Porsche Adventures During Monterey Car Week 2025

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Welcome everyone to Episode 181 and for those of you that are watching us on YouTube and

might notice our bloodshot eyes or we may look a little bit in need of rest is because

we just came back from Monterey Car Week and it was a lot.

It seemed much longer than the five or six days we were there.

It was pretty intense.

It was incredible and we hope to share with you today a little bit about what went on.

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And with that, let's talk about our adventures during Monterey Car Week.

I have Manny Albin to my right and Damon at the controls.

Where do we want to start?

I guess so we get in on Tuesday, go down, check in, everything was pretty late by the

time we got to the hotel.

So Wednesday morning, we wake up right and early to hit the auctions, auction previews.

And thanks to Ilco, we were able to get access to Gooding, which is Gooding's Christie.

That does not flow off the tongue very easily.

I want to say Gooding and company all the time.

And that's located at Pebble Beach.

And for those who've never been there, usually you do everything not to get near

Pebble Beach because of the traffic.

You have to go through 17 mile drive to get up there.

Then you've got to find a place to park.

But on Wednesday, it was relatively easy to get up there.

It wasn't too hard to find parking.

And and luckily, there wasn't a whole ton of people, maybe people, but not a whole

lot in the in the preview tent.

And they had some very cool cars, including quite a few Porsches.

Yeah, certainly, certainly a good number of Porsches.

And, you know, we're around Porsches a lot.

I also really do appreciate being able to see the other makes that are there

because there are some cars that you only see in photos or online.

And here they are in person, like the Ferraris and the Lamborghinis.

And some of the brands I don't even I don't even I've never even heard of

it from an era that I'm very unfamiliar with.

I think for the overall week, what I noticed was I haven't kept

a track of a lot of supercars and the different names and models that they are.

And I forget about Lamborghini.

Yeah, even to that certain degree, Ferrari to what the different numbers mean.

And yeah, it's like Lamborghini.

Then you get into the ones, a Kona's egg.

Kona's egg. I know the Kona's egg brand, but the actual cars, unless it's

ones that I've raced on the video game that I'm like, oh, I remember hearing

about that car, but just looking at it and being able to tell what it is.

Yeah. So do we want to start off

cars that impressed you or your favorites at goodie?

So goodie, you know, when you walk in, you're overwhelmed because, like you said,

it's a lot of cool other brand cars as well as Porsche,

but even the Porsches, you don't know which one to go look at first

because that the goodie 10 by itself could be a car show.

You take all the cars, you spread them out on a parking lot or a golf

course, they could have their own car show with all the the cool stuff they had.

I was really drawn to the Coca-Cola RSR.

I think it was a 2017 that Nick Tandy drove just because

the fact that you can buy this factory supported race car for yourself.

And this is the one where I think on our video or the video

that will be released at some point, the placement of the engine

in this car is rather yes, it's the mid engine.

Of course, they didn't advertise that very highly.

All the Cayman owners pointed out very quickly when the car came out

that should have been the Cayman, not a 911, even though it was a 911 body.

They realized because of the rules and what not and try to be competitive.

They moved it to the middle, which turned out to be a good decision.

The car was a competitive car.

And but you looked at it, you had no idea it was a mid engine.

You looked inside and saw how close the firewall was to the driver.

Exactly.

You know, kudos to the curators.

I mean, you have everything from race cars to 100 percent original cars

to you had roofs, you had singers, you had.

What was it that the car that had sears all over it?

That was a pretty interesting car and white walls.

Yeah, that was, I believe, owned by Jeff Schwart at one time.

It was a East African safari car.

I wanted the so they entered five cars in the in that rally.

Two of them were support vehicles because the support vehicles have

to be entered in as official entries.

And then you had three career R.S.'s, seventy three career R.S.

that were set up for for rallying.

So they were lifted.

They had all the special tools and equipment to do that kind of rally,

which I think was four thousand miles.

Yeah, that's insane.

Wow. And so this is one of the cars that competed.

And I believe it competed on the promoting sears radial tires.

So the car that I'd like to talk about is for you listeners,

because my jaw drop and when I first mentioned it to Manny

as we were walking around at Gooding Christie's,

he couldn't believe what I and I walked right by it.

I didn't know that.

So let me just lay it out here.

So OK, there's from a distance, you see what looks to be a green.

Turns out it's an oak green nine nine three C for S looks immaculate,

but it's a nine nine three C for S.

As you get closer, you realize it's, you know, twenty seven thousand miles.

It's one of like, I think like two hundred and ninety something.

Like, well, let's say let's say one of three hundred.

OK, good looking.

I'll reiterate nine nine three C for S twenty seven thousand miles or so.

And I mentioned to me like, what do you think the going rate for that car is?

And we're around this a lot, but they it's still managed to shock me.

And I'll tell you the price that they were estimating first,

because that's going to shock you.

I'll pause here for just one or two seconds to tell me what you think.

Tell me what you think that car is going for or was it estimated to go for?

What it was estimated to go for was around three hundred

to three hundred and fifty.

I thought a hundred and twenty.

Yeah, you said a one twenty.

I'm like, yeah, no, I was like, keep going, keep going.

So it was estimated at three hundred to three fifty.

I know all you all you that are listening right now, your jaws are dropping.

Yes, a nine nine three C for S for three hundred thousand.

OK, maybe perhaps the auction company is a bit generous with this estimate.

No, no, because the hammer came down on that car.

Three ninety five.

Are you kidding me?

Three ninety five for a nine nine three C fours.

How many of us know a nine nine three?

I'm thinking of someone here locally that has a black nine nine three C four S.

Do they realize?

I mean, of course, there's options.

There's colors and certain stories, but I didn't see anything particularly.

I thought that was turbo S nine nine three turbo S territory.

Exactly.

And even the non turbo models, you have to see two S.

Yeah, which was always the the goat, you know, for that nine nine three era

was to get the rear wheel drive only.

And so the the almost the, you know,

compromise because it's not as expensive was a four wheel drive version.

But to see the four wheel drive for that much.

I don't know, man, this is crazy times, crazy time.

I would love to hear the story.

Was it two people that really wanted it?

You know, is that the one on the screen right now?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

With all the cars there would be very easy to walk right by because it looks like

it's a beautiful car.

Nice, nice color nine nine three.

But I mean, there was some blue chip stuff in that tent.

Yeah, so for those of you that have these,

you know, it doesn't mean your car is worth necessarily that much,

but it just kind of opens your eyes and you might want to do a little bit

of research and you might also want to call your favorite classic car

insurance company and and update your policy because, wow, wow, wow,

I could not believe how much that car came came for.

Or went for.

So, Damon, did you did you have you or you were busy filming us?

I don't know if you got much time to enjoy the cars.

Yeah, so when I was thinking this morning before recording the podcast,

which one was my favorite?

I saw all of those cars as props in a video.

So I wasn't really thinking about what my favorite was.

And I can't even remember at Gooding and Christie's exactly what I'll

have to go rewatch the video to remind myself.

What we saw, you know, that's a good point.

That's a good point.

So we are there with a purpose to is it is it wonderful that we get

access to all of this?

Absolutely.

But we are very much there with the purpose of trying to capture

as much content as we can so that we can deliver it to you all, our

listeners and our viewers.

And a lot of times we we do it, but then we don't even remember

what we covered and we will watch the video again later to really

let it all sink in.

So one of the ones that I'm looking for my phone of interesting cars was

and I don't think my picture back down didn't take a picture.

This car was the the G body was an 86 turbo target that went through

Sunderwunsch at Gooding at the Gooding tent.

Yeah, I don't know that we see you walk right by.

We did.

