First Wash in 58 Years: ABANDONED Porsche 356SC w/ 17,000 Original Miles! | Amazing Restoration

This is the rarest car we've ever found. For nearly 60 years, this car sat frozen in time, hidden away, forgotten. This isn't just any car, this is the Porsche 356SC, one of the last and most refined versions of the legendary 356, and Porsche's first ever production car. Born from Ferdinand Porsche's vision, the 356 set the foundation for every masterpiece that's followed. Lightweight, rear-engined, and built for the purest of driving experiences. And this one, it hasn't moved in 58 years. With only 17,000 original miles, this is a true time capsule. Warning, this video consists of a lot of arguing whether it's Porsche or Porsche-o. Leave a comment down below which one it is. Good luck spelling it. Enjoy. I think the car that I like is in here. Let's see. We had to up our insurance policy just to pick this one up. Alright. I mean, I know what it is. I mean, I don't know what it is. It's a Porsche of some kind. Wow. It's a 356. Oh my gosh. This thing's gorgeous. Okay, hold on. Let's get this off of here. Wow. You know what's crazy, Mike? For as big of a Porsche fan that I am, I've never seen a 356 in person. I don't think I have either. I lied. I've been to the Porsche manufacturing plant in Germany. Look at this thing. Mike, you have to see the interior. Holy crap. Wow. Look at the interior. Oh my gosh. Wow. Alright, this way. You can't see that. You guys can't look at this yet. This is the most beautiful interior I've ever seen on a classic car. That dashboard is so gorgeous. Oh my god. This is insane. Okay, I didn't realize how crazy the inside of this actually would be. So, do you know what this stands for? SC? I'm going to have to ask, to be honest. I should know. So, I'm going to have to ask him a lot of these questions so that we can learn. These are the exhausts? No. Yes. Are you serious? Dude, that's so cool. That is so cool for how old that is. That's so ahead of its time by leaps and bounds, dude. Porsche is the best car company. I don't care what anyone in the comments says. They can fight me there if they'd like. But, before I start a fight with all our viewers. I'm just kidding, guys. I love you all. Let's go grab the owner of it and get some more information. Okay, guys. While RJ is grabbing the Porsche owner to talk about the car, I want to show you something cool we have in the shop. So, if you guys are new to this channel, we're actually giving away this 1960 C10 Apache to one of you. But, what we thought would be fun is that we posted a video two weeks ago completely detailing it and showing everything that we did to it from the ground up. But, we thought it would be really cool to show you what we've done to it since that video went live because it's actually been still getting worked on behind the scenes. We actually just got, what is this? An engine cover? What do you call this? Valve cover? Valve cover. We just got it powder coated by our good buddy, Brad, in this beautiful blue. He redid the... I think this is actually an oil filter. It looks like an oil cap. Does this come off? I think it's a two function. Isn't that cool? Yeah. So, I'm assuming cars, they don't do something like this anymore, right? Absolutely not. I don't think we had the air cleaner in yet either, did we? Nope. So, we kind of avoided showing the engine because it just wasn't pretty to look at. And now, this is a beautiful engine. It is a straight six and, best part, Mike, a lot of room to work on. Oh, yeah. Tons of room to work on it. A reliable engine. But, if anything went wrong, there's tons of space to actually just fix it right up and these are easy to work on trucks. Yeah. And as we're going through this truck, I wanted to mention to you guys, if you're interested in winning this thing, you could literally go on our website in the description below, buy one thing or the whole package and win it. You could spend $30 and win an entire truck. And last week, we just gave away a PlayStation 5 and an Xbox. We're not going to say who won it because we want to keep the privacy of the people who did win. We did give them away. We also gave away the AirPods Pros. We had some people asking about that. But I wanted to mention, since we're doing a Porsche in this video, we thought we would keep the theme that we're going to add to the giveaway four Porsche 911 Lego sets. I'm a huge Lego person myself. I collect Legos. This is actually one of my favorite Lego sets. So, if you guys enter to win the truck, you're also getting entries to win one of these Lego sets. We have a bunch of multipliers on the website for the different bundles. Definitely go check it out. It's in the description below. But I'm going to grab the camera now because Mike installed something on the interior that we think is really cool and want to