CRAZY SECRET Porsche Collection | Full Car Collection Tour

hey everyone from the peterson my name is wayne dempsey and today we're going to give you a tour of my garage [Music] first up 1958 daimler ferret armored car some people would call this a tank but the tank enthusiasts get a little irritated if you call it a tank because it's actually got wheels so we'll call it an armored car tag you know if if anyone asks bought this kind of on a dare my kids dared me to buy it it was at an auction and i thought it'd be really cool to buy got it from bonhams in florida it's a fully operational armored car and like most cars i bought i buy at auction i didn't get a chance to look at it came here on a trailer and had trouble getting off the trailer as most cars do from the auction had a ton of things wrong with it brakes didn't work we're driving down a hill one day brake went to the floor right through the light it's very uh it's one of those extra deodorant moments for if you're driving one of these spent a ton of time putting it back together rewiring the electrical all that good stuff the wheels and the tires are bulletproof and they're run flat tires the gun is is fake these are grenade launchers right here smoke grenade launchers disabled of course this is a gun cleaning rod shovel we installed a siren and a pa system into it it's powered by a rolls-royce engine that's a six-cylinder gas-powered engine generates about 180 horsepower it lived life in the uk for a little bit it was in a tank museum and then it moved to florida but before that in his really early early life it was uh on patrol in hong kong i don't think it saw any battles or anything like that or any huge conflicts or anything like that it's very interesting to talk to the people who actually drove these and sat in them and were deployed in them for for years and years they say they leaked like a sieve when it rained they're not waterproof which is surprising because they're bulletproof but not waterproof they said there's no heat inside so they were freezing their butts off and they said that they got court-martialed if they sat up here while driving because these things are so top-heavy that if they hit a bump or ditch they rolled over quite often and if you were sitting up here when it rolled over it was pretty much a death sentence took it out on its first drive for um you know through the neighborhood of palos verdes here in los angeles and had the paperwork all in order because is it anything you want to do when you're driving a tank through los angeles it's you want to make sure you have your paperwork correct and in order had some teenage boys in the back you know 10 11 12. my son in there so we're driving along get pulled over by the police of course first time so cop pulls this over comes over i give him my paperwork he says okay comes back says okay this looks pretty good pretty much in order he said i'm going to give you three suggestions okay what are those officer he said first of all when you get the plate make sure you put the plate on the back it makes it look more legit and doesn't you know that way we don't have little old ladies calling on on tanks rolling through the neighborhood second thing he said i suggest you put some flags on it which we have done here i don't know if you can see him but make it look a little more festive and less threatening and third he said make sure you have you know you don't have your son sitting in the turret pointing the gun at people as you drive by [Music] [Music] i'm now standing in front of what most people consider the crux and highlight of our collection here is the the 4962s that we have way way way way back when pelican started to do a little better i wanted to buy a race car so i started talking to people about to buy and i decided i was going to buy a 934 then i showed it to my wife she said oh don't you already have like four or five of those because you know 934s look just like everything else i said you know maybe she's right maybe i should start looking for something different it took about a year to buy this car it's a 1987 uh kramer race car or one of the nice things about this car is that it's relatively unrestored all of these have been restored to the nines by trevor crisp again he's the guy who details every single screw nut paint color sticker all that stuff but and he's asking me for this one he wants to do this but in some ways you know the patina on this and the way it is right now is brilliant because it is just as in as race condition so i often get asked how it is to drive these cars and i tell everyone the truth i haven't driven these ones they're almost too nice but this one that is unrestored and uh in race condition i don't feel bad about bringing on the track and some of these scratches and some of these cracks and fiberglass are uh are from me so this is the second 962 i bought when i got this one i started to realize i had an addiction problem so this was at an auction i didn't bid on it i didn't think it would go for that much but it went for um only a few more pennies than i bought this one for i knew the guy who bought it so he actually sold it to me for less than he paid at the auction which is rare so i said okay i'm going to buy this one and then sell this one well that was 10 years ago so as you can see that never happened this is always a crowd favorite because it's in the jagermeister livery it's a great great livery but it