Magnus Walker

Summary

The Smoking Tire Podcast: Magnus Walker Released: March 10, 2026 | Hosts: Matt Farah, Zack Klapman | Guest: Magnus Walker

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Episode Overview

This episode features renowned Porsche collector and urban outlaw Magnus Walker, discussing his massive car and memorabilia sale at Sotheby’s. In a candid, humor-filled conversation, hosts Matt Farah and Zack Klapman dive into Magnus’s motivations for “clearing out the closet,” Porsche collecting philosophy, notable cars from his collection, and a deep bench of automotive banter—including ice racing, new restomod trends, and the ever-shifting Porsche market. There’s also plenty of insight for enthusiasts about tuning, aftermarket culture, and even some tangents about British steel, watches, and travel.

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Key Discussion Points

Tire Trouble & Weather Talk (01:35)

• Magnus shares his recent streak of tire punctures on his 991 in LA, blaming urban debris and construction after heavy rains.
  • “Within one week I had two. Left side was an inch and a half blade. Right side was a wood screw by the house in the hills.” – Magnus Walker (02:24)
• The group riffs on why expensive tires seem to attract more problems: wide tires, sticky rubber, randomness.

Ice Racing Adventures (04:02)

• Matt and Magnus discuss missing each other at various Porsche events and the colorful fashion at the recent ice race, comparing fur hats to 1980s ski attire.
  • “Your coats and your hats are bar none.” – Matt (04:27)
• Details on the fat ice race in Colorado: concocted with 4.5 million gallons of water to make a snow track (07:14). VIP vs. GA tickets, value vs. exclusivity, and comparisons to The Quail.
  • “A GA ticket was like 300 bucks. A VIP ticket was three grand.” – Matt (09:25)

Magnus's Sotheby's Garage Sale: Why Now? (11:12)

• Magnus opens up about his reason “to declutter the soul, mind, and literal garage” by selling a significant chunk of his collection.
  • “It’s sort of a decluttering of my soul, my mind, the space, literally creating space for other things to come in.” – Magnus (11:56)
• Clarifies he’s not out: Selling 18 cars and keeping 15, letting go of vehicles owned 15-20 years.
• Philosopher about collecting versus hoarding, spring cleaning, and creating opportunity for new passions.

Notable Cars & Sale Philosophy (16:31)

• Deep dive into the blue Minerva Turbo, unique Outlaw wheels, and Porsche color/interior history.
• Magnus keeps cars with deep personal connections, like his first US production Turbo and his significant 924 Carrera GT.
• On setting no reserve for the Sotheby’s sale:
  • “It says I’ll let it go at this price, which means they’re not fully committed unless it achieves a certain price.” – Magnus (16:54)
• The collection includes 911s, transaxles, parts cars, and rare memorabilia.

Old vs. New Porsche – Performance Talk (20:03)

• Matt and Magnus discuss early turbo driving quirks (four-speed, turbo lag), challenges, and gear ratios.
  • “If you want to make hay and actually have fun in an early turbo…the key is just don’t short shift and look ahead.” – Magnus (21:24)
• Discussion of the 996 GT2: rarity, performance, and why Magnus is letting it go (“too nice for me,” with 90k miles but meticulously cared for).
• Comparing modern Porsche comfort and performance to earlier generations.

Modern Collecting Trends & Restomods (53:28)

• TWR Supercat: Magnus teases the return of the supercharged V12 restomod Jag, press drives coming soon.
  • “Imagine a product pre-production prototype car that’s finishing just outside the top ten…fan favorite.” – Magnus (54:14)
• Increasing space for “restomod” projects from TWR, Volvos, Gunther Werks, Totem Alfa, Evoluto Ferrari, etc.
  • “In a world of everything you’re talking about, it’s actually underpriced.” – Magnus on the value of some restomods (59:46)
• Watch content: The appeal of microbrands, function vs. “legitimate collecting,” and how style/fashion drives niche brands.

Philosophies of Collecting, Letting Go, and Value (50:08 & throughout)

• Magnus reflects on the transition from fashion industry to car collecting—letting go to foster new business and creative freedom.
• Discussion on the challenge of accumulating “stuff” and why moving on can be cathartic.
• Matt shares why his personal car collection has a hard limit (eight), even with major resources.
• “If it doesn’t get driven for...a while, let it go.” – Matt (52:23)
• Porsche market has largely plateaued; value appreciation less a motivator now.

Porsche "Outlaws" and Tuning Legacy (69:18, 82:56)

• Origins of the “outlaw” Porsche—modifying for personality, not just value.
• Discussion on tuning houses: the difference between tuners with staying power (RUF) vs. those who fade (Gemballa, Strosek). Quality, engineering depth, and heritage matter.

Audience Q&A Highlights (66:10+)

• What makes a Porsche an “outlaw”? Customization and living outside the factory spec.
• Unpopular configurations: Magnus defends the slant nose, reminisces about his first.
• Porsche alternatives: Boxster and 996 as affordable classics, but warns that bargains are quickly disappearing.

Travel, Road Trips, and UK Roads (88:55)

• Magnus shares his upcoming plans: visiting family in Sheffield, enjoying roads in the Peak District.
• Reflections on the charm of the UK’s roundabout-heavy rural roads versus LA’s stop–and–go bustle.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Decluttering: “It’s sort of a decluttering of my soul, my mind, the space, literally creating space for other things to come in.” – Magnus Walker (11:56)
• On No Reserve Sales: “When people put a reserve on something to me, it says I’ll let it go at this price, which means they’re not fully committed unless it achieves a certain price.” – Magnus Walker (16:54)
• On Early Turbo Porsches: “The key is just don’t short shift and look ahead.” – Magnus Walker (21:33)
• On Comfort With Letting Go: “It’s taking me a long time to get to that point of being comfortable letting it go.” – Magnus Walker (52:24)
• On Outlaw Culture: “People have been outlawing Porsches since the James Dean days...there’s nothing new about that.” – Magnus Walker (69:18)
• On the TWR Supercat: “It drives away from you...that’s one of the best angles you can have.” – Magnus Walker (55:18)
• On UK Roads: “Spectacular. Really? That is a pretty good spot to drive around there.” – Magnus Walker (90:34)
• On Affordable Porsches: “There’s a Porsche for every price point. Right. Entry level’s got to be a Boxster.” – Magnus Walker (86:00)

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Important Timestamps & Segments

• 01:35 — Magnus talks tire woes in LA
• 04:00–10:24 — Ice race/Colorado adventure, ticket costs, motorsport event culture
• 11:12–12:26 — Magnus's philosophy on letting go and decluttering
• 16:31–18:49 — Blue Turbo, Outlaw wheels, color history
• 20:03–22:26 — Early turbo Porsche quirks and gear strategies
• 29:49–33:13 — 996 GT2, modern Porsche comfort, and market pricing
• 43:20–49:26 — Memorabilia lots, rare items (Red Bull fridge, 919 Evo Hybrid scale model)
• 50:08–53:13 — Magnus's career/life transitions, creative reinvention
• 53:28–56:55 — TWR Supercat and restomod market discussion
• 66:10+ — Audience Q&A (watches, affordable Porsche alternatives, Outlaw concept)
• 88:55–91:54 — Upcoming travel, UK car culture, and road recommendations

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Summary & Takeaways

• Magnus Walker’s RM Sotheby’s sale marks both a physical and mental reboot for an iconic car enthusiast. Far from quitting, Walker’s moving on from possessions that no longer serve his journey, choosing to keep those tied to significant milestones.
• Porsche collecting isn’t just about value — it’s about connection, experience, and, increasingly, asking what’s next after “completing” a collection.
• Restomod culture is thriving, offering fresh pathways for classic car enjoyment as traditional values plateau.
• Letting go and adapting: Both hosts and guest encourage listeners to enjoy their cars now, and not be afraid to declutter when passions or the market shifts.
• Outlaw car culture is alive and well, driven by creativity, history, and the joy of making a Porsche your own.
• The podcast’s free-wheeling style mixes deep car knowledge, wit, British/American banter, and authentic insight—delivering value to both hardcore fans and casual listeners alike.

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For Magnus’s full Sotheby’s collection (March 18th–25th), memorabilia, and a chance to start your own Urban Outlaw project, visit RM Sotheby’s online. If you grab the Red Bull fridge, Matt wants to know.

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“It’s taken time for me to get to this point of letting things go. And it’s sort of a decluttering of my soul, my mind, the space…” – Magnus Walker (11:56)

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Transcript

[Matt Farah]

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[Magnus Walker]

I don't know about you, but I'm on a record with my991 outside, I'm now up to maybe six punctures. Rocks. Yeah. Last week was two weeks ago. This time on a Friday in downtown LA. I get a knife blade maybe inch and a half. No way through the rear at three o' clock by Pershing Square. And you know, instantly zero tire pressure, so I can't plug it, won't hold air. So of course I gotta call AAA.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Magnus Walker]

Get towed to downtown. Downtown LA. Porsche. It's a 700 tire.

[Matt Farah]

I bet it is like a run flat too.

[Magnus Walker]

Of course not. Of course it's not a run flat. They don't stock them, so you gotta order it.

[Matt Farah]

Are those. Is this your. Is this the largest rim size you've ever owned on a car? These like 20s or 21s?

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah, that's exactly it.

[Matt Farah]

And have you had the most punctures of any car you've ever.

[Magnus Walker]

Whether it's a blade, a knife, a rock, I've probably literally had half a dozen. Within one week I had two. Left side was an Inch and a half blade. Right side was a wood screw by the house in the hills.

[Matt Farah]

That's tough.

[Magnus Walker]

So it's either potholes, rocks, or just debris screws.

[Matt Farah]

Well, I'll tell you what, after is after the rains, too. Because after the rains, you know what happens? Like people who are doing, like construction on their houses and shit, right? It just floods screws and razor blades and whatever into the road.

[Magnus Walker]

So annoying.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, it's like.

[Magnus Walker]

But I don't quite understand. It's not as if I'm driving that car more than any other car, but I've had a minimum of five, if not six, always on the rear.

[Matt Farah]

Some is random luck for sure, but

[Magnus Walker]

five or six others?

[Matt Farah]

No. I mean, look, mathematically it's possible. It is possible that through sheer randomness that could happen. Unlikely.

[Magnus Walker]

Somehow it's not happening on the vintage

[Matt Farah]

Rolls Royces, but it's possible. Also the fact that even if even all other things being equal, the fact that it's the biggest rims and the widest profile tires, widest tires, that mathematically

[Magnus Walker]

sticky rubber just kicks stuff up, kicks

[Matt Farah]

it into that favor a little bit. Someone out there can make a chart for us.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

We're green, right, Zach? We're green. We exist.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

Okay, cool. Hi. Magnus Walker. How.

[Magnus Walker]

Just. Fuck.

[Matt Farah]

It's been, I don't know, a while since you were here, but I see you all. I see you socially, so it doesn't feel like it. And I just saw your Hannah. Magnus and I have matching Hannah's.

[Magnus Walker]

That's right. Different spelling.

[Matt Farah]

Different spelling.

[Magnus Walker]

Same, but different.

[Matt Farah]

Different hair color. Otherwise identical.

[Magnus Walker]

That's right.

[Matt Farah]

At the ice race.

[Magnus Walker]

Correct.

[Matt Farah]

Unfortunately, we missed you.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah, I stayed back to, you know, to do the LA Lit Week Art week, Dog and pony Porsche week show.

[Matt Farah]

Yes, same thing. Some people. Some people came here. Some people were, like, so annoyed that I wasn't here for this week for Porsche Lit Week. Yeah, a bunch of my other Miami people and whatever came in. But you have all the right winter hats, so I figured you would have been a shoe in.

[Magnus Walker]

I'm a man of many, many hats.

[Matt Farah]

Your. Your coats and your hats are bar. Bar none.

[Magnus Walker]

There did seem to be a lot of fur on display up there.

[Matt Farah]

I don't. I don't think most of it was real, to be fair. And actually, like, what was really fun about ice race costumes is you could either sort of go Richie Rich if you could afford it, you know, I could not. Or you could go, you know, sort of the Goodwood vintage car theme, which a lot of people did. And the fact that it was a little warmer made that a little easier. Or you could go like, I'm skiing in Aspen in 1988 and it's like neon.

[Magnus Walker]

This is a good look.

[Matt Farah]

That was a good look too. Really like that. So if you didn't have like a huge budget, you could go crazy with the 19.

[Magnus Walker]

Which way were you going? Were you a gentleman or were you going more radwood?

[Matt Farah]

No, I kept it pretty normal.

[Magnus Walker]

Puffer jacket.

[Matt Farah]

I have a. I have a cool parka that's like a classic team Lotus that I got at the Lotus factory a couple years ago. There it is. It's a good. It's a good green. And actually my Hannah was stoked on it because she could see me, she could find me really easy. You know, everybody was wearing those puffy blue fat Jack. You couldn't find anybody looks. This looks the same in the swag.

