Why Is Magnus Walker Selling His Legendary Porsches?

Welcome to Spike's Car Radio. We're here with Magnus Walker, friend of the show,

longtime friend. I remember a long time ago, a long back in the olden days, being on Sunset

Boulevard, getting coffee by the Tower Records. And I saw a beautiful 9-11 on the side of the road.

And then I saw what I thought was a homeless man breaking into this 9-11 and stealing it.

Well, about a week later, I got a call from the Esquire Network, and they said,

you know who Magnus Walker is? And they sent me a picture of this guy. And it was him.

It was this guy. And they said, would you like to do a little segment with him for our show?

And I said, absolutely. Tell me more about him. And that was how you and I, I think, were introduced.

And now here we are all of these years later. Years. Literally, 13 years later. A long time ago.

Time flies when you're a car matchmaker. This show, you know, we hang out.

And now you're selling cars. Well, we're at a point where you're getting rid of some of your cars.

Tell us what's going on. Releasing. Releasing back into the wilderness.

You can relate to that, right? Yes. On many levels. Yes. I think we all can.

Yes. I mean, I mean, the stream. Jerry was just asking me about the green 718 when you guys letting

that guy go any minute. How long you got? He goes, you don't get precious about.

We've had it for what? Seven months? He goes, you don't get precious about stuff. And I go,

not really anymore. There seems to be an ebb and flow of things. And I, you know,

I find as I get older, I want to experience new things and new stuff. And I also like to curate.

But tell us what's going on with you. Give us the whole picture here for those folks who don't

know what's happening. Timing's everything. This year is my 40th anniversary of being in LA.

Wow. I've been here 40 years. I arrived in 1986 as a 19 year old. Next year I'm turning 60.

So I'm reflecting back on where I've been and where am I going and what do I need and what

means things to me and what is sort of not quite as relevant and important as it once was.

And I've been fortunate over the past 35 years to have owned a lot of cars. I bought my first

Porsche in 1992 when I was 25 years old. What was that car? It was great. It was a 1974 red

slant-nosed conversion look alike. At the Pomona spot made it 7500. Perfect first one.

Where we all start. Perfect first one. He had the green goblin. He had a car just like it.

Mine had chrome wheels. And you know, you either love slant noses or you don't. It's a Miami Vice

Syndrome. Particularly when it's a back date is much more to love and respect. So funny.

Yeah. And I beat up 74. There were 300,000 miles on it and rust everywhere.

So of course I love the slant nose. So that was my first car. And that went down what became

what I call this out of control hobby. Slippery slow, which, you know, it's just acquiring things,

acquiring things. And then that led to Tamir Moskovich's award-winning short

documentary film Urban Outlaw that came out in 2012. And that sort of put me on a different

trajectory. That's where you pop, as we say. That's a curriculum V-tape. That's where you

pop. Yeah. I mean, you can relate to that, right? Yeah, for 100%. I'm talking about the pop. Yes.

Yeah. All right. 100%. This show is Zuckerman's pop. Zuckerman had no pop until he came on.

And now people are flying down in traffic. I was popping off everywhere, but nobody

was noticing. I mean the pop, I mean collective consciousness is what I mean when I say pop.

Yes. Yeah. A small collective. Yes. Yeah. Pop. What are we talking about? We're talking about

the auction. So here you are. And we've talked about this on the show. Okay. There's three stages

in a man's life. The dreaming of stuff, the acquiring of stuff, and then the ultimately the letting go

of stuff. And what you're saying is you're at the beginning of maybe that, not a full let go,

but a curation and a reduction. Yeah. The Porsche thing is still fun, but I'm a goal-orientated

collector. So with the car, it was I set a goal of one of everything in a certain area. I remember

that. That's when I first met you. Yeah. And that was the goal. Ironically, I still don't have a

three, five, six, but these things set a goal maybe 15, almost 20 years ago. And that goal was

achieved. And over the past 10 years, I've been traveling a lot. And when I travel, I don't necessarily

miss what I've got in the garage. And at one point, there were a lot of cars in that garage.

Yeah. And I wasn't necessarily racing back to drive certain cars. And so that was sort of the

beginning of, Hey, I'm thinking about it. It's taken me a long time to get to this point,

to let things go. I've been quietly letting things go for the past seven, eight years. I had a 64,

9, 11. I let that go quietly in 2018. Someone asked me about it today. I just came from the

lip meet. And that's a whole nother conversation. Yeah. So I've been letting things go that I sort

of chased and maybe decided when I acquired them, they weren't quite the same. Or they didn't give

me the thrill. You know, it's all about these levels of it, right? I describe it as first,

it's the idea, then it's the online hunt, the chase. That's a big part of the chase. And the art

of the deal, the art of the patience and, you know, knowing when to strike, you know, one of the cars

I'm selling, there was a lesson here where it took me nine months to put this deal together.

And it was just a lesson in patience. The guy's thinking of selling it. Then you say, I'm interested.

Then all of a sudden, he's not sure. It's like seller remorse, right? I'm not quite ready to sell.