I remember.

I remember it looked like a turbo look.

Yes, turbo targets are pretty rare.

Right.

And finally one that was Sunderwunsch was even more special.

I forgot we were debating about something about whether or not it

was it was factory or would it have been done through Sunderwunsch?

Yeah, but you looked at the well, all these cars have a QR code.

And so you have to open up the web page to read about it.

And that's when we saw that it was it was Sunderwunsch.

But I was one initially I walked by two or three times without a

second look and then nearing the end, when we were about to leave,

you start looking at the cars that you haven't looked at.

That's when we came upon this I came upon this and I thought,

well, that's a rare, rare find by itself.

And then at Sunderwunsch, it makes it super rare.

Yep.

And then from there, we packed everything up and we headed

downtown Monterey and went to the RM Sotheby's.

And the layout there was interesting because they have

some cars, I would say the halo cars or inside, which was like the roof,

the red roof and the RSK and all the other makes that are sort of

the crown jewels of the collection that was going to be auction.

And it's funny because it goes like, oh, the more, more pedestrian

cars are out on the patio, so to speak.

And we walked out there and I'm expecting to see

the 24 or 914s, maybe.

Yeah, the cars out there were pretty spectacular as well.

Any favorites for you there, Manny?

There was there was quite a few.

There was the ones we feature, I think in our video,

the 74 Targa European that had the 2.7, it wasn't modified.

It came like that.

But it was one of the best kept secrets for the longest time.

It would be a 74 Carrera, which in the US

used a regular 2.7 CIS injected engine in Europe.

They used a 2.7 MFI that came from the Carrera RS and 73.

So you're getting a hot-rodded engine and the new G body Targa.

So that plus added to the green was a standout with that interior.

It was I don't think they're kept best kept secrets anymore,

but that was pretty cool.

You had the the F1.

The tag, the tag Heuer can't miss that car.

That was engine car that had literally an F1 engine.

As I point out to you, I realize I'm like,

this is probably a unusual sight.

Did you have a water cold G body 911?

Right. And the color, the mint color, the gold roof.

I think the roof wheels and it was basically a recent build,

brand new car, but with a six cylinder and take an 88 body.

I think V6. Yeah, the V6 F1 engine.

One point five, I think, leader something like that, a screamer.

Yeah. Well, we didn't get to hear it.

That would have been kind of cool.

And no, that's the car I would love to drive just to see what it feels like.

But I think but that went over a million.

They also had inside.

This is all the outside stuff.

So that thing rate going in that they had 911R.

The original is the 68 911R.

That was also on the outside.

Yeah, that was parked outside.

I would like, when do you when would not make it on when Elbow said

it was more pedestrian cars that we were shocked to see all these.

Once again, just the cars that RM had would be a car show

that would just blow you away.

And these were up for auction.

So you get kind of like, you don't know what to look at first

because you're overwhelmed seeing all these 40s, these GTOs,

Maserati's, they had McLaren F1, the streetcar.

Yeah, it was but inside they had a 17 RS, 718 RS Spider.

The red bird, which is one of the yellow birds,

the only one painted in this red color, dark red color that was there.

Was, I think, estimated five or six million.

They had, I believe, a Curry GT, a singer.

It was quite a lot to choose from.

Yeah, if you go back to the speedster that you had up there,

Damon, that was my favorite car.

And to Manny, I don't know what color you see it as,

but we did a little a short on this car about how to identify

a real speed versus a fake one.

But Manny, what color do you see that as?

Cream. It looks like cream.

So so it looks like it's got a little bit.

It's like a white with a little bit of a green hue to it.

Do you see it that way, Damon, like a green hue?

Yeah, basically, it's like a very, very light green.

Yeah, so that was my favorite.

That was a 1957 speedster.

I think it was going around.

So for four hundred and twenty three thousand dollars and Italian delivery

car numbers matching that color is actually called Glacier White.

I didn't realize Glacier would have a green tint.

I would think Glacier would have a blue tint,

but stunning car inside and out.

And yeah, four twenty three, that was my favorite.

Then from there, we went back over to near where it works.

Reunion is held.

We went to Broad Arrow's auction, which is combined later that evening

with motor looks at the Monterey Jet Center.

And again, their collection was a car show in itself.

Yeah, by the time we got there, it was fairly well, well attended.

And once again, it's luckily we looked ahead of time at a lot of these

auctions to see what cars were there.

So we had a rough idea of what we would be looking for, but seeing

in person is always something different.

But once again, Broad Arrow just had an incredible selection of cars.

What I noticed was, you know how people are now talking

about how hard it is to get a car, allocation, ADMs and all that kind of stuff.

I think these auctions are a great way because especially at the Broad

Arrow, when you first walked in, there was a I think there was a GT3 touring

there, there was a turbo there.

There were like more a roof, a singer, a roof, a singer.

So I guess what I'm saying is if you wanted a car tomorrow, you could go

there and get it and not have to wait about whether or not

you're going to get an allocation.

Sure, they're not quote unquote brand new, but they all looked brand new

and had miles that were pretty much differences.

Once again, the singer, roof, Emory, they will customize it to your personal

taste. You lose that, but you gain the fact that you don't have to wait.

Yep.

You have your, as soon as they deliver to your house, you can start driving it.

Yeah.

And no short, I have to, I have to say seeing like the 40s,

the 50s, the Kuntas, it's so cool to see all the other brands as well.

And they had it all quote unquote under one roof at Broad Arrow.

Yeah.

And then they would later that night, they would actually auction off

several of these cars while the party was going on.

Yeah.

My favorite there was again, I apologize for picking another

356, but there was a 57, 356, a Carrera GT Lightweight, one of 26

with race history.

And that's what my car aspires to be.

That this is a cool looking car.

Yeah.

This is one of the rare, what they call GT slash GT.

And what that meant was that usually you see GS GT, that means it's

a steel body with a four camcorder engine.

When it says GT GT, it means it has aluminum body parts plus a four

cam engine.

So you're buying this essentially, you are going to be racing this.

Yeah.

And where a lot of cars in my McCart has aluminum body panels, but back

then aluminum was like carbon fiber is now it wasn't on all the cars.

So it was something special to get.

And this car was a beautiful example.

Oh, it was.

I was just drooling over it with lots of awards in its history

and the stinger exhaust in the back.

And yeah, so it was once again, as you all come to the

rooms and you don't know what to look at.

And there's so much going on that just this is all the preview stuff.

I think they were interviewing Mikhail Hagerty for a TV show.

All that's going on and people are looking at cars.

It's we're running into Michael Allen Ross.

It's it's just that's to me part of the magic of car week is not

just the cars, but the people and just being the whole atmosphere.

But there is.

Can I can I go a little bit into there's a potential

danger for Monterey car week?

And what I mean is it's so popular now.

And I do love that when we talked about this earlier in our meeting

is you're seeing the demographics where the younger crowd is coming

out to enjoy Monterey car week and that is positive in itself.

However, some of the behaviors that come along with this new

breed of folks that are coming out to car week and they have

tons of money, they have access to cars and they can have access

to tunes and the way they're acting out there.

And I know the CHP may be seen as a bit difficult or the local police.

But for the they're they're like that for a reason because there's

some people that aren't acting appropriately.

And I'm worried much like cars and coffees all across the country

are facing where, you know, these younger, enthusiastic or not

necessarily younger in age, but younger in mindset to the car.

Well, it is, you know, can can can shut something like this down

because people don't want to deal with it.

Good thing they don't have access to is wide open roads.

Yeah, it's a lot of traffic in Monterey and it's it gets worse.

I always joke that it's one of the more pleasant traffic jams

because you get to look around and see some special cars.

