love that yeah whatever

that is to me that's a blip-shift shirt of some kind keep going here's your

little hair there's a hair in there and a jack and again all required yeah yeah

but it's stuff it's a jack and a hammer I've never seen before this is what I

kept saying to Joe like you must lose your mind when you realize this stuff's

missing you can't go on eBay and find that like where do you find this stuff

I mean really should bring Joe on to just go through this oh definitely more

detail because there there's the seat that has Alfred on the back like who's

the guy who painted where do you find an Alfred paint a seat painter yeah who's

that guy and then this angle is all look at how neat that is those scoops are so

cool yeah you're not going to see that on any other car I've you know not seen it

back in like that anyway genius and congratulations thank you you've brought

this back to the Porsche world for everybody yeah it will live on you're

gone it will and it was pretty I didn't realize the condition you know you buy

these cars you never we were just talking about how you don't know what

you're getting most of the time when you buy stuff yeah yeah I thought I was

getting the car yeah yeah but it was a long way it's a long way and then of

course I I don't know why I guess just I enjoy it being obsessive and so does Joe

let's put up a picture Joe there he deserves to have his moment here there

he is there's Joe well there it is all right let's talk about this coin base

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this NXT with USDC showing them just how simple it is and why USDC is the fastest

and easiest way to buy a car this meticulously maintained example Jerry

is a one-owner car with an incredible 320,000 miles wow 320,000 and the

fellow what was the fellow who's here from cars and bids Sean Sean was here

from cars and bids and I said is that the highest my highest mileage I said he

goes you know what we were at the workshop because cars and bids went

through every aspect of this car engine out did all the maintenance they wanted

to be right for the buyer and right next to it with it was another NSX with over

300,000 miles isn't that wild well it's a very drivable car very drivable but

there were two together 3-liter v6 270 horsepower 210 foot pound of torque like

I said it was a one-owner car 320,000 miles extensive recent maintenance I

won't go into it but cars and bids spent some money to get this right and it's up

on the site you can also check out Doug DiMiro's YouTube channel he just took

the car out and drove it and talks about it in more detail cars and bids and

Coinbase we thank you for advertising on Spikes car radio and this auction is

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there for Coinbase and I and I'm hearing the Coinbase guys have have nice cars

too yes money they got money they're buying nice cars but we've got more cars

for you we've got so many cars on this Seinfeld extravaganza you've all also

brought us something that you bought recently yes you want to tell us about

it's a 1979 928 Minerva blue with with what

Minerva you got a lot of Minerva I honestly I I do have a deep vulnerability to

any interesting blue and I love I never knew that they did a blue Pasha interior

fabric so when I saw that and I saw the exterior color and I've been I've been

watching and reading about these 79s which was the first pure unadulterated

928 shape and I was just drawn to it but it's not the car that I'm most excited

about right well why are we I'm excited about my fiat 128 well we don't have that

if you go let's go through this car first and then you can tell us about that

car but this is the first time you drove it right you drove it over here I drove

it today and I Paul asked me was it drive like and I said you ever see the

videos where they're training police dogs and the guys wearing foam thing yes

and the dog jumps and he jumps on his arm and the guy goes attack yeah that's what

it's like driving it has a 4.5 liter v8 these cars are really interesting because

they you know they weren't quite sure what to do with them right they at one

point were supposed to be mid-engine cars but then they discovered there

wouldn't be enough room for the passenger in the back and there's not much

room as there is they're they're grant touring cars that interior beautiful

this is really the 70s for you 70s fans it really brings back that era of

opulence and indulgence and I guess I could use the word disco and kind of

70s idea of modern right and futuristic yeah the entire instrument pod moves up

and down with the steering wheel it's very comfortable and if a police dog

attacks you it's the concept was a two plus two with a hat yeah which is a

great idea let's make a car like that you also five-speed manual that's the

other thing that so that combination the interior that they had a lot of

Minerva the manual 18,000 original miles I'm gonna put an asterisk on that I

think it's fake I don't care you know open up the hatch from behind and show

us that view we were talking about earlier Cameron this is really fun

watch watch this look now back up back up look at this thing look you can't might

not be able to tell at home but that is a big open space yeah that's a really big