And so I'm just came from the LA lip meet. And so I've answered a lot of interesting silly stupid

questions about, Hey, I hear you selling everything. You know, what's going on? Can't believe you're

selling all your cars. Well, that makes me really sad. Yeah, yeah. Help me understand how it makes

you sad that I'm doing what I want to do. It's really fun. Help me understand that. It's a funny

comment. I can't believe you're selling this stuff. I thought you were the Porsche guy.

No, it's funny what you represent to your people, to your fans, that they feel that you're like

one of the foundational blocks in the Porsche world. And if you're retreating, can they still

like it? Are they still cool? Are they still cool? And we all in certain ways take comfort in things

that seem to have permanence, right? So maybe for a lot of fans that you're going to let go

of some stuff, makes them question what they're doing. But it's not, you're not letting go of

everything. You're just releasing some stuff. And the truth is, I realized as I look in the garage

right now, there are things I wanted to chase. And then I realized there's things I like having

more than I like driving. And when you divide it into those two camps and you were describing

that perfectly, you got to go over the stuff you like having. I mean, in the car world, I found

that it's like a big piece of cake, right? And there's a lot of slices. The purists that want

to go to Pebble and have someone with white gloves and Q-tip to judge it. And in the Porsche world,

tell you what's the wrong shade of CAD plating. Then there's the modifiers. I fall into that category.

Then there's the racers, the drivers. You know, I describe myself as like build a collector driver,

but I've always just done what I wanted to do. Bought cars that I wanted to experience when

they were really affordable. And I'm not buying like you buy where you get low mileage, great

condition. I'm more about variety of experience. Like when people come to me and they're looking

for the perfect cargo, you're never going to find it. That doesn't exist. And then five years later,

they still come up to me. I go, you've just wasted five years of driving any Porsche because

you're looking for something that you don't actually need and probably doesn't exist.

So for me, it was never about sort of appealing to other people. I was doing things that I personally

wanted to do at that time and experience what it was like driving these different cars. Front

engine, mid-engine, rear-engine, air and water cooled. And I'm at the point now where, you know,

people think I'm selling everything. I'm selling 18 cars, two of them are Pulse cars.

Are they up on the side here? Do you want to go to Arm Sotheby's?

If you go to Arm Sotheby's, you just go to upcoming auctions and click on Magnus Walker.

There it is right there. So you go down. Why did you pick Arm Sotheby's?

Well, it's a great question. People have been asking me that. Why not that? Why not this?

Why not that? They're just great at putting on a show and what they do they're really,

really good at. I've gone to a few of their auctions and I just figured they were the partner

in a similar wavelength. If you scroll down, you'll see a few more.

Where is the auction taking place? It's an online auction that happens between

March 18th through the 25th. So everything is here and online?

Well, not everything is here. These are the 18 cars. So to finish what I was starting,

selling 18 cars, but I'm keeping 13. So I'm not getting rid of absolutely everything.

So this is just the tip of the iceberg because on Tuesday,

I'm actually launching 144 lots of parts and memorabilia.

On this same site?

Same site, same website. Just at the bottom of this list will be

144 lots of parts and memorabilia. That's everything from engines to pistons, cylinders,

doors, wheels, turn signals, gauges, door handles, whatever.

So since it's an online auction, there's just a countdown like a bring a trailer

off. Yeah, same thing.

And then the highest bidder wins at that moment or does it give you more time?

No, the highest bidder wins. But the big, big thing here is everything is no reserve.

It's going.

Oh, it's going.

No reserve.

It's going.

I am committed. Like when people have a reserve on it, there's an escape door, right?

There's no safety net. There's no safety net. It's like when people say to me,

what do you want for it? I go, well, whatever the bidders go.

You made the mental transition. It's gone.

Yeah. And I feel great about it because what I was saying earlier of this life cycle,

I'm not getting out of the Porsche world, but sometimes you've got to sort of let things go

or close one door to open another. Absolutely. Now, the 74 flat nose.

That's not the first car.

No, it's funny, but that car, you know, is a 74 U.S. Carrera slant nose. And that's a

A.I.R. All-American race and fiberglass body kit that was put on here in L.A.

Go ahead and click on it.

Well, you can see some pictures.

Click on it.

How cool is that?

You know, that kit was put on it in the 80s. And ironically, the guy that put it on recently

approached me and told me, hey, do you still have that red car? I did. I go, red color,

you did what are you on about? You know, I wasn't sure what he meant.

Wow.

He's an 80-year-old guy. He goes, the slant nose won. You know, that's got the A.I.R.

kit on it. I put it on in the 80s.

But the interesting thing about the slant nose is that was my first Porsche I ever fell in love

with. Now, in 2018, pre-COVID, I got an itch to get another slant nose. So I started looking at

everything from aftermarket to factory roof, Gumball, Stosek, DP, even went to Miami to look at

them. And nothing sort of clicked because they're all expensive. And I'm not a bargain hunter, but

I just like affordable things because I know I've got multiple and I'm more about variety.