never race delivery so that's a little bit of a sacrilege kind of thing to do with these vintage race cars i haven't changed it back because everybody loves delivery this is a very unique car because this is the first carbon fiber 962 that they made and when i say they uh company out of england advanced composites um took uh you know the story's a little sketchy but vern chupan who's a famous race car driver uh asked porsche for us for some assistance on the blueprints they wanted to make a carbon fiber car basically stronger lighter better that's the whole concept of course behind carbon fiber and this was in 1987 and 1988 this is a 1988 car the problem is that it's a little bit heavier than it needs to be they over built and over designed the chassis so the the thing is really really really strong so strong that on its first outing uh they smacked it into the wall and destroyed everything on the car except for the chassis the chassis was undamaged unblemished and they basically just bolted everything new stuff back on and ran it you know a couple of weeks later if you want to go vintage racing and you're not a good driver this is probably the one that you want to have because it's the safest car in the room i would think for racing this is a 1985 962 to make a long story short we bought it out of germany brought it back to uh trevor crisp at um katana this is a company restoration company for these cars now and what you see in front of you is probably the most original 962 i mean he thinks it's the most original 962 in in the world raced at le mans raced with dower racing in in in the mid 80s race with fitzpatrick racing then it was sold to a team called diamond racing and then we bought it from the guy who bought out the remainder of domin's team this one was actually wrecked a few times and pushed back together and wrecked a few times because it has so much race history on it but we actually took the whole chassis and took the bottom plate off and fixed some some previous repairs that were not uh not well done so right now it's absolutely beautiful and it's pretty much the gold standard of what this should be so saving the best for last i've got this 1986 six i gotta get the years right porsche 962 this is an air air car it's chassis number 121 and in 1987 and 1988 it won seven victories so uh it's got a tremendous amount of race history it's claimed big claim to fame is that it won sebring twice uh in 87 under the budweiser livery and then an 88 in this javelin livery which is just i think probably one of the most awesome livery ever there's a actual funny story on this car it's really not about 25 minute story and i just told the story on the bring a trailer podcast a couple of weeks ago but i didn't intend to buy this car i was bidding on it to help my friend who was selling it and then i accidentally bought the car so one of the most uh embarrassing moments this was 10 years ago so i can talk about it now i think the statute of limitations on stupid stuff has expired one of the more interesting things that i have on this car the guy who runs the pr department of sebring found out that i i acquired this car and he said oh i got something for you i've got the original um entry form for the car for for when it won the race in 1987. so he pulled this out of the file cabinet at sebring and has the the team name and their team tax id numbers and it's got the joking moss and bobby ray hall you know listed there this is pretty cool so i show this to everybody that i've got that i show the car to the same guy who gave me the entry form had this painting for sale and when you are at sebring you commission a painting for the for the program for the pre for the next year like this is 1989 program this is the car that won in 88. so they commissioned a painting for that so this is the actual painting of the car so it's not a print or anything like that it's actual paintbrush strokes and stuff in there so this is pretty cool too because it's also one of one [Music] okay so we're standing in front of these four cars and although they look very similar there's some of the significant differences between them so starting with this one this is a 1987 car this has an air water motor in it which is somewhat unique to porsche here's a sample cylinder that we have from one of the cars as you can see this section of the cylinder is cooled by air it's a big fan that blows air across it and this top has a water channel that runs through it much like a traditional car so the nice thing about these cars was that the engine design was very very similar to the 1965 engine that originally came out with the first 911 designed by hans metzger and that engine is relatively simple and that's one of the keys to porsche's success at le mans a lot of people don't know this necessarily but porsha sometimes didn't lead the races at le mans toyota did very well mercedes did very well there but le mans a 24-hour race so reliability and being able to run 200 miles an hour for 24 hours is a tremendous feat uh if you've ever driven anywhere on a car on a trip for like six hours you imagine you know sitting in your toyota your bmw or whatever after six hours you know what the car is like and what the what the experience like do that for 24 hours in a race car 200 miles an hour at le mans at night sometimes in the rain so reliability reliability reliability is one of the things that really really helped porsche and spec in