open space that made me want to take the hatch off and just drive it around like

that yeah you know what I mean your your heads would be outside in the back and

show everybody the interesting a little addition to the hatch right there just

in case look at this Homes of the Stars right yeah that's a sun visor for the

rear seat look at that I and I was saying like when you close the hatch it

goes right up against the seat I don't know how you're not puking after the

also the import you know the Porsche embossed into the steel there that's

also really that's probably your thing it's kind of a okay yeah it's really

neat it's a beautiful car to look at and I think it was designed by Wolfgang

Mobius famous also for the Mobius strip you know without his fall no that strip

that kind of turns over on itself correct correct yeah keeps going he did a

lot of furniture yeah yeah despite earning early acclaim for its comfort

power futuristic design sales were sluggish the base prices of 928s were

considerably higher than the previous range topping 911 model and the shift

to front engine water cool design unsettled some traditional Porsche

enthusiasts as it still does to this day and to this day yeah we're still

unsettled but that's what's fun about it it's really fun when smart people do

dumb things it's kind of what we see most of in the world today right there's

more dumb geniuses there's also dumb people doing dumb things yeah no yes

but um I don't know this car is very aesthetically pleasing from the

design right the design the aesthetic yeah and a lot of nerve and a lot of

nerve well look at you still going yeah still going still going making choices

buying new things by the way that piece of glass the rear quarter panels the

largest piece of glass they ever made for a rear panel really yes gigantic it is

like a weirdly shaped the whole thing is just you know it's just one of these

cool weird do you remember what on the inside I don't think you can open that

little gas door yeah you can is it is it open from the outside this was funny

Zuckerman you've never seen this I guarantee you see what it says on there

it's gonna you got to maybe pull it out yeah flip that thing this is flip that

thing open oil okay is your oil okay and I oil okay oil okay because these

things famously just went through quarts of oil really so they had to put a

reminder on the flap what are you sure your oils okay it reminds me of these

gambling sites when on the bottom corner they always says gambling problem

with a yeah it's so friendly the little question mark what do you mean why do

you ask no I'm just curious notice you had a refinance your house after that

miss field and we have one of the one of the ones on the tennis channel has

slow gambling we will slow your gambling down really you have a problem

we're gonna help you know gambling if we keep it slow the problem won't be that

bad yeah your solution really yeah yeah slow crack smoking you need to slow the

crack hits down it's exactly right just people wanting to get things off their

desk you know we have this gambling site we got the license we can put it in

everybody's pocket every second of the day what about all the addiction we're

gonna deal with that what are you gonna do we're gonna we're gonna help them

with that we're gonna get them addicted and then we're gonna help them with three

people press it and all three said now we're okay yeah after and after a day

fine you know last week in the show I was having a little fun with Red Bull and

their new hypercar six million dollar hypercar that was funny yeah thank you

but people were giving me giving me a lot of help so we were saying today for

some reason one of the things that you get with the car gene yeah they take your

humor gene away that's right yeah they really think this shit matters they

didn't understand the bit yeah I was doing I would rather have an A&W

root beer hypercar I didn't understand where I was just going I was antagonizing

Johnny and having some fun but you would never be interested in something like

that right you're not really a hypercar guy or you do have a 918 I have a 918

which I guess is a hypercar but a very practical one is that the is that there

it is yeah yeah fair I was like a cream soda and you know of course we know

that they're a big enough one racing and I don't know I just thought there's a

difference though sometimes between sponsoring things and then doing the

thing you know and you could make the argument okay well the Barbie movie yes

Mattel made a great movie and I guess happen but once one time but I'd rather

watch movies from non Mattel people I don't know that's the only point I was

trying the thing I the question you always have to ask with a car like this

is yeah I could get in it and I could drive it and I would enjoy that but when

I get out yeah and people see me getting out how do I feel that crawling oh this

is a track-only car and I think it's a track on it's already been sold so

they're gonna be just fine good for you hey let me show you this picture and I

want to know how you feel one year out right now how do you feel are you okay

I'm okay one year ago almost to the day this car sold at auction isn't it

interesting that you had this beautiful 907 I found this to be fascinating that

if I were you and I can't speak for you I would be long forgetting about this car

