Inside the $2M 24k Gold Iron Man Porsche with James Pumphrey

Here we are, Spike's car radio. It's a good show. James Pumphrey is here. Hi. My friend James Pumphrey and Peter Namm and Guntherwerks. The last minute edition, Peter's going to be bringing on this one of one turbo speedster that's behind us here. And so I guess it's already on. He's going to be telling us about this, but this was added last night. It was very exciting. Yeah, he texted me. Yeah, I texted you because we were going to have boat show guy on again. Boat car guy was coming on. I ran into him at this car show called Good Boy Bob on the west side of LA that they have every once in a while. And I said, bring something new on. So we'll do that next week. It's not, it's not every day. I, I normally don't get upgrades. So like to have a text that's like, hey, we're not going to have the, the funny car. We're going to have a crazy cool car. Doesn't happen to me a lot. That's good. And you the other way around. And have you met Peter? I haven't. He's a fan of yours. And he's mentioned you many times. This is going to be nice. You'll get to meet him and you can talk to him about the car too. But first we're going to talk about James Pumphrey and his empire, the growing empire of speed, the burgeoning speed empire. It's fantastic. I mean, I'm watching your channel just explode. Congratulations. It's, it's, uh, I, you know, you do the work though. You, you, you sit with you, right? You edit, you shoot and, uh, you don't put out crap like some shows like this show. You actually put out good content. But let's, uh, when I last had you on, you were on your way to Dakar. Yeah. With Tudor. Yeah. Yeah. There's some of the, that stuff. It's a, yeah. Well, there's more than that. But, uh, tell me about this trip. This looked like, like a dream trip of a lifetime. I mean, it was the coolest thing ever. And it was like this weird junk's position because living in Southern California and being part of cars, you get exposed to a lot of off-road culture. Yeah. Like I've been to King of the Hammers, I've been to, you know, the beaches and stuff like that, but being around the Dakar scene, like it's all like French people doing off-road stuff. So it's weirdly, I mean, it's like very European. Yeah. But then they're like doing the same thing that we do here and like that I did in Kentucky, but with different cars that I like more and different people who dress more like me. Look at this shot right here. Yeah. This is just their green room. What they brought carpets. Yeah. So that was at one of the stages. Like there's stages along the course where you can spectate, spectate. Right. And yeah, no bleachers. Um, it's called like a Bivouac, which is like a, a moving camp city. Yeah. Right. Right. It's like a military charm, right? Yeah. Yeah. And so this was one of those. So you're watching the race with Tudor watches. They give you a watch to wear. Yeah. You get to keep this watch. I did not. And I, yeah, I got to my room and there was like a watch on my bed and I was like, oh man, these guys really hook it up. And like I texted you a picture of it and then texted Jesse. That was cool. And he's like, did you read the card? And I was like, oh, and I read it and I was like, oh, I got to give it back. Oh, I went to an event, Villa Desi with the long end Sonia and it was the same thing you arrive and they said, we have a watch for you and a watch for your wife. And you're like, whoa, you must return it in three days. But still it's really fun. Yes. I actually kind of preferred it because the, you know, it made it more special and a lot more fun to wear that I didn't have to really judge their choice for me. That's the new Ranger. So that came out at the end of last year. And since this we've, we've continued to develop our relationship with Tudor. So we've been, we went to Geneva this month. And met with them. Is that what this is right here? Yeah. Then we went down to Paul Ricard and drove some Porsches. Let's see. I thought I saw a shot of you working on a watch in this. Yeah. What is, what's happening right here? So that's me attempting to assemble a chronograph. Really? Yeah. It's so hard. It is so hard. Well, I'm just getting into watches and like I'm starting to like get the appeal. And then to be sat down and be like, Hey, now try and do what we do. It's like, man, what does that mean? Did so they gave you a little tray of parts. How many parts? So there's like this master guy, right? He's like French, Swiss French. And he gave it like this great speech that's going to end up in a video. But yeah, and then they sat me down and they gave me like the movement was already complete. Okay. And they gave me a case and I like put the dial on. But did they give you any instructions whatsoever? Dude, very good instructions and a lot of patience. And even with just like probably the best like mentoring in the entire world. It was so hard. The screws are so small. And finally I got one in and the guy was like, you know, that's the biggest one in the watch. It's like so like micro machining. Oh, that's a nightmare. Especially when like everything is digital and software based now. It's like really fascinating. How are your eyes like what you just described like I'm having trouble with regular size screws with my eyes at this point and reading glasses like. And one of the biggest problems I have with tiny screws is not just the eyes. We can remedy that with the Amazon reading glass. It's the how do you hold a tiny screw in place and then drop it into a hole? And like the well, how do you do it? With like tweezers, tweezers, a tiny pair of tweezers. And then you kind of like get it over the hole and then you just like, let it go. Really? And it kind of falls in. But it's like a