particular in 1994 that was really what what pushed a porsche over the edge when they brought back their 962s in the gt category and they won overall basically because the toyotas weren't as reliable but anyway so the beauty is the engine the engine is based on the air water cylinder this one has a similar motor to this one similar vintage period this one was based on uh very much the 956 motor and people you know ask what's the difference between a 956 and a 962 it's basically almost nothing they're pretty much the same car little changes to the wheel position the 956s originally ran mechanical fuel injection these run bosch fuel injection very very similar stuff so this car here which as you as i mentioned already one sebring this is an air air motor so this motor here is extremely similar to the one to the motors that are in the standard 911s of this era it has a flat fan on it it has twin plug ignition a couple other go fast parts in the inside titanium rods all that good stuff but the design is extremely similar to a 911 turbo of this era and that's what's just beautiful about it is that it's so similar you know it's one of porsche's huge marketing marketing ploys or pushes from that era is that the car that won the sebring is the one that you can drive this one down here is a what's known as a water water engineer so they got rid of all the air cooling and had it completely cooled by water and the reasoning behind that was to squeeze a little bit more power out of it i believe so without a doubt well maybe there's a doubt but without a doubt this is probably the most fun car in the room we've taken this to monorail taken different events it's insanely loud it's insanely noisy it's insanely smelly you know but that's that's its charm so this is a 1970 porsche 914 rally car that was built by a guy named tom woodford one of the first things i did was install a helicopter david clark headsets into this car so i can actually talk to the person who's sitting next to me because the whole thing's been lightened there's no sound deadening in this in this car at all if you're driving down the road it's not that loud the exhaust is not that loud but inside the car it sounds like you're sitting inside the wing of a jet plane it's got all uh all the vintage rally equipment that's on the dash but it's got a 2.8 rsr engine on in it built on an original aluminum block 1965 66 porsche case in 1965 1966 or so porsche had the 911 engines built out of aluminum they later went to magnesium which was a lighter material but it was also a lot weaker and they had a lot of problems with head studs pulling and cases getting deformed so these cases the aluminum ones are the ideal starting point for a high-powered engine like this the story is a little sketchy and and not very clear on the history of why this car was built this way somewhere in the 1980s tom built a series of cars for a set of jamaican investors investors who were going to run a rally down in jamaica the first two in the series were somehow mysteriously destroyed you know i hear the rumors they were driven into the ocean or something like that i don't know um but this is the third in the series tom built this actually to uh specifically to take to the 1998 porsche 50th anniversary at laguna seca that's where the car first first uh appeared but it was built in the spirit of being the third in the series of those rally cars it's 1970 it's got enough candle power on the front to melt the bumper of the car in front of you i ended up buying this car um because the blue one that i originally had was actually stolen a few years ago and we gave up on it um it's another whole long story i tracked down the guy who stole it and he's in jail and um and we have the car back now but in the meantime i gave up on that ever seeing that one again and uh tom uh said you should buy my my car so so i finally did as a replacement for that one and then i got that one back so now i have two so this is a 1974 porsche 914 this is the first car i ever bought it didn't look like this it was pure black no flares 1974 it had a 1.8 liter engine in it which i thought when i bought it was a 2-liter engine so the only thing that you can do when you have a 1 8 in it and you thought you had a 2-liter is to yank the engine and put in a 320 horsepower 6-cylinder motor and that's basically what we did so when you own a car for 25 years and you own a parts business that sells parts with these cars you basically build the thing that uh has got every single upgrade and every single possibility on it hella hood mounted lamps the gt bumper spoiler front cooler it's got a porsche 3 2 fuel injected motor in the back the flares on this car they are welded in they're steel these little lights here i put on they are for illuminating your meatball number at night we've got the rs style hood latches on the front here european lenses the interior i left pretty much stock because the interior was in really really good condition overall this is just a great great performing car upgraded suspension brakes all that good stuff it's got turbo wheels on it with the rs finish on it fun fun car it's a great great way to celebrate the fact this is my first car and it's pretty much at the pinnacle of what i wanted it to be when i originally bought it 25 years ago [Music] so this is a 2000 ferrari 360. in my opinion it's really one of the timeless designs the 430 the 458 and the ones that came after