[Magnus Walker]

Did you have fun out there?

[Matt Farah]

I really did, dude. I really did. As, you know, contrived and pseudo commercial and hoity toity and high. All of that. I thought it was really, really fun.

[Magnus Walker]

I was really. It was fun. Was had.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, it was. It was super fun. It was beautiful. Like we. It was so many nice people.

[Magnus Walker]

And you were there in the Manx. Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

And the Manx is a good time. Of course, Philip won the weird game. I mean, Philips Manx. Did you see Philips Manx?

[Magnus Walker]

No.

[Matt Farah]

His was the one that was turned into a snowmobile with skis on the front.

[Magnus Walker]

I didn't realize that was his.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, yeah, that was. That's. That's pretty much.

[Magnus Walker]

That's sort of James Bondi.

[Matt Farah]

It was very much like a. Like a thunder. Like a thunderball bad guy.

[Magnus Walker]

I mean, it would make sense that he has Mack Daddy Manx, right?

[Matt Farah]

It's funny that I didn't. Oh, he all. I mean, he all. Why not?

[Magnus Walker]

Why not if you can, right?

[Matt Farah]

If you own the company. You must have the weirdest look at that. I mean, it's just. That's like glorious, dude.

[Magnus Walker]

That is pretty cool.

[Matt Farah]

That is apparently drove weird.

[Zach]

Yeah. I feel like it's meant for 15 miles per hour slowly path through the woods. The turns can't be too tight.

[Matt Farah]

I think if you were in like 6 inches of powder snow, it would probably actually drive pretty decent.

[Magnus Walker]

Now, I heard they trucked in. Was it 6, 600 truckfuls of snow or was it 60?

[Matt Farah]

No. So I didn't hear it in terms of trucks. I heard it in terms of gallons.

[Magnus Walker]

How many gallons of snow?

[Matt Farah]

4.5 million gallons. Of water to make the track.

[Magnus Walker]

No. No way.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, it was a lot.

[Magnus Walker]

4.5 million gallons.

[Matt Farah]

I say that it's a lot. Meanwhile, I don't know how much it takes to make a ski slope. I don't know how much it takes to keep a golf course alive. Like, maybe that's a lot, maybe it's not, but it sounds like a fucking lot.

[Magnus Walker]

It sounds like a lot of hydration.

[Matt Farah]

Sounds like a lot. And I mean, look, if you just look at the background of this photo, like, obviously there isn't enough snow. That whole back mountain should be sheer white.

[Magnus Walker]

And it is. Right. I mean, the car parks that I saw were concrete, right?

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so, I mean, it was. Look, ultimately the. The track lasted long enough. It did. It did last. The fact that it was warm meant, like it was very pleasant.

[Magnus Walker]

Got it.

[Matt Farah]

To be day drinking outdoors, you know, when you weren't driving.

[Magnus Walker]

What's the alternative if you got to go to Canada or something?

[Matt Farah]

Well, yeah. Or Austria.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah. Iceland.

[Matt Farah]

I mean, there's like what for. For ice racing? Yeah, I think they do it. Yeah. Scandinavia.

[Magnus Walker]

They do it.

[Matt Farah]

But. And this wasn't like serious. This was like a caricature of ice racing. Kind of like real ice racing is like beat up Subarus. Correct. Nobody's really watching.

[Magnus Walker]

800 horsepower. Volvo driftwagons, like got the boot or.

[Matt Farah]

I mean, or even like we went to like an actual sanctioned ice race and it was like non turbo Subaru Impreza. Ls like 7 millimeter spikes. Where was that at Lake George, New York.

[Magnus Walker]

Okay.

[Matt Farah]

Okay. Yeah.

[Zach]

There's another event we just learned about that happens two weeks before this one in Montana called the Frost and the Furious.

[Magnus Walker]

Oh. Oh, I'll let you go.

[Matt Farah]

There's actually.

[Zach]

There's some nice Porsche stuff there. Like, there's. But you can also just enter whatever for like 500 bucks for the weekend.

[Matt Farah]

Was that. Did that event spring up because Fat Ice Race was announced as coming to Montana or was that event happening already?

[Zach]

Good question. There were some carryover cars.

[Matt Farah]

Some people went to both.

[Zach]

So it was the inaugural. It was the first. First one.

[Matt Farah]

The first one. So I can't help but think that it was a more affordable alternative to fat ice rays. Do you think it's great?

[Magnus Walker]

Did anyone buy a ticket? Because the people I know that were buying tickets said it was kind of expensive. Like it was a couple of grand for a ticket.

[Matt Farah]

A GA ticket was like 300 bucks. A VIP ticket was three grand.

[Magnus Walker]

Wow.

[Matt Farah]

But you.

[Magnus Walker]

What do you get for the VIP Some swag and some pho.

[Matt Farah]

No, no, look, it was. It was unlimited food. And in my opinion, the food was better than what you'd get at, like, quail. And unlimited booze for all day. Both days. VIP section, which had a full, like, indoor area if it happened to be really cold, with the huge TVs and full bar and all the spreads, better bathrooms. I mean, it was. It was expensive, but, like, compared to, you know, divide it in half because it's one day for half that for Quail. I think you got. I think this was a better use of that same money than going to the Quail.

[Magnus Walker]

So what I'm hearing is good, is quail on ice.

[Matt Farah]

It's smaller. It's like quail, like, 10 years ago.

[Magnus Walker]

Got it.

[Matt Farah]

Like. Like, old. It's old. Fucking quail on ice.

[Zach]

There's one VIP tent, not four or five.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah. I mean, if there's four or five VIP tents, are they really VIPs?

[Zach]

International food? Kind of.

[Matt Farah]

And it was. I just thought it was a good time, like, hanging out with friends in a cool scenery with. With a semblance of motorsport happening in the background is like, motorsport.

[Magnus Walker]

Did you fly from there to the Aston Martin thing?

[Matt Farah]

No, I came home first.

[Magnus Walker]

Oh, you came home.

[Matt Farah]

I was home for, like, half a minute.

[Magnus Walker]

So you did the Aston thing first?

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, we did ask him thing here a second.

[Magnus Walker]

Oh, yeah. Okay. Wow. So you came back here, then Went back to you. Yeah. Oh, my God, you're bouncing around.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Magnus Walker]

So how are you feeling? Fuzzy a little bit.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, it's okay.

[Magnus Walker]

Like, you're in the twilight zone on a fr.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, no, it's all good, dude, but I want to talk about your.

[Magnus Walker]

The fucking.

[Matt Farah]

The Magnus Walker estate sale while I'm still alive.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah. The estate sale.

[Matt Farah]

No, is that. I mean, it's kind of crazy. Like, usually, like, people have to sell shit on Facebook, Marketplace or whatever.

[Magnus Walker]

They don't.

[Matt Farah]

They don't get to go to Sotheby's. How does that feel, that your shit goes to rm?

[Magnus Walker]

You know, these choices, Right. Could have gone to Craigslist. I mean, I've been letting things go quietly over the past few years that people don't know about. I'm in my letting things go face. You know, I'm sure you've thought about spring cleaning your closet or your garage. Right. And you put it off. You put it off. And finally you go in and you just start throwing stuff behind you.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Magnus Walker]

And then there's a moment when you look at the pile and you go Should I get rid of that? And then the smart part of your brain goes, just throw it in the black plastic bag and take it to Goodwill.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, yeah.

[Magnus Walker]

Have you been in. Have you been there?

[Matt Farah]

I have.

[Magnus Walker]

So that's where I'm at. You know, it's taken time for me to get to this point of letting things go. And it's sort of a decluttering of my soul, my mind, the space, literally creating space for other things to come in. First of all, I'm not selling everything.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Magnus Walker]

I'm selling 18 cars and keeping 15. So people think I'm selling everything. That's not the case. I'm keeping.

[Matt Farah]

That is more than 50%, though.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah. If you do the math, 18 are being sold, 15 are being kept.

[Matt Farah]

So more than half.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah. Maybe it's 60%.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Magnus Walker]

And it's things that, you know, I've owned and amassed going back to 2008, 9, 10. So 15 to 20 years, I've owned some of these cars.

[Matt Farah]

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[Magnus Walker]

And I, I'm a goal orientated collector. So these things, you know, scratch this itch of experiencing diversity within Porsche. Yeah, some of them you click more than others. You know, some of them are mildly modified, some of them are not modified at all. Some of them are more significant. Ultimately, the ones that I feel really connected to are the ones that I'm keeping and the ones that I'm letting go are the ones.

[Matt Farah]

Interestingly, I really like the blue Turbo. The blue Turbo Turbo is. I associate that car pretty closely with you.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah, the blue Turbo. It's my Subaru special. As you can see in Subi colors. That car is pretty unique. I acquired that in 2013. That is the original first set of Outlaw wheels. Click on that. So that's the car we debuted the Outlaw wheel on in 2014. And that's the very first set of Outlaw wheels ever made. But at one time I owned seven 3 liter turbos. Yeah, I was acquiring them when they were really affordable. And no two do the same thing the same way. They're all same, but different, you know, and this one's nice, it's rowdy. But I'm keeping the other 76, which is the first US production Turbo sold.

[Matt Farah]

Which color is that?

[Magnus Walker]

The silver. The first one I bought is the first US production turbo ever sold. Looks just like that, but it's silver. But that one's a Euro turbo Sunroof. Delete. It's got a rarely late hooligan exhaust on it. With it being a Euro turbo, it's a little bit more powerful.

[Matt Farah]

It's a good color combo. I really just like that that early. I'm not personally into early turbos. I don't even really like any of the turbos except until you get to like 89 with a five speed. They're just not my vibe, mainly because of the four speed box. But. But this one, the color combo brings me around.

[Magnus Walker]

This is interesting because it's been repainted in a slightly different shade of the original Minerva blue. But it's a Swiss delivery car with a white interior. So you go Swiss is normally sort of reserved. Right. You know, in today's world, those are not the original seats, but I changed those because the original white seats were just too much. But if you think about today's world of. If you scroll through the photos of it about people getting all excited about paint to sample color combos, you know, this Minerva blue with a white interior is kind of an oddball color for a generation when paint to sample wasn't the big deal that it is now

[Matt Farah]

A full white interior in 76 in Switzerland. In Switzerland means cocaine and skiing. Just skiing.

[Magnus Walker]

I mean, this is the fat ice race car circa 1976.

[Matt Farah]

This would be this.

[Zach]

Oh, that's awesome.

[Matt Farah]

This is. Yeah, I like this.

[Magnus Walker]

I mean, the interesting thing about white seats.

[Matt Farah]

Does it come with the white seats?

[Magnus Walker]

The white seats. The interesting thing about this car though is if you go to that shot on the 6th Street Bridge, one of my favorite Larry Chen shots right there or the one one next to it, that's actually a shot from 2014 when we debuted the wheels.

[Matt Farah]

And to me, G Larry Chen.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah. Well, that's the old six. Sweet bridge. Not even the new one.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, yeah.

[Magnus Walker]

But that car, to me doesn't look 50 years old. It's like a timeless silhouette.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. I mean, it helps that, like that's sort of the beginning of the bumper style that went on for the next, you know, 13 years.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah. That G body, you know, the turbo, came out in 75. I used to have two of those and continued to 89 and didn't really look any different other than people getting excited about, oh, it's got a five speed.

[Matt Farah]

The once I drove an 89 with a five speed, I was like, oh, this is my shit right here.

[Magnus Walker]

I mean, the Achilles hill with these early cars is, as you know, tall gear ratios. Yeah. First gear is 50 seconds, like 90 thirds, 120 and first.

[Matt Farah]

And for me personally, something, pardon the pun, grinds my gears about downshifting to first.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah. Pins, you gotta do that all the time.

[Matt Farah]

I know, it's fucking weird, man.

[Magnus Walker]

In any of the 911, you rolling into a turn at 20 in second, let's say, flip the throttle, give it a bit of gas, clutch in and away you go. In this, you got to go to first gear.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Magnus Walker]

So you got to recalibrate all your driving style. So imagine you're on the freeway doing 60 and you happen to be in fourth. Right. Like 2000 RPM miles away from any boost. Yeah. In the 930, what you got to do is you go to second gear on the freeway at 60. Now, does that seem awkward?

[Matt Farah]

Yes.

[Magnus Walker]

So strange if you want to have any resemblance of acceleration. Yeah. You cannot short shift in these cars.

[Matt Farah]

Alloy roof. Had this very same conversation in 1985. He went, do you know?

[Magnus Walker]

Well, he had the five speed. Big problem.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. He was way ahead of Porsche, did the five speed.

[Magnus Walker]

Right.

[Matt Farah]

And then the six feet with the yellow bird.

[Magnus Walker]

Because it's the gear ratios is the 1. Yeah, 2. The boost comes on way late and it's a short window of boost.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Magnus Walker]

They're done at 5500, like 6000rpm. You're done like a diesel. And then. Yeah. And then you sort of factor in inadequate brakes because these are non power assisted brakes. Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

So they're, they're a handful.