tiny version of an engine bay because if you drop the screw into the movement, right, like I did that. Yeah. And they were like, that's such they were like, that's a big deal. I used to we all used to play that game operation growing up. But I want I wanted to be a surgeon growing up. That's the type of doctor I wanted to be. And I remember at some point watching a cartoon or something when I was a kid and said, you can't be a surgeon if your hand shakes. And I would do all of this surgical practice, putting my hand out and trying to get it to stop shaking. Yeah. So it so it wouldn't shake. It feels like assembling a watch like that is a lot like surgery like that. Like you've got to have a really steady hand. And you like focus your eyes and you'll be like really close to dropping it in the hole. And then you'll move just like the smallest amount. And then but you're so far away from it. Yeah. Yeah. It's incredible. Wow. So so this watch was never assembled and never completed or it was? No, this one will not be for sale. And is this how they make watches for real? Like it. Yes. I was sitting next to people doing this. So there's like stations and they'll work on the same like the same type of watch for like an entire day. And did you have a sense of how long it takes for them to assemble a watch? Like how many watches can one guy make a day? They definitely told me. But, you know, because because because what tutors making what? Millions of watches a year, right? I don't think millions Rolexes Rolex makes millions. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe millions. If these are all hand assembled, you know, how many guys? Is there a giant football field of guys like no, it's pretty small team. And did you need the lab coat? Was it important? Yeah. Why? So like you it's all like it's a that's a clean room. And so you walk in the building and you have to stay in this like air lock while like the door door closes and then the inside door opens. And then you go into a locker room and there's like one side where like you can wear regular clothes and like you get dressed in between these two sides and you have to like put on booties and they have special slippers that they wear to work. Did they say what would happen if you brought like a get dust on the dial of a tutor and some guy would be really that was it. Yeah. But how do they know you don't have dust on your face or something? You don't want to know. You don't want to know. I remember years ago. They're very thorough. For some reason on the the day before the pandemic, I was on a tour at SpaceX. I still don't know how. I guess it was through a friend of mine in Malibu. He said, you want to see SpaceX and the kids wanted to see SpaceX. Well, we went through SpaceX and there was a room like that. They said, you can't go near this room. This is where all the rockets are. And there was if one human hair gets into this engine room, the whole ship will explode. I said a hair. Yeah, the hair and everybody was wrapped up a little more than this. They didn't have their, you know, obviously their hair exposed there. But it was wild. That's really cool, man. Yeah, this is exciting. So are you now a tutor ambassador? I'm like unofficially I'm like a affiliate. Are you wearing a tutor? I'm wearing a little tutor right now. A tiny tutor. Yeah. So that's what you get when you first start. Yeah, they start you out and they get bigger and bigger. They give you the 34 millimeter. Yeah, I thought this one's on my dime. Oh, that's nice. Just a fan of the brand. Tell me why you went with a smaller watch when the world is wearing forty fours and forty eights and fifties. I just I like the idea of this watch. Like I like the idea of the mini sub. I think one of the cool things about tutors that they do sort of like the vintage proportions. So they have like a 37 mil, 39 millimeter, like GMT. And so this is a 34. And it's like a man's watch. Yeah, yeah. That is so funny and cool. Yeah, like from the fifties. Yeah. If you watch old movies, you'll see guys wearing those watches. Yeah. It has to come back at some point. And I figure if like here's like my whole view of like style is if nobody's into it right now, pretty soon, everyone's going to be into it. Exactly, right. And so everyone's wearing big watches. And so I bought a two toned tiny one. Because I figure it's it's only a matter of time before it was wearing two. Exactly right. That's it's kind of like my jeans theory, the dark jeans and the light jeans. Yeah, don't throw the dark jeans away just yet. Yeah, the light jeans are almost over. And then we go to the dark. You don't throw the skinny jeans away because the baggies are about to end. Yeah, right. But you really when you recommended that I study Kevin Costner in the 90s. Kevin Costner and Harrison Ford in the 2000s. He said, that's your sweet spot for style. Yeah, I'm really into I watched kindergarten cop last night. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And Arnold Schwarzenegger puts it on like he dresses really well in that movie. He does. Yeah. Wow. What do you mean? Is I just think like Arnold Schwarzenegger pulls something up. He wears like little polos. You think his out. You think he's got a little style. Yeah, yeah. Like there. Cool. I mean, honestly, he dresses a lot like Jerry. Oh, look, yeah, that's not bad. Yeah, that looks pretty good. Little tennis sweater. My wife just bought that same sweater, except the the the gold is pink. Who's that little idiot to the left? He's probably 86 at this point. He's still that small with the suspenders. Yeah, that's good. All right, let's talk about cars. I wanted to talk about this building a cheap project car video you just put out that's smashing the internet right here. It's taking my storm. And it's a Volkswagen Golf, as you know, Cameron, our producer here on the floor has a golf. He was that's the only reason I do the show. We love the calls. He's secretly hoping that you'll do this with his car. But as you can see, they've done this already. They found a better version. Tell us why you decided to make this video. I like this story. A number of reasons. I grew up loving Volkswagen's like that was my first like cars that I was into. And I realized that like there's not a lot of presence, like there's not a lot of people building these. And so I think making my audience want them could like keep them alive for a little bit longer. And then also, I think like on YouTube, we've reached this point now, like, you know, a decade into car YouTube where we've just been like, I think it's called audience capture, where we just like have been one upping ourselves forever. And I've been guilty of that and contributing to that. And all of that stuff is cool. And like Mike Burroughs is a really good friend. I talk to him all the time, but he's building a tube chassis Ferrari F40 with an Enzo engine in it. And like that is like mad libs of insane cars. And definitely not accessible to like the average young person just getting into cars. And so we just wanted to make a video for that person's like, hey, you're thinking about having like a little project. Like, here's what I would do. And so this video specifically is like the first five modifications. So when someone says we're going to put a 747 jet engine on a little red wagon. Yeah, which is very cool, which is very cool. And it's going to get a lot of views. You thought, let's do something that a lot of folks can do and a lot of people can afford, which is great. So you find this car, you buy it for $3,000. It had 300,000 miles on it. This Volkswagen Golf and the first thing you do. And I love this. This really made me happy. And it was very good thinking when you when you wrote it, you said, let's make the sound system better. Yeah, let's put a stereo. Let's put a stereo in, which is a thing that like we got a lot of negative comments about. Really? Yeah. Oh, man, I thought that was a bull's eye. It's like just make it a place that you want to be. So you drive the car and then you're motivated. Exactly right to to work on it. And you replace the the head unit and you replace the speakers and you put speakers on that you could get the grills back on. Yeah, I also respected and liked. And you're exactly right. Like in the meantime, when you're going to be working on the rest of this, you're going to be able to listen to music in this day. Totally. Yeah. And enjoy it and start to love it. Where did you go after that? The first thing I did to every car is suspension normally. So we put a set of H&R coilovers on it. And then we did wheels and tires, which again, especially when like the stock wheels are 14 inches right big. We upgraded to 16s. Now there's 17s on it because just more tire choices. What we do from there, we put an exhaust on it, which is fun, sort of similar to the sound system thing where it's like it just makes it more fun to drive. It's like not any faster, but it feels modified at that point. You can kind of ring it out and hear it. And then we upgraded the aesthetics a little bit. We did European lighting in the 90s, like European cars had like H4 bulbs and stuff, so just like a little bit better and smaller bumpers. So look at this and you did the work. Now you really did all of this work in one weekend. We did it in 48 hours. 48 hours. Yeah. So you prepped everything. You had everything there. You did all the legwork. You got all the sponsors. Most of these parts were in my garage. They were. Yeah. So I've I've liked these cars forever. And so like that was another motivator for doing this kind of car. I was like, guys, I have all the stuff. We can do this for essentially. So what did that look like? You know, you're working into the night and into the morning. No, we did like a yeah. Well, one day we so like Mark III Golfs have like this weird heater fuse thing that like heats the catalytic converter and it hangs on the bottom of the car. And if you short it, it fries the ECU. So we did that. And so that caused a really late night. But if we hadn't broken it, it wouldn't have been such a late night. Wow. And where is this shop? So this is Aira picture cars, my friends, auto real dream. They're a drift team. They also a couple of them own a company called Aira picture cars. And they'll like find cars for very specific reasons like fashion stuff. Like they just did an Amy Leon Dorei. Oh, nice. Music videos, stuff like that. And there it is. Yeah. And then the shop where we do most of the work is Castro Motorsport North Hollywood. That guy. There it is. That guy right there. Now, what happens to Norman now? We just actually by the time this. Episode comes out, the latest installment of Normie. Yep, will be out, which is he's not as normal anymore, but still pretty normal. We painted him and we kind of like addressed all the little tiny things that were bothering me. So we finally got speaker grills on. Oh, there you go. This is a big one. And how expensive was paint? Paint was like four grand. So we didn't take. Yeah, we didn't take the guy. It's a good paint job, but like we didn't do the door jams of the engine bay. It's just a respray. At the end of the day, it's still a very cheap car. So we put more money than we probably should have into it, but not so much that like it's totally amazing. Yeah, I like it. I drove it today. Super fun. It has a five cylinder engine. Here? Yeah, it's outside. Oh, wow. You know, Zuckerman would like I was driving over here. I was like, Zuckerman would hate this car. This is the opposite of his taste. I