show you. A lot of people didn't want me to put an aftermarket radio in here, but we got a period-correct looking radio. It also has, obviously, radio features, auxiliary, and I put a Bluetooth in there. So... Okay, I was just looking at it. I don't even know. How does the Bluetooth... How do you connect to it? I have it slotted into the rear on the aux. So once you press aux, it automatically goes to Bluetooth. And if you'd want to switch that out, all you have to do is unplug it, and then you can plug in the supplied cords, and then you just have an aux cord if there's some people that still want to use it that way. And then also, while we're in here, this seat looks awesome because we had it reupholstered. Thank you, Hussein. And then the carpet, I actually custom did. I cut this out and made it. I think it fits pretty well. Mike, before you show them the bed, I have to ask the viewers and you, what is the point of this step? I had to stop the video really quick. I can't imagine that this step was very useful. It's totally useful. I guess maybe in the 60s, people were shorter. I'm going to take my shoe off. But if you had to get in the bed or, I don't know. I don't think it's for that. I think if you put something in the bed and it's right in the center, right there, then you could easily step up on there and then grab your item. I can grab it like this. All right. Someone leave a comment. What is the actual useful purpose of these side steps on trucks? Because to me, it doesn't make sense because I can reach almost all the way across the bed. But just something I thought of. I just don't see the usefulness of them, besides looking cool. It does look cool. I think they're useful. It's definitely easier to get in and out of the bed with that than, try to get in there without using that. What are you going to hop in there? Exactly. I have jeans on. Okay. Maybe. Guess what they wore back then? Jeans. All right. Let's show them the bed. We already gave these away. We were filming this in advance. Anyway, look at this bed. This fractal wood burnt bed is absolute coolest piece of this truck. I mean, you take this thing anywhere, nobody has a bed like this in their truck. Maybe some crazy custom truck somewhere, but I've never seen one and I've tried to look it up. So it's my favorite piece of the truck. We put new tires on this truck. It's running and driving pretty good. I don't know, man. This thing is sweet and I'd be happy to have it. Just check our website, buy any product. You get a chance to win this truck. And also, we're giving away four Lego sets. So you could buy one thing. You could buy a whole bundle of stuff or some merch, whatever you want. And you'll get entries to win this beautiful truck. And for those of you new to this channel, we do everything in-house. Every single bottle that you see, we fill, we label, we seal, and we package and send out. It's all done by us. So we're really appreciative of everybody who buys anything. You're helping support a dream and we thank you for that. So get your entries now, but let's get back to the Porsche. I think I'm more excited for this than I would be for a 911 because I've done 911s before. This has so much more character and so much more, I guess we should just get right into the conversation. I don't know if you guys remember, this is Robert, the gentleman who owns quite possibly the first VW 181, the thing that we did in our last video, quite possibly the first one to ever make it to the United States. And he also owns this beauty. I'm sorry, I'm still freaking out about it. Been sitting a long time just like the 181 had. I know these guys will take some great care of it. I wouldn't be trusting anybody else with it. So it was in the same garage as the thing was, but you brought it here because you wanted to obviously get it out and start doing some motor work. Possibility of a tree falling on the building where it was at, so we took it out and brought it over here and left it set because my grandson said, do not touch it. And then he said, you guys are the ones to get her cleaned up. And so here we are today. Yes, sir. You've done a really great job on my 181 and I'm sure this is going to come back and I'm going to be even more wowed. Yes. Well, I want to say thank you, Kyan, because that's your grandson that put... Yeah, without you, this would not be possible. Thank you for your vouch and watching. So shout out to Kyan. This is amazing. Seriously, I'm bouncing off the floor right now. I don't even know what to say. Yeah, he would have loved to have been here. So how long was it sitting in that barn for? About 58 years. Oh, wow. Yeah. Wow. Between one barn to the nether, about 58 years. It was just covered up with a tarp, just like when you came in. So I know that the VW thing had really low mileage. What's the mileage or kilometers on