[Magnus Walker]

You really have to think if you want to make hay and actually have fun in an early turbo. The key is just don't short shift and look ahead.

[Matt Farah]

Right.

[Magnus Walker]

That's the key.

[Matt Farah]

The motors are like, they'll take the revs though. They're. They're stout.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah. I Mean, it's interesting that Porsche put a four speed in it because there's plenty of 300 horsepower 911s with a 915. Yeah. So it's not as if this four spe transmission couldn't handle more power.

[Matt Farah]

I.

[Magnus Walker]

And they do kind of feel heavy and sluggish and track to light when you're off boost.

[Matt Farah]

Why did they. Was there a. Was there a performance decision for it?

[Magnus Walker]

Why do they think Porsche back in the day thought they were going to be having transmission issues with this amount of power. Yeah. But obviously that's not really the case.

[Matt Farah]

Still. That color combo fucking rocks. And it has like.

[Magnus Walker]

Like it's been lowered. It's got a wider wheel on it. Those are eights and nines. You know, the stance is good on that car.

[Matt Farah]

Sidewalls, it's kind of heavy steering because you got wide wheels and a.

[Magnus Walker]

Of course, yeah.

[Matt Farah]

You know, unless it's a little smaller steering wheel. Yeah, it's probably got a real big steering wheel on it back in the day.

[Magnus Walker]

That's got a 350 millimeter steering wheel on it.

[Matt Farah]

What's your. Is that your preferred diameter for 911s? You put that on all of them?

[Magnus Walker]

Pretty much. Because that's sort of the Momo Pratipo. Like, to me, 370 is too big and you want something like a mod 7 is the perfect wheel because it's got the dish on it or you got to put a hub extender on it to get the wheel away from the dash.

[Matt Farah]

The Mod 7 is just the prototypo with like a bit of offset deep dish.

[Magnus Walker]

Right.

[Matt Farah]

Is that what's on this one? I think that's what's on this one.

[Magnus Walker]

Go back and see what's on it.

[Matt Farah]

I think I did the prototypo with the offset hub.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah, that's the way to go with the space.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Magnus Walker]

So the 18 cars break down to 8, 9, 11, 2 parts cars and then 8 transaxle cars. All right, you're getting.

[Matt Farah]

Do you keeping any transaxle cars?

[Magnus Walker]

I'm keeping my 924 Carrera GT.

[Matt Farah]

Okay. That's a good one.

[Magnus Walker]

I'm keeping my first 928, which is a 78. So I'm keeping cars that are significant to me. Yeah, I'm keeping the alt cars. The 964, 993, 277, 914.

[Matt Farah]

Okay. Oh, yeah, that's the offset.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah. That's what.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, good, good choice is. Would you do. Do you say never say never. Do you say permanent collection about it only just the two.

[Magnus Walker]

Definitely. Maybe, right? Yeah, definitely maybe. Never say never. I mean, for me, you know, it's. When I look at this wall, part of one of the things I've realized is if you go up, I've got a lot of silver cars. You know, if you look here, 1, 2, 3. Go down. 4.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Magnus Walker]

5. I think these six silver cars. Like how did I end up with all these silver cars? You know? So now I'm starting to look for, you know, you let things go and I'm already thinking, you know, I've never owned a 356. You know, I always used to joke

[Matt Farah]

I wasn't sure you probably should have that. I think you could. So this is a possible upward consolidation.

[Magnus Walker]

I don't even know what. Upward consolidation.

[Matt Farah]

That's when you sell fucking 18 cars and buy one super banger.

[Magnus Walker]

No, no, no, no. It's never going to know. I'm still the bargain hunter, you know,

[Matt Farah]

that's probably how you've ended up with all the silver cars.

[Magnus Walker]

Sure. If.

[Matt Farah]

If the price is better than the color, that's how you end up with silver cars.

[Magnus Walker]

I've never chased color. Yeah, I chase cars and if they come in color, you know, like that 924 Turbo. Click on that.

[Matt Farah]

But you also change color.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah. I mean I had my own personality to it, but that car's bone stock, the way it left the factory. And it's got a pasha interior.

[Matt Farah]

I like the posh interior.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah, I mean that's sort of a unique.

[Matt Farah]

Pretty much the only thing I like about a 924 Turbo. But respect.

[Magnus Walker]

924, 944. The best of the bunch, I've discovered is a 968. Three liter, bigger engine, more bottom end, less rattly. Better build quality. The end of the era. More 993 compared to.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, they're not.

[Magnus Walker]

They're pretty nice, you know.

[Matt Farah]

Although I drove. I. You know, in Germany when I went on the launch of something, they let us drive some classic stuff from their museum. And I drove a 968 cab.

[Magnus Walker]

Oh, okay.

[Matt Farah]

And it was a. It felt real heavy.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

But I imagine it was probably 500 pounds heavier than the coupe. And I do like a 968 though. Those club sports.

[Magnus Walker]

Well, that's the one to get the club sport or one of those rare turbo S's. I saw one was cropping up on Amelia today.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Magnus Walker]

You know, they claimed or someone was hinting around that, that I guess he made 15 of them. The turbo S. Was estimated a million bucks.

[Matt Farah]

Get out of here. No, thanks.

[Magnus Walker]

These are all no reserves. These are all no reserves. So, you know, this could be a bargain.

[Matt Farah]

Full no reserve.

[Magnus Walker]

This is how committed I am to letting things go.

[Matt Farah]

I love the no reserve.

[Magnus Walker]

When people put a reserve on something to me, it says I'll let it go at this price. Which means they're not fully committed unless it achieves a certain price.

[Matt Farah]

I tell people this because we, we help people sell their cars here.

[Magnus Walker]

I saw it downstairs.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. Dave was down there doing one and we got a really cool. We got actually a few going right now. People are always like, what should I do for reserve? What should I do for reserve? And I go, look, if you put a reserve and the auction ends and it doesn't, we do everything right, but it doesn't hit reserve. Are you happy? Cause you didn't have to take a low number or are you annoyed?

[Magnus Walker]

Right. You didn't let it do.

[Matt Farah]

Because the car was mentally gone and now it's still here. Nine times out of ten they go, I'm annoyed. I go, then let's go, no reserve. We're going to get you market price. We're going to get eyeballs on this thing as best we can and you'll get. And the car will be gone.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah, I mean that's how these are. These have got an estimate based on market price.

[Matt Farah]

Sure.

[Magnus Walker]

So there's sort of a price point out of those 18 cars for everyone. Whether it's an entry level, let's say 944na or whether it's a GT2, the sort of the spectrum of entry level versus non entry level.

[Matt Farah]

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[Magnus Walker]

It's. It's almost go to that car because I think what it is is it's too nice for me.

[Matt Farah]

Sure.

[Magnus Walker]

It's in too good a condition. It's a lifelong LA car. I'm the third owner. It had never been out of la. Other than the wheels that are on it, which are not stock, it's all original. I've never modified it. The interesting thing about this car is 25 years ago, this was king of the hill. 992 GT GT2. 454 horsepower. Yeah. 996 GT2 Porsche like that for the USA. They only made 184 of them.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Magnus Walker]

184. There's more Carrera GTS out there than GT2s, but for some reason, you know, it's a great daily. And what's staggering to me is 454 horsepower, two wheel drive manual. Right. Today you can get a 992.2 C2 manual with about the same horsepower.

[Zach]

Right?

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah. Which is one step above entry level in the Porsche World Ranger of flavor.

[Matt Farah]

But on a car that's probably 400 pounds heavier and, and with more sophisticated electronics.

[Magnus Walker]

Correct.

[Matt Farah]

These things are pretty raw dog, Brad. Yeah, these, these things ripped.

[Zach]

I mean they're very fast. The estimate for this auction is like 125 to 150. And I just think like, that seems low for. How rare.

[Matt Farah]

Does this have a lot of miles on it?

[Magnus Walker]

It's got 90, 000 miles.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, that's why, I mean that's like. Not that that's like, you know, that just affects it. But I love that it's black tan.

[Magnus Walker]

Well, if you look at the interior, that peanut butter leather interior single thing, the CD cover vents, the AC vents, even check out the headliner. Yeah, everything on that car is leather interior. So it's actually a pretty well optioned three owner car.

[Matt Farah]

It's a really cool car. I mean, look, if someone this. The good thing about this is, I mean, lucky, lucky you because of the car's connection to you now. And it happens to be a super cool combo. Like the story outweighs the mileage and you could get a relative bargain compared to some museum grade thing.

[Magnus Walker]

I mean, to me mileage is irrelevant. The perfect example is a car I drove here. Almost 206,000 miles. I think it's 205886 or something. And I bought that with 159,000 miles on it. So to me the value is on a high mileage car because the majority of people don't want a high mileage car.

[Matt Farah]

And usually one of these gets to high mileage is because a fastidious owner is. You're not buying a fucking GT2. Look at the Canadian putting 60,000 miles on it without servicing it.

[Magnus Walker]

Look at the Canadian guy who's got a million kilometers on his 76 Turbo.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, I've read that about that guy.

[Magnus Walker]

I've met him.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, yeah.

[Magnus Walker]

Million kilometers by my mouth, that's like 700,000 miles. So 90,000 miles on this is like nothing.

[Matt Farah]

The only, I mean the I, that doesn't. The powertrain and all that shit doesn't bother me at all. The only thing for me, I have a sensitive fucking back. So I, I need a good seat.

[Magnus Walker]

Got it.

[Matt Farah]

I need like a nice newish seat. Otherwise it hurts the drive.

[Magnus Walker]

Well, that's what I keep going back to this991. I'm on like a broken record with it. Hannah and I drove it to Denver for Christmas. Yeah, that's five states. It's 10, 50 miles in one day. We didn't get out of that. The bike wasn't aching, knees weren't numb, ears weren't ringing.

[Matt Farah]

18 ways they hold up. 18 ways are.

[Magnus Walker]

I wouldn't want to do that in the 996 GT3.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. No.

[Magnus Walker]

Thousand miles in a day.

[Matt Farah]

No.

[Magnus Walker]

You kind of feel a little beat up right away.

[Matt Farah]

So Zach and I did it in. In the. The 992 Turbo S also. And that's.

[Magnus Walker]

That's the new one. The hybrid.

[Matt Farah]

No, we did it in the one. The DOT one, but same seats.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

Great. If it's a DOT too, that might as well be a Bentley. That is. Have you driven that yet?

[Magnus Walker]

I have.

[Matt Farah]

It's. I mean it's heavy, but as a.

[Magnus Walker]

Feels heavy.

[Matt Farah]

But as a road trip, the suspension is fabulous.

[Magnus Walker]

The Turbo S is the Swiss army knife of all 9, 11. I really think it's all you need.

[Matt Farah]

But the new one is heavy.

[Magnus Walker]

They all seem pretty heavy. It's like I can get out of my991 as much as I love it, and then I get in something like this. Yeah. And it's really apparent how heavy that is. Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

So you just have to go back. You go backwards from any 911 to any previous 911, you've gotten heavy.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah. And well, you go back to this generation996 stakes and they look really compact.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Magnus Walker]

Like you look at 991s now. 992s, GT2s. The big, wide, bulky, big wings, big diffusers, splitters, aero, all this stuff that doesn't make you any faster on the street. Right. Where most of them spend their time. Yeah. And then you go to this and it comes back to. Well, the road determines the ultimate speed. Right.

[Matt Farah]

I mean for. Yeah, for most cars. For there, there is, there is like a moral and you know, general limit of what you should be doing on the street.

[Magnus Walker]

Correct. My point being is 454 horsepower here in the GT2 versus 700 much faster

[Matt Farah]

in the new car on the road.

[Magnus Walker]

If the new car's got 50% more power, it's not going 50% quicker on the road. Maybe 10, 15, 20 max.

[Matt Farah]

It's probably. What is the. What was the Nurburgring time of this GT2? Yeah. I mean I'm sure it was something very impressive for 2002.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah. Like it came in GT4 all spanking. Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

It must have been. It must have been like mid sevens maybe.

[Magnus Walker]

Like it's great how we all go back to the benchmark of the ring right. As a lap time.

[Matt Farah]

Well. Cause I know the new Turbo S is I think a 704. Either 704 or 714, I think it's 704 is the new Turbo S. But I'm curious how much faster it is than this. It's got.

[Zach]

I think this was 740.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, that sounds right.

[Magnus Walker]

This might have been exciting when they broke eight minutes.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, I'm sure it was. And I.

[Zach]

Because New Year G2Rs beat it big up. Beat this by a full minute.

[Magnus Walker]

Wow.

[Matt Farah]

What.

[Magnus Walker]

What did the 918 do at the Nurburgring?

[Matt Farah]

Oh, I think the 918 was the first car to ever go under seven. I think it was 657.

[Zach]

Yep.

[Magnus Walker]

Wow. Yeah, that's quick. What a courage.