didn't know you were going to have it. Well, we'll we'll sneak out and grab a shot of it. Yeah, I don't think it would make it in. What's that? I think it's like so low that I don't think I could pull it in. Well, we had that problem with the Gunther Works, too. You should have seen us. It was funny when the Gunther Works guy wanted to bring it in. He goes, Spike, why don't you drive the car and bring it in? And I'm like, I'm not doing that. He was asking me to drive. Yeah, why don't you do it? And then Peter's like, did you see how close they were? It's like, why are you trying to get us in trouble? Let's talk about McGuire's for a second. With one hundred and twenty five years of experience, we're still not sure what they were cleaning back then. McGuire's were just joking. McGuire's McGuire's remains deeply rooted in car culture, authentically pushing performance boundaries of detailing products to support all needs from the experienced pro to the curious novice. McGuire's at its core is undoubtedly about passion. 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It has fenders and doors inherited from the nine eleven ST. The GT three SC will hit Porsche dealers this fall. What's your take on this guy? It seems like a lot of people are like angry about it. I know on the internet they are. Why? I don't know. Maybe it's because it's like a convertible. And so they're like, it's not race car enough. But like a lot of race cars are convertibles. You know, I've heard it referred to as a cash grab by Porsche. You know, I was chatting with friends of mine yesterday about it. And look, I think it's really a cool model. I'm a little weirded out by the fact that it's not a speedster like to me. I don't get excited about a GT three Cabriolet or a sport cab. Isn't like an exciting name for me. You know what I mean? Yeah. I watched Chris Harris's driving video of it. And of course, he's having a lovely time and he's drifting it. And you can, you know, I have no doubts that this will be a wonderful model that you'll have a connection to the engine sound and exhaust note of the car. I love that it's a manual gearbox. I love that they're offering something that's not a limited production run to those who could not get an ST allocation. It has elements of that car. But at the same time, I'm a little confused by it. Right. Yeah. Like who's it for? Because it seems like everybody who cares about having a GT three is like pissed off about it. Well, because you because it's this is a GT three touring Cabriolet convertible. That's the that's the concept here, right? And and it seems that those of us who like GT threes prefer wings and prefer coupes, right? And then I can be talked into the touring variant. Right. I can be talked into that. I've got one coming in, but I kind of like the wing a little better. And now they're saying, well, what about this? What if we, you know, no wing and no top, you know? So, you know, I mean, if this is a cash grab, it's not a bad cash grab. Like a bad cash grab would be like selling your driving behaviors to like Palantir, you know? So this is like, what about the Porsche credit card? They try to come up with. That was a bad cash grab. Yeah. Well, Andy Pruninger is going to be on the show next week. And I plan to get into it with him. I have no doubt the car will be great and fantastic and wonderful to drive. And, you know, for someone like me who likes to bop around in my seven 18 convertible spider and play tennis or take my kids for drives to Malibu, it's going to be fine. I think it's going to be great. And it'll be a terrific car. But it's a bit of a head scratcher. Not so much of a head scratcher as this next story. The Porsche reported news that there's a Porsche 911 GT4. Have you heard this? No. This was confusing news to me and to the same folks I was talking to. You know, and it was funny. My friend said to me, he said, if we don't know what this is, imagine what the rest of the world is trying to. So apparently, Evo UK, they say there's a 911 GT4 coming challenge model, perhaps a production model. The discontinuation of the Cayman GT4 will be leading to a Porsche GT4. And if you scroll down, it talks about what elements that means, you know, what exactly is a 911 GT4 lighter, you know, but lower output than the current GT3 six speed dual clutch PDK transmission, you know, 0.8 liter. No, wait, that's yeah, that's that. That's a king. Yeah. But they're saying there's now this car. And I had heard there were going to be these new variants coming out. But this one came completely out of the blue. What do you what do you make of this? Well, I mean, it's like a club sport car, right? So yeah, yeah, to satisfy some sort of like. Homologation GT4 like rules, like class rules. Here's what it says. Further suggestions to 911 GT4 is a racer first and foremost in its chassis set up, riding considerably higher than the road variants. So there's all kinds of like Porsche only race. Yeah, this might be a race car and it also might not be. I don't know. It's wild. Maybe there is a cash grab going on. Maybe they're right. Maybe everybody's right. They're trying to get as much cash as they can before in the meantime. A GT3 RS went off a cliff in Malibu the other day. Look at this. Yeah, you don't want to show too much of this, but. It's so wild to me, like how people it's hard for people to acknowledge how hard driving is and how much time you have to spend to get good at it. Yeah. Like you can't pick up a guitar and play a guitar just because you bought a nice guitar, like you buy an expensive piano. Yes. You don't know how to play the piano, but with cars, you can like kind of do it enough to convince yourself like, hey, I bought this really expensive one. I must be really good at it. Yes. And it's