But nonetheless, it's Monterey.

I think it's like Los Angeles for those who aren't aware.

It's not the distance, but the time and traffic.

Yeah, yeah.

And does it get too big and does it get too unruly that the locals

government and or the local citizens are just going to be

they're going to be tired of it.

I guess we we it's an internal topic, you know, one of the nights.

I think it was Friday night.

We went with a bunch of people to go to in and out.

Try to go to try to go in and out to get a fourth meal around 10,

30, 11 o'clock.

And you know, once again, there's always a lot of traffic,

especially on Friday night during Monterey car week.

But this time there's something seems something different

because we can see police cars coming flying at least half a dozen

police cars coming up on us.

We figured they were going down the road.

But no, they were also going in and out because one of the

two lane roads was completely blocked with people in the street.

Yeah, it looked like a takeover.

It looked like a takeover and we saw some social media later on

where it was just a ton of people.

I think they were there taking pictures.

There was a lot of exotic cars in the parking lot.

So I think it was a lot of people there to take pictures of the cars.

And I'm sure you have you have in and out, which is popular.

You got customers trying to go in and out for the drive through.

And at some point, like any traffic jam, suddenly they can't move anywhere.

And then the road was at least a mile back up.

We saw that was we drove on the other side of the hotel.

And so at some point it becomes a hazard.

And that's when the police got involved.

Exactly. And you saw some videos where cars were parked,

but engines were revving and, you know, the phones and cameras were out.

And as a as a manager of an establishment, you know,

they're worried about chaos happening and not not being able to manage

the crowd. And so the police get called in. Yeah.

And I'm sure that gets written up and then anyone in the community

who doesn't like car week uses that as an example of how things have been rained in.

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I think one of the pictures they have is the front of their business.

And they have all the 914s and other Porsche that they're selling lined up.

Reminding me of when we went by Dodies, which is this used car

place in Monterey and made famous for Wayne Carini's chasing classic cars,

where he would always go pick up a a hole in the wall car and take to the Lemons show.

Anyways, I'm sure you notice he brought out every single Porsche he had.

He put it on the front row this week for a Monterey car.

Well, I don't know if it's, I mean, so his Dodie's son has been

doing a lot on social media and all he seems to be posting on social media

is buying Porsches.

So I don't know if it's, you know, just for a car week,

but they seem to have really zeroed in on the Porsche market.

He's buying. I saw posts for Katie's,

which is like cars and coffee in Northern Virginia.

That said somebody wrote on there and he said, hey,

Instagrammers, photographers, remember, there's other cars that begin with a P.

Oh, really?

He put on Pontiac Packard everything.

He said, not every photograph has to be that of a Porsche.

That's funny. That's funny.

Yeah. So very interesting.

I also came across some short George Hussie, right?

As Otto Atlanta and I think he was working some corporate job.

Maybe it was Ford or something like that in the early 80s.

And this was like a side gig for him.

And, you know, he quickly found out there's a lot of need for Porsche parts.

And it could be a full time thing.

Long story short, I think a couple of years later,

he buys his first 9-11 or something like that.

Didn't Agrio's garage start that way, too?

Uh, remember?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.

He's still got stuff out of his trunk or something like that.

Absolutely.

So I love these kind of stories and hopefully we'll have George on the podcast soon

or maybe we'll even go down to Otto Atlanta and do something out there.

I would love to see that.

I would love to see that as a 9-14 owner.

Yeah, exactly.

So, all right, let's, Thursday was set up at Works Reunion

and we're at Monterey Pines Golf Course

getting ready to host thousands of people on Friday.

Kudos to Melanie and Kristen and the Pervasys and all the volunteers

and of course the staff that came out from PCHQ to prepare.

My biggest thing was, you know, how are we going to handle the crowd?

I mean, it's, we're a victim of our successes.

A lot of times people say, and the best way is to plan for it.

And we don't sell admission, so it's free.

So we can guesstimate, based on the previous year, how many people are

coming, but it's still going to be a surprise.

A surprise, yeah.

And it's not like it rains in Monterey at the time of year.

So, yeah, it was a little bit of a, are they going to come back?

Well, here's the thing, that morning, morning of our event,

someone said they had came from somewhere and it was raining

like an hour away, but it wasn't raining, not where we were at.

And then the thing is, you know, you prepare for all this

and I don't think it's a secret that last year we had

again, it's the event has grown to be so popular that there's a lot

of people last year and getting out was not as easy as we had hoped.

But we listened and we also worked with Monterey Pines Golf Course

and the Navy and kudos to them because they literally carved out

a second exit for us.

And they stepped up with law enforcement to help us.

We hired more traffic management, worked with the golf course.

And when Rue says carved out, they created another road.

It wasn't asphalt, but it also wasn't what you would think.

It wasn't dirt.

So anyone who left there wasn't complaining that they're scraping

or making a car dirty.

They it almost was like a car enthusiast designed this temporary road.

Perfectly flat.

You don't have to worry about GT3s or whatever.

And we had police directing.

So yeah, it was a kudos to the golf course.

So last year around one, two o'clock.

That's when it started to pile up.

So I was really sensitive around that time watching it.

And the cars were moving and just like any concert that lets out,

it's going to be a little bit of time.

It can't be zero time.

You know, you just have when you have it was always moving

and then fast forward to the end of our event around three o'clock.

We look around, there's no more cars.

Like the people that are cleaning up are still there.

But all of the attendees that want to get out, like they were out.

They were gone.

So again, thank you so much to the Navy, the Mario Pines Golf Course,

Melanie, Tom, Pravasi, Sandy Pravasi and everyone that played a role

in making sure that we had a better experience.

They certainly did.

And I've been monitoring the posts online.

I don't see anything about traffic.

It was just what a great time.

What a vibe works reunion was.

So anyways, I'm jumping ahead because that was that.

Or if we're on works union, I'll start showing pictures, but I don't want.

Yeah, let's back up because we I kind of jumped the gun there.

But so so Thursday was set up to ensure that we would have the the Friday

that I just mentioned a Monday morning or actually Wednesday.

We're still trying to line up a podcast guest.

And we have some that can't make it.

They thought they could and so on.

And one of the people that I was really hoping we would have.

Uh, you know, I called him the father of Rexie.

I was gunner, Jeanette, who owns whose co-founder of AO racing.

And if you follow any kind of MSA or WC racing, you know what I'm talking about?

They're they're they're cars is the livery is a T Rex.

And they have a pink one called Roxy and the green one's called Rexie.

And it is a hit in any paddock.

Of course, the kids absolutely love it.

So when he was like, I can't bring the car over, but I would like to

come over for the podcast.

We were like, awesome.

And it's hard to believe with all the setup we had to do on Thursday.

And we started early that we managed to put in a podcast.

But Kudos to Damon for setting everything up and bringing the equipment.

Yeah.

And at the last second, we couldn't do it indoors.

I was about to say, yeah, that he had a little so luckily they had a patio

there where that was relatively quiet in the sense, there wasn't a whole lot of

people, but there was cars going back and forth until that like that modified

long hood unloaded and started to idle for 20 minutes.

So hopefully the audio turned out OK.

So here's the thing, I'm going to have to confess here.

And Manny knows this.

He really wanted Gunner, which I did as well.

But then this really shows my lack of knowledge with racing and sports

in general.

So being a part of an interview for someone that someone or something

that I have, not a whole lot of knowledge.

That was, yeah, I wasn't sure how that was.

That's why they're right.

There's many questions that were.

Thank you, Manny.

Thank you, Manny, for setting me up with questions and, you know, being able to.

But he's also a gunner is a great storyteller.