[Matt Farah]

I just reviewed that car recently. Crayog was set like 7:20 or something like that. But I think someone recently did a Carrera GT. 712. Someone recently did a Carrera GT on the brand new tire.

[Zach]

Oh, sorry. 712 was the new tire. Driving on new tires.

[Magnus Walker]

The new record on. On the nine.

[Matt Farah]

Nine on the Carrera GT.

[Magnus Walker]

Okay, okay.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. Bergmeister career GT new tires.

[Zach]

Back in the day, it did 728.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Magnus Walker]

Wow.

[Zach]

So a little faster than this.

[Matt Farah]

But dude, tires 728 to 712.

[Magnus Walker]

That's a big difference.

[Matt Farah]

That's a big difference. But you know, I agree that for all the differences on the track, most of them don't come into play on the road.

[Magnus Walker]

Correct.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Magnus Walker]

And most of these cars though spend the majority of their time here, I think on the street.

[Matt Farah]

Sure. And I saw you commented on my GT3RS post.

[Magnus Walker]

I still don't.

[Matt Farah]

You know, neither of us love that as a street car.

[Magnus Walker]

No, that's a classic case of me of too much of a race car for the street.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. But you know what, you go out to the fucking. Those private racetracks, you go to thermal. Them guys love those things. They love them because they want their track car to feel familiar. Like a street car. Race cars. Even for someone like me, when I got. I get the rare treat to test someone's like Le Mans car or something. It's a real treat. But that feels like alien shit. It doesn't. Next level, when you start driving and you go, okay, pedals and steering wheel and the rest are just sort of buttons that drop going to the. All right, fine. But like it's intimidating to get into a race car. It's a different mindset. Whereas a GT3RS, even if you're putting a helmet on and going to the track, it's, you know, key radio, air conditioned, sat nav.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

You know, and then, and then you know, you can drive it into dinner, it's relatable into Palm Springs.

[Zach]

I think there's a set and setting thing. Like if you took the GT3 and stripped the interior and gave it to somebody to track. Same exact car, hardware, engine, everything.

[Matt Farah]

You've just described a club sport.

[Zach]

I, I bet no cage, no nothing. I think they would probably get nervous and think, oh, I'm in a different car. This is a special thing. But it's just the interior makes them feel like they're at home in a normal vehicle.

[Matt Farah]

Well, GT4 club sports have factory air conditioning. The factory key factory gauge cluster. They're designed to feel as much as possible like a stock car. And I think that's about as. I mean that or like, like even a Miata's got a sequential now. Like even an MX5 cup has a sequence. I think that's probably the most forgiving of the track day. Maybe the new Mustang.

[Magnus Walker]

The dark horse gtd.

[Matt Farah]

No, no, that. Well, the GTD is a big bleh. But as far as like race cars, the dark horse R is very approachable and friendly and it's like even easier to do things with than the street car car. Like auto rev matching is like a giant toggle switch on, off. Like it's very, very straightforward. It's guys kind of racing with that is kind of.

[Zach]

All right.

[Magnus Walker]

Anyway, Dark horse Mustang, what was the

[Matt Farah]

last Mustang you drove?

[Magnus Walker]

Oh boy, I don't remember.

[Matt Farah]

I didn't bring home a GTD for work.

[Magnus Walker]

No, she hadn't had one yet.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, I'm surprised.

[Magnus Walker]

And we've been around, you know, my, my buddy Cam Ingram's racing with, with Ford Mustang with Jim Farley actually. That's the pro. Yeah, he's racing now.

[Matt Farah]

That's what they're driving.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah, yeah. And he loves it, you know, completely different to when he's, you know, going up Pike's peak in his Porsche.

[Matt Farah]

But they're that. I actually drove Jim's dark horse for road and track. I drove his personal car. It's incredibly friendly.

[Magnus Walker]

He seems a very friendly, very cool, down to earth dude.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, Jim, yeah. Yeah, he is. I meant the car. But also Jim is.

[Magnus Walker]

But as a person he seems, he's pretty approachable.

[Matt Farah]

He's pretty mellow.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah, he seems pretty mellow.

[Matt Farah]

We were just obviously at ice race and we went to Rivian's party and no judgment, just pure facts. RJ Scaringe, the CEO of, had private security with him at the party and I was like, okay, I guess whatever. But Jim doesn't I was at a thing with Jim for hours that the public could just get into if he did. They were the most invisible security I've ever seen. Seen. But he. I. I don't think he did.

[Magnus Walker]

I guess Rs at a different level.

[Matt Farah]

I don't know.

[Magnus Walker]

A lot of fun boys out there.

[Matt Farah]

I don't know.

[Zach]

A lot of Tesla. People are upset.

[Matt Farah]

I'm not talking. I hope they don't get mad at me saying that. But like, it was real obvious. Like, I thought that was like a little odd.

[Magnus Walker]

What was his security wearing? The fat jacket or were they in fur or. Or just the.

[Matt Farah]

No, it was FBI stuff. Turtleneck, athletic wear.

[Magnus Walker]

Athletic. So they're in lycra, Is that what you're saying?

[Matt Farah]

No, no clothes.

[Zach]

But, like, I wouldn't with these dudes.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

Fanny pack earpiece. Fanny pack earpiece.

[Magnus Walker]

That's pretty good luck. So where you off to next?

[Matt Farah]

We're going sailing, bro.

[Magnus Walker]

This weekend?

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, we're leaving Sunday night.

[Magnus Walker]

Where you going?

[Matt Farah]

British Virgin Islands. We rented a boat.

[Zach]

You're all there.

[Matt Farah]

Going sailing.

[Magnus Walker]

British Virgin Islands. How big of a boat is it? A ship?

[Matt Farah]

No, it's a 50 foot catamaran. It's us and our ladies and my sister in law and our friend Tim.

[Magnus Walker]

How long are you on the water for?

[Matt Farah]

9 days.

[Magnus Walker]

How far offshore are you going?

[Matt Farah]

Not that far. It's a small, pretty small grouping of islands.

[Magnus Walker]

This is not like one of those reality shows.

[Matt Farah]

It's like. It's like a two or three hour sail between each island.

[Magnus Walker]

Okay. Okay.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. It's no big deal.

[Zach]

Is the best way to visit a tropical place.

[Matt Farah]

Yes.

[Zach]

Like period, by far. With you.

[Matt Farah]

But you don't have to unpack every day.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Magnus Walker]

So what are you packing for this trip? I mean, is it Speedos and sunblock and Hawaiian shirts?

[Matt Farah]

I'm gonna be in the nude. Everybody.

[Magnus Walker]

Free bowling. Full hanging.

[Zach]

Yeah. He's learning to let things go.

[Matt Farah]

No, it's. I mean, look, I don't know what you would pack for a Caribbean trip like this.

[Magnus Walker]

Hannah and I have got a no cruise policy, you know?

[Matt Farah]

This isn't a cruise.

[Zach]

Well, would you snorkel in the hat is the question.

[Matt Farah]

It's our boat.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

There's no other people on the boat besides us.

[Magnus Walker]

If I could snorkel in the hat, I would snorkel in the hat. You need one of those things. Like Jacques Cousteau, right? Yeah. You need one of those things.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Magnus Walker]

No, the.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. I don't know what you would wear on this particular trip, but for me I'm bringing six bathing suits and a bunch of T shirts.

[Magnus Walker]

Quite a lot. 6.

[Matt Farah]

And a pair of fucking non marking crocs for my boat shoes. I'm gonna look corny as hell.

[Magnus Walker]

But where do you fly to?

[Matt Farah]

Tortola.

[Magnus Walker]

Where's that?

[Matt Farah]

It's where the air, the big. It's the biggest island in the British version. It's where like things are and then all the other islands are like little islands that around it and you basically just do a lap.

[Magnus Walker]

So this is decompression time.

[Matt Farah]

Hell yes.

[Magnus Walker]

Yes.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Magnus Walker]

You're going on Sunday.

[Matt Farah]

So look, so you start, you start in other islands and then you circle around all the other islands.

[Magnus Walker]

Other islands?

[Matt Farah]

Yes. That's literally how it works. Yes. You go to all the other islands.

[Magnus Walker]

Well, send us a postcard.

[Matt Farah]

It's going to be, it's going to be all right.

[Magnus Walker]

That's pretty cool.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. Whereby. Where are you going going? What is, what are the date of this auction by the way?

[Magnus Walker]

March 18th through the 25th. The only RM syllabes online. It's an online auction, all right. I mean the only thing that matters is the 25th. Now if you want some fun, just scroll through and you'll see the parts and memorabilia.

[Matt Farah]

Oh yeah, a lot of stuff.

[Magnus Walker]

Forget about the cars. So it's 18 cars and 100. Well, click on that one. The urban outlaw starter kit. This might be my favorite.

[Matt Farah]

So everything you need to start? Pretty much 911 sport purpose build, some assembly required.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

Is 68 911L. You get a 911S fiberglass front bumper, a 911R styled Louver quarter windows. You get a long block, you get a gearbox, you get wheels, mini lights, steering wheels. It says sneakers. Yeah. All right. I mean choose a color and fucking assemble.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah, don't even choose a color. Just weld on some fenders and leave it as is. Kind of like a harlequin patina car.

[Matt Farah]

That's pretty cool.

[Magnus Walker]

Build yourself a little hot rod, you know, two liter engine.

[Matt Farah]

That looks pretty cool.

[Zach]

22 year old's gonna buy this.

[Magnus Walker]

Click on those photos because this is the one I'm kind of most excited about. This is very cool because there's a lot of cool things that go with it right here.

[Matt Farah]

I like the idea of this. This is pretty rad.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah. No one I don't think has really done something to this level.

[Zach]

Where did you have this like had you collected these parts because you intended to build something new?

[Magnus Walker]

I kind of had, yeah. You know, I wanted to do a Car. And I may still do it where it was all. You know, I'm known for mismatched color blocking, but it's painful paint. But you look at that deck lid and you look at that front hood, just click on one of those close ups of the front hood and you go, wow, this has got such great patina.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Magnus Walker]

You can't really duplicate that. Yeah. So the goal here would just be like a Harlequin parts car that fit

[Matt Farah]

this 60s you drove of Marcos.

[Zach]

But yeah, this has a lot more colors, but yeah.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

So that's pretty cool.

[Magnus Walker]

That's one fun little thing. And then I'm letting go 144. Lots of parts and memory. So that is everything from bumpers to fenders to doors to gauges to what is the most.

[Matt Farah]

The most unique and cool individual item of memorabilia.

[Magnus Walker]

Scroll down, keep scrolling. We'll see. There's a Red Bull fridge, which is kind of cool. That's pretty cool. That right there. The 919 Evo Hybrid Limited Edition model. Yeah. So that's a click on that. That's a big scale. Porsche made 500 of those. And that's number 277.

[Zach]

Is this the newest car you own?

[Magnus Walker]

It's the newest model I own. Own. You know, that was a gift from Porsche Motorsport. So that's kind of unique. You know, there's a GT3RS pistol that's

[Matt Farah]

kind of do like the Red Bull fridge.

[Magnus Walker]

Click on the Red Bull fridge.

[Matt Farah]

I like the Red Bull fridge. It looks like a gas pump.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah, the Red Bull fridge is kind of cool.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Magnus Walker]

You know all this stuff, like I say is no reserve, so I'm sort

[Matt Farah]

of dollars on that.

[Magnus Walker]

Well, there you go.

[Matt Farah]

For sure. I'm gonna get a bit in. Keep going. I've got some signs, we got some helmets, a bunch of steering wheels.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah, keep going.

[Matt Farah]

All right. I like, I like a lot of. We got car. We got random assortments.

[Magnus Walker]

Pistons and silver wheels.

[Matt Farah]

Wristwatch collection, pair of driving gloves. All right.

[Magnus Walker]

You know, suspension components.

[Matt Farah]

Sure.

[Magnus Walker]

There's a whole bunch of stuff that.

[Matt Farah]

God, you got a lot of.

[Zach]

Was this all somewhere in your downtown spot or was like. Did you have a container?

[Magnus Walker]

No, I had like a 40 foot pallet rack that went 12ft high that I would just stash stuff on. Dude. Here. So sort of having space is a blessing and a curse, cuz you end up sort of just filling stuff.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Magnus Walker]

So this is a cleansing thing for me, you know.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. What do you need any of this for?

[Magnus Walker]

Well, yeah, that's kind of where I'M at.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Magnus Walker]

RM Sotheby's had six guys for seven days, split into three teams. One was parts, one was memorabilia. The cars were the easy bit.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Magnus Walker]

But here's the funny part to the story. So I've been having this stuff in storage on this pallet rack 40ft long for maybe 25, five years. And they came in and they said, okay, we're gonna start making piles. Stuff that we're gonna sell.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Magnus Walker]

Stuff that we can scrap. Like, for some reason, I'm keeping those old brake rotors, like, somehow I'm gonna use.