So anyway, I got a phone call from this guy who basically said, hey, are you interested in red

slant nose? They go, yeah, where is it? He goes, Pasadena. And that's the car. So there's some LA

history to that car. And it's very cool looking. It's like it's like an early slant flat nose with

the headlights. But isn't this just full on 80s? That's just fun. That's just goofy fun. Of course,

it's underpowered. It's got a 73e motor that's been pumped out to a 2.7 RSMA5. So I've driven it

a couple of times, but what it really needs is like a 500 horsepower big motor. But this is my

sort of thing right now of I don't have the bandwidth or desire to put a 500 horsepower

motor in this. Because you know, it is, it's a slippery slope of you're going to need everything

else that goes with it, right? Take us through a couple more cars. That first one, the 76911

Carrera. Why is someone buying this? Well, for those that don't know, in 1976 and 1977,

Porsche was making three liter Carrera as the pre-runner to the SC. G-body, right? So we all

know the iconic 73 RS Carrera Porsche made 1580 of them, 7475 G-body, 27 RSMA5 cars, made about

a thousand of each. 7677, the three liters built on the turbo case. In June of 76, at the end of

the production run, for some strange reason that no one knows about, Porsche homologated

113 of these cars, making it Porsche's lowest volume Carrera ever made in a 911. Porsche's last

production mechanical fuel injected engine. These were delivered from the factory Sunroof

Delete manual window limited slip. So that is a rare call. Yeah, that's cool. That went to friends

and family, right? It was a friend and family factory. I've heard it was homologated for a race

series that never happened. You know, I've heard the way on Australian market thing, there's not

a lot of history on them, but it's an extremely rare car that I've owned that car since 2009.

And here's the killer parts of this car. Every car has got a story and people like stories.

Back in 2008, I had an ad everywhere locally looking for 64911. That was how I found 64911.

Guy calls me up says, yeah, I don't have a 64911, but my brother's got a 76911. Are you

interested? I go, sure. Sends me like five photos. The fifth photo was the engine I'm expecting CIS.

Like 20 years ago, nobody wanted a 74 through 77g body car. It was the unleashed, my case,

27911 inexpensive car. But this at MFI. And I know things are interchangeable. So I go,

send me the VIN numbers 91169023 something like that. I get out the red book, the Porsche Bible,

and I'm looking through 911769 didn't exist. Nine is a homologation number in a series of

Porsche VIN numbers. So I knew this was something special. And I just happened to stumble onto a

thread on Pelican in 2008 that told the whole story about this car. So that's one of them.

That makes me want to sit down and drive. Yeah. I love those steering wheels too.

Yes. Second one. Yes. That was in my 74 that very steering. And I love the inserts. I love the

seats on this model, these model years. Yeah. 70 g body seats. So let's look at another car.

Let's go one more and then we got to do cars in the studio. Let's go to the 65911. So the 65911

part of my, I'm not going to call it a problem.

You can probably relate to this. None of us would call this a problem.

Back to humans liking to collect. Yes. I don't have one of the same thing. I'll have

five of the same watches, guitars and cars. One time I had five of the first 1,911s ever built.

This was the 64911, blah, blah, blah. So this is the 310th 911 ever made. It's

VIN number 300 310. Oh, wow. Built in 64, but delivered in 65 to Brumos Porsche.

One of the first half dozen cars Brumos ever imported to the USA. So that makes this car

special right there. Let's see the engine. And this was a car that I chased for a long time.

Scroll through and look, slightly modified. This is kind of like a sport purpose light.

Yeah. You know, Porsche here in with car number 310, they hadn't quite gone racing the 911 yet.

That probably came a few months later. So the goal here was I'm known for these bold color

striped liveries. Boy, race a look. If you get a clean shot, like go down to one way static,

where you can see the front of it. There you go. Click on that one. So the goal here was to make

what I would describe as the gentleman's race car. A little bit more of a Savile Row suit,

but still in this narrow body. We all like these short wheel based nimble cars I bought one today.

So this is a car that's really actually a significant car. It's like I'm selling a 2002

996 GT2, for example. Oh, yeah. So you'll know this because you own one. In 2002,

for the US market, Porsche made 184 GT2s. Let's scroll through, see a few photos.

These things are nuts. So they really that back in really gets out on this car.

They made more Carrera GTs in 2002 than they did 996 GT2s. Yeah. So there's an example of a car

that's a lifelong LA car. I'm the third owner of that car, but I've done nothing to that car. Yeah,

yeah. So some of these cars are slightly modified. Some are more modified. Some are boned stock,

leather interior, leather everywhere, leather on the AC vents, leather on the CD, leather on the

shifter, full, full leather. I'm the third owner of that car. That's how many miles have you put

on that one? Not many. It's got about 90,000 miles on it. The only thing that's not original

are those wheels. Yeah, what are they? They run it when I got it. I'm not in love with the wheels.

And weirdly, this was a car I drove it out to Arizona probably six years ago. And

this is a daily driver car. Yeah, yeah. You can daily that. Absolutely. No problem.

Just be careful in the rain. Yeah. So anyway, there's sort of a cross section. Amazing.

Of what? Fantastic. Really good stuff. I do want to clarify. I am not selling all my

Porsches. I'm not getting out of the Porsche world. Things are clear. We're cleaning up here.

I'm very sad that you're selling everything. I don't know why. My wife can't get me out of

bed. How do we understand why you're sad? I know. I know it's a weird thing because

there's a public perception of what everybody has that's not true and about everybody's

experience. Correct. But I would guess that we just like you and we like your big collection and

we're living vicariously through you. And then so when you make a change, we feel it. I mean,

it's just one of those things. Got it. Yeah. But it's a good thing that people care about you and

they like you and they're passionate about you. That's what that is. It's good to be cared about.