Oh, yeah.

And I knew it would be a great podcast because he grew up

surrounded by Porsches, his father's Kevin Jeanette.

And and he started Gunner racing.

And as restore, it was a crew chief for race teams.

The nine sixty two, nine thirty five started his own restoration business.

And he restored the same cars.

And I interviewed his dad at Wrensport Union.

And I just basically, I think I asked him, I spoke like five words.

And the rest was him telling stories.

So Gunner was very similar, different than his dad.

But he had some great stories about how he became such a phenom

at such a young age and racing and the youngest person to finish Le Mans.

That record has been broken.

But at the time he was he held that he's done.

He's done more in his first 20 years of life.

Then I think a lot of people will do their entire life.

And he's come and he's very, very humble.

And you would never know he's done all that.

But so next week's podcast will be with Gunner.

And I think you'll find it very interesting.

Even if like, you're not a big follower of racing,

it's more than just about talking about racing.

It's how he started the race team, his own personal racing,

growing up, surrounded by portions and portion of people.

So yeah, yeah.

And then there's more to tell.

Hopefully we will be able to get him on a podcast again.

And yeah, he's there's still a lot.

We only had an hour.

I think we went a full hour easily.

Many more stories for him to share with us.

So that was really cool.

Rexie ended up over at, I believe over at Pebble on Sunday.

Yes, I think I remember how Pebble has like that

is not on the main field, but they had like where the stores are.

It's I think that it looked like from the photos.

That's where he was.

It was placed. Yeah.

So with him going back and forth from the track

and again, we're really appreciative he made the effort to do it.

Yeah, because going anywhere, Monterey Car Week is not easy.

Anything else about Thursday

before we go into the show itself on Friday?

No, it was one of these things you want to get a good night's sleep,

but it's it's hard because you're excited about the next morning.

And yeah, so next morning we we I think we met at five o'clock

or something like that in the morning to guess what works.

And we're not the first people there.

We're never the first people there.

And if you're on YouTube, I'm just going to cycle through photos

from start to finish.

And if you need something, call call me up and I'll try and pull up.

All good. All good.

So cars start showing up.

We've we've got, you know, five hundred and seventy five,

almost six hundred Corral cars, one hundred seventy five or so judge cars.

And and let me just reiterate that it's judge cars and not concord.

Yeah, there's a different our judge cars.

So then you had classic restoration cars.

You had cars that vendors brought.

You had other special cars that we knew were coming that we said,

you will squeeze you in.

So it was I think close to nine hundred cars.

Probably not including the parking lot where was its own car show

because I saw many Ferrari Lamborghini coming in also.

Yeah, let's let's start with the surprise for our attendees.

Some someone staff knew about it, but not many.

And nowhere else was this unveiled.

It was unveiled at Work's reunion and it was the nine six three RSP.

Just for us.

The street car of the version of the race car that one Daytona,

24 Daytona Sebring runs at Le Mans as a gift to Roger Penske.

Porsche Classic actually built this car in Atlanta

and hopefully we'll be able to do a podcast telling the whole story

because it's really fascinating.

But anyways, that car, which I was never would have thought

it would have come to Oscar, use that kind of stuff, goes to quail or quail.

But it didn't go to the quail.

It came here towards reunion and we had it for it was only supposed

to be with us for they told us that it's only going to be there for an hour.

Then we have to move it.

I think we had to like one or like, you know, it is what it is.

Hopefully a lot of people get to see before it leaves.

But yeah, it stayed there almost all day.

Yeah. And there was a crowd around it the whole time.

Exactly. And the details, you know, when race cars are built,

they're not built really for fit and finish as a show car,

especially as a street car.

So the more you look at it, the more you appreciate what it took

for Porsche Classic to make this a streetable car and look presentable

because the gaps have to be worked.

The car is painted, not wrapped as you're on a race car.

That was that was the whole struggle in itself was getting it painted.

No, exactly.

And then as Manny first heard of the 963 RSP, he was like,

there's no way there's going to be a passenger seat in that car

because there's no room and he was, as usual, correct.

So but but they had to kind of make enclosures or wrap around all

there's a whole bunch of electronics.

That's why I knew there's no way they could put a passenger seat in there.

But they covered up with a lot of leather.

Yeah, it was in Roger Penske.

He ends up driving this car later on.

Yeah. Not it works, but on the track.

Yeah. And we bumped into someone else that drove it, right?

And was told to like back off while he was on track with it.

Yeah, we ran into Bruce Canepa and Bruce said that

Roger called him up and asked him to take it around the track and give his impression.

So it wasn't just a showpiece.

It was actually something that they took out on the track.

But for Worst Reunion, it was there.

And I got a lot of comments from people I knew that went to the quail

where like, how come we didn't get it?

Yeah. And I was like, that's a good question.

But I'm glad we did.

And they brought it to the place where the enthusiasts were all gathered.

Worst Reunion.

But that was definitely the highlight.

But right next to that was a car a lot of people hadn't seen.

We saw it a lot during parade was the 70th Club Coupe.

Yep. Exactly.

It was the West Coast debut of the 70th Club Coupe.

It was great for us to be able to show it off.

But there were a few of the people I've been drawing

or we've been drawing the names for the PCA members

that have the opportunity to buy a 70th anniversary Club Coupe.

And there was a good number of people that

that were selected that were at Worst Reunion.

They've they've signed on, so to speak, to buy this car

that they've only seen. Wow.

They've only seen it, you know, through our our promotions

and such, and they've never seen it in person.

So they got to see it.

And of course, they absolutely fell in love with it.

And, you know, the the color, the design, all the details.

Yeah, it was a it was a hit.

We are also between the 70th and the 963 RSP

was another special edition car also brought to us by P.A.G.

and Boris, and we actually had the two people

that it was built after a 50th anniversary

edition of the Andial GT3.

Yeah, what was really cool was so that I think was parked on Thursday.

They had already parked it and when Gunner came in

and he was starting to walk through when I saw him, I called him over

and he pointed to that Andial GT3 rep and he said,

I'm driving the car that that's based on at the track today,

which was the 935L that was called.

It was the so basically Andial

handmade the own version of the Moby Dick, the famous car

that Porsche built for Le Mans.

And it was a little bit different with an exact copy

because Porsche didn't realize that Andial was building this car

to run at Daytona, but it won the 24 hours at Daytona and 73 or 4, I think.

Anyways, yeah, he was pretty psyched to see that Porsche had made a streetcar version.

This is just the livery.

So when you get a GT3, evidently, you can get it in the Salzburg colors,

which is the red and white from the 917 that won in 1970.

Or you can get this Andial with the number three, like the real race car had on it.

It was it was very cool.

But that wasn't just what came over.

Something somebody else came over with it.

Yeah. And and we're only three cars in.

We're only three cars in on Friday.

And let me just share with you some of the behind the scenes.

So with the 963 RSP, there's several communications

between Porsche, Porsche Classic, as well as with us

to make sure that we can accommodate for that car.

So that's that's a process in itself.

The Club Coupe, which was that parade that went back to

PEC in Atlanta and then has to make its way back to the West Coast for this event.

That's another string of emails and confirmations and such.

And then we get Boris Appenbrink from PAG and

PCNA with another string of emails.

Hey, would you guys like to have the Andial GT3?

And of course, we're always saying, yes.

Oh, and by the way, would you mind if we brought over Alan Springer

and Dieter as well with the car?

I was like, of course.

And that's another string of so would you like to have them be interviewed on stage?

Of course. And so what I'm getting at is

even though it may look very simple to oh, so they brought three cars

and put them on display, there's a lot of work behind

accepting the responsibility to host these cars at our event.