[Matt Farah]

Taken off.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah. The ones I've taken off that are used, I'm not throwing them away. So there's a pile of scrap.

[Matt Farah]

Fine line between collecting and hoarding.

[Magnus Walker]

This is the fun part to the story. So I end up with one van full of scrap, which is old exhaust that are rusted out mufflers and head headers and calipers and stuff like that. So I take that to the scrap yard, and it's 5 cents a pound.

[Matt Farah]

Okay.

[Magnus Walker]

So for a van full of scrap, I got $136.

[Matt Farah]

All right.

[Magnus Walker]

Then I had.

[Matt Farah]

Hell, yeah, bro.

[Magnus Walker]

Two vans full of old carpet, rubber mats, old door weather trim and things that I thought I was going to use.

[Matt Farah]

Asbestos.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah. Of course. Lead paint and stuff like that. So those two vans full of junk I had to pay to dump at the landfill. That cost me 200 bucks to dump them. So I'm already like, you know.

[Zach]

So you're $63.

[Magnus Walker]

I'm down $64 already.

[Matt Farah]

Dude, when we dug the basement for this building and you had to. We had to, like, pay to get rid of the dirt and stuff like that. Oh, my God.

[Magnus Walker]

So, yeah.

[Matt Farah]

How many steering wheels do you have? Jesus, dude.

[Magnus Walker]

That are split into, you know, various laws. You know, they're all sort of 70s and 80s Momo steering wheels.

[Zach]

I mean, the fact you have enough steering wheels that you can't sell them one at a time. You're selling them in batches.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Magnus Walker]

And these are no reserve.

[Matt Farah]

Do these all come on donor cars?

[Magnus Walker]

Pretty much, yeah. You know, I've got my own Momo steering wheel. I like the Mod 7. A lot of these would have, like, a Momo Monte Carlo with the thumb grip, which I don't like.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, yeah.

[Magnus Walker]

So it just.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Magnus Walker]

I'm not about combination. And then long blocks.

[Matt Farah]

Now we've got carbs and long blocks,

[Magnus Walker]

pumps and carburetors and, you know, there's a little bit of something for everyone here.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, Bosch. Mfi pump I've been looking for one.

[Magnus Walker]

There you go. Click on that. Because the photos are pretty cool.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. Whoever did your, your photos for these, these are the RM guys. They are, they're pretty nice looking photos. They your. Well, it doesn't hurt that your fucking business was like locations for shoes.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Magnus Walker]

I mean it's kind of photogenic. But you got to remember I'm the guy that never had an infantry. I didn't know what I had on this shelf. Yeah. And everywhere else. So they had to build these lots, make an infantry, assign a lot number. It took a long time.

[Matt Farah]

Plus you're building also for sale and you got to get this.

[Magnus Walker]

Well, actually took it off the market. You did. I took it off the market. So that, that'll be next. You know, I've got this 125 year old building that's 26,000 square feet that, you know, if I, if I don't need it for 30 or 40 cars, I really don't need it for 15.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, yeah.

[Magnus Walker]

But time will tell us to where I'm going. And you know, I've been here before though. I've been in this position when I close. Serious.

[Matt Farah]

So many seats. Yeah, yeah. So you did, you did you. What it like was this, was this

[Magnus Walker]

exactly the same process, the same thing. I closed Serious Clothing down, which is my wholesale clothing company, retail stores as well in 2011, but I really should have closed it down in 2008.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Magnus Walker]

I'd lost passion for it. Things were sort of not what they used to be. And at that time I didn't know what was going to come next. But I knew through the film location business I had a security blanket of I want to be able to pay the mortgage. What came next though was Damian Moscovich's film Urban Outlaw that came out in 2012. So the past 15 years of my life, I've been sort of traveling around doing car related stuff. If I still had a day job, which was a clothing company with a dozen employees, I would never have had that freedom to go do that. And to me, at that moment in my life 15 years ago, success meant being able to do whatever you want to do when you want to do it. So why am I running this business which I no longer love. Right. And I'm no longer passionate about designing clothing. Ironically, 15 years later, I've come full circle. I'm sort of going in that direction.

[Matt Farah]

Sure.

[Magnus Walker]

Because I feel creative in that direction.

[Matt Farah]

Well, and are you, I mean, and do you feel like you've sort of like hit the wall of Porsche.

[Magnus Walker]

I don't know if I've hit the wall, but these things don't mean what they did 20 years ago. And I'm ready to experience something new. You know, people identify me as various things. You know, crazy hat guy, aren't you Rob Zombie or you're that Porsche guy. Right. Well, in reality, I'm all of those, but that doesn't define who I am. And it's like when I travel. You travel a lot? I don't have keys on me. You know, I'm not racing back to go drive some of these cars. And at that point I realized I don't really need them.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. Yeah. Well, I. Hannah and I.

[Magnus Walker]

You seem pretty good at letting things go. You seem to rotate.

[Matt Farah]

We just have a hard limit, dude, which is. Is what it's like. It's not like we sat down and went, okay, here's gonna be the limit. But we have found over our. The last five, six years that eight is all. Because with press cars too, and travel, fucking forget it. So 8, I mean, and that's. Don't like. I understand that 8 is extremely gratuitous in the grand scheme of car collecting. I know how fucking ridiculous that sounds. But even given the enormous resources that I have to take care of this shit, a literal staff. 8 is 2. 8 is right. So if it doesn't get driven for

[Magnus Walker]

a while, let it go.

[Matt Farah]

Fuck, it's gotta go.

[Magnus Walker]

It's taking me a long time to get to that point of being comfortable letting it go.

[Matt Farah]

Well, but for you also. Cause you bought a bunch of these cars at the right time. And so they have for most of this time, where you've been, the you that most of us know, you had a warehouse full of appreciating assets. Now, they're still appreciating, but in general, many of these cars have leveled off, Correct? Yeah. So if they're just weighing you down and they're not. Line go up. Yeah. Hell yeah.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah. I mean, for. The value for me was never actually part of it, even though I'm on the right side of it.

[Matt Farah]

But if you have too many to drive, you can at least go, well, they're increasing in value, so they're worth keeping. Sure. But if that's not happening now, it's like, well, how many can I fit into my calendar anyway?

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah, I mean, the garage is pretty tight. There's no room to let other things in. You know, we're currently in our vintage Rolls Royce phase.

[Matt Farah]

And they say.

[Magnus Walker]

And they take up a lot of room.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

Didn't see any Rolls and Jags in there.

[Magnus Walker]

We're not selling any Rolls and Jags, we're keeping them.

[Matt Farah]

Speaking of which, can we talk about TWR super cat?

[Magnus Walker]

The super CAD is coming back. I know you're gonna ask me.

[Matt Farah]

I want to drive it. We're getting ready to drive it.

[Magnus Walker]

I'm still on the program. We're delivering the first customer car which is going to be happening in May.

[Matt Farah]

Is it. Oops, sorry. Is it coming to America?

[Magnus Walker]

It's coming to America.

[Matt Farah]

Hel.

[Magnus Walker]

So we know.

[Matt Farah]

Do I know who's buying it?

[Magnus Walker]

I don't know if you do. Okay.

[Matt Farah]

All right.

[Magnus Walker]

But you know they're working on a right hand drive version which will be for England and other places in the world. But that exact car is coming back in May to do all the press drives that it never did 18 months ago.

[Matt Farah]

All right, cool.

[Magnus Walker]

So you know they fine tuned number

[Matt Farah]

at Goodwood, didn't it?

[Magnus Walker]

This car was sub 56 seconds finished in 11th position. Now as you know a lot of people show cars at Goodwood and do parade laps up the hill. Right. And don't set time.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Magnus Walker]

You know, people that are manufacturing available. So this was like fan favorite. Imagine a product pre production prototype car that's finishing just outside the top 10 with a sub 56 second run. And his fan favorite.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, that's like a 1983 Jaguar.

[Magnus Walker]

Don't call it a Jay. It's a twr.

[Matt Farah]

Sorry, you can't say that.

[Magnus Walker]

I can't.

[Matt Farah]

I can't. I. I'm not the one selling it. I can't get sued.

[Magnus Walker]

You're actually gonna love it. I think. Because what's not to love? It's rowdy. I mean just look at this thing.

[Matt Farah]

It's a V12 supercharged.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

Can I, can we get sound? Zach. Hang on. Oh my God. This sounds.

[Magnus Walker]

Listen to that.

[Zach]

It sounds like an F1 car.

[Magnus Walker]

Crazy people don't expect it's gonna sound like that.

[Zach]

Yeah, yeah.

[Magnus Walker]

Did.

[Matt Farah]

Did someone just go. You know that video of the Mercedes with the Zonda exhaust on it? Yeah.

[Magnus Walker]

Just that we need that.

[Matt Farah]

The fire. You know, I don't think I've sufficiently appreciated the rear angle of that car.

[Magnus Walker]

One of the best. I mean, it's driving away from you.

[Matt Farah]

That's the right there.

[Magnus Walker]

Damn. I mean I'm looking for the rear three quarters it.

[Matt Farah]

That's all. That's it right there.

[Magnus Walker]

Boom.

[Matt Farah]

That's how. Look at that.

[Magnus Walker]

We will get you behind the wheel of that car.

[Matt Farah]

It's crazy.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah, yeah. Excited about that. They said they're hot. Shoe guy, I've never met him actually. He's the one doing all the development shakedown driving, man.

[Matt Farah]

It sounds. Sounds kind of like a. Like a Diablo a bit.

[Magnus Walker]

You know, I mean finishing just outside the top 10 is pretty impressive. Oh yeah. And a sub 56 second run when you see what the other cars were doing is fast.

[Matt Farah]

Is that. Is that a. I mean obviously off the engine. It is, but is that. Does that exist? Exhaust 2 collect into 1 or is it dual all the way out the back?

[Magnus Walker]

I think it's dual all the way back but I gotta fact check.

[Matt Farah]

That sounds like the kind of thing that would be. Have a collector into one. It just fucking rips that. What a delight.

[Magnus Walker]

So, yeah, that's coming back and there's

[Matt Farah]

orders on the books and building.

[Magnus Walker]

They're making 88 of them. They've allocated probably over a third of them already. What's gonna make the difference is when people actually drive it.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah. Because at this point no one's really driven it other than it going up the hill.

[Matt Farah]

Look good with. Well, the one you know that. I guess it was.

[Magnus Walker]

That's the one.

[Matt Farah]

The one that I poked around at at your house. The inside was cool, it was comfortable. I mean it looks great. I'm super stoked.

[Magnus Walker]

I mean ergonomically, that car is a car you can drive and take. You know, there's plenty of room in it. It's comfortable, it's practical, it's rowdy, it's loud, it's fast, it does what it should.

[Matt Farah]

Do you think they'll make a non supercharged one? Just naturally. I just keep the blowers.

[Magnus Walker]

But they're going to make other things. You know, TWR wasn't just Jag, you know, they did other cars. Cars. Maybe they're going to do an Aston or something like that. Who knows? Whatever happened to your Aston model?

[Matt Farah]

I think they should do a Volvo wagon.

[Magnus Walker]

Well, that'd be good. 800 horsepower gap, Bill.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, like a touring. Because didn't they do the Volvo touring cars? They should do that. I have my Aston still. It's. It's on the east coast. I drive it when we go. When I go back to these.

[Magnus Walker]

That was the one you converted to manual?

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. In 2014. I'm gonna. Did I kick the camera and it up? Sorry.

[Magnus Walker]

What year is that Aston?

[Matt Farah]

It's an okay three old Vanquish. Yeah. It's cool. I'm never getting rid of that. That's like. That's a Keeper. That one's a lifer.

[Magnus Walker]

What was this new Aston Light you drove while you're in.

[Matt Farah]

I can't talk about it. I'll tell you all. I can't talk. There's an embargo until the 30th. I'll tell you off camera, but you know, it's a million dollar mid engine, thousand horsepower. So, you know, you could, you could probably make a few assumptions. You know, it's. What I can tell you is that it is. It's actually quite spectacular looking.

[Magnus Walker]

Most of them are, Most of them

[Matt Farah]

are, but it's not a guarantee. Most Astons are and many of the hypercars are, but it's not a guarantee. And it's got some cool tricks up its sleeve.

[Magnus Walker]

What's going on with the F1 program? They seem to be having some vibration issues.

[Zach]

They have a Honda issue.

[Matt Farah]

Apparently it's not going to be well over there. They tried to avoid that subject while

[Magnus Walker]

we were hanging out.

[Matt Farah]

I think it's different people, I don't

[Magnus Walker]

know, different teams, same name.

[Matt Farah]

I think it's different teams, yeah. I mean, but I think, I don't know, I think, I think. Well, not just this Aston Martin Valhalla, but it seems like the highest end stuff from many manufacturers is going to be hybridized. It's going to be very advanced and I think there's really open, a huge opening in the market for stuff like this. That's whether it's, it's the TWR, whether it's that. Have you seen that Evoluto 355 Ferrari?