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All right, you brought a car from the auction for us to talk about. Here we are. Which car is

this now that's up for sale? This is my 1967 9 11 s that I actually got in 2008. And it's kind of a

sport purpose. You know, my are inspired build, but this is on the lighter side. It's got a 2.3

numbers matching motor, some suspension work, a very rare set of early outlaw wheels,

and this sort of pseudo sport purpose livery, some shield bucket seats, tartan interior,

and a short throw 902 airport gearbox. So it's a little zinger. It's nippy. It's balanced. It

handles. It's a little zinger and it's nippy. It's nippy. Tell me how nippy it is. It's a lot

of fun. I drove it to the limit today and I drove it up the 405. You can direct Cameron,

by the way, just take us around it, show us any part of the car you want. He'll put the camera

right. Cameron, I say open up the driver's side door. It's got these very cool hand painted

numbers. These are not decals. Clayton signed pain and that's a hand painted decal hand painted

number. You know, I personally covered those shield bucket seats with some old serious clothing

fabric. You did that work yourself. I did. I found a vintage pair of shield seats and then I had the

centers covered. And for those of you that don't know, shield seats are so comfortable. Right.

They're in my CSL, the Batmobile. They're so nice. But wait, let's go back to you covering

these seats. What did that look like? Were you on a couch with knitting needles? No. You know,

my background is clothing. I know, I know. I had plenty of tartan fabric laying around. It's no

different to me doing this, putting tartan patches on my shirt. So I just want to try. So you have

a little warehouse and you worked on it and you stretched it and you sewed it. Yeah. I got a

26,000 square foot. That's really cool. That's a neat detail in this car. You did that work

yourself. I mean, it's hand built in a way. Well, I'm adding my own personality to all of my cars

with these sport purpose sort of race inspired deliveries. It's got my own signature MoMo

steering wheel. If you go in and look at the steering wheel, that was the steering wheel

collab I did with MoMo. It came out in 2015. Oh, yeah. That's right. That's my own steering wheel.

It does have a Porsche certificate of authenticity. So if you go around to the passenger side or

zoom in and grab it, pick that up right there. It's a Porsche C of A that shows numbers matching

engine, shows the original color and a bit more info there. If you turn it on the other side,

you'll see the date that I got that flipping around 2010. There you go. Oh yeah, there you go.

Do you do this for everyone? There's your home address, by the way. You don't care about that?

No, we can take that out maybe. Invite everyone's welcome. But a legitimate question. You know,

I used to do this when I was collecting at the beginning of collecting. I would have to get

all of this stuff for every car I own, especially the Porsche certificate of

authenticity. Back then in this era, I'm going back 20 years, I got them on everything. Yeah,

me too. But the real golden ticket is not the C of A. It's actually the Kardex. Yeah, yeah.

You know, I visited the Porsche factory in the archive and went through all of that stuff.

Yeah, you did. That's cool. So if you go back in, you'll also see it's on the cover of a magazine

there. That's cool. And then I would go. I wanted to see this hand-painted decal that you were

talking about. The door opened very quickly, so I didn't get the chance to look at it. Close the door.

Close the door. There you go.

So that sticker is hand-painted. If you zoom in on the sticker. Zoom in on the 6.7.

Zoom in on 6.7. Please don't make your 6.7 jokes at home, people. So zooming closer so you can

actually see that it's hand-painted, the brush strokes. Oh yeah, look at that. Beautiful. And

then if you go around to that. And who did that? Clayton's sign-painting. This guy is old school

super talented. And then just go above the door handle to the logo. So zoom in on that. Now I

give these stickers away all the time. I just gave hundreds away today. Here they are. But that's not

a sticker. That's hand-painted. That's hand-painted. And then go to the, and I got drilled door handles.

See that right there? That's character. It has my early set of short wheel based drill door handles.

Zoom in on the door handle. Why do we drill the door handles? We're adding liners like Colin

Chapman, right? You know, we're just adding unique personal details. It's lightness. Yeah. We're gonna

take another like a thimble of weight out of your car. And then I would take a look at the rear wheel.

So these are a very early set of the Outlaw wheels. Oh, there you go. Which was a reinterpretation

of the original Fuchs. We hauled them out. But if you come in on a side profile, you'll see that's

concave. It's not flat. Look at the dish on the wheel right there. Oh, yeah. Look at that. Look at

that concave. Not flat. So that's a pretty rare wheel. These are 15 by sevens all around. And

then I'll just go up to the rear deck lid. What kind of tires do we have on there?

These are round black and rubber. They're running a 225 45 15 all around. It's got a twin pipe

sport muffler there. And hand painted decal on the rear. And that's sort of it. We really should go

for a drive in it. Yeah, we will. We'll go for a drive. We'll do a once around the block in it

for Patreon. I can't get over the number. You know, the middle school or Tik Tokers are all

about six seven six seven the South Park episode. This is the six seven the ultimate expression

of that joke is this car. But the car is in 1967. Yeah, no, I get that. My birthday is 1967.