so bad. And these cars can surprise you. Yeah. I mean, I was in this Aston last week, Vantage S and tires were hot. And still I got on it a little too much, taking a, you know, somewhere on sunset. And it surprised me. It jumped out for a second. Yeah. You're a professional car guy. Like a race car driver. And I corrected quickly, but I went, hmm, you know, I forgot, you know, there's different levels of respect for different models. And I was disrespecting this car just on a normal drive, even with warm tires. And, you know, this happens. But yesterday, I had been sitting having coffee with my friend from New York, that comedian guy, and he took a call from his agent and he, he laughed. And he said, well, I don't think that's true because I'm sitting with him right now. Oh, and then he hung up and he said, there's a rumor going around that you died in a GT3 RS. Accident Malibu. And I said, no, that wasn't me, but I'll make sure I tell my wife. So that when you see a headline like that, there is a check list of guys that I got through in my life. There is. Yeah. I go to my road source in Malibu, the guy on Instagram, the Canyon Carver. Yeah. He knows everybody that's driving up there. Yeah. And he right away told me exactly who it was. And I hear the, they're okay. How are they? Yeah, they're, they're all right. But yeah, we wish them well. Certainly no way to go. Oh, this, you know, this story really upset me. And we have to bring Peter in a minute. We talk about this car. Okay. But, uh, you know how Porsche was trying to wake up their dealerships around the world, uh, and the United States. And they kept saying, you know, we want to bring in women. We want to bring women into the dealerships. And we were suggesting, uh, that you have Pilates events. Yeah. And they, we started seeing these pictures of women stretching on cars. And on this show, we started getting very upset about it and said, that's needs to stop. You know, we're all four bringing women into the hobby. There's that's not, but you're, you're kind of like, I don't know. It's not your stereotyping them in a weird way. Right. Like, oh, women who like Porsches, they only like Pilates. Right. That's not exactly how you sell Porsche to women. The women who watch this show would not be going there because of Pilates. Well, apparently we didn't shut it down because look at Porsche Santa Clarita this week. They went hard. Look at this crap. I, you know, scroll to the next one. It lovely, lovely women. Go ahead. But, but what does this, what does this have to do with our hop? Oh God. I mean, if we didn't have enough of this crap at Coachella, now we've got to see it at our Porsche dealerships. Porsche Santa Clarita does a pretty good job with their museum. They have a great cars and coffee, but they really stepped in it here. They really, they really should not have done this. The matching outfits is pretty intriguing to me. Why do you think it was like, did they get dressed at home? I think it was done with girls gone so Miami or something, but I found this really disturbing. I don't know why. Keep, keep scrolling. The pictures have like handmade. They get worse. Like again, like I have no problem with any of these images outside of a Porsche dealership, but oh, no. Oh, wait, what is this? They're doing dental work. You know what? You know what's happening there? Right? You go back. You know what's happening there? They're injecting them with some sort of Botox filler. What does this have to do with Porsche? Yeah, that's a little wild. You know, for a long time, I railed against a couple of things. Men who named their car or called their cars her. Yeah, the cars is her. I said, that's not right. Stop doing that. Men who would take pictures of women in their saucy outfits on the car to sell their car. Don't stop doing that. I don't do that. Porsche Santa Clarita, stop doing this. All right. We don't. This isn't the way. It's like the super soldier serum. I don't know what it is, but it's just weird. We got to get Peter Naumann here to talk about this car behind us. But first we got to talk about our other guys who are sponsoring us. We're going to show our friends at Race Tech, of course. You know, Race Tech would love to be involved with you, James. Really? You know, I noticed in some of your spaces, you don't have flooring like this. I know. You just say the word. Race Tech is going to come over and give you a nice floor. Look at the great job they did on this floor right here. You know, they got a Toyota MR2. They've got BMW colors and no one seems to care about that mismatch. Four saw the brand collaboration. Yeah, they did. Look at that. And they put some wood in the background, but they do a great job. Jürgen Mahler, who founded it, he's a portion nut like us. He's got an incredible car collection. Now's the time. It's spring, guys. Twenty styles to choose from. You will be so happy when you transform your ugly garage into the coolest garage on the block. I can tell you from experience, as people know, I lay on my floor at Santa Monica Airport constantly. They say only have two more years of that before they close the airport down. Haven't they been saying that for like 20 years, though? The developers are doing a lot of propaganda right now on Instagram, saying, it's going to be turned into a park, but it's all propaganda. It's just all nonsense. But the FAA is suing Santa Monica to keep it open because we need it. It's a lifeline. Yeah, I like having the airport there. My son flies down there. You know, and we're going to do a whole show about the what the developers did with that whole situation. But, you know, forget about when the Palisades burned down. That was a staging ground for water brought in the pallets of water. And so because so many people lost their water and the rest of it, we need it because we have natural disasters here. 