yeah what I just saw today anything you have for 20 years of your life yeah

isn't that's enough of that yeah do something else was that the numbers

influence on your sale 20 years just happened to be but yeah the 907 is

actually a little more interesting to me fantastic really Joe was saying as he

went through the car you could see that they spent a lot more time developing it

917s they kind of rushed right see because I had to make 25 of them really fast

whenever you're here I need to know what you're who you're watching on YouTube I

don't mean to put you in the spot but are you watching do you have any new

YouTube guys that you're watching I saw a guy who walked into a field he bought a

house and there was a Volvo in the field yes that was completely deteriorated

decrepit and decayed yes and he says I'm gonna see if I can get this started and

it was like didn't we talk about this guy he was fantastic yeah I don't we

watch but we didn't talk about it on the show we didn't we I don't think you know

who this guy was no you're right it was on our text thread it was on our text

thread good let's see if we can find this guy usually these things give me

anxiety yeah really he felt like he had a really firm grip on that's what

fascinating about it the cheerful oh wait yes yes you knew this guy we were

gonna have this guy on the show and that was it that would have been a

mistake super excited but but I reached out is that him destination adventure

that yeah that's him that's definitely him look at this car Paul you saw the

pile of shit so if you thought I'm gonna get this running yeah where it sits and

look at the condition yeah but you're right Paul that the whole point of this

video this guy's attitude about doing this is something you don't see you

realize it gives you confidence that maybe humanity will survive as an idea

the opposite of my father my father addressing any problem screaming

cursing having a fit so watching him do this bought back some PTSD memories of

watching my father but then he calmed me and he came through right it a really

great moment it really changed my entire mood for a number of days that

somebody could do this that they thought of doing it that they went about doing

it it looks he doesn't even put new oil in it the oil's been it's 30 year old

oil she was so methodical yeah so easy going yeah Dustin Porter is the man's

name yeah he's a great man and you were all excited after you watch this video

and you said this guy to both Zuckerman and I immediately I messaged him on

Instagram and he was just like I don't even understand what's happening

Jerry Seinfeld's what my videos you're inviting me on the show here he is because

don't you feel that in life we all need to see these triumphs against long odds

encouraging yeah it is it's uplifting you got a really if you watch the whole

thing you see the garbage piled up in the back the windows are broken out you

think this and then he takes a like a hammer to the to the ignition it's just

thoughts hammering at it like what are you doing you'll never start now that's

how we fixed it coincidentally I think I sent Cameron I think I sent a Volvo 240

from an Instagram post that was an ad from Volvo way back in the day throw that

up look at this yeah it's great how great is that I'm a big Volvo 240 guy now

look but Cameron see if you could find him hammering away with it right before

he starts it up okay look at what he's doing to the ignition I'm watching this

I'm going no don't hammer it you'll never get it started now you need the

ignition to start the car but that's that's what this guy does the wheels are

completely sunken into the earth he drives this car out of there wow in the

end yeah he finds a tire in the back manages to inflate that he pulls that

out of it what is that it's just betting yeah old couch stuff his mission is

just to drive it to the dump that's what he's trying to just to get it out of

there just to get it out and throw it away and back around the rig triple spin

double flip over the speed bump through the cattle patch full speed okay so he's

planning where he's gonna go just be a piece of cake yeah there he gets it

started amazing how long did this take him to get rid of such a good run it's

real shame just driving it to the dump all that work wow that is so cool

pretty limited brakes

what do you expect pretty limited everything

thing. Oh man. Good for you. Wow. Volvo should be doing a commercial with this guy. I mean

this makes me want to buy a Volvo right now. I bought one because of this.

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And we thank Race Deck for sponsoring the show. Well, what's your favorite Japanese car?

Well, that's a good question. That is, you know, there's, there's so many.

Lately I've been looking at these 2000 GTs. Oh yeah. These Toyotas. Yeah, they're interesting.

And I've been looking at that going. That's really a car I would, I would love to drive at

least once in my life. I drove a Mazda Cosmo. The Wanker. Right. Also great. With the

inter-episode rate. Comedians and cars. Yeah, yeah. That was really cool. But yeah, the car,

I really want a Honda Accord. Yeah. Just a new one. Like the one I had growing up,

like you're talking about a brand new one. A brand new one. With the funny fonts on that.