So the car and I are both as of today, you know, 5850 and I might have missed it. But what's the

SP sport purpose sport purpose. Yeah, you know, as you know, we start with the R to the TR to the

ST to the RS to the RSR portion never did an SP. So it's just me yet again. Did you mention the

weight? Your guess is probably around 2,200 pounds. I've never weighed this car. But you know,

it's it's minimal zinger. Yeah, it's raw. It's rowdy. Slice and dice on the 405. Yeah. I mean,

you know how the 405 is right? It's slow moving, but you got to be able to cut in and stuff. It's

got the earlier grills and everything. So it's a cool car. It's a fun car. But this is one that

I've decided I'm keeping my other 67s, which has more of my DNA on it. So but for those of

for your fans, this has so much of you in it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, knowing that you did

those seats yourself, that would be meaningful to me. Yeah, I mean, it's really cool. I appreciate

that. You know, there's quite a lot going on. It handles, it looks cool. Yeah, it's a good sport

purpose. And it's a 67s, which is the first year of the S these cars are still relevant.

Yep, they're still meaningful. And they move. Yeah, they even even in stock two liter form,

they move. Tell us about the lit show. What was going on? So for those, there are many people,

you know, we all say the lit show, the lit show. Once a year here at the, is it the Hyatt or the

Hilton down by the airport? Hilton and LA. The Porsche parts and memorabilia community get together.

The 356 registry who is put it on. And you can, you know, around vendors from around the world,

super cool stuff. The last time you and I went, do you remember? It was COVID.

It was the day. And there was a guy coughing at the buffet. And I said, oh my God, we're

fucked. This is your worst case scenario, right? And now we shoot on Saturdays,

and it's difficult to go down. What was it like? It was surprisingly busy. I get their

early bird special at 7am. It's pay extra to get it. You do pay extra. It's 40 bucks to get there

at 7am. You know, it's 20 bucks at 9am. Yeah. What I love about it is back to the Porsche cake,

right? You know, over the past 10, 12 years, 15 years, whatever, there's a whole younger

generation of Porsche owners coming in. Yeah. These people are not at the lit fair. No. The

average age at the lit fair is 75 to 75 to 85 years old. Cargo shorts, bad shirts. Yeah. It's

like, it's a stage four. Two coffees. It's like zone eight. It's like everyone's in a polo shirt,

the hoblin around. They've got the PCA member zone eight, bad job. Oh, sorry. Oh, sorry. You

should have been there. Yeah. But he's passed some memorabilia. It's everything that you kind of

love, but you don't need. It's so good. And some of us don't need. It's everything you don't need.

Well, my kids were little. They had them, the most incredible die cast models, like obscure,

weird Volkswagen ambulances and stuff. I loved it. They also had, you could find a guy that had

original 356 key fob. Right. Back before it was cool, they had repros. Or fairy Porsche shoes.

3500 dollar Momo Pratipo steering wheel. Old Boyer watches. Vic Alford's underwears.

Yeah, exactly. Any sort. So then, you know, if you, I remember when I moved hangers, I just went

down and talked to Tony Singer and I'm like, let's, let's get some posters. And you, you know,

anything you want for the stuff around your collection is there. There's a lot of expensive

posters there. And then if you need some obscure parts and, you know, now there's the internet,

but you could talk to these guys and some guy in German, a guy in my neighborhood who might have

this for you here. I would call you when I get back. And that I spoke to that guy today. Yeah.

So, you know, I had a lot of fun conversations, but why I like to go there is it's the old school

generation. Yeah. And I'm sort of in the middle of the two. I'm fine with the hipster younger guys

and I'm fine talking to Mike Hammond who's 93 years old there. Right. And to me, it's nostalgic.

It's these people that I've known because, you know, I've owned Porsches for 35 years. So

I've known some of these guys 25, 30 years and they're still hobbling around and we're all

a little older and less gray. And it's just, it's a calming place to be. And here's the real great

thing about it. There's no content creators there. Yeah. No one's on the iPhone posting live from

the lit meat. Particularly the back room. No one knows what's going on. What's in the

different slice of the Porsche world. And this is Porsche week. You know, I would say it's the

soul of the, the, oh geez. Sure. The Porsche world or that crew. I mean, when I first started,

I was brought in by Jerry in what, like the 90s and he said, you got to come to this thing.

And it was those same guys. And that's all that really existed in the Porsche. Right.

Were these hardcore guys who loved these cars. And it was not about, like you're saying, it was

not about influence. It was not about money. It was just, they went granular. They went deep on

the Porsche brand and they got their little box of shlock, the same box that they bring.

Yeah. But they are the, they really are the seed of the Porsche community that's grown.

I mean, they were the first ones to it. They really are. Yeah. Which is what's super cool about it.

So for me, I try to go over here. If I'm in, it's inside, it's like inside a base. It's

Porsche train spotting. That is how I sum it up. What is lit meat? Well, it's Porsche train spotting.

We want to find the guy that, who has not sold something for the longest period of time. I

know there's a guy in the, that's bought the same stuff. And for 10 years, he has not sold

a single item. But he's still there. But he's still there. That's the guy I want to meet. Yeah.