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But the speedster program had already been finished, right? You had completed it, right? So this is this is the last one that we're building. Wow. And so you said I'm going to reopen it because you've purchased six of my cars. Which feature? Which billionaire are we talking about here? I can't mention the name, but he has a foundation. He's actually building a museum in Oklahoma, which is going to be incredible. Yep. And this is going to be one of the cars that are on display there. So it's a very special car. So when you say six Guntherworks cars, are there six different Guntherworks models or are these just six of your unique builds? He has six of our unique builds all the way from coops, speedsters, turbo and now this new speedster, this new turbo speedster. Wow. So here it is right here. What are we looking at? Give us the basic stats. Horsepower. It's a convertible with a wing. Oh, yeah. So, you know, we were just talking about the GT3 Sport Cab. And then now you have this here and how that car, we thought would be a speedster, but it's a sport cab. Do you have any opinion on that? Do you know, somebody told me that they thought they made it a cabriolet because the car is not big enough to have a speedster cow. Do you agree with that? Or why do you think Porsche did that? I think part of it is weight. They were trying to meet a weight requirement so they don't have to homologate it. Maybe the speedster cover was going to be heavier because there's more mechanisms to it. Right. I can't speak for Porsche up, but that was one of their biggest criteria is to keep it the same weight as a coupe. So homologation could be sped up. Oh, wow. So there's some insight right there. What do you know about this 911 GT4? Anything? 911 GT4. GT4. I just read about it on Instagram like yesterday, but I think it's it's great. It's a great car that sits in between the current GT4 and the current GT3. And because the 718 is essentially going away because it's going electric. It's a great entry level, you know, track car that sits below the GT3. That's more affordable. Oh, there you go. OK. So now we get it. Yeah, there we go. We finally have someone who knows what they're talking about here. It's the opposite of a cash grab. See, we thought it was just a cash grab. We thought it was a cash grab. Turns out it's the opposite of cash. It's the opposite. It's more valuable. They've got it. What have you heard about any other models they might be doing? Have you heard anything about a halo car? Yes. Yes, I've heard they're working on something. Yes. And it's definitely not fully electric. It's most likely going to be hybrid. I heard hybrid V8. Yeah, I heard 2.5 to 3 million. Have you heard that? That sounds about right. A bit of a departure from the Mission X and more towards the 9.63, but not exactly either. Correct. Yeah. How do you get all this information? I have some source. Cleaning ladies. That's excellent. Wow, he's in the world. This is fantastic. His thing is nuts. All right, let's talk about your car. Why don't you back it up Cameron there? You can, we'll watch the monitor right here. You can take us around the car and tell us about the design aspects of it and what we're looking at here. Let's start with the wing. So I mean, to first start off, all of our speedsters were naturally aspirated. They had 435 horsepower. This is very different than the fact that we've stuck our twin turbo four liter motor into this speedster body. And it has 840 horsepower. Yikes. This is essentially a motorcycle with four wheels. Yeah. Yeah. And weight. This is just a tick over 2600 pounds. So Moly Moly. How do you weigh? Good. That's crazy. Literally crazy. And so every body panel on this car is different from the speedster. This has all of the turbo body panels. The only thing that we had to actually redesign and mold was the recorder panels because it has that intake. And the traditional speedsters don't have that rear intake. That intake is there as a rammer effect to actually bring air through an airbox directly into the turbos. So it's actually functional. But all of the turbo body panels were superimposed onto the speedster. It starts off as a cabriolet. And so it's it's just an insane machine. And we're we're only making one of these cars. So it's never going to be repeated again. And the client had an inspiration because he loves Disney characters. And he actually ran out of Disney characters because he's commissioned so many cars. So all of his cars have a theme. That's correct. Yeah. That's cool. You know, it's funny. The I saw a piece of social media with a new singer that had Disney character icon iconography. Is that the right word inside of it? And folks were saying it might be the former CEO of Disney's car. But I wonder if it's this guy. There's he just your guy. Does he just do Gunther works? I actually asked him. I don't think that was his car, but he does have that car on order as well. He does. Yeah. Well, yeah. Show us a little bit of this interior. Wow. So it kind of looks like Iron Man. Yeah, that's exactly what the inspiration is. So the vehicle is called the end game. And it signifies two different things. One is that it's the final speedster that we're making. Yeah. And it's one of one turbo configuration. And then obviously there is the movie end game. Right. And it's modeled after the Iron Man suit from Avengers Endgame. And you can actually see if you have a chance to turn on the light. The there is an arc reactor in between the two seats. Well, turn on what light? The headlights and then that will actually light up. Oh, no way. Let's do that. Our engineers actually made