Pull up a Honda Accord so we can look at this thing. I just feel like they've been doing this so

long. That's the new Honda Accord. Is that it? Yeah, that's it. You want that. Yeah. Looks like

a Chevy Citation a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. But that's, I, in a car universe, I'm talking to car

people. There are ordinary things that can be appealing. Yeah. And for some reason,

I love the panel below the headlights. I find it interesting. And I just, I've always liked

this brand. They seem honest. Styling, it is kind of funky, but find some more pictures here. Let's

look at some other angles. So I don't, I don't know that this one's doing it for me. Look, take,

pick out a picture and tell us which one it is. Let's look at that gray one in the middle camera

and the lower. Yeah. That one there, right where your cursor is. That's a good angle of it.

You see how that, that, that front aspect is designed. You really like this, huh? I really

like it, but I just, but it appeals to you. You're a regular person and you need a regular car. Right.

I feel like Honda always brings a certain, a slight, elegant restraint to their design.

Some of this stuff, you know, it really looks like nobody cared at all. What about the Civic?

Like the Civic, don't they make a Civic R? I don't like the Civic R. What's your historic

Honda favorite? Pull that up. Well, the, the first Civic and the first Accord. Yes. So you don't

really like that. So Jerry, you don't like this? No, at all. This is very ungainly. The front is,

it's bulbous. I like this. This, this appeals to me. I hear, I hear they're fantastic cars.

I would love to drive. Yeah. But that is an awful proportion. And look at how many different

horizontal lines there are in the front aspect. And in Congress angles and,

oof. You know why I like it? You know why I like it? Why? It's sporty. That's a sporty car right

there. You like them sporty? I like them sporty. Yeah. Tell that story. I don't even remember

the story. He's a guy in a gas station and you said something about his, the color. You see,

I like the color. And he said to you, I like them sporty. I like them sporty.

He keeps making us laugh. Anyway, these are supposed to be good. They're okay. All right.

They're all right. They're fine. Yeah. Fine. What regular TV are you watching?

Regular TV. I'm watching Ken Burns, American Revolution on PBS. So you, I love that.

You sit down and watch it on the couch. No, no, I watch on the exercise machine. I see. I can't

just sit on the couch. Right, right. But you know, you read this stuff. He tells you the whole

story. You go there. The American troops were in Montreal trying to take the fortress up there.

They couldn't do it. So it's winter. Well, let's go back to Boston. They walk back to Boston in

the winter from Montreal. No gloves. No Patagonia. No gloves. No gloves in 1700s. Yeah. And they

walk. And they just walk. And you're walking on the treadmill. Yeah. And you're just going,

wow. Yeah. You go, wow, I'm just like them. We love Ken Burns. He really can take anything.

I mean, they're great subjects, but he really knows how to just grab you. And it's like,

you know, we used to talk about in the Seinfeld writers room, like there are movies you just

can't turn off. A Ken Burns documentary I can't turn off. It really holds your attention.

Really neat stuff. Really great. I love that Ken Burns gag we did with him. We tried to make it

Ken Burns unfrosted movie. Yeah. Kenny, here's my problem.

I need to legitimize this. With your little boy haircut.

Super fun. All right. Well, we've got a ton of questions. I know you like questions. Let's see

what you like. Again, you can answer them. You can mock them. We can move right past them. I

wanted to talk about my 128. So we'll do that. Okay. No, no, let's do that. We'll do it next

week. No, no, let's do it. No, I like we have plenty of time. Just go ahead. You're right.

My first car was a Fiat 128 Sport L. What year? Pull it out. 73. Okay. There you go. Look at that.

Okay. And then we went on the left. I owned that car. You did. Yeah. But I didn't really like the

green, but I buy I buy any one of these that I can find in decent condition. Why? Because they're

great. They're rack and pinion steering, independent rear suspension, 1300cc. It's fun. It was kind

of quick. It's not quick, but I mean, you know, 60 horsepower. Compare it to a Chevy Vegas. Yeah.

It was so exotic. Paul, you can't imagine in Massa Piqua, there was nothing like this. Nobody

had anything like this. Nobody. So this was my first chance to show the world that I'm different.