[Magnus Walker]

That's pretty cool.

[Matt Farah]

The guys behind that are Ex Gunther Works.

[Magnus Walker]

And then who's doing the Lamborghini Diablo

[Matt Farah]

Eccentrica I think it's called. That one doesn't speak to me quite as much, but Johnny's like fucking all drooling all over it.

[Magnus Walker]

Who's doing the Ford Escort in England? Who's doing that?

[Matt Farah]

I don't know.

[Magnus Walker]

You haven't seen that one. There's a hot rod Resto mod seems cool.

[Matt Farah]

I like, we like those. I mean there's, there's quite a lot, right? You've got Lancias, the 037, the chimeras, like, I mean they're all fucking expensive, but they're the same price as like the supercars. And in a lot of ways they're more interesting.

[Magnus Walker]

This represents great value because in a world of everything you're talking about, it's actually underpriced.

[Matt Farah]

Isn't this like 200,000 or something?

[Magnus Walker]

It's more in the Threes. But still what you're talking about is more like a million dollar, right?

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Magnus Walker]

So, you know, in a weird way, this is affordable, approachable and.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, I mean if you're, if you're gonna put this in. In the same, you know, category as Singer or Gunther or. What's the oh boy totem do? You've seen the totem that Alpha?

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Matt Farah]

Zach and I drove it. It's neat. Really, really neat. I mean, it's a carbon tub Alpha GTV with 600 horsepower.

[Magnus Walker]

Is that a million dollar car though?

[Matt Farah]

They don't want a million for it. It's I think 600,000 and actually no,

[Magnus Walker]

no, it's with tax.

[Matt Farah]

It's crazy, obviously. But I mean that Alpha was really. It was very.

[Zach]

It was amazing.

[Matt Farah]

It was amazing.

[Zach]

It had the one issue of rubbing which maybe they can fix.

[Magnus Walker]

Wheel and tie combo.

[Zach]

Yeah, maybe something.

[Matt Farah]

I think they, I think they. It was on display at the Quail and I think they just set it to show car height.

[Zach]

It should be a little higher. But I mean everything else, it is beautiful. And like everything they've touched in changed is. Well done, smart decisions made. Well, looks incredible.

[Magnus Walker]

What's it called again?

[Matt Farah]

Totem gt.

[Magnus Walker]

Okay.

[Matt Farah]

It's very, very. The interior was spectacular. It was a great, I think, honestly, bring it up. Can you just pull up the interior like your, like this car? It's the kind of place where you go, I want to drive this from Los Angeles to Monterey, you know, to spend. I want to spend seven hours enjoying this interior and the view out of this car. And that's the car that we drove. The blue car looks cool.

[Magnus Walker]

It's based on a GTV.

[Matt Farah]

I mean, yes, in theory, although there ain't no GTV left. And it's got a twin turbo V6 and a manual gearbox. Oh, wait, there's gotta be some real interior photos of this thing. And this interior is really nicely tactile. And I think it's on. I think you would dig this. The leather was nice and the. And, and that. Look at that. The gauge cluster was great.

[Magnus Walker]

I probably got to talk to Dorian Alfa about it. You know, Mr. DV Mechanicals.

[Matt Farah]

It's the, the motor is by this company. What's in inter mechanic mechanics.

[Zach]

Oh, the name was not the most artistic thing.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. I can't remember who makes the motor, but the motor was.

[Magnus Walker]

How many of these do they make him?

[Matt Farah]

I mean, as many as like 20. It says 20 units, 2.9 liter V6 and it is a nasty little thing. And they have a few different interior options, so. Yeah, so that one. That one is the one that I drove the. The one that Zach's hovering on. Yeah. And actually this is the one that I sort of prefer the most. The. Oh, is that my. I think that's. Is that my Instagram post? Oh, yes, it is. How about that?

[Magnus Walker]

Looks like you.

[Matt Farah]

Yep. It is so very pretty.

[Magnus Walker]

Let me see that back end shot.

[Matt Farah]

The back end is, I think, superb.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah. Really delete. All integrated.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. And then the interior, this is the most sort of luxury trim of the interior. It gets more raw and bonkers from here. But the gated shifter, the gearbox is from a Ferrari 550. Like the whole gearbox.

[Zach]

Like, this is their carbon fiber weave design, which is not just the same one you see on everything. Like, even that little stuff got the special touch. And all of the little knobs and switches are like milled aluminum.

[Magnus Walker]

Where are these things? Stuff?

[Zach]

Italy.

[Matt Farah]

Italy. Yeah. I think in Modena.

[Magnus Walker]

This is what kind of winds me up about Porsche a little bit. Like, you're talking about everything sort of milled and knurled and custom made. That's kind of what I think Porsche is lacking on the top of the line when it comes to. To like 300 grand for a 992.2 turbo. And it's got the same switch gear, like an entry level box that might have. And then you see that and you go, look at that attention to detail.

[Matt Farah]

But this is. Look at this view from the driver's seat forward. I mean, the. The little. On the steering column.

[Magnus Walker]

You see those.

[Matt Farah]

The little drive mode knobs, just all milled and fabulous.

[Zach]

Yeah. And this is like your suspension adjustment is this metal knob U turn.

[Matt Farah]

Very satisfying. Clicks for everything.

[Zach]

You can see this is their car carbon weave, which, like, it's like a pattern. Yeah. It looks like a pattern you'd see on a ceiling.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. And then the house. It really was. Yeah, it was. It was exactly that.

[Magnus Walker]

What is this road and track Oregon tour thing you're doing? It looks pretty good.

[Matt Farah]

Like they're like luxury road trips with little track time and, you know.

[Magnus Walker]

How many miles a day do you generally drive on those roads?

[Matt Farah]

We keep it under like 200, 220. Yeah. Because people don't want to be in the car that much.

[Magnus Walker]

Got it.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. Yeah, it's. It's pretty ideal, actually.

[Magnus Walker]

How many days is that?

[Matt Farah]

That one's four and a day at Dirtfish too. Rally school. Just fun.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah. You guys are.

[Matt Farah]

If you want to come. If you want to come Be. Be a special VIP guest on one of them. I'm sure we could arrange that.

[Magnus Walker]

All right.

[Matt Farah]

Well, if you were actually interested.

[Magnus Walker]

Well, I'm asking. So, you know, I'm sort of curious, you know, if you were interested.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. If you're. If you're selling your stuff and freeing up your mind and your time, we could certainly arrange before.

[Magnus Walker]

No, I haven't.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, you love it.

[Magnus Walker]

So fun. It looks fun.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. And people that are already, like, pretty good at driving usually excel at rally school a lot. Yeah, I'll ask the team.

[Magnus Walker]

When is it? When is it? When's that thing?

[Matt Farah]

Oh, June.

[Magnus Walker]

June.

[Matt Farah]

It's like the two posts ago on my Instagram, Zach. If you has the dates on it, I forget offhand. June 10th to 13th, we got the first, we got the sold out one, I think in April.

[Magnus Walker]

Some great roads up there.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, my God. The rude is so good. The root is so.

[Magnus Walker]

That road surface seems to be way better than what we got down here.

[Matt Farah]

Tarmac is very weather resistant.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah, I get it.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, yeah, no, that one's gonna be super fun. Thanks for plugging it for me.

[Magnus Walker]

I've got a buddy, Pelly, Steve, you know, who lives in Oregon. He's the guy that put the Nike shoe together. He came down for the lit week last week and took him up the crest for the first time and driving around, doing all the open houses, Emery and all this stuff, and he goes, wow, the roads here are just so bad. Just really, really bad wherever you go, right? Yeah, I guess they got better roads up there.

[Matt Farah]

They do. That's why we do it. That's where we go to these places. Yeah, we go. We go where the good roads are. I'm super excited to fucking scout it too. I haven't done the scout yet.

[Magnus Walker]

Oh, you haven't scouted it yet?

[Matt Farah]

No. Should we go to the people?

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah, go to the people.

[Matt Farah]

Let's go to the people. Patreon.com the Smoking Tire podcast is where you go if you want to ask questions for the live stream and then subsequently watch it. Get the show before everybody else. Get extra show. Get the show without ads and get access to merch collabs and things like that, like the new frozenberry notice canyon that's coming out very, very soon.

[Magnus Walker]

What is the frozen berry? I know it's a color, but what is it?

[Matt Farah]

It's my. You know, the watch I did.

[Magnus Walker]

Oh, it's a watch. It's a watch.

[Matt Farah]

It's the watch I did, but in the color of the car.

[Magnus Walker]

Okay.

[Matt Farah]

I have it in the other room,

[Magnus Walker]

I wasn't sure if it was like ice cream or gelato. No, no. No smoking. Thai yogurt flavor. Yeah. You want clear.

[Matt Farah]

Did you see that Porsche did a frozen berry ice ice cream?

[Magnus Walker]

No, they sent me some.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, it was like. It was very good.

[Magnus Walker]

That's on brand.

[Matt Farah]

It was a bar.

[Magnus Walker]

You obviously in that Twilight Zone, jet like era right now, I think.

[Matt Farah]

Am I a little loopy?

[Magnus Walker]

Do I seem a little loopy or is this normal? This is normal.

[Matt Farah]

He's adjusted.

[Magnus Walker]

This is normal.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. This is normal.

[Zach]

I don't think you've seen loopy.

[Magnus Walker]

It's Friday afternoon.

[Matt Farah]

I have. I. I'm a little like shift shifted. Maybe just like a slight. There's a slight to it. I think I need one more. One more night of sleep. Maybe acclimatized. Yeah. Yeah. But it's okay. We'll get through it.

[Magnus Walker]

Before you go sailing.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, that'll.

[Zach]

And then we go back to different time change.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

It'll be okay.

[Magnus Walker]

You'll figure it out.

[Matt Farah]

We don't have to at say you. When you're sailing, you can operate at about 60% brain power.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah.

[Zach]

When you're filming a car while driving on track. While filming a car. 110%.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah. 60% will do it.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. Siren song of the Countach culture. Oh, that says that's.

[Magnus Walker]

What does that mean, siren song? How is your Countach

[Matt Farah]

being reassembled by Damien and Franco's European sports cars here in la? Here in la?

[Magnus Walker]

Didn't it go around the world and the motor was built in Europe or something? Kidson was building a motor for it.

[Matt Farah]

I mean, the engine and gearbox went to Italy. Well, that makes sense.

[Magnus Walker]

And they're back. Okay. Okay.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, they're back.

[Zach]

They went to Italy on a honeymoon.

[Magnus Walker]

Did they come back assembled or they came back in pieces?

[Matt Farah]

They came back fully ready to go in. Ready, running.

[Magnus Walker]

Dino.

[Matt Farah]

Ready to go running. Yeah.

[Magnus Walker]

How much horsepower does it. Does it makes?

[Matt Farah]

It was like 446.

[Magnus Walker]

Okay.

[Matt Farah]

It made. It was good. More than stock.

[Magnus Walker]

Well, that's good.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, it was great. Siren song as a rise against reference. Is there any amount of money that it would take to buy the 277 car?

[Magnus Walker]

That's a keeper.

[Matt Farah]

Okay. Nothing.

[Magnus Walker]

Nothing. Millions make an offer. How many millions?

[Matt Farah]

There is a number. The answer is there is a number. He just hasn't heard it yet.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah, I've never thought about it. Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

There are like people there.

[Magnus Walker]

Are there.

[Matt Farah]

There's a number for sure.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah.

[Zach]

I mean, I feel like if you end up in A position where you have sold every car and everything and you still have to sell 277. That would be a terrible day.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

Well, if that happens, they could smell the desperation. Hopefully that's not where you want to be. That's not carbon monocoque and ball torture says what makes a Porsche an outlaw?

[Magnus Walker]

Well, people have been outlawing Porsches since the James Dean days.

[Matt Farah]

Right.

[Magnus Walker]

So, you know, it's a term that's. There's nothing new about that.

[Matt Farah]

It used to mean it started by being chrome delete. You know, racing inspired wheels.

[Zach]

Driving in Argentina in the 40s.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah. Probably doing career Pan Americana.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, yeah.

[Magnus Walker]

You know, that would be. I mean the outlaw term is, you know, someone who lives outside of the law. Right. But I don't think there's any laws when it comes to modifying Porsches. But I guess Emory outlaw would be one of the first ones or.

[Matt Farah]

You know, I'm pretty sure that Emory, Emory's family is like where it started. Yeah, for sure. So it's, it's, it's.

[Magnus Walker]

The 356 is the beginning of the outlawed.

[Matt Farah]

Some, some small little changes that people go, what the. What's different here? And then rudge wheels or magnesium wheels, whatever. Some horsepower, things like that. Non stock, Non stock sixes. No country for old buffets. I respect Magnus for unironically defending the slant nose. Are there other unpopular configurations of Porsche that you like? I, I mean, look, obviously I do. Do you need. Is, is a, is a slant nose an unpopular choice? Values say otherwise. Real slant noses are worth a fuckload of money.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah, I don't have a real one for me. I got sentimental value mentally with the slant nose because the first Porsche I ever bought 35 odd years ago was a slant nose from the Pomona swap meet. Yeah. And maybe six, seven years ago I like, I got to get a new slant nose or another slant nose. And I went all around the country looking at DP Kramer Gambala roof factory ones. And then that one found me here in LA.