this? 17,000 miles on it. 17,000 miles. My dad bought it in Germany in 1965, I believe, or 64, and imported it back to the United States and just decided that he was going to put it up, and there it sat for a long time. And here we are today. Wow. Going to break her out. Incredible. I feel so honored for this. I can't tell you. I'm such a Porsche fan. And I never gave enough respect to the 356 just because it was a little bit older than the Porsches that I'm interested in, a lot of the 911s. After seeing this in person, this might be my favorite Porsche ever. So I guess it's time to get it off the lift. Yeah. We'll get her down and get her outside. All right, guys. So Brent hasn't seen the interior yet, and neither have you, but I wanted to get his first impression to see if it's the same as mine and Mike's. All right. Mike and I's. I've been hearing... I mean, I was behind the camera, so obviously I know it must be incredible, but dude. For a 63, that... Can I open the door? I think so, yeah. Oh my gosh. This is like movie stuff. I've never seen anything like that. That is beautiful. So pretty. This belongs in a museum, honestly. This is a museum car. I can't wait until Mike does his interior talking time and we actually get into every little thing about it. Guys, keep watching the video because you don't want to miss that part. Now as we start pushing this out, I just want to say if you guys are enjoying this video, please do me a favor and hit the like button because that really helps us out. And subscribe to the channel if you're not already because we always find really crazy cars just like this one, and you don't want to miss those when they come out. And lastly, I'm going to ask the question of the video, so leave your answers in the comments below. Now that you've seen a lot of this car right here, what do you think it's worth? Leave a comment. That's cool. I can't get over it. I've never seen a tow hook like this ever. It's seriously just a piece of metal, a little hook, dead center, welded to the frame. That's pretty cool. All right, I guess we were so excited to get the Porsche back to our shop here in Cleveland that I totally forgot to mention that we are traveling around the United States looking for enthusiast vehicles like this that are in extremely dirty condition to feature on our channel. The two conditions are that it needs to be an enthusiast vehicle and needs to be extremely dirty, dusty, moldy, grimy, nasty. It needs to be something that people want to see clean. So if you have something that's an enthusiast vehicle that is dirty, you can reach out to us at our email or DM us on Instagram with pictures and where the vehicle is located, and maybe we'll drive out to you and detail your car completely for free. All right, now that you guys have hopefully gotten all your entries in for that sweet C10 back there, now it's time to talk about the Porsche. You want me to talk about it? Oh, sorry. I thought that was just the intro. I know I was fangirling about this car when we first saw it, but it looks even better now that it's inside the shop, safe and sound. This car is so gorgeous, and I've never really appreciated the 356s, not nearly as much as I do now that I've gotten to see one in person, and now I'll be able to work on one. I'm sure my appreciation will only grow the more that we get into this car. I mean, my mind was truly blown because I never thought much about these cars either. I always thought 911. I never really realized that the 356 is really the first car of the line, and wow, is it so special, and I can't wait to get in the nitty-gritty and see everything about it. One thing that we've been talking about since it's been inside the shop is obviously how much it looks like a Volkswagen Beetle, which, of course, Ferdinand Porsche did have a huge part in designing the Beetle, and the way Mike describes it is he took a Beetle, smushed it down, made it more stable to drive and more agile, and put a bigger motor. Wow. Actually. More horsepower. Is it a bigger motor? It's a 1.8, but it... I don't know. I think the original Beetle came 1.6, so it might be slightly larger and a lot more powerful, but also, not just that, I've had time in Beetles, and they are so pedestrian, as beautiful and wonderful as they are, but this, especially on the inside, it's like jewelry, man. This thing, this is just a whole different thing. It's very special for us to have this here. That's one of the best ways to describe it, and I've been a Porsche fan, but I usually don't really follow cars after the 1970s, late 60s, 1970s, or anything before that. I'm really not that well-versed, and I can't wait to learn more and more about this car as we work on it. At the time, this was the best of Porsche, and so, hopefully, if everything works out, we're going to be bringing this to a nearby dealership