And I'm cool. And I'm smarter than you.

But you never, but you did get one. I am. Yeah. I have three of them now.

Yeah. But how old were you when you got your first one? Did you get one?

When I was 19, $2,600 out the door. Wow. Yeah. That's it. My mother paid for half of it.

That's so nice. Yeah. And I drove to California in it and got to CLA San Francisco. I drove it

everywhere. And you don't know where that car is right now. No, I wish I did. Yeah. Wow. So you've

now gone back and bought that car to re-experience it. Yes. And I find that driving it, I go, I was

right. I was right. These were great for what they were in their time. Yeah. In 1973, gas crisis.

Right. Car, you got a 30-mile per gallon car here that's fast and fun to drive. It's not fast.

It was fast to me because it was manual. Yeah. Nobody in Mesa Piqua had a stick.

Yeah. No, I know. That was the Honda Accord that I drove. It was shocking. We thought we were in

race cars. That orange one looks fantastic. I have that one. Is that your car? No, but I have to say

I have that calling. How many of you owned over the years? Four. So would you recommend these

to collectors who don't have a lot of money? No. No. Why? Why not? It's too personal. Yeah,

it's not a... It's Italian. It's not a no-fush, no-much. You've got to take care of it. But it's

not stupidly fragile. It was made to a price. But they're light. The steering is great. They're

just fun. They're smart. Transverse four-cylinder. I don't know. I just like, I love Fiat from the

70s and VWs from the 60s. This is an ad for something called Bluetooth. Oh, God. Here we go again.

Again with these feet. Come on, Zuckerman. You're going to love it. Fellas, you already know what

time it is. It's time to level up. Bluetooth just dropped something crazy. I'm talking about next

level champion belt gold-plated energy. Bluetooth gold. What did they send us, Zuckerman?

They sent us packets of that, right? And they sent us a special pen light. Is that what you're

talking about? Yes, I am. And it's like a bat light. But instead of a bat, it's a weenie.

And you can shine the weenies wherever you want. Who are you texting? It looks like something

happened in baseball. Oh, look at me. They were supposed to send us a hundred of these. I took

some Bluetooth gold. I took some. Whatever you do, don't chew it. It is chewable, but you don't have

to chew it. It was like the worst kid's vitamin. I called Zuckerman and I go, I'm going to give you

a bag of this. This is not something I needed. I'll just say that. But it's a new experience.

It gives you a new experience. I have some friends have been telling me this. This is a totally new

experience. And what appealed to me was this was a crazy combination of four different things.

Things that like apomorphine, oxytocin to turn up arousal and then the other stuff to get the,

as they say, the rocket pumping. But it turns you into a different guy.

And once, you know, you've had the experience, you're like, OK, what's next? Where are we?

What's next? Let's go. And then for 36 hours, it's like, you know, you look at a mailbox and it's

like, when is this going to stop? Like your first beer. But I'll tell you where I really loved it

is, you know, because it's just it's bringing blood to the surface, it feels like it heals a

lot of your, your workout paints, you know, and then I then I read that and I'm not saying that

you should do this, that professional athletes take this stuff before they play games like

well players and the rest. So that's what you want. He knocks you down and then he's he's

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You would like that to stop. You know, I had I had three or four of those packets you sent them.

Yeah, they disappeared. They were on my desk. They were all gone. The somebody came here shop.

I'm telling you, chocolate is in my office. This was in this gave me insight into this

new area that people are doing not necessarily because they need it just because it creates a

new you. All you got to do is just ask people in your office to stand up. Yeah, exactly where

they went. Wow. All right, Robert May wants to know. And again, you can mock these questions.

We can skip questions. If you don't like it, we'll just move on. Okay, I've got there are hundreds

of them. Okay, right. First set comes from our friends at Patreon Robert May. What 356 do you

recommend starting with the C 356 C. There you go. Most drivable, most advanced. You've got a

pretty one in your hanger. That blue one. The blue one. Yeah, 64. It's not in the class of my

friends. But it's nice. That is a good looking car. Yeah. Okay. Jack wants to know what do air

cooled Porsches force you to accept as a driver that modern cars try to protect you from.