Yeah. It was the way you'd hear about cars for sale too and stuff. There's the, the, the valet

circle is a little bit of a scene out there. That's where I bought my 67s. What was in the valet

circle? Is that true? That is a hundred percent true. The San Beige one owner, very early Brumos

67s is, is. It was sitting out there when we were there. You just said, I want that car. Who owned

it? It was Kevin Watts. Oh yeah. Kevin Watts was the guy who had it there. I see. And he is the

one who had acquired it from the man who got it from Vacek Pollak. And what had happened is the

man had, he had a 66 and he drove up to the lot to get a crate of oil. And while he was buying

this crater case of oil, he came out and his 66 was gone. It had been stolen off the lot.

And he threw such a fit that he actually talked to Ferry Porsche. And they said,

I love this story. And he, yeah, this is a great story again. And so he, he was so beside himself

that the car was stolen that they said, we have these new 67s that are the first ones

that are coming into the U.S. And we will divert one of these cars to you. And that's an incredible

story. I do not know this story. That's amazing. Do you still have the car? Yes. It's down at the

Outlaw Archive right now. And so, and this car, it was a daily driver for this man. He had,

he had invented something. I don't remember if it was a flashlight or nuclear switches,

but he was some sort of industrialist. And so he drove this car as a daily driver in 88.

He then restored it with his daughter. And they showed it for years. And winning lots of local

trophies, which he kept when he sold the car. And I acquired this car. It must be now. It's got to

be maybe over 10 years. I've had this car and it's, it's an early 67. They only had that cream

interior before they went black. The cream interior for six months and the engine's hot.

I don't know what's really in it, but it's a fast, excellent car. This is what's great about the

Porsche community is hearing the stories of cars, right? Because then it just becomes more memorable.

Yeah. And I'm more about what you call these memorable moments. And this one's like pretty

spectacular. Yeah, that's cool. I never knew that about that guy. I will send you, there was an

article written for one of the, for excellence about the car that talks about it. They refer to

it as the accidental Porsche because of this whole story of theft. And remember, there is the near,

near-do-well Vacek Pollak son that we met that one time. I met him at the Olympics.

Yes. And he says, he remembers this whole story does. Who is that guy? What's his name? He was

the black. Lou Pollak? Yeah. There's Vacek and then there's just some Lou. You know who I'm talking

about. I don't know that guy. It's more than just a license plate. Well, I only had, I mean, I had

20 minutes before I had to get here and prepare the show. And so I was thinking, do I go down with

Magnus to the lit show? And then I got a text that one of my favorite tennis players was at UCLA,

ahead of Indian Wells practicing. So I raced down there for 20 minutes and missed him,

but my friends were down there. Look, they sent me pictures of Novak Djokovic right here himself,

the guy. This is right from UCLA a minute ago, just out there working out ahead of the Indian Wells

tennis tournament, BNP Paribas, which is next week. This is the most legendary tennis player

in the world. Just sitting there. Look at his stroke. Look at this guy strokes. This is what

we dream of. It's called a follow through body, something I don't have. Footwork and strokes

like this. Fluid. This guy is, I believe he's the oldest pro in the ATP tour right now. And he's

playing with these kids who are just monsters hitting wild balls. And he's the winning, I believe

the winning is tennis pro in the world at this point, a legend right here in LA. Help me understand

is he today's John McEnroe? He would be, but I think a little beyond. I think a little beyond.

He's angrier. He's not angry. He's just competing at an age where he shouldn't even be competitive

anymore. He's the new paradigm for, you know, the age. Performance. He's a power ripkin of

tennis. They're kids that are, you know, coming up in their late teens now that are ripping balls

at, you know, 130, 150 miles an hour. That was pretty fast. And, you know, you start to slow

down a little bit. He's slowing down a little bit, but he's just, he's one of these legendary guys

with the most wins, blah, blah, blah. You know, look at his stats. You'll, you'll flip out. Can

he still win today? Yeah. He absolutely can. What about next weekend? He won by default recently.

The guy didn't show up. That's the guy. He got an injury. But the other guy was putting a truck

of his own. It's not about that. It's kind of like a, we're at the victory lap part of his career.

You know what I mean? He's already done all of the great things. Everybody.

So he's the Magnus of Tennis. He's the Magnus of Tennis. Yes. He's yellow.

I don't even know what that means. I don't play tennis, but, you know,

tennis to me is Wimbledon, right? It's on grass. And Hannah and I are always joking. The U.S.

opens what on clay, son? Not on grass. The U.S. opens the hard court. Hard court. Yeah, hard court.

Help me understand then the difference, you know, grass. Well, without going too deep,

but there's just three seasons. There's clay season, grass season, and then there's regular.

When is sand season? He said sand. Gravel.

And I'm going next week. Listen to this. You know, I have a little,

this is what's going on this year. Bentley is sending me a nice new car. I'm driving up with

my wife to Indian Wells. Compliments of Babalat, who sponsors me. I'm sponsored by the Babalat

record company, not Joe Mc, but Alcarez is sponsored by Babalat. And we're staying at the Parker.

Parker called up, said that we're fans of the show. We'd love you to stay here. And so I'm doing

that. And they have a nice clay court in the back. It's going to be a nice 24 hour vacation.

As you know, this will be the only vacation I take all year. I only want one day and that's

going to be it. We're going to take some questions in a second. But first, let's talk about acre gold.