that has some of the other most iconic cars that Porsche has ever designed, so you guys definitely want to stay tuned to the end, because I think the comparison is going to be unreal. My favorite features of this car, I have to take you in the back for us to check it out. I'm still mind-blown at the design, because I just didn't expect some of the features that this car has, especially these exhausts that cut through through the exhaust. I just think that's so pretty and innovative for the time. Companies weren't doing this, and I've worked on a lot of old American cars, some German cars, and British vehicles, but I'm really coming to love this Porsche. For the back of this car, I want to be very careful on all the chrome on this vehicle. There's a lot, but I think it's all going to come back really, really nice. The only thing I am concerned about is the gold tinting on this Porsche badge. Did you say Porsche? Yeah. Porsche. I don't see no A here, boy. It's Porsche. You can't have such an iconic car like this in the shop and call it a Porsche. It's a Porsche. Let us know in the comments which way you pronounce it. I prefer Porsche. This guy prefers some A that doesn't exist, but I can't wait to get in the nitty-gritty of this bad boy, and I can't wait to show you guys what we do. One thing that this car is missing is some of the wheel caps. We haven't been into the frunk of the car yet. We are really hoping that they are there. There's one of them for you right there, that beautiful wheel cap. I don't know how to open the front of this car, so I'm going to try to figure it out right now. We're hoping to find two things in the frunk here. One is going to obviously be the wheel caps that we just mentioned, and the other thing that we're looking for is the toolkit. I believe one of these toolkits actually sold on Bring a Trailer not too long ago for $5,000, which is insane. Hopefully, this still has the original toolkit and the hubcap, so it can be considered complete. Let's see if this is it. This is it. It's so nice. It just worked perfect. Oh, boy. There's a lot of stuff in here. This is nicely set up. Looks like some extra parts. So, we have... Oh, that's nice. This is a big... Oh, wow. That's to cover the spare tire. This looks like the toolkit. No. I don't know. Yeah, I think so. What? That's fuel. That comes out... Ooh. This is very reminiscent of the Volkswagen thing we just had in here. It is. It's almost like they were similar companies. So that's the jack. Yeah. Look at this. Hold on. Man. Some rubbing alcohol. Take a swig of that. You'll be drunk for a week. Hold on. Let me smell it. I don't know what that is. That's wicked. I don't know what that is. I can't tell you guys. So, here's the battery, the battery tray. There's nothing in here. No. I mean... No hubcaps. No toolkit. No hubcaps, sadly. This is where I'm assuming that the toolkit was strapped into at some point. Did this not come with a spare tire? I guess not. One thing that is super cool, although we didn't find the hubcap or the toolkit, is right down here. Brent, do you know what this is? No. So, if I'm not mistaken, this is actually a gas-powered heater for the car. So, it doesn't have a traditional heater that runs off the radiator off the back of the car. It has an actual gas-powered heater that runs off the fuel in the front of the car. Because it's air-cooled. It is air-cooled. That's why. Ah. That makes so much sense. Yep. The owner's son mentioned that he might have those hubcaps in a different area in his home. So, since we can't find them in the car, we're going to get started on the wheel process now and get these wheels cleaned up. Alright guys, before I get started cleaning this wheel, I want to tell you what I'm going to use. I'm going to use our Purple Rain Wheel Cleaner and our Tire Cleaner. Let's get started on this wheel. Now, I have to say, the transformation on these wheels specifically is probably one of the best transformations I've ever seen on our channel. The metal comes out so nice because of the Purple Rain, and the Tire Cleaner makes the rubber of the tires release all of that blooming and browning to bring back that deep, dark black original tire. And that's the coolest part about this truck giveaway that we're doing, because you get to see us use it live on this video. And watch how effective it is on a 1963 Porsche, so imagine how great it would be on your car at home. And to take care of the leftover rust that no wheel cleaner is going to remove, we're going to use 4-Ot Steel Wool with Metal Polish, and then Isopropyl Alcohol afterwards to remove the leftover residue. And you guys will see the before and after. This turned out so amazing. And next, we're going to pressure wash away this 58 years of dirt and dust off of the paint. And we're not using our WD Auto Supply Pre-Wash on this car because