they all look pretty radical but this design has really really really tested time in terms of of how it looks people think it's still a new car and i know that i'm going to irritate some uh ferrari owners uh about uh you know leaving it outside because a lot of the ferraris are garage queens but i think the real the the the best way to enjoy a car like this is to just drive it and enjoy it it's actually a very well balanced car it's got a 400 horsepower it's very fun to drive it's an f1 transmission which is different than anything else in the room for 20 25 years now i've been searching for the perfect car one that balances power uh comfort uh performance uh looks and this comes pretty close the porsche gt3 also very very close but i have a lot of porsches and this was this was different so 400 horsepower f1 transmission air conditioning leather interior my wife likes it because it's a polished car from the year 2000 it doesn't smell like oil like air cooled cars and it has the right balance of power and performance it's not 800 horsepower you can't really control it it's 400 which is a lot for a car of this size this is pretty close to being a really really perfect or good car the only thing wrong with it is that it's a ferrari and the parts are insanely expensive and in order to work on it you need a bunch of special tools and it's kind of a pain in the ass because stuff goes wrong and when it does go wrong then it will cost a fortune but other than that this is pretty close to being my definition of the perfect car to own all right so this is an awesome car so i saw this thing in the catalog for bottoms and about two or three years ago and i thought it was the most unusual coolest thing i've seen in a long time because that's what i really really like it's not about the big buck cars it's not about you know limited edition the new stuff it's about the old it's about the patina it's about the history and the story and it's about being uh and having something unusual that no one's ever seen before this is a 1947 fiat zagato testadoro 750 and i i can't if i've had anything to drink it's very hard to say all those four words in a row without forgetting one but that's the car body designed by zegato it's a daniella too is what they called it so it's 1947 fiat zagato daniela testadoro 750 built in 1947 or so we don't know exactly 48 something like that raced in europe for a few years and then imported into the united states where a fellow i think george watson drove it for a moment like 20 or 30 years at various us races here powered by fiat 750 engine the testodoro head which was like the head of gold is or was what they called it and it was some sort of brass head it's not the original engine um you know 70 years later that disappeared uh 50 years ago but this is a fiat 1100 i think engine now about six months after trying to find something similar to this i try i tracked down the guy who bought the car and he's now a good friend of mine vince and he's actually a good example of a different type of car collectors as i like to say in in my industry there's three different types of distinct car collectors there's the guys that buy something or buy let's say buy five cars a year and sell five cars a year they want to try something new they flip things back and forth they're like okay i got this i got this from sell buy sell et cetera et cetera and that's cool that gives you a way to test a lot of different things then there's the guys like me who buy stuff and like never sell it because we're invested in the car emotionally we spent a lot of time working on it and it's like our children and our babies and we're like ah you know i can't imagine getting rid of it because this is the only one then the third type is the people who buy a car work on it as a project spend a lot of time putting the engine back together doing the mechanicals doing the paint the body work and all that and then they say okay i'm done with the project and i'm gonna sell the car so move on to the next project so vince my friend is that kind of guy at least was for this one where it was all about the art on the project and actually working on the restoration so i called him up you know i i talked to him and i said hey you outbid me on the car let me know if you ever want to sell it so long story short you got done with the car he's like i'm ready to move on to the next thing you want to buy it i'm like yes so i'm not sure if the camera shows this but i'm six feet tall and this is an italian car from the 40s so those things are not really compatible so i had them customized i had to move the seat i had to move the pedals the the steering wheel is a smaller steering wheel i had to make it detachable i custom designed a new hub for it 3d printed it with my my son who's in high school we designed the whole hub here to keep the original horn button with a little pusher knob on that to make it so that you know if i if i squeeze really really hard i can actually fit in the car but it's not fun so although i put the seat belt on and i think i got a little fatter in the last month since i drove it because i had to adjust the seat belt out by a little a few minutes so i don't i don't usually use a scale i just use the seat belt as a determinant as to whether i'm getting weight or not [Applause] i used to run own and run a company called pelican parts and we did uh we sold a lot of mercedes parts on the internet so we wanted