I don't know if you like gold, Magnus. Yeah, gold is where it's at. I actually used to buy gold

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Do you still have it? No, I wish I did. What is gold at right now? Let's just check the price of

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Medium. Medium. A pillow top for sure. Yeah. You got to have the pillow top.

I find most hotels are soft, which is all good. And filled with other people who knows what.

You probably take your own sheets, right? Or you just don't? I don't, but I just,

it says, Spike once said to me, hotel is basically a kennel for people. Yeah. And then,

did I say that? You did say that. It really is. It's a dog kennel for us. For dogs. Yes.

For big dogs, smelly dogs that do bad things. Yep. Oh, now you got me thinking about that in my one

day, my one vacation day at the hotel. The park is different. No, it's not. Same but different.

No, it's not. It is. It's very nice. They have a beautiful clay court. All right. What are you

talking about? We should talk about Bentley and what's going on there. By the way,

Bentley is having a moment. I mean, Frank Wallace is over there now running Bentley.

I think the cars are amazing. Continental GT? Maybe Flying Spur, maybe something with a coop.

Here's what I think Bentley should do. I'm a fan of British cars. I'm in my vintage Rolls-Royce

phase. I always say the next Rolls will be a Bentley, but it'll be vintage. Okay. And I've

driven the Continental GT and I think that drivetrain is great, but the body in my mind is

looking a little tired. I know they've got this super sport on which, to me, there's too much

diffuser and little boy racer gimmicky stuff. What I think they should do. And I told Frank

Wallace of this. Tell him. I actually told him this and, you know, it's almost like Bentley's

sort of going down the road that Porsche went. You know, they just hired Angus Finn from Porsche to do

communication and replacing Wayne Bruce, who came from McLaren to Bentley and now Angus

Finn. Oh, you're really paying attention. I'm paying attention. I know these guys. Here's what

they should do though. They should build a car that looks a little sexier and go one more range

that's going to tie into that Aston Martin guy that's sort of in between the Mercedes AMGTC,

a turbo and an Aston Martin. Still keep the Continental GT, keep the Flying Spur, keep the

Bentayga. They can do a fourth model, but do something that really, really looks

racing sexy. Adding carbon fiber diffuser and splitters to a tied design is not the way to go

for the future. And I know they're trying to attract a younger audience. That's why they have

a lot of influences doing things for them. But ultimately what they need is a design of a new

silhouette. Zuckerman had the greatest idea. Tell him your idea. What's your idea? You buy a

pre-owned Bentley for 30 grand and then what? And then we're going to go to Demolition Derby.

Oh, get a very early Continental GT and we smash it up. With that weight and that power, you'd be

unstoppable in that environment. Did I just see somebody off-roading a Bentley on Instagram? Yeah,

I've seen that. I mean, they are having a little more fun. I think they just got to loosen up and

do more of that stuff. But the cars I've been driving and it could just speak to my age and

what I enjoy now. I really love them and feel taken care of in there. And yeah, I just don't

necessarily like the image that comes along with it. Well, rebranding is good. What I really like

is the Turbo R from the early 2000s. Of course. The Bulldog one that's beefy. Didn't Matt have

something similar to that for a little time? I don't think he had the Bulldog Turbo R.

I don't think he had a four-door, did he? Yeah, that's a whole different thing.

All right, let's get some questions in. SG's wants to know. Talk to us about the 991 Turbo S.

200,000 miles is huge. How much time do we have today? Not a lot.

I could tell you about this car forever. This car I wasn't looking for. It's a car I'm keeping.

As of today, I drove it today with Willow and 8 downtown to get the 67. It has 205,567 miles on

it. Wow. And it picked up a nail last night, so it's got a slow leak. Last week in downtown LA,

it picked up a knife blade and split my Goodyear tire. So I love that car, but the one thing I

don't love about it is the Sennilocks on a street car is the worst thing Porsche ever did.

Makes no sense on a street car. But there it is. Because? Because no one can take it off.

You can take it off. I mean, I've got the 600-pound wrench, but yeah.

And guess what? The center lock thing that comes in the glove box is the first thing

the tire guy steals. Well, yeah. I've kept that. Oh, yeah. Mine disappeared on one of my earlier

GT3s. It disappeared. It makes a little more sense. We'll kind of keep a zip tire. Those guys will

take care of you and come by. Let me just finish my rant about this. Okay, go ahead.

I wasn't looking for it. It was way too new. I had no interest in it. One of the things I love

about it, the thing I really love about it, is this is the Swiss Army knife of 9-elevens.

Yeah. It's as fast as any GT car in the canyons. Bumper to bumper traffic. No, I thought I'd hate

it because it's not manual. This is the only non-manual Porsche I own right there. Recently,

Hannah and I took a trip from LA to Denver. 1,050 miles in one day. One day. Over the rock,

is it 14,000 feet? We didn't get out of that. My ears weren't ringing. My back wasn't aching.

Willow was in the back seat. 1,050 miles in one day. Five states. I'm guessing Willow's a dog or

she's the unicorn in relationship. Yeah, it is.

Or is it a side piece to travel with both? Willow is our German shepherd dog.

Lewis 1B has a question and you're the guy to ask, what's a better investment in your opinion?