[Matt Farah]

The red guy.

[Magnus Walker]

The red guy. The 74 slant nose.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Magnus Walker]

With an interesting story. So I'm a slant nose fan. So, you know, anything that sort of has some character and personality I'm into when it comes to 9 11, no matter what it is.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, No, I like the slant nose too. I mean, I know, I understand why people wouldn't like a slant nose conversion on like a 930 or something, but like, yeah, I'm pro slant nose. This is a little beyond a slant nose conversion. 935.

[Magnus Walker]

And the interesting part to this headlights. The interesting parts of this story is the guy that modified fighter in the 80s remembered the car. He, like, called me up, this guy, and goes, I built that car in 1983 at Air in Burbank.

[Matt Farah]

Wow.

[Magnus Walker]

So it's been in LA pretty much its entire life. It just needs a bigger motor. It needs, like, a 500 horsepower turbo as opposed to, like, a 210 horsepower. 270.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. A lot of wing.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah, not a lot. And that fiberglass is pretty heavy. So it's a great base. It's a 74 US Carrera underneath it, which has some significance. Significance. But it's a blank canvas for.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, you need. This is a. You need to call Busy Moto.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah. You know, and get, like, 600 horsepower twin turbo in it and then do a Coca Cola livery on it.

[Matt Farah]

You have to tell busy to hold back.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah, busy would be like a thousand

[Matt Farah]

horsepower, hold 1,000 horsepower, and you're like, no, stop it.

[Magnus Walker]

It's not a minivan, Psycho. It's not an Odyssey minivan.

[Matt Farah]

I love him. He is great.

[Magnus Walker]

He's.

[Matt Farah]

He's featured in the article I wrote for Road and Track on newsstands this month.

[Magnus Walker]

What is that article?

[Matt Farah]

It's called Dyno tasting. I took the Same car to 4 Dynos to see how the different dinos would read the same exact car a little differently, and they did.

[Magnus Walker]

How big was the difference?

[Matt Farah]

The difference between the biggest, the highest, and the lowest number was, I think, 40 horsepower, which is a. About a 10% variation.

[Magnus Walker]

400 horsepower. Ish car.

[Matt Farah]

It was a Mustang GT.

[Magnus Walker]

Okay.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. Yeah, it was a Mustang GT. So. So, yeah, it's.

[Magnus Walker]

It's a fun.

[Matt Farah]

It's a cool story. But Busy has the. One of those hub dynamics.

[Magnus Walker]

We take the wheels. Wheels off.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. Really interesting. He loves it.

[Magnus Walker]

Was that closer to true horsepower? Was that losing 10%?

[Matt Farah]

No, it was. It was right in the middle. It was in the middle of the. So I don't know, like, which lost

[Magnus Walker]

the least and which lost the most.

[Matt Farah]

Read the article, fucker.

[Magnus Walker]

Read the article.

[Matt Farah]

I don't want to give it away. Blow up my own spot.

[Magnus Walker]

Was this a stock Mustang?

[Matt Farah]

It was a dark horse. Yeah, it was a dark horse. So, I mean, look, it wasn't about which is more. Right. It was just to show that dynos are very useful tools for doing a before after thing or to improve your tunes or whatever, but you need to just tune on one machine. If you put the same car on four different machines, the same day they'll read different, but the car isn't making different power. It's just like, you know, someone's got to read higher.

[Magnus Walker]

What is the most common. The roller.

[Matt Farah]

What is the most what?

[Magnus Walker]

Common form of dyno.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, just like a. Just like roll. Yeah. Chassis Dinos. Yeah, yeah. MO with two of them were rear drive rollers, one was an all wheel drive roller and then one was the pack, the. The hub thing.

[Magnus Walker]

Interesting article.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, it's neat.

[Magnus Walker]

All right.

[Matt Farah]

Christian says, was downtown LA ever thriving? Went there there once and didn't see the appeal. I mean, the arts district is cool.

[Magnus Walker]

I've been downtown for 35 years. So for me it's like a slant nose. You either love it or you hate it. You know, it's like these certain West Siders don't go downtown. Right. It's kind of one of those LA things. But to me there's just a lot of inspiration around there. Great restaurants, coffee shops, art galleries. You know, I'm walking around all the time with Willow and to me it's an inspiring place to be. It's kind of my home.

[Matt Farah]

And my buddy Christian just moved downtown like two years ago and I thought he was gonna hate it. And he actually like loves it now. Says he'll like never leave.

[Magnus Walker]

It's an acquired taste downtown, I think.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, but I mean, like, you know, same with like Venice. Like I lived in Venice for eight years and it's like, you know, it's for a. For a expensive beach town. It's like pretty grimy, but I liked that, you know, I liked the grime.

[Magnus Walker]

How do you like your new mid century modern neighborhood?

[Matt Farah]

We like it too. We like our neighbors. We like. We never made good neighbor friends in Venice, but we have really, really good friends where we live now, so. And you came to my birthday cars and coffee at 8 o' clock in the morning and I could not have a surprise. Cars and coffee for my birthday at 8 o' clock in the morning in Venice. And she can.

[Magnus Walker]

I got it. That's pretty good.

[Matt Farah]

The swinging tire says, what is the first Porsche production car to match or outperform a roof? Yellowbird. Oh, that's it. Interesting.

[Magnus Walker]

First production to really. Oh, dude.

[Matt Farah]

You'd have to go to like a 996 Turbo probably.

[Magnus Walker]

I don't even think that matches.

[Matt Farah]

Maybe it doesn't. Maybe the GT2.

[Zach]

Well then it made the challenge. That roof was always, you know, piggybacking off of the new car. So they would always turn it up beyond what Porsche would put out.

[Magnus Walker]

I mean, that was a benchmark yellow bird.

[Matt Farah]

Right.

[Magnus Walker]

Look at where the power of those

[Matt Farah]

car is now to make a car that went 211 miles an hour.

[Magnus Walker]

Have they made one? No, the production car.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. Carrera GT, I think.

[Magnus Walker]

Pull it up. I bet it's not 211.

[Matt Farah]

I think a career GT went that quick. Yeah. No.

[Magnus Walker]

Let's see. No, it must 202.

[Zach]

918. Spider did two. Where'd it go? 211.

[Magnus Walker]

Okay, 918.

[Matt Farah]

Imagine it took them.

[Zach]

GT went 205. The turbos usually go 205. It's rare that they go beyond much

[Matt Farah]

over 98 to get from 1987.

[Magnus Walker]

When is Porsche to give a shit? When is Porsche gonna build a replacement for the 918?

[Matt Farah]

That is a very interesting question.

[Magnus Walker]

They don't want to answer it. I mean, I know they had the Mission X or whatever it was, the electric one, which nobody wanted, that they thought everyone was gonna take.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. Well, I think that. I think they now know that nobody wants an electric hypercar. Like, they remember, like I drove and. Did they. I don't know if they offered to let you drive it. That thousand horsepower electric Cayman thing.

[Magnus Walker]

Oh, the trike car.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, the race car. I tried that and I was like, okay, well, I could see what you're doing here. But like, I don't know, man. And I think they now think they now know people don't want an electric hypercar.

[Magnus Walker]

I'm surprised you didn't know that sooner.

[Matt Farah]

But like, everything, like, is the 918 like the Temer? All of Lamborghini's lineup is the 918. This new Aston Valhalla is a 918. Like, everything at the top end has the layout of the 918 Hybrid. Yeah.

[Magnus Walker]

Well, you think of that 918 though, that came out in 2013, so that's 13 years ago. That technology's got to be 15 years old today.

[Matt Farah]

Right.

[Magnus Walker]

So they're playing catch up there, I think.

[Matt Farah]

Well, I drove the 918 1,000 miles last summer. It feels surprisingly not dated. I mean, it's, it's.

[Magnus Walker]

I mean, that's practical, right.

[Matt Farah]

You could change the gauge cluster and like the battery chemistry so it has like a little more electric performance. And sell the same car today. Just sell the same car. Like, don't. You don't need to change anything else.

[Magnus Walker]

They won't do that.

[Matt Farah]

They won't. But, like, they could. They could easily do a 918.2 today.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

Change like three things. Things and just make more and make a fortune. Oh, they'd make so much.

[Magnus Walker]

What are they waiting for?

[Zach]

They're in financial problems.

[Magnus Walker]

Oh, yeah, yeah, I forgot about that.

[Matt Farah]

Paint the sample body blue. Magnus, which family of American vehicles might you customize like your Porsches?

[Magnus Walker]

I'm a mopar guy. Vintage Mopar.

[Matt Farah]

Didn't you have a Challenger at one point?

[Magnus Walker]

I had two super bees. I still got the tattoo right there. I had a 65 Mustang GT350 Shelby.

[Matt Farah]

Look alive. Yeah, I remember that one.

[Magnus Walker]

I kind of want one of those again.

[Matt Farah]

Koji. Koji says Magnus. Favorite BMW and Mercedes models, respectively.

[Magnus Walker]

Oh, BMW Batmobile. That's pretty obvious. Or 2002. Or M1. Kind of like the M1. Yeah, Buddy's got one. Mr. Enthusiast. Mercedes Gull wing. You know, if gull wing was the price of an E type Jag, I'd be driving a gullwing.

[Matt Farah]

Man. Gull wings, they're so nice to drive.

[Magnus Walker]

I did the Mille Miglier in one. I did the Silveretta Classic in one one.

[Matt Farah]

You can just drive one of those all day.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah, you get comfortable in them pretty quickly. It's kind of like driving any type Jag that doesn't stop as good and looks better. Yeah, and it's like, you know, ten times more money.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, but that's the good thing about E type Jags, isn't it?

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

Very pretty. And they are very nice to drive.

[Magnus Walker]

Recently I've been thinking, you know, SLC would be pretty cool. Silver Zao. Pretty cool.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, Zilberg.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah, the Red Pig. Things like that, I guess.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, I don't have. I don't have. We talked about this on a previous show, but I don't have the information in front of me. Okay, wait. Two clutches. One shift says I got a one out of 500. Xeric Triptych, Lapis dial for half retail. It's now sold out. It resembles an AP Star wheel. Thoughts on Xeric and limited editions from micro brands. I think. I think they're fun, but was told real collectors won't respect them. I'll take the last part first. And that's not really true. Real enthusiasts. If you show up to anywhere with an interesting watch, and that is an interesting watch, will go. Oh, look, that's an interesting watch. Tell me about it. You've got the Toledano and Chan, which is an interesting watch. They just came out with their new guy.

[Magnus Walker]

The B3. Sold out. Those guys, you know, up the game. Titanium. That's not titanium, but the V3. Titanium, gold.

[Matt Farah]

See I can't, unfortunately. Actually, that's not true. I could with this watch. I just flip it over, right. Because I have to wear on my right hand. I wear my watch on my right hand. This is act. It's. It's not symmetrical.

[Magnus Walker]

Correct.

[Matt Farah]

If you wear it on your left hand, it's perfect because your angle is right at your face.

[Magnus Walker]

Right.

[Matt Farah]

They need a destro version.

[Magnus Walker]

Right hand.

[Matt Farah]

Suppose I could just flip it over.

[Magnus Walker]

You could flip it over.

[Matt Farah]

I could fucking totally Jimi Hendrix this

[Magnus Walker]

watch and it would be no problem.

[Matt Farah]

I like these watches and I like a lot of micro brands and Zurich is an interesting brand. They have a lot of interesting ways to display time. And very few watches are investment grade. Very few even ones that seem like they would be. You know what I mean? Most watches, you wear them for a while and when you sell them, you're not going to get.

[Magnus Walker]

Ironically, this is doubled in value. Like the guys that bought the first one of these. Yeah. Like flipping them for double and triple it.

[Matt Farah]

I mean, that's, that's cool, but that's not like normal, Right?

[Magnus Walker]

Like, these guys did something that's not normal. You know, if you look at what they did, the brutalist movement. Yeah. It's inspired by the 70s, but the case, the strap is pretty unique.

[Matt Farah]

It is, it is. It's a different watch. And they did it at a time that integrated bracelets are super hot. And also they like, know people at Hodinkee to hype it up and all this other stuff. Stuff like, I'm not criticizing, like, you know, some micro brands get a lot of early success and you can flip them and become an other ones. Like, not so much. Like that brand's been around. Like, who knows if the same thing will happen. Maybe it will, maybe it won't. When they're doing the B50, you know what I mean?

[Magnus Walker]

The B52s.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. God bless them, I hope they do. But, like, who knows? You know what I mean? Tastes may change. So like Zurich, it's. It's fucking cool. If you like it and you look down your wrist and go, yeah, then that's where we're at.