That's a tricky wording and tricky question. You can skip it if you like. I think you need to

rephrase. Yes, air cooling doesn't protect you or or make you vulnerable actually makes you less

vulnerable because you don't have to deal with water pumps and hoses and liquids. Nogman wants

to know what's up with the 944s Jerry got a while back. Are the transaxles out? No, I still love it.

I have a black 944 turbo that I still love but I bought a race car. The club sport turbo coop

they're called. It was a Canadian race series. But they were a little rough. They were a little

rough for the street. So I don't know if they'll stay. Do you still have the black one? I still

have the black one. Yeah. Jerry is there something that you this is from Rob Kayes. There's something

that you carry with you each day. I carry a tag heuer that I bought in 1995. Is there something

you keep with yourself every day? Swiss Army knife? No, I know what it is. That's it? Really?

Yeah, I have a handkerchief with me at all times. In the 90s, it used to be a Swiss Army knife,

right? I used to have a Swiss Army knife but now I just keep it in my backpack. But yeah,

I never go anywhere without a Swiss Army knife. There we go. Pugs and Porsches wants to know,

do you like Waymo's? I do. I cut one off today and I thought he'll see me.

I don't worry with a person you don't know with a Waymo, you know, he's watching. I was having

trouble getting into a left lane today and the Waymo was next to me and I made a little flinch

like that and it stopped. Really? And it let me in. Yeah, you can play the Waymo. You can play

the Waymo. Yeah, you can mess with it. That's right. Tom Lindman wants to know, how do you handle

breaking down in older cars? For you, that's easy, right? You just call somebody. I call like

somebody helps me. Yeah, they call and someone helps you. All right, let's go to Instagram here.

Oh boy, there's so many. And Lieberman, of course, complaining that he's not here.

Shut up. I had a question. You guys don't know that, even though this is a car show and you guys

are supposed to know about cars, you really don't know that much. That's right, thank you. But I

have a question that was rattling around in my head. It has for many, many years. You know, in

our entire life, they always charge you more for a more powerful car. Correct. How much more money

does it cost to build a car that has 30 more horsepower than the other car? I think they've

been scamming us all these decades. Absolutely. They will pay more for something more powerful.

But what is the difference in the manufacture of an eight to one compression ratio versus a 10 to

one? It's all, it's got to be all the same. It's just a way to screw you, isn't it? Of course.

Yes, of course. So all these cars cost the same to make is what is the truth. You know,

it's funny, you know, I'm going to pivot to the GT3 Touring packages. You know, when you look through

this stuff, you have to look at the prices now and go, is this worth it? Like the lightweight

package is something I keep getting calls about on GT3 Touring guys. How much is that?

I don't know. You can look it up, but it's tens of thousands of dollars. Is it worth it?

Right. Yeah. And, and when you and I built our GT3 Touring that hasn't come yet, we quickly

eliminated it. Right. We just thought it's not really reducing weight that much weight. What

are we paying for aside from some appearance package stuff? But there's an insecurity that

there it is. Look at that. Oh, wait, sorry. $36,000. Wow.

Carbon fiber bucket seats. I don't know if that's right. That's AI that might be wrong,

but, but you could look it up underneath there. But you're right. As far as like a little extra

added horsepower, yeah, of course. That's it. The prices are always kind of

commensurate with the horsepower increase, of course. Everything. You get the bragging rights.

It's an S. There's a little badge on the car. Right. Right. So is this all fake?

If you go back to some of the old muscle cars, right? And you would pay extra for if you wanted

a special option in your Corvette. You actually got a real racing engine and you could differentiate

what was in that engine or how they made it from the base model. But I think today,

where it's so easy for them to get more horsepower, I don't think that there is much

you're paying for it. A difference. All right. Look, here's the, here's the lightweight package.

Look at this. Oh my God. What do we get? What do we get the lightweight package? Keep going down.

What does it say? These options are available. So magnesium wheels. All right. That that's

worth some money. I don't know if it's worth that much money. This is essentially it's like a

price change. $43. Oh boy. Oh boy. That's, that's wild. That used to be like a really,

that's a nice car for $43. I could get that Honda Accord. I've always wanted it. You do what you

were getting if you got a four cam versus a push rod. Right. That's, that's understandable. Right.