Because, you know, they're not just bringing it for goodwill, so to speak.

They're bringing it because they want to make sure there's something done with them

and that all the members and attendees can appreciate them.

They're parked in the right place.

They have all the accoutrements when when they're on display.

And if we're going to bring Alan and Dieter, are you going to get them on stage

and then who's going to interview them?

And what are the questions?

Can PR look at the questions before you ask them?

And then that that that that that that so that just gives you

a little idea of what it takes on.

That's just the first three cars that we're talking about.

We've gotten pretty good of knowing what PR, Porsche PR doesn't want to be asking

and what they don't mind.

So well, what an honor it was.

So thankfully, again, Manny's noggin has so much motor sports

and Porsche history.

And I said, like, I could never I could never contain that much.

So it was nice to have him on stage with Alan, Dieter and myself.

And I think the the PR team was really happy.

How, you know, how naturally we had a big crowd watching the interview.

How natural that conversation went.

Of course, someone's going to ask, what did you record it?

Unfortunately, with the environment that we are, you know, having this interview,

we could have recorded it, but it would have been terrible.

And you would have not been happy with the quality of the recording.

So we just, you know, hey, that's one of the benefits of going out to

Work's reunion and you get to see some of this stuff live.

And also it keeps the are the people that are being interviewed.

They are a bit more open about it because they don't have to worry

about it being published and scrutinized and so on and so forth.

And so you do get something very special by coming to the event

and being there live.

Yeah, it was I think Alan's daughter was really proud.

I said to her, I said, you know, I said they're rock stars here.

But when they were surrounded by fans asking for autographs and photos

and like she said, she goes, you know, they absolutely deserve it.

And I agree. Yeah, all the work they've done to make portion

the United States, especially with motorsports so famous.

It's great that they're able to enjoy the fruits of their labor.

So we so we had Alan and Dieter, but there is a third member

Arnold Wagner.

So Arnold, I don't know, is he still around?

No, he passed away several years ago, but but they were three individuals

that work at Basak Pollock's place and decided to go out on their own.

Yep. And even and they would show how

how cool they were.

They didn't want to interfere with Basak Pollock's business.

So they picked a shop that was far enough away where they didn't think

they would take any of his customers and they started and which is

in, I guess, an acronym of of their their names.

Yeah. And and on the on the GT3,

they have all three of their names and the letters that they their first name

on one side with the American flag.

And I think then they're on the other side,

Patrick's side, it was the German flag with their last names.

Oh, I didn't know if I didn't realize the idea when I brought me over

and showed it to me and I thought it was a very nice touch.

Very proud and and lots of people coming up and thanking them.

And I think we said this in the interview is so many of the motorsports folks

that we work with today have some story that ties back.

Oh, it's a gunner and you're here in Gunner, Jeanette's podcast.

He brings up Uncle Owen.

Yeah. And when Alan comes to visit us here and we will

Mike Levitis and Turbo Performance Center will be hosting him

for an evening.

You know, the stories that Mike has told and Randy Popes has told about,

you know, when you when you worked with Alan,

like it was about results and you may have won.

But when you came in, you know, it wasn't about celebrating that you won.

It was like, what are we doing next to be even better?

And with that sort of, you know, mantra,

you know, that's why they're enjoying the success that they've had.

Yeah. All right.

So what else did we have on stage?

Again, they're the debut of the F-26 Gunther Works was over at the Quail.

There's a big price tag to be at the Quail,

but we had three Gunther Works cars

on to the right of our stage and people got to enjoy that.

So thank you to Peter Nam and the folks at Gunther Works for bringing

that out, Tanbir.

I hope it's OK that I mentioned his name.

Tanbir is a member that we met when we were filming the RS collection in Arizona.

And we bumped into him again at SEMA,

where he has a career GT that was wrapped.

And then he had a famous artist, Chris,

pinstripe Chris, I think it is, pinstripe Chris,

taking artist markers and drawing the design live at SEMA.

And it was a few days or three days, two days, two days.

It was incredible to watch it live.

And I remember the cars wrapped.

Yeah, he's not doing it on the paint.

You know, on a wrap.

He's doing it on the film.

Clear wrap. Exactly.

He's doing it on the film.

And it was so incredible to watch him do that.

And I remember asking Tanbir,

because this was before last year's works.

You know, if you could somehow bring the car to last year before Unstock,

I say, if there's somehow you could bring it to Unstock.

And unfortunately, the timing didn't work out.

But he remembered that, you know, we were requesting for him to be

a part of it all.

And surprisingly enough, you know, someone with a career GT was

he was fairly so he does stuff locally,

but he's never really done things nationally.

Intimidate is not the right word,

but he really didn't know what to expect by attending a national event.

And I really did encourage him when he said he was coming to a

modern car week, I said, you've got to come to work.

You've got to show this off.

And and and he did.

And I tell you what, it's really changed his whole outlook

on doing a national event because he, you know, he has

fantastic cars, obviously.

But I guess everybody isn't sure whether or not they fit in at an event.

And I think everybody just adored and and what he what he did to the car

had done to the car might be seen as controversial

because you're drawing on a career GT.

But again, it's all you can peel it off and go back to stock if you want.

But it was such an incredible reception.

People loved it.

And it turned out we knew each other from a past life, if you will.

Yeah, he said when I used to club race and him and his brother used

to club race in nine, six, four.

So he was bringing up in my brother.

Also, he said he did driver's edge with.

So it was pretty cool.

Yeah. So hopefully, hopefully it's a lasting impression

and he'll bring out some other cars and continue to.

I thought it was funny.

The story told us a couple of days later where he was having

the windshield replaced or something put on the side of it on it.

And yeah, yeah, I think accidentally wiped off the marker.

So so there's a there's a decal, I think for one of the companies

or something like that, that he was having installed

like a vinyl decal at the top of his windshield.

And the person applied it, but then was kind of cleaning up their work

and had solvent and didn't realize that when they went over

the top of the windscreen, which had the artist marker,

it took off some of the marker because the solvent obviously

will just clean right through it.

And it's like it's like wiping off parts of the van go.

Trying to get the dust off of you.

You're like, what?

But thankfully, he hooked up with a pinstripe Chris and pinstripe Chris

came over and came over and touched it up.

And if he didn't tell you, you wouldn't have to show it.

You look at it closely because never it's, you know, newer ink

than the other ones.

I also like how this was not a trailer queen.

Oh, no, he was driving it back home and he had his luggage in the

passenger seat. I kind of chuckled.

I'm like, well, that answers the question.

This is not really a couple's getaway car when it comes to luggage.

He was all over minor car week with it.

We last saw him at Laguna, which we'll talk about in a second.

But after the Laguna event, he was driving back to Southern

California with it.

So that's probably easily a six, seven hour ride in a career GT.

I asked him, I said, how hard is it to drive?

Because people must get in your blind spot.

And he was like, you guys, you know, it's scary because of the people

that almost crash in town because they're trying to take a picture of it

while driving with their phone and they tend to veer into the car.

Who was it? Was it Tanveer that caused it?

Well, let me say this carefully.

He didn't cause an accident, but someone got into an accident.

Was it his car?

I think it was.

So the story was one of the cars that we were looking at

was a gorgeous car and they were somewhere and somebody was taking a picture

of the taking a photo of that car and wasn't paying attention to the car in front

of them and rear ended that car.

So it wasn't, you know, it wasn't the Porsche driver's fault.

It was, you know, the onlookers not paying attention and taking photos

with their cameras and not paying attention to traffic and got getting

into a fender bender.

We also had the latest debut from BB.