a one of one arc reactor just for this car, which was interesting. Arc reactor. I don't know what that is. So that's not like a part spin arc reactor. No, it's not. Isn't that what the DeLorean had to travel through time? The arc reactor is the Iron Man's chest thing. Oh, look at that. Well, wait, let's tell him how to turn on the arc reactor. I want to see it click on. So you actually have to turn on the headlights, which is right next to the key. Do you want to go over and do it for him? Sure. So we can film it. Yeah, just go ahead and do it. We'll play a nice little walk over music here. Do you do the theme from Endgame? Ingram will score this for us. It's a nice little walk. He's turned on the car. And then check it out. All right, Cameron, can you get an angle right here? That actually allows you to turn it on as well. All right. Here it is, everybody. Oh, wow. That's sick. This guy definitely doesn't have too much money. No, I mean, not at all. Just thinking that it's so much money for such a for such a thing. But he sounds like a fun guy, huh? Yeah. What are the other Disney character theme cars? Yeah, how is the Pocahontas gun that works different than the Iron Man? Is there Donald Duck? Like what other Disney characters did he do? We just finished his turbo coop. Yep. A couple of days ago. And that is themed after Hercules. Oh, wow. So he it's not really Disney characters so much as it is kind of a superhero. Marvel Disney. Actually, it is based on Disney characters. But what happened is because he commissioned so many different cars with Disney characters, he ran out of characters. And so we were having this intense discussion a few months ago where we're like, there's a lot of Disney characters. There's tons. Like how is that possible? What happened is because Disney had recently acquired Marvel we then were able to open up the Marvel characters as part of the Disney universe. Now, is that because of Disney or because of him? Like like to clear this with Disney? So this is not officially approved by Disney. Or so it would be Disney. We are in a mudge. We are we are simply doing what the client is asking. Right. Exactly right. So he's saying he ran out of Disney characters. Then it became in his playbook of logic. Yeah. Now that they bought Marvel, I can now I can touch that IP as well. Exactly. This there's no obsessive compulsive disorder here whatsoever. Definitely. Is there a Lion King car? Probably. A Pumba. Is there a Pumba? You know, Steamboat will use public domain now. Anybody can make a Steamboat. Will you look if he wants help with more Disney characters, I can help you out with it. So when he comes in, obviously you guys can do anything a buyer wants to do. Look at that mirror for a second. The side mirror, Cameron. Now he comes in as he say, I want to do this. Is this your design idea or how involved does he get with the individual components? So we were intimately involved with speccing every aspect of this car out with the client, and that is our original Speedster mirror. It's it's based on a Talbot mirror that. Yeah, yeah. That's what I recognize. But what we did is the back half of that Speedster mirror is actually plated in 24 karat gold. So all the elements that you see on the exterior interior has 24 karat gold color line into it. That's real gold. Yeah, it's real gold. Real 24 karat. Are you going to tell us what this car cost? It was a little over 2.1. 2.1. Yeah. Oh, I mean, that's it. This seems like a deal for a gold car. Yeah, gold. Our reactor. And now how does the top work? So there is no top. There is no top. So they so the top just stays down forever. This is a permanent open Speedster. I support that idea. I think that's great. Yeah, I think that's kind of really drive it on nice days. But, you know, like the 718 Spider RS, I start to resent that top because it's an analog top and it takes 10 minutes to put it on or take it up. A little bit of a top thing. Yeah. And I don't mind the process. But part of me was just like, why not go like with what Peter's saying here? Just no top. This is fine. Just we don't we don't need that. I've obviously done that with my Bronco there. I took the top off that. And now that's the way that car lives. You know, with the Bronco, not to take a big sidebar here. I watched a video on YouTube of a guy like you, James, on how to take that back piece off. And he was there with his daughter and he went through all the steps and I'm like, oh, this is easy. And she's making me laugh through the whole thing. And he says at the end of the video, he goes like this. He goes, now remember, right into the camera, the second you get this top off, it's going to rain the next day. So you better have a plan, right? He says that and I laugh. And I'm like, yeah. And I say it literally say to my computer, not in Southern California. The next fucking day, the next fucking day it rained. The next day he was right. And I had, I luckily had this aftermarket waterproof top that I put right across the top of it. And, you know, I read all the reviews on Amazon and it said, don't worry. It's waterproof. It works. It's, you know, not as thick as they say in the pictures and the rest of it, but it totally works. Well, they were 100% right. But what they didn't say, see this roof, the lack of the roof, the water pulled in the center of the top. And then like a, like a, like an unattached outdoor pool cover. The whole thing sunk to the backseat, but stayed on. And then I had to figure out how to get these gallons of water out in a bag, use your pocket hose. I could have used, I should have done the reverse shotgun with the pocket hose, but I did it. You know how I did it? I had to climb in the middle of it and then somehow go like this and take it out. It would have been