[Zach]

Right.

[Matt Farah]

Forest Casey says what separates tuners with staying power versus those that fade away? Is it actual quality or something more akin to fashion?

[Magnus Walker]

Question. If you talk to Roof, they are not a tuner. You know, they describe their self as a manufacturer and engineering company. I mean, Gumballa Stoze, you know, I love the way those cars look. It's hard to compete with RUF when they're doing the world's fastest car and they're doing more Porsche than Porsche and they're doing 211 miles an hour and it's still relevant and significant. And I think, you know, RUF is in a different category.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. You know, RUF gets their own VIN numbers or got their own VIN numbers. Dinan was the racing team for, you know, for BMW, like, and Strozik and Gembala, bless their hearts.

[Magnus Walker]

You know, that was more of a body kit thing.

[Matt Farah]

Aesthetic mods that were very targeted to a specific era and taste. 80s excess for Gambala and into the 90s. And Strosik was a real specific early 90s look that may come back eventually, but, like, you know, that wasn't gonna last.

[Magnus Walker]

Someone offered me a Strozaic bodied 928 recently.

[Matt Farah]

Looked.

[Magnus Walker]

I bet it was cool. It had the Testarossa Strakes down the side of it. You know, it's like twr. Twr. That's not a tuner. They're like a motorsports engineering firm that developed the XJ220. It was Jag's race team, really raced at Le Mans and won at le Mans in 1988. So, you know, I think that's the difference.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, wow. And I have to say, Zach just pulled up a 9A Speedster.

[Magnus Walker]

Look at the price of it, though. I'm kind of surprised at that price.

[Matt Farah]

Surprised at how high it is.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah, it seems relatively high to me. It does, don't you think?

[Matt Farah]

It's 168,000.

[Zach]

This is like a Mitsubishi 3000 GT front end with a 911 speedster back end.

[Matt Farah]

It's pretty. It's pretty aggressive. But actually, I think it. I think I can see how it got this money. I think there's not a lot of these were converted back to stock. And this one is not just. It's the whole bit. It's a speedster too. It's not just a regular.

[Magnus Walker]

I'm not a speedster fan. I've never owned a speedster.

[Zach]

I think the proportions are often a little weird.

[Matt Farah]

Go down. Is the mileage also kind of low? 56,000 miles. Oh, TMU, though.

[Zach]

Oh, that's not good.

[Matt Farah]

Not great from the back.

[Magnus Walker]

Party in the rear.

[Matt Farah]

Better from the front.

[Zach]

I think this highlights like roof and dining. They kind of. They took whatever the company was doing and they just expanded the horsepower, but didn't change, like, the identity of the car.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, a little yellow boat.

[Magnus Walker]

It's a narrow boat car.

[Zach]

Right. And it's really subtle. And they kept doing that I think that, I think they saw what the manufacturer was doing and why people liked it and they just turn up the wick on the power. But this is like, this is giving the 911 the Lamborghini treatment.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Zach]

To make it really extroverted visually. And I don't think that's why the company, I don't think that's why they manufacture this around.

[Matt Farah]

Porsche's too conservative for me. I need, I need more like, more like Lambo.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah, more Lambo, less Porsche.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's see. Just the Tiptronic. What are some good alternatives to the vintage Porsche experience now that many vintage Porsches are unattainable to us?

[Magnus Walker]

Well, I think there's a Porsche for every price point. Right. Entry levels got to be a Boxster. Still represent good bang for the buck. I think so.

[Matt Farah]

Or996.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah. I mean,996 is a going up in price. They're no longer available in the teens.

[Matt Farah]

Right. But they're still available for like third 20, 30. Like.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah. So if you want a 911, if you want your poor Shakespeareans to be a 911 and you don't care about air cooled 996 all day long.

[Matt Farah]

What is the, what is the most affordable air cooled experience right now? SC convertible, SC Targa. Yeah.

[Magnus Walker]

You know, but even that's like 50, 60 grand.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Magnus Walker]

And if you want a nice SC or like I've never owned a 3, 2 Carrera and, and recently I saw one in a cool color so I thought maybe it's time. Until I realized they were 60 to 80 grand or 70 to 100 grand. And I go, wow, that's a lot of money.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah.

[Magnus Walker]

So I don't think there are any air cooled bargains unless you want to live with a SC or a 3, 2 tog or something like, I mean, SC would be great, but that's not a bargain.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. 912 suck. Jeremy was a race car driver, says the only two Porsches I've driven are a gen 2 Panamera GTS and a 996. Am I missing the driving experience that makes a Porsche a Porsche? I mean, are you disappointed with those driving experiences?

[Magnus Walker]

Disappointing. I mean, that's a different era and generation to what I'm into, which is early air cooled stuff, you know, which is just a lot lighter and more nimble. But I don't think you're missing it.

[Matt Farah]

No, I just drove my buddies, my buddy's996 Carrera 4s. Shout out to Santo, my physical therapist was getting serviced at BBI when I had to run my car down to BBI and I was done and I was like, oh, just drive. You want me to drive it home for you? Because he lives back here. So I did. And I hadn't driven a996 in a while, so I did 50 miles home and this nice C4S and it was very nice. It was set up well and it had. It had a nice ride. The shifter was good, the steering was nice, the brakes were strong.

[Magnus Walker]

I mean but Tim seems to know what he's doing.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, yeah. The car was set up really nicely, but it was a good car, man. It was really enjoyable actually.

[Magnus Walker]

I think 996 is a good place to be. I don't know if this guy's missing.

[Matt Farah]

I don't think you're missing the experience. A Gen 2 Panamera GTS and a Voice V8 is a sweet ride. I think.

[Magnus Walker]

I think now you've got a tycoon, right?

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, it's downstairs. Didn't you see it? Weren't the guy washing it when you came in?

[Magnus Walker]

No, I parked outside. The guy was taking photos.

[Matt Farah]

That bronze SL is a one owner car with records to new. You got a lot of springs. Car looks good. It'll still be 20 grand but it's a great. It's a great, great car. Was that it Zach? Was that all for the Quest Jones? Where are you going going next once you are. Once you got a little cash in your pocket.

[Magnus Walker]

I'm gonna go home to see my mom. My mom's 82 so I'm gonna spend a little time in England and time

[Matt Farah]

visit TWR while you're over there visit

[Magnus Walker]

TWR this boomerang in the car back but spend time with my mom in Sheffield. That'll be next.

[Matt Farah]

Do you leave a car over there?

[Magnus Walker]

No, no, I've never owned a car in England.

[Matt Farah]

Really? Never?

[Magnus Walker]

Never owned. Never had a driver's license in England.

[Matt Farah]

Well now you're. I mean your us one is fine but like have you ever thought about

[Magnus Walker]

having a vacation vehicle usopp other people's

[Matt Farah]

Porsches like a meet while you're out there?

[Magnus Walker]

Time will tell. I mean those always seem to crop up. You know they do seem to happen. The outlaw gathering spontaneous there a caffeine

[Matt Farah]

and machine near Sheffield. I don't know Sheffield.

[Magnus Walker]

That's a cool space. So where I like those guys.

[Matt Farah]

Pull up a map and show me where Sheffield is in the expanded they've

[Magnus Walker]

now got two or three. Three of Them caffeine and machine.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure. Three. Yeah. Shout out to Phil.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah, he's doing a good job.

[Matt Farah]

I love that business. Zach and I had such a great time.

[Magnus Walker]

Have you done his I love you, man event night?

[Matt Farah]

No, we did a TST podcast live there and sold it out.

[Magnus Walker]

I guess that one there would be close. Sheffield's right there. Go up. Sorry, where is north of Birmingham?

[Matt Farah]

North of Birmingham.

[Magnus Walker]

Keep going. There it is. There's Sheffield near Manchester. There, right there.

[Matt Farah]

I see.

[Magnus Walker]

There it is. Sheffield Steel Town, famous for steel. We invented stainless steel there.

[Matt Farah]

Really?

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah. The process of stainless steel was invented in Sheffield.

[Matt Farah]

Oh, good to know.

[Magnus Walker]

Big steel town supplied the auto industry. Famous for cutlery and knives and Def Leppard and Joe Cocker and pulp.

[Matt Farah]

And how are the roads in the Peak District National Park?

[Magnus Walker]

Spectacular. Really?

[Matt Farah]

That's a good spot.

[Magnus Walker]

That is a pretty good spot to drive around there.

[Matt Farah]

It looks nice. The whatever that road is there between. What's that? That Maccles. Macclesfield. Macclesfield. The road to Macclesfield looks pretty solid to me.

[Magnus Walker]

Lots of great driving roads out there.

[Matt Farah]

And then up there, Hope Valley.

[Magnus Walker]

Heather says that's not too far from where I'm at.

[Matt Farah]

That looks like good roads.

[Magnus Walker]

Derbyshire on the border.

[Matt Farah]

I love driving in the uk. It is a really a nice place to drive. I know the people that live there are probably like, what the you talking about? But I like it.

[Magnus Walker]

All right. It's a good place to visit. That's what I say.

[Matt Farah]

Thanks to roundabouts. Zach and I drove roundabouts. We drove from fucking Goodwood all the way out to the Lotus factory in wherever the fuck east of the end without stopping the car. Car in motion the whole time.

[Magnus Walker]

That's impressive.

[Matt Farah]

I mean, it was fabulous.

[Magnus Walker]

One of my most irritating drives was from Goodwood to Sheffield on a Sunday after Festival of speed on the M1 where they've got these. Yeah, they've got these designated, you know, 25 mile an hour speed zones that go one for like 40 miles. And the never ending road works where no one's working on the road. You know, stuff like that.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, I feel you. I guess. But to go from, you know, my day to day, light to light existence here, being in motion, even slowly.

[Zach]

Montana had a lot of roundabouts.

[Matt Farah]

Montana had a lot of roundabouts.

[Magnus Walker]

You got to be in motion.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, dude. Big sky and that whole area, so many roundabouts.

[Magnus Walker]

I mean, LA doesn't do the roundabouts. They rule about rolling stop signs.

[Matt Farah]

They are.

[Zach]

We've got them invented, right?

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah.

[Matt Farah]

They they it a name. Thanks for coming, dude.

[Magnus Walker]

Thanks for having me.

[Matt Farah]

Give me those dates again for the RS.

[Magnus Walker]

I'm sorry, no reserve. March 18th through the 25th. The 25th is the day you put on your calendar and get out and bid.

[Matt Farah]

What's the biggest ticket item on there? Estimated. I know it's no reserve.

[Magnus Walker]

Probably the 7627 RS MFI Carrera Porsche. That one right there.

[Matt Farah]

The one on the left top left.

[Magnus Walker]

Last production MFI car. The only made. Only made 113 of them. Oh, wow. So that time will tell. We'll see.

[Matt Farah]

That's probably a good one. You want an 09? I bet nobody gave a about this thing in.

[Magnus Walker]

Oh, no. I mean it's all about the bike.

[Matt Farah]

Is this like $18,000 or something?

[Magnus Walker]

Maybe even less than that.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, see? Yeah, yeah.

[Magnus Walker]

Dude, no.

[Matt Farah]

Nobody gave a about these until all of a sudden. They did.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah, they didn't until they did.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. I like the French market headlights on those.

[Magnus Walker]

Yeah, they look good on that car.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah, they look. They look good in almost everything from there. I put the. I put the French frogs on the surprise.

[Magnus Walker]

More people don't do that. They're good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Viv la France, right? I think it looks good.

[Matt Farah]

Yesterday for six hours at Charles de Gaulle Air.

[Magnus Walker]

Flying through.

[Matt Farah]

Yeah. Charles de Gaulle was for a long time a no go. I would not take a layover there. They've gotten better. I got to give them credit. They have actually gotten better.

[Magnus Walker]

There's no direct flight to build Bauer or wherever it is.

[Matt Farah]

Not on, not in, not within my Delta universe.

[Magnus Walker]

Okay.

[Matt Farah]

No, no, no. At least it's not Amsterdam.

[Magnus Walker]

You're Del Schoppel Airport.

[Matt Farah]

I like Schiffle Airport. But from Spain, that's like hours out of the way. Yeah, it's no good.

[Magnus Walker]

Parasol Heathrow.

[Matt Farah]

Thanks, buddy.

[Magnus Walker]

Thanks guys. Appreciate it.

[Matt Farah]

Appreciate you coming by. And I'll be watching. We will be watching from a boat.

[Magnus Walker]

You can probably make a bid on that Red Bull fridge. You seem to be like $5.

[Matt Farah]

No reserve. Let's go.

[Magnus Walker]

You can drink. Thank you.

[Matt Farah]

Comes. Is it full?

[Magnus Walker]

Full.

[Matt Farah]

Thanks to our patrons for asking such good questions. Thank you to everyone else for listening. We'll see you guys later. Bye.

[Magnus Walker]

Cheers.