BB brought us the Black M 491

Targa Hybrid last year to Workshare Union.

And this year they came with their latest gold Targa,

which is much like the Rainbow Targa.

Some people loved and some people did not love.

Yeah, it's definitely polarizing.

I mean, that whole style that that it's it's over the top.

It's not for the faint of heart.

It's not for someone that wants something that is,

you know, under the radar.

This one is in your face, especially this this gold very, very BB.

Oh, it's very BB.

I mean, that's solely BB style.

And yeah, the execution, you can't you can say what you want

with the colors and and the style.

But as far as the execution, I mean, that's what the customer wanted.

Yeah, it was a clean install, seeing that Ed Pink Ford leader

with the velocity stacks with fuel injection,

mother pearl gauge faces and gold tremorings.

I mean, yeah, it's totally BB style.

And it's not for everyone, but it's for the person that paid the bill.

So I would say from that point,

it works as like a three or four wing ring circus

because there's so much going on and on the different fairways.

Every fairway I looked at there was a lot of people,

not so much where you couldn't take pictures of the cars.

But like I said, from the Corral area all the way across to where the GT cars

were there was something to see for everyone.

How did you how did you like so?

We moved the Michelin booth over to closer to the entrance

of our event with the GT cars.

It seemed to be fully crowded.

Yeah, and the GT cars, great idea for them to put the GT cars

in that area. Obviously, you said when people came in, that's what they saw.

And you could see all the GT cars on one fairway.

So that was a very nice touch,

including the the 73 Iraq replica cars

that multicolored that made a great great touch to the whole display.

Yeah. And we had some some VIPs come through and we added to that collection.

We had Graham Ray Hall bring over an ST and I forget something else.

And then also Spike and Zuckerman came by.

Unfortunately, they were in another German marked car,

so they just parked in the parking lot.

But they came over and held court in front of the the the stage

for at least an hour or so. They had a good time.

Yeah, it was somebody on the Porsche video said it was the epicenter

of the Porsche world for that day, which I have to have to agree.

And I will say for those who watch the video, I haven't seen a comment yet,

but we always get the comment of how come we don't cover nine four teams.

So I went around walked and in the judge area, there was only one nine

fourteen that was entered. Oh, so unlike other shows,

we're not curating these to be registered.

Your car is in. Yeah.

Only one nine fourteen, a beautiful nine fourteen with the GT package on it.

Very nicely done.

And in the corral, I believe I kind of four in the corral,

which they were actually second rows, so they were pretty close to the front.

But yeah, that in a nine forty four guys got to bring these cars out.

Yeah. And again, there are so many cars there.

And these videos are or this video that we do,

it's in between all of our other responsibilities.

So literally Manny is chasing me down.

Dame is chasing me down.

I was like, when can you get off stage so that we can go do this?

You know, parts of this video.

So nine six nine six three, if you if you watch again,

you'll notice I'm wearing yellow boots because it was in the morning

with the dew on the grass, right?

But then in the towards the end of the video, I'm back into my PCA shoes

because we shot that later in the afternoon.

So we're actually doing this in segments and we and we can't cover it all.

We'd love to know we all have other responsibilities or helping out.

And I think I was doing something with the umbrellas and somebody said,

don't you have somebody else to do that?

Yeah. No, you're looking at somebody.

Yes, or we're putting tablecloths on my favorite day.

Damon has to get the generators up and running.

Yeah, generator.

I failed a generator inspection by the Navy, apparently.

So I had to spend an hour.

You didn't fail because it's not in your wheelhouse.

You do it because I did it the same way as usual.

But yeah, it used to be better for next year.

You did it because no one else is doing it.

And we thank you for that.

But all in all, what a fantastic Friday weather was great.

Cars are great.

The crowd was great.

All the exhibitors, all the sponsors and even the egress at the end of the day

worked out fantastic.

And if you stayed till the end, I did something differently.

And I held all of the raffle prizes at the end.

So we had a huge crowd for the awards ceremony.

And then we gave away a lot of stuff.

Including a set of tires.

A set of tires, cocoa mats.

How many vendors?

I think 36 vendors we had.

Yeah, and they were spread apart.

So, you know, if you want to look at every vendor booth I seemed to look

at was filled with people, so I'm sure the vendors had to be happy

because there wasn't anybody sitting by themselves with no traffic.

And because every area of this show seemed to have a lot of people,

you know, I didn't hear a whole lot.

I didn't hear any complaints for vendors.

We're like, we want to move because we didn't get a lot of traffic.

And I'm going to bring this up.

So the two issues that we had that day was with another brand car.

And I'm not picking on this brand, but it happened to be the same brand.

Did two different cars, but the same brand that we had issues with.

And it was the off-road Lamborghini that was just decided to park.

Just decided to park in the middle of the road and left their car.

And I'm like, what the heck?

And of course, they were like minutes away from being towed.

And we were nice about it.

We made an announcement and said, please.

If I would have charged a towing, that would have been towed.

That would be an hour prior, right?

And then the second incident was one car decided to drive with its door up.

And then as they're leaving the property, just put it on the rev limiter

the whole time that's literally moving five miles an hour

and it's sitting on its rev limiter to impress someone.

It was showing everyone a shortcoming.

But it's stuff like that that gets us in trouble.

And it's not even our brand that's doing it.

It's like, come on, guys, really?

But anyways, other than that, every everybody was fantastic.

So thank you so much for all that came out.

Can't wait for next year.

We're already we had a debrief today.

And yeah, planning starts literally the very next day.

I think the ladies in the in the store had sold all the PCA nice.

I told them, I said, every time I walked by to see how they were doing,

they had were like seven or eight people deep in the registers.

By the time around three o'clock when it was slow down enough

that they had a couple registered open t-shirt throw gone jackets.

A jacket guy.

Was it guys were buying women's jackets because the guys ran out.

But as long as it fit, they were they wanted to do it.

So the zipper or something.

Yeah, women's zipper is on the other side.

Well, yeah, I mean, which have it on zip top.

It's probably hard to tell. Yeah, you can't.

Yeah, I can't.

Which is why they were like, fine, I'll buy the look at mine.

I'm like, I'm not even sure what mine is.

I didn't realize there was.

But that's how nice the merchandise was.

And yeah, I could tell we sold out of everything

because when we packed up the pod, the pod was just equipment.

It wasn't really any.

Yeah, I think they were starting to pack up a little earlier

because a lot of stuff was was empty.

So that and yeah, all the all the volunteers

ever done our office staff from beyond when.

So I don't know if we mentioned it, but the Navy police

figured it was between 13 to 15,000.

Yeah, 10 days.

So, yeah, there you go.

There you have it, folks.

That was works reunion Monterey.

And then, of course, we cleaned up and had our volunteer dinner

and then went back, cleaned up and headed over to the barns

to see what Porsche was showing there.

And interesting enough, they didn't have much like at the coil.

I think at the coil, they had a GT3 or GT3 RS or something on display

at the barns.

It was sort of the normal display of cars.

The highlight car at the barns was the 963 RSP,

which we had spent all day with.

So really, it was just for us the an opportunity

to rub elbows with some of the executives at Porsche.

And as we walked around, it was just lots of accolades

and congratulations on how well works went.

I got to say to remind the CEO, Timo,

that not many CEOs of other brands

that can claim that a single brand event

had so many people during Monterey Carver.

And Timo actually came out to works reunion

and he was dressed in athletic wear,

trying to stay under the radar, which is very hard.

What's funny was I was in line, I think at the coffee or something,

I turned around and I was expecting he was going to be there.

And it looked like he was wearing a sweatshirt.

And it's a Puma sweatshirt.

And I thought to myself, it looks like Timo, but I can't be.