really fun for the neighbors to go look over at that point. But, you know, again, a long way of saying I support that decision, Peter, I think that's a really cool idea to have a car like that, that you just use on, you don't worry about the top. Who cares about the top? Well, it's really lovely. Where does this car go after this? The profile is crazy. Yeah. What do you call the paint? So we actually had to develop the paint because my son has a collection of hot toys, Iron Man figures, and we actually had to match the paint to the armor that's hot toys figures. So the investment finally paid off. And so it is very, very accurate to the actual candy red paint. That's on Iron Man suit. So when you say matching it, what do you do? Do you take that toy somewhere and have it like laser? Like what is that process? We went through 12 different variations of red candy paint to be able to match that suit to make sure that we got the right tone and the right effect. So that was quite a bit of work. And, you know, everything that you see on the exterior and the interior is 24 karat gold, with the exception of like some side elements right where the hump is, where that's actually painted to look like gold, but everything else really is actual 24 karat gold. But the rings in the headlights. Is that gold? Yeah, the bezels around the headlights are 24 karat gold. Is the stick shift gold? It is. Yeah. And actually, so the no top. Shifter actually is inspired by the glove of the Infinity Stones. And so we actually had to go and take this shifter after it was plated to a local Los Angeles jeweler and get these gemstones micropovate into the shifter. Are they real gemstones? They are. And what do we see an emerald, a sapphire, a ruby, a yellow. I don't know what that is. Amethyst, orange. Like those were expensive. Yeah. Yeah. It's so sick. And the best part of this is while we were gold plating all this. Of course, gold prices at Scarsha. Yeah, no, I know. During that time. Yeah, blame acre gold for that. They're the ones responsible. I don't know whether you take this car to Aaron Water or Comic Con. I don't know where you debut this car. Ideally, both. Yeah. And then if you have a chance to open the engine bay. Go ahead and walk. Don't don't have camera do it. Not with a two million dollar car. We'll play some walking music for you again. There you go. That's very nice thing. Grim. Very nice music you're playing for him. It's tough to walk on camera, isn't it? It's going to open back there. These are 993 platforms, right? Yeah. But like so little of it is still a 993. Like that. Wow. This is wild. Those those are the actual charge coolers for the turbo engine. Air to water charge coolers that we developed. And those charge coolers are typically nickel plated aluminum. But in this case, we also did these in 24 karat gold. And will the gold hold up? Like what does the care look like on gold as far as a metal that has exposure to elements and here clearly heat? Do we do we know how that responds? It's it's very resilient and actually gold acts as a heat rejection. So it's good for performance as well. NASA uses gold, right? Do they but it scratches pretty easily. It depends on the the thickness of the plating. So typically, if it's really, really thin plating, it does come off easily, but we've done a pretty resilient plating on this. So you take these parts, you send it to a plater, then you have to give them a bar of gold to melt down. Like, how does that work? Like, I think the platers have their own bars. They have their own bars of gold. I see that makes that certainly makes life easier. I've never heard of such a thing. I've never seen an engine like this, too. Yeah, so what? But it looks like an engine still. But not like not one that I've seen. No, it's a piece of art. Yeah, it's a piece of Hot Wheels. It's a piece of Comic Con. It's really interesting. Well, thank you for bringing this by. It is going to be at Air and Water, right? The Air and Water. That's correct. It's going to be a debut for the first time in Air, Water and Public. OK, and that's next week. That's this Saturday. Do you want to do one more walk over and start it up for us? Sure. So we can hear it. I hate to have a car here like this that we don't hear. This is the best music so far. Yes. Good, good music cut ingram. I like that walk. I just like this is the shoe sounds as well. Yeah, the shoes down here it goes. We're starting her up. Oh, wow. Yeah. So good. That is wild. Yeah. Like the profile. I can't hear you, James. The profile is so cool. I've honestly never seen anything like this car in my life ever. Not once. It's too hard to kind of describe in all and with one idea, but it's an impressive, an impressive build. Really cool. Peter, thanks for bringing it by, man. Thank you for having me. It's good to see you. Yeah. It's I'm glad you two are finally meeting. Yeah, you guys are fans of each other. And, you know, next time you have a Gunther Works press card, give it to James, let him take it out. Absolutely. And rip it around. Well, what are you bringing to Pebble this year? Are you going? Yes, we have three new cars that were debuting. So at this point, the quail is about you. It's about Gunther Works. I think there's a lot of other bigger brands like Bugatti, Lamborghini. We're just the side shows. I don't think so. You're going to have three new models there. Yeah, essentially. Amazing. Yeah, good for you. Well, congratulations on your success. James, congratulations on your success. Thanks, man. It's fabulous. The channel is speed. Company is Gunther Works. Cameron, congratulations on your success. Thank you. I really appreciate it. Your trip to Coachella sounded amazing. Thank you. Appreciate it. And we'll see you next week on Spikes Carry.