Arts, district, real estate or Porsches?

It's a good question though. I mean, it's a great question. It's a great question.

Timing is everything. When I was buying Porsches, they were, let's say, $5, $10 and they double,

triple, doubled again. When I was buying real estate in downtown LA, it was less than $40 a square foot.

Really? Now? Yeah. Depending where you are now, it might be worth 10 times that.

Both are great investments 25 years ago. Downtown LA is probably the better investment today

because that market has dropped because of everything we're in. The Porsche market is

stronger than the real estate market in downtown LA today, but you can't buy into the Porsche world

at the prices I'm talking about. That doesn't answer your question other than timings, everything.

Okay. Gran Turismo Finland wants to know, how's your Esprit?

Oh, the Esprit went away a long, long time ago. That was a very short-lived love affair that

I love lotuses, but my Esprit just wasn't a keeper.

Okay. In your opinion, Ollie wants to know, what's the worst modification you can do to a 911?

What's the word? That's a very good question. You do a lot of applications, but what's the

one you look at and you go, oh, that guy fucked that up?

Ace. Ace. Go ahead and judge a modification.

Send it out there. Judging never judgmental. To me, it's someone else's dream.

Come on. One. There's got to be one.

Probably the wrong wheels. Wheels make all the difference.

So I see a lot of cars with bad wheels that don't look good or the wrong stance, wrong shoes.

You brought the wrong shoes to the dancing party.

Okay. Here's another good question. These are all very good questions.

You don't normally get good questions?

No, but they are. I want to know the answer. And I don't normally want to know the answer to

most of these questions. They're always dumb, like, okay, two car garage, what do you pick?

It's like that. But this, David J. Ross wants to know, how long did it take you to pick the

cars you put up for sale? That's a very good question. Did you obsess with multiple lists?

I did. I did. And of course, I'm making videos and films and all these cars have been driven

and of course that leads to, oh, am I making the right choice? Should I keep this car? I may not

find another one like this. It took time. Some were easy, like the transactional cars were easier

because I hadn't connected as much. The 310, 911 was tricky. Ironically, the 76 MFI car was tricky.

Weirdly, GT2, GT3, they were pretty easy to let go. They were easy.

So some were painstaking and others were not. But you've got to remember the ones that I'm

keeping, my other 67S, obviously 277, the 914, the 76 Turbo, the first US one ever sold,

1989, 24 Carrera GT, 964, 993, 991. Those, I'm just more connected to. So it wasn't an easy thing,

but back to what I started when I first came in, I'm mentally ready to let these things go

and then allow other things to come in. Clearer mind, clearer vision, new opportunities is where

I'm at. Right. There you go. There you have it, ladies and gentlemen. The auction is...

Arm Sotheby's online March 18th through the 25th. And will you personally guarantee, like if one of

us goes in and buys one of these cars, are you available to talk to us about it? Because that's

invaluable, right? I'm available. I just had an open house two days ago. It was overwhelming.

I mean, after, say I have the car and it's six months later and I go, I have a question.

I mean, this, to me, has been happening for 20 years. People come out to me quite often with,

I bought one of your former cars and I go, which one? And they look surprised. They don't realize

that about a hundred of them. I go, and some are more significant than others. Like my 72STR,

that's a very significant car. My 68R that lean from the Prodigy own is a significant car.

You know, the 72STR recently sold in the past year and the owner contacted me. And I built that

car in 2013, 13 years ago. And he said to me, what would you do to it? And I go, nothing,

because what I did was what I wanted to do when I owned it 13 years ago.

So you're a resource for these folks after they buy the car. They can call you and go,

here's what that is. And here's what I think we should do about it. Or here's why I changed it.

That's invaluable because a lot of stuff comes through dealers and then you never really know

that you have to track these folks down. That's sort of the difference with this collection.

And it's a great question. You know, I'm sure that these sells a lot of cars. They did the

junkyard, the spectacular, the white collection. And the difference there, though, was the people

like Rudy Klein was a great guy, but most people didn't really know who he was. Yeah.

And he's dead, right? He's dead. So that doesn't help. The white collection guy ain't talking to

anybody. So you need a medium to answer your car questions, right? Who can talk to the dead.

So the point I'm making here, though, is the cell is my cause, right? Some of them are more

significant than others. So of course, I'm going to be attached to you there. Most of them have a

title in my name. A guy not too long ago sends me an email of a title of a car that I don't in 2008

still have the title. Wow. So I'm attached to these things for a long time. He stands behind

and he stands behind it. I never said I stand behind him. I said I'm there.

All right. We're going to end it there. If you want to check it out, go to the RMSotheby's

Magnus Walker collection auction site and bid bid bid. There's a lot of stuff going up for sale.

No reserve. Don't forget. No reserve. It's going. It's going. Come and get it. Get that. I don't

which ones I've been on. I may be crazy, but I'm not stupid. It's been very good catching up with

you, my friend. Sure. We'll continue to have a lot of fun here in Southern California with

Porsche Zuckerman. Good to see you too. Thank you. And let's take a drive. Patreon subscribers.

Check it out. Magnus and I are going to take a spin in one of his cars right now. Get out and drive.

Well, don't get it killed, man.

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