And then sure enough, I saw him with some other people.

I'm like, oh, that is Timo Timo.

And then I thought he would have other people

who would wait in line for him for a car.

Timo Rush, CEO of Porsche Cars.

And Volker, CEO of Porsche Motorsport was there.

So yeah, the who's who was at works reunion.

And again, they congratulated us all evening

over at the barns.

But then we tried to do, as we talked about earlier,

try to sneak in a in and out fourth meal.

But the police and the crowd was a bummer.

That was a bummer. We didn't get to do that.

So we turned in at a reasonable hour, but it was good

because we had an early start to Saturday morning.

And for me, that meant heading over to the show of Unloved Cars.

That was judging at Concorde de Lemons.

And, you know, it's many has made this observation over the years.

When we first started going there, it was sort of a collection

of cars that really that were well preserved cars

that were well loved, but they really didn't have a place to go.

So you would see like a Cosworth Vega or you would see a bandit car

or you would see that are like those kind of cars.

But what lemons and the enthusiasm still there

is just it's a little bit different.

The the cars are more like what crazy thing can I build

and still be able to get it to Monterey?

And, you know, you get this car that looks like a snail.

You get I judge the German class and this guy years ago.

It's not like you did it for lemons.

But years ago, you know how you channel a car

and like a hot rod channels a car, like they take a middle section

of the car from front to back and make the roof lower.

Well, this person, instead of taking the middle section

front to back to make the roof lower, he actually channeled

front to back the middle section of the car.

So it went from a two-seater wide car to a one-seater wide car.

So this Volkswagen looks like a pencil now.

Oh, yeah, I saw that one. Yeah.

Why? Because it was a challenge and he did it

and he won best in class.

And I think the car that won the worst car of the event

was some UFO looking car.

So it's still very much fun, a little bit different

than what it initially started.

You know, people, people were not taking themselves too seriously.

In fact, I was they encourage

what do you call it?

Giving judges stuff, bribes, bribes so that they win.

So the first one would be like a Margarita.

I was also offered things that I said no to.

But it was fun. It was fun.

And we you you went across the street while I was judging.

You went to the walkthrough for lemons.

And the one car I did like that reminded me of how lemon juice to be

was this young lady had a geometro convertible

perfectly preserved or what perfectly blue.

It was the three cylinder model, which was 55 horsepower.

And I thought, once again, wow,

who keeps the car like this in such mint condition?

Yeah. And she was quite proud of it.

Yeah, there was no costume or

or stuff she stuck on the car to try to get attention.

It was just this perfectly preserved

geometro that is probably rarer than an F40.

If you try to find geometro like that in that condition.

Right. So that made me smile.

I thought I hope she went some kind of award

because that's the kind that I like to see it lemon.

But yeah, I did go across literally across the street.

And it's I believe the seaside cars and coffee.

It's where the Chili's is.

And they had peninsula cars and coffee.

Oh, peninsula. That's right.

I'm sorry. Peninsula cars and coffee.

And they had a nice selection of cars that

you know, for cars and coffee, you think about cars and coffee

or Monterey Car Week and you're like, really?

I mean, all these shows that are going on.

But there was a decent turnout of Porsches.

Let me remind you, lemons for spectators is free.

Peninsula cars and coffee also free.

Yes. Yeah, just there's still.

And there's parking alongside streets.

So it's not not a big deal.

You just easily cross the street and go to Peninsula

and get to see some cars, talk to some people.

And later that evening, we went to go

try to meet with some sponsors.

And I had never been there before.

But, man, Spanish Bay Inn.

I always heard Spike Ferris talk about it on his podcast.

And I think I told you, I'm like, this is where they talk about

the hangout at the fire pits in the back.

And wow, I have never seen so much wealth

in one little concentrate area.

Oh, my gosh. Well, let's just start off.

There was two F40s.

Well, first of all, you got to go into 17 mile drive.

So for those who have never been there,

it's like going into a national park,

you have to stop at a at a booth where a ranger asks,

why are you here?

And then you give them your name and whatnot

and they let you through.

Otherwise you pay, I don't know, 10 bucks, 15 bucks

for a car to get in there, be able to drive 17 mile drive.

Then you get to the to the place

and it is packed with people.

And I counted

seven or nine Bugates, Bugates,

Kona SAG.

Yeah. Porsche was like having a Corolla.

Yeah. That didn't rate.

It was a McLaren. McLaren's.

There was two Ferrari 280 GTOs and a 50 and a 40.

This is where I get lost.

I mean, I'm like. This is just at the driveway

where there are parking cars that get dropped off.

Then there was a other parking lot, self parking.

Yeah. Yeah. And what was interesting,

we noted how many folks were there

doing their selfies and their Instagram

and young folks, young folks,

rattling off.

This is a da, da, da, da, da, da, da.

If you want to be anonymous, you do not drop off.

Yeah. That couple that got called cheating.

Yeah.

They do not want to go to Spanish Bay

because they're like. Another Coldplay incident.

There were like 60 Instagramers

who would definitely have a photograph

of you getting out of the car.

Interesting enough.

So yeah, so I didn't realize

you didn't have to valet your car.

And, you know, I didn't know where to park.

So I valed initially.

I felt, I thought myself through the,

through the Valley Parkers hate when the,

their turn comes up and they get the Honda minivan.

Well, we, we, no.

Or they like it because it's comfortable

to get in and out of.

Well, it's probably, yeah.

I mean, we had, we actually switched cars.

It was one of the executive councils

when we had the Mazda 6-5.

Oh, that's right. We didn't have the Honda.

We had the Mazda 6-5, even worse.

And so then when, when it was time

to get the car back, I was like,

let me just meet the valet guy

like at the beginning of the circle.

So he doesn't have to pull all the way in.

But yeah, the amount of wealth there in the cars.

Again, going up to Spanish Bay and just walking around, free.

But you get to see some crazy super cars.

Yeah. So very, very cool.

Great view. I would love to stay there.

I don't think it's going to happen anytime soon

with what it calls to stay there.

But yeah, it's a, for those who can, kudos.

Yes. Enjoy. Enjoy.

And so that wraps up our Saturday

and then into Sunday before we grabbed our flight,

San Jose that evening, we were invited by Peter Nam

and Varone Panjanali to visit.

Pangalinen. Pangalinen, Pangalinen,

to check out the Gunther Works lineup

that was at Laguna Seca.

Man, that was a treat.

But they don't race on Sunday.

It's called the Motorsport Reunion.

So there were still remnants of the event

and people are loading their race cars up

and cleaning up and whatnot.

But yeah, in the middle of all this is two manufacturers

who were showing their cars off on the track

to their customers and Gunther Works.

And then it was Koenigsegg.

Yes, Koenigsegg.

And for those of you that went to the quail

and got to see the F-26 on stage,

that was cool.

But we got to see it at Laguna Seca.

We got to sit in it and actually Peter

walked through the car front to back with us

and we got really into it.

I guess you had to describe what an F-26 is

because I think of a fighter jet, but this is...

That's what it was inspired from

and there's only 26 examples that will be made.

So it's a slant nose.

Just slant nose.

He didn't want to call it a slant nose.

Correct, yeah.

He's very cautious in making sure

that he doesn't infringe on anything

that might be Porsche-copyrated.

So it's the F-26.

Yeah, I think it's a...

So to me, Gunther Works and Stinger,

even though a lot of times people clump them together,

they're really two different types of manufacturers.

I look at Stinger more like retro.

They do a great job of their turbo study.

Incredible, so well done.

They made it look like a G-body turbo

with modern updates, just chef's kiss to that.