to have a show car that we would um you know take around the shows basically my goal in the collection is to have something that's that's unusual that people say oh i've never seen that before we bought this as a former race car it uh needed a lot of work we redid the roll bar cut the thing down we made a custom windshield and what's nice about this car is that there's none other like it it's very similar to the 190 slr which they made from the factory but they only made five of those and no one really knows how many are in existence right now as you can see here we didn't do anything with the engine it's still modified and tuned for the race track um replaced some retuned the carburetor so that they've got a little bit lower end performance because it was terrible driving on the road car guys always love controversy about what's what's original what's not original and everyone who sees these this car comes and says oh mercedes never had wire wheels and knock-offs on their cars that doesn't look right well the 300 slr that's in the mercedes museum that was from the 1955 le mans race that had wire wheels so that's the um inspiration for these on here unfortunately probably still the worst driving car in the room these cars were never quite great drivers to begin with and this is set up for the racetrack so it's got very tight turning radius and a lot of other issues with it but it's a lot of fun we took it to monterey last year and a lot of people really really liked it because it's unusual and nobody had ever seen anything like it before yeah having so many cars i lose track of how many times they've broken down so my definition of breaking down is not being able to go forward when you want to so we took it to monterey and we didn't get a chance to really uh stress test the car before before we took it there and actually i took it in the trailer i cheated okay because i didn't want to drive you know 800 miles or it's not eight hundred eight hours 400 miles up there and break down without a support vehicle um we're driving along and the engine starts in monterey and the engine starts revving on one side lugging on the other what the heck flip to flip the hood open and the carburetor linkage had fallen off so that was an easy fix pulling out of the quail lodge start the car drive off the car's making these grinding grinding noises and i don't understand what it is pull over to the side of the road leave the car running it's making these grinding grinding noises turns out it was a new problem i'd never seen before the ignition switch on this the spring that springs the key back had broken so the key had accidentally got stuck in the starter position so the starter was turning and running with the engine at the same time that was a new one for me [Music] this is a 1980 porsche 935 arguably the most popular car in the collection everybody runs and scampers over to here like oh is it the 935 like yes yes it is not only is the 935 it's the last brumos 935 for those of you don't know brumos is a famous racing team from the 19 late 1970s owned and operated and the chief race car driver peter gregg who won the emsa driver championship in 1979 and a bunch of other years too this particular one is also the last porsche 935 chassis ever made the story on this particular one is that peter gregg again the ch aims to champion driver he was in an accident driving accident car accident where he was a passenger and the car flipped over and he hit his head and then he had double vision and blurred vision and basically to make a long story short he couldn't drive anymore they designed this car for him to be the killer car for the 1980 season at daytona the daytona 250 he couldn't even qualify using this car 935 had a very similar engine that's in the back that ran in the 911 turbos an air air engine it runs on with a mechanical fuel injection system which was getting a little bit dated by 1980 but they were still running it in the racing circuits i have never driven this car and i probably will never drive it it is really really like a bazooka from what i tell from what i've been told it's like a bazooka weapon you know you really need to know what you're doing you really need to have a lot of experience and the car will bite you in the butt if you don't handle it right last car peter gregg ever drove last 935 chassis last brew most car here we have a 2000 lola b2k powered by a porsche gt1 drivetrain and this is a very unusual car in 1998 porsche won le mans with the porsche gt ones and they retired from racing to ostensibly work on the next generation of their le mans car which was the rs spider in the meantime their customers like champion motorsports and champion racing didn't have a car to race at le mans so champion bought the lola chassis and worked with lola and luck with porsche to put the porsche drivetrain in the back because the porsche drivetrain is extremely reliable it's based on all the same design back from 1965 it has le mans wins underneath its belt it's a good it was a good bet in reality it didn't quite work out that way they had a lot of problems kind of dialing it in getting the aerodynamics right getting the engine i think the engine was pretty good but just getting the brakes and everything dialed in and the car you know broke axles did this there's too much power it's too little power it's just you know a lot of things went wrong there's a book on champion racing that has a whole