Expensive, huh? That's really rough. But let's say a regular, a 1600 versus a super. Right.

Or you have this, your orange car is an SC versus the plain C. It's another 20 horsepower or something.

Does it cost them that much more money to make that? Do they charge that much more at the time?

I don't know. They always do. I would assume it's, there's some development money and things that,

you know, it'd be a case by case basis, right? If you're developing it at that cost a lot of

money, you'd have to, but, but overall, I think, yeah, it's a way to charge us more. Super deluxe.

Super deluxe. Like when you go to that shell cheap car wash there, you want the single wash,

the super deluxe or the super duper deluxe. So the car noodle wax. Yeah. And they're just spraying

you with a hose. So is there a difference? So the big question is there a difference in the gas

between regular, medium and super, right? Do you really know when you go to push that

90? Because you want to take care of your car. You want to be good to your car, like you want to

be good to your puppy dog. And you get that 91. You'll be fine. It's the same shit. It's the same

thing. Yes. Yes. The recycling bin. Where's that going? Where are they dumping that stuff in your

backyard? Right? Yeah. Official Chris Stevens wants to know, when Jerry would frequent the

Porsche swap meets, especially Hershey in early 2000s, what things would you be hunting for there?

Women. I really like old literature. I love old car brochures and collectible items,

espresso cups or something like that from the day. Yeah. That's the kind of stuff that I like.

Oh, a little badge for your car going over 100,000 miles is the kind of thing I would like.

Where is, you know, you've been collecting this crap for a long time. Where is it? Is it in my,

is it an Indiana Jones warehouse at this point? No, no. I got it in my office. All the stuff I

like. Some of it, I guess is in a box somewhere, but I surround myself with it in my office to

distract me from working. Yeah. But that's just, that's just some of them, right? Yeah. Like the

Vic Elford Hall itself. That was a huge mistake. It was like 20 tables. Yeah. Where's all that?

I have that. Yeah, but it's not on display. It's no, I have to think of something to do with it.

I'll probably donate it to the Porsche Museum. Okay. What are they going to do with it?

That's, that's what I thought. Ryan Stern wants to know, what would Marcus Aurelius drive?

That's a good question. Be back to the Honda. Excellent. He's being a Honda. He's a Stoic.

Yeah. He's a Stoic. Really? That's it? That's a Stoic car. Yeah, it is. It's very zen. It's very

why focus on what other people are doing. If this is all you need, then, then focus on that.

Focus. Marcus would only want what he needed to do, what he needed to do. Now Caligula would be,

you know, Lamborghini, right? No, he'd be in the Red Bull car. In the Red Bull car.

Irish Green 912 guy. What are your best scores from the LA Lit Show? Which is coming up.

We haven't gone to it. I'm going to ask you today, do you want to go back? We haven't been back in

years. Our last visit was the week COVID started, sorry. Remember? You looked at me and you went,

see that guy at the buffet? He's got it. We got to get out of here. It was like, I think you're

right. He was coughing into the buffet. The last time I was there, I bumped into a good friend

of mine, Nick Clements. Oh, yeah. European collectibles. Good find, fellow. We had a chat.

Well, what did you buy? What have you found there? You always get great stuff.

I got great stuff. You know, I like old Max Hoffman stuff. He was the first importer of European

cars into the States and he made some, like, pen holders and model things for people that sold.

I have a thing. If you sold 100 Porsches, he gave you this Chrome 550, which I have. It's really

big. It's like, yeah, yeah. I was reading about him. He was a bit of a scoundrel.

Really? Yeah. He played a little fast and loose, but he was super clever. But he was always, like,

definitely the factory wanted to get paid up front from him. Yeah. And but he figured out

how to get BMWs into this country and he was going to distribute them and he put a clause

in the contract that if they, for every BMW ever sold, he would get a commission.

They didn't realize that. So when they went to a dealership model, he just sat back.

They had to pay him on each and every car. Wow. Yeah. But he still, he still died broke.

Really? Yeah. Yeah. He was always going through it. He always had a scheme.

I have a thing of his, it's like a pen set, like from a bank in the 50s. And it's called,

he renamed the company Hoffman Porsche. Really? Corporation. Yeah.

A little bit ballsy. Maybe we should take more Solomon Seinfeld. We'll just throw that in there.