Where Gunther Works goes, I guess, their own way

and they're actually not even reinterpreting.

I guess they're doing a redesign, maybe.

I don't know what they would prefer calling it,

but it's their own man type of thing.

Right, right.

And they're also, you know, they...

I would say they're more heavily performance-focused.

Yes.

And that's why they're encouraging their customers

to come to the track, experience the cars

and, you know, to show you how serious they are,

they have a very special individual

that does all the testing on the cars from day one

and he was there taking people out and about for a lapse

in the Tornado, the Turbo Tornado 993

and that was Mr. Patrick Long.

Yeah, lucky the potential customers

or current customers got to arrive

from Patrick Long and they were told

that they told Patrick to drive five tenths,

which I would love to see what his five tenths is

because I have a feeling it'd be my 12th tenths.

Yeah.

His five tenths still meant

he was catching customer cars within a lap.

Yeah, in fact, we were watching and we were like,

what do I know what that must be like

when Patrick Long comes up behind you

and you're driving a similar car

but you are watching this guy's driving much faster.

Now, as impressive as Patrick was,

can we just give a shout out and say kudos

to the gentleman that was drifting the yellow Carrera GT?

What? That was insane.

First time I thought, who's doing that?

He's gonna wreck this car.

But then every lap he was doing,

coming out of the last turn onto the front straight

like that and then we realized he knows what he's doing.

He has full car control on this car.

And it was his car?

Yes.

It was his car.

He also had the Ruby Star Gunther Works car as well.

And a 993 GT2.

GT2.

Clubs fork.

That's how funny.

We walked by the GT2 Clubs fork

because there were so many other crazy things there.

But yeah, he brought out a slew of hardware

that was not to be missed.

All right, Kona's Egg.

I saw all the Kona's Egg cars.

I couldn't tell you what was what.

They sounded incredible.

It was cool that I believe it's Christian Kona's Egg.

Yeah.

The hand himself was there.

Christian Kona's Egg himself was there.

Seemed very approachable.

Had lunch with everyone.

But those cars sound incredible.

Did they say they're Mercedes power?

I don't know.

They definitely not the early ones had,

I believe engines supplied by other people,

but Kona's Egg engineers and designs everything.

Oh, okay.

Including the engines.

Wow.

No, you're talking about the other car

we saw at Spanish Bay

that had the like the AMG engine in it.

I can't remember which one.

Oh, that was, well, it wasn't Bugatti.

It was.

No, it was another hypercar.

Anyways, those cars sounded very good.

Yeah.

So that was the wrap up to Sunday.

We went back to the airport.

We finally did get our in and out.

We just went to the in and out by the airport,

turned in the rental car,

got back on the plane and that was a wrap.

Okay, red eye back.

My favorite quote was from Bogdan,

who evidently he's never taken a red eye.

And he saw it, I thought he goes,

I thought it'd be more fun than this.

And I was like, what did you expect?

There was gonna be a club on board.

He thought it was a club experience.

I tried to sleep.

I couldn't really.

And then I got back and I'm like, I feel great.

And this was Monday.

And then, you know, partway through the day.

It just, yeah.

I took time off PM and that helped me sleep

a little bit, but it's just,

you're never gonna get a good, good sleep

on the plane, especially Southwest

where you're crammed in and.

Well, we make it work.

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We have two quick things with regards to Porsche news.

First one is GT3 RS facelift.

So the key here is they believe it's turbocharged.

They showed a picture of it.

And I don't know, yeah, Damon has it on there.

And they, particularly this auto evolution.

If you wanna go to their website,

you can look at it yourself,

but they focus in on the back part.

And there's some extra exhausts

that I believe that would be for the wastegate.

Ah, all right.

Yep.

And they're theorizing that we know it's bound to happen.

It's either that or hybrid, right?

Yeah, exactly.

So.

So if this goes to turbo,

does that mean like GT2 or S will be hybrid?

I'm pretty sure that's the,

Yeah.

By the time this comes out,

the turbo S hasn't been announced yet.

That's a theory that you're reading online

is that it's gonna be in hybrid.

What kind of hybrid or how much power?

No one knows yet.

But then the GT2 turbo S,

which is similar would also probably be hybrid,

which would mean the GT3 continues to live.

Yeah.

But the turbo.

Yep.

All right, then the next one.

Oh, we talked about the 963,

but this was the official press release for it.

Oh, so this is the one because they,

this Roger actually got to drive it.

He got to drive it like we mentioned earlier at the track.

Had we known, we would invite him to Warsaw Union,

where he could see his car in person.

But actually, I think they did a lot of their track work

on Thursday.

Yeah.

And what was really interesting,

we found that was they were not allowed to use

any kind of current tire, race tire.

Yes.

They had to use several year old rain tires.

Yes.

Because anything current would be considered testing

and they're limited by the amount of testing

and where they can do it at.

So they didn't want to violate

the IMSA teams testing schedule.

So they made sure that I think they even had to like take

off the Michelin, anything that made it made,

people may think it's a current tire.

Yep.

The captain got to drive his car,

but he drove it with old tires and rain tires and that.

So there wasn't, I think when I talked to Bruce Canepa,

he said, it wasn't record breaking lap times,

but he got to drive it.

Like I told him, I said, color me 100% jealous.

I would just love to sit in the thing,

being able to drive it on the track.

That's definitely a bucket listing.

All right, events.

We've got some events coming up.

Open house is September 13th.

It is sold out, but we're looking forward to seeing everyone

that did register coming out to HQ on Rain or Shine.

Rain or Shine.

And then Traffin at Sea happens August 30th

through September 6th.

Actually, we'll be doing that just before open house.

And again, that is also sold out.

So looking forward to seeing everyone on Princess Cruise.

And then Unstock 2025, November 16th

at Porsche Santa Clarita.

Many of you that we saw at Workstru Union,

we hope that we'll see you at Unstock as well.

Registration for that opens September 3rd.

And that's, I think we require three visual mods.

So suspension counts, if you have it lowered.

You can tell a lowered car from the stock car.

Yep.

We're not super strict on the mods.

Anything that makes your car different from stock.

I even take exclusive options that they're rarely seen.

But if you want to get parked inside,

you got to have something super, super special.

And that's usually what would be the case

with all our events that we pick

the coolest modified cars to bring inside.

Don't be a cool collection.

Videos I want to shout out to Damon and say thank you

for again, amidst all of this

that we were just talking about

is he has to crank out a video the following Tuesday.

And that was the Workstru Union walk around video.

And I feel bad because people want to talk to him

and he's trying to film the videos at the same time.

So it makes it really tough

when you know you got a list of cars

you got to do B roll on and then people recognize you

and they want to come up and talk to you.

Or a man and I get engaged into conversations

like guys, we got to keep moving.

We'll never get it done.

But check it out.

It's on YouTube right now.

And it really does give a flavor

for what Workstru Union is.

And if you, I'm very proud of,

if you look at the crowd shots,

the diversity we have in the ages and everything

it's an incredible, incredible event.

Yep.

All right.

Those of you that are looking to race

with fellow PCAs on SIM racing

check out PCASimracing.com.

There's a couple of races that are coming up

event seven, I believe.

And they have series events that you want to check out.

There's a full calendar.

If you just head over to PCASimracing.com.

I should say that event seven.

I think you said that last time.

This is the same graphic we've been using.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Here's so.

Oh, that's not an update.

It doesn't change.

Oh, it doesn't change.

But just go to PCASimracing.com.

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Manny, Damon?

No successful Monterey car week.

It was great seeing everyone.

But there's no rest for us, no ability to use our comp time

because we got some stuff to knock out

in the next couple of weeks here

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