chapter dedicated to this car and it's called learning the hard way it's an interesting footnote in porsche history so this one is a 1959 american la france fire engine this i bought because who doesn't want a fire engine the nice thing about this one is that the actual vehicle is not that long it's not that big so it's a miniature engine and these were used basically primarily at airports across the u.s american law france in the ninth late 1950s decided to come up with this concept for four-wheel drive brush fighting fire engine that you could operate everything inside of the cabin without getting out basically the pitch was that if you owned one of these you could get a discount on your insurance so by investing in an actual fire engine and having it on the premises on the airport on the runways you get a discounted insurance and pay for itself in the long run that was the pitch i don't think it worked too well they only made 13 of these this particular one was the show car that traveled around the country to different airports trying to sell the whole concept they finally sold it to airport in new jersey but then the fellow that i bought it from found it at the airport and then took it back and restored it all the pinstriping is all hand painted just like they would have had back in the 1950s when i bought this car at the auction you know what really sold me on on bidding on it is this [Applause] [Music] most people don't know this but the siren switches on the floor much like the older cars have the headlamp switch like this one has the headlamp switch here but old-fashioned siren with the spinner that just takes the cake [Music] here we have a 1966 jaguar e type this is a fabulously brilliantly elegant car that has been restored to the nine it's a little bit dusty a little bit dirty right now so don't let that fool you the bottom undercarriage is completely new and it's basically flawless it could with the right detailing job it could probably win a few concours this is a car that i bought and i consider it a mistake why i don't like to talk about it much but we were coming out of a deal with a race car that we'd sold and back then you can do what's called a 1031 exchange on cars so i had to buy something um or i would have to pay taxes on the capital gains so we were at the monterey rm auction this is like maybe four or five years ago and i saw this car and my wife liked it and she sat in it oh i like it and so i bid on it and i won um trouble is it's too nice it's not me and it's not the car i typically own i just don't enjoy driving cars that are just too nice for years i wanted to buy a speedster i thought they were really cool and i kept getting it priced out of the market so i put the feelers out and this one was brought to me as an off-market deal the nice thing about this car is that it was literally owned by a little old lady for i don't know 40 years or so almost completely original got a lot of good patina on it and it's just a really really really nice original car i put the largest horsepower engine that could possibly squeeze into the thing so now we got about 130 140 150 horsepower with a modified race 912 engine block in the back makes this car go from being a sluggish 40 horsepower car to being something that's actually a lot of fun to drive so this is a pretty interesting car this is a 1973 911 t that the previous owners made into an rsr clone this is basically what you do when you say i want the ultimate car and i want it to look like an rsr and i wanted to be correct with all the upgrades and goodies and all that stuff on it we had this car at an rs shootout about 15 years ago sponsored by grassroots motorsports magazine and this car along with a real rs a couple rs clones and all that were racing around the track they were all pretty comparable nobody really pulled away from each other and this was a 3-6 motor in it at the time the owner of the car got all irritated and wanted wanted a bigger motor so he contracted to have a three eight or four liter motor made the 2008 crisis and housing and blah blah blah hit and uh anyway we ended up with the car uh but without an engine in the transmission and what's special about this car now is that we had an engine and a transmission a very special engine that we um put in the rear of the car this the interesting thing on this motor is that um this was a prototype motor that was built by vashik pollock probably in the early 90s the story i have on it is that it was built for a 908 or 906 or some type of race car that never that deal never happened so this sat on their shelf for years and years and years around the year 2000 basic passed away and all of his equipment cars and engines were were to be sold at auction and there was uh an instance where the 917 engines and a 908 engine and the 907 engine four gtp bmw engines and this engine were stolen from vashek and they disappeared for almost 10 years the 917 engines were recovered the 908 was recovered as well and the 907 recovered and then brian redmond was here at our facility at pelican and we auctioned them off for charity and a million and a half dollars was raised and that went to form the vlasic and maria breast cancer center that's in torrance as a thank you gift for getting the engines back the charity gave me this one and the four other bmw gtp engines we auctioned and sold the gtp engines off and donated that money back to charity because we figured that