To answer your question, we should definitely go this year. I would love to go back there.

Okay. Let's do it. It was always fun. When I was first getting into the hobby and I went with you

the first time, I couldn't believe these people would come from different parts of the world

and they go, Jerry, I didn't put this on the table. I've been saving this just for you.

Oh, God, the shit they hand you. And they would just hand you these beautiful cars.

Yeah. Yeah. It's really cool. Really weird, cool, weird stuff.

Yeah. It's so fun. What did you call some of the stuff pre-garbage?

Some of it would go right into the trash, but most of it was really

tasty keychains, original 356 things and, oh man. Does Jerry have any cool Norm McDonald stories?

Norm did a really fun episode of comedians and cars, but we didn't spend much time.

Colin Quinn and him used to do, they used to co-headline some casinos because they were

both ex weekend update hosts and they used to work together and Colin would tell me the crazy

things that Norm would eat at these casinos. He'd get like, he'd order like two cheeseburgers

and before that, he'd had two chocolate thick shakes before the cheeseburgers came.

Really? Yeah. But I think, but he knew he was sick. Nobody else did. So he, I think he was just

living enough. So he was Warren Zevon-ing it. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Just go for it. Just eat, enjoy it.

If Porsche asked three of you to create a fourth heritage series, 9-11, inspired by the 1980s.

What do we know? They're making good stuff right now.

And if she were a four, she would do a club sport, something, I guess. Yeah.

But isn't that a GT3? That's true. With the lightweight package.

You know, I'll tell you the, one of the greatest cars that just kind of got made and

I don't know. I think it's somewhat unappreciated was Grant Larson's design study for the Boxster

at the Detroit Auto Show. Looks nothing like the car that was produced. The proportions of

that car. Cameron, pull up a picture of that car, the Boxster Show car there. There it is.

That is the coolest, god damn looking thing. The guy standing around at that shot right there.

That's the one. Yeah. This is the one that I lost my mind when I said. Look at the proportions of

that car. And Boxster did not come out like that. That's really a 550 update. Yeah. Yeah.

That's the car that I want. If I could have any car. Well, why couldn't we get a Boxster from

that year and send it to Porsche and re-engineer it? We got the Volvo dirt guy to chop the wheel

based down for us. Dust in the dirt guy. Yeah. They do have a program where they would make

this for you from a regular Boxster. They would do it. I think it's a great idea. They do? Yeah.

Sure. They have a custom program where they'll make you, you know, make your dream come true.

But do you see what I'm saying? Look at the overhangs, the front and rear overhang,

how tight they are. The centers of the wheels, that kind of bronzy color.

I can tell in the photo who came up with the red interior, right over the driver's head.

Look, it was me. Sir Redmond. Wow. And you see in those vents in the door,

you could see little propellers. Yeah. You ever see those? Yeah. It's so cool. This car just blew

my mind when I saw it. Well, this is the 90s, I guess, right? Yeah. 93. I believe it was

broke cover. And this is where I was writing for Dave and I said, I saw my first new car.

Yeah. I'm going to start saving to get this thing. Yeah.

Ask Jerry what he's currently working on with Larry. Are you working with Larry David right now?

Larry and I have made something. I think it's been out there. It's an HBO,

250th anniversary of America this July 4th. That's right.

And Larry did a show and I did, I made an appearance on the show. Is that show out?

Not yet. July 4th. Not yet. I think I do have... Yeah, there it is.

What are we looking at there? That's Lewis and Clark. Yes.

That's fantastic. Comedy team of the 1600s. Wow. That's exciting. Yeah. Well, Jerry,

thank you so much for doing the show. This has been wonderful. It's been good to have you back.

It's been good to podcast with the original crew. Yeah. Earth, wind and fire. And I'm happy you're

out here this winter. You got to come back in a minute. I had such a nice day with you. It was

so nice. If you're a Patreon subscriber, I think Jerry, we were going to drive Jerry's 928,

but he suckered him and he saw your car, your M3 there. I'd like to drive that Italian M3.

He wants to drive it around the block. Is that okay with you? Yeah. Let's pull the crap in

and do it. All right, we'll do it. And we'll see you next week, Spikes Car Radio.

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