that's how basic would have wanted it and then i kept this one for myself so we had out we had a car with a an empty engine bay and we had the perfect engine for it because this is not a real rsr car this is not a real sr rsr engine but it's got a tremendous amount of history especially with the porsche 917 engine theft story attached to it that they make the perfect perfect couple together so you wouldn't want to put a real rsr engine in a clone and you wouldn't want to put this engine in a real sr so it worked out perfectly and this is a great great car and a great great story as a result so this is a 1960 bmw 700 and if you don't know what that is that's okay because these were never imported in the united states and most people have never seen them here now this one is highly modified too so you would not recognize this even if you knew what 700s were it vaguely resembles a 700 it's got a lot of modifications to it it's got a front radiator the original cars were air cooled in the back this actually has an 1800 cc racing motorcycle engine in the truck that they use as an upgrade for the car they spent like 130 000 building this thing and it is the coolest 700 on the planet so the car was built about 10 years before we bought it and it showed up here and it had a very very very peculiar problem and some of you may know not know i've written books on how to repair cars and one on bmw's one-on-one projects for your for your bmw 3 series i've got engineering degrees i'm pretty savvy on cars this car was the most difficult car ever i've ever worked on in my entire life for this one particular issue we get in the car start it up and start fine it runs fine put it in first gear we go about 10 feet and it would stall try to start it up again wouldn't start if you take two fingers like this and push the car backwards about that much distance the car would start right up again it'll find put it in first gear go forwards stalls right out nobody can figure this out and there's a little box in the back of the car it took us about eight months to get to this point so i took the box out of the car the issue was that this was a motorcycle engine motorcycle engine sat out in the rain the seal on the box got wet at some time leaked water in here as the car moved forward the water sloshes to the rear short circuits the box and the car stalls put the car in reverse that goes in the opposite direction doesn't happen push the car back and forward a few feet the water slot evens out car starts right up again that's the problem took us eight months so we're standing here in front of one of the coolest things it's a thirty foot by twenty foot one twenty fourth scale le mans slot car track nick colona is the guy who originally built this or had it built for him in his location down in torrance and it was amazing his child was in his own room had lay like fiber optic lights in the ceiling and he would just be in their hours hours and hours playing with it so i built my own track that occupied this space before and um it was a little bit smaller and less impressive but then nick lost his space for this and to make a long story short i ended up buying it from him because it was an obvious upgrade for mine and we installed it here the entire structure is built on aluminum hand welded all wired up with individual sections four lane highway scoring system tv backdrop the lights can change and depending on whether you're racing at night or racing during the day it is absolutely a work of art took about a hundred hours to move it this is all hand constructed and all designed not to be moved i remember when we when we had to move the the stands we had a trap door there so i'm in the trap door and then we had like two guys here because you got to lift it up using two fingers here and here and then the whole thing starts to break and it's all glued together and unfortunately a lot of little people died that day either falling off the stands or being crushed in the trailer and we had a little mini funeral but as you can see most of them survived [Music] well that about sums it up i hope you guys enjoy seeing all the cars here i could talk about it all day long and there's a thousand stories that i haven't been able to tell because we are out of camera film and out of batteries and all that good stuff whatever the nice thing about it is that i've tried to buy stuff and interesting things that you know you might not ever see anywhere else and that's really the crux of what we're what we what we we've done here in fact one of the interesting experiments i like to do is watch people when they walk in the door because they'll look like this whatever and then they'll go over to one car you know the porsche guys always run over to the 935 definitely a crowd favorite with them you know i had one guy from germany run straight to the bmw 700 one day he's like oh my god i had one of these when i was a kid in germany that's the world's worst german accent but the 914 guys they get so excited about 914s and like the classic guys who are under the race cars they love this fiat the military guys run over to the tank and all that good stuff so it's something for everybody anyway i hoped you guys enjoyed it let me know if you got any comments and good night

Channel: Petersen Automotive Museum

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Length: 46min 11sec (2771 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 10 2022