it's a single-stage lacquer and it will stain the paint. But when we get to the wash process and we use our Cherry Suds, that's going to pick up the slack for what's happening right now. All right, now it's time to get into the engine bay of the 356. And this engine took so long to decipher and figure out what it actually is. Obviously, it is a flat-four, the boxer engine that Porsche pioneered, but this one is special. So it is a 1600 1.6 liter four-cylinder, but it is not a 356B or a Carrera 4 cam engine. This is a very specific engine that was strictly made for the 356SC, which is really freaking cool. I believe this engine made about 95 horsepower for its day and time is incredible. And it actually did zero to 60 in around 10 1⁄2 to 11 seconds, which is about as fast as my big truck does. But... Slow. What the heck? But back in the day, this was... I think my truck actually does it in seven seconds. I'm just being courteous to a legend that's in our shop right now. But nonetheless, this was the most powerful engine that they put in these 356s. And I can't believe that it's in our garage. This is like the piece de resistance of the 356s and still over the moon that we get to work on it. But we're going to be extremely careful in cleaning this engine bay because as you can see, the owner, Robert, has already started to do some work. And I believe that he has actually pulled the plugs as well. And so I do not want to get any water in there and that's what he requested for us to do. So we are going to do our best to vacuum out any of the loose sediment, maybe scrub with a brush, and then we will wipe everything down with our citrus degreaser. But we are not going to be using any pressurized water or even water from the hose to rinse this down because this engine is probably worth a lot. And I can't imagine that Robert wants to pull it out and rebuild it from the ground up. So I'm going to avoid any liability and we're going to clean it as safely as possible. Now that the pre-rinsing and the engine bay are done, it's time to lay our foam down. And what we're going to be doing, you can see all of this super embedded dirt that hasn't come off yet. Because we did not use our pre-wash, we're going to be using our cherry suds. And it's safe on all paint types because this is pH neutral so you can even use it on your cars at home. I highly recommend this soap, it's great. But what we're going to do is we're going to take our foam cannon and lay a thick layer of soap on the whole car, pull out our wash mitts, and give it pretty decent pressure because a lot of this is super embedded in the paint. I don't think all of it's going to come out right away. I'd say about 85-90% of it. But we do have the solution to that, which is our iron kryptonite, which you see us do in every video. We use an iron remover. So we're going to use our iron kryptonite with a clay mitt after that to help remove not only the embedded dirt, but any iron that's rusted into this paint. If you have little yellow specks in your paint, this will remove it. But we're going to get to it, hopefully after that RJ can polish this car without too many problems and this thing is going to shine. Now we're going to put the Porsche up on our lift so we can take the wheels off, clean the wheel wells really good, and the undercarriage. And you guys get to see what that undercarriage looks like. And while they're off, we might as well make these wheels and tires on the other side look perfect as well. Alright, now that the Porsche is up on the lift, it's time to get this underbody clean. But that's not a job for me. It's a job for me. It's always a job for me. That's a nice getup you got going. I think I've perfected it for chassis scrubbing, starting with my elbow high gloves, my first face shield, my second face shield, my waterproof boots, and my semi-waterproof getup, jumpsuit. You think you're going to get wet? I'm totally going to get wet. I'm always flipping it wet. Well, you've given it your best attempt and this car definitely deserves to get cleaned on the other side. It absolutely does. It's actually already pretty flipping clean down there, to be honest. I mean, we have some surface rust, and then we do have some oil leaking. But outside of that, it's in great shape and it absolutely deserves to be made as clean as possible because I don't think there's much that needs to be done under here. For underneath the car, we're going to be using our citrus degreaser to break up any grease and grime that is on the chassis. And to be honest, I'm going to need a lot of it. Now we could use the foamer, but I would have to pump it up every single time. So I figured I'm just going to actually use our foam cannon instead. I believe it's going to take the whole entire bottle. Perfect. All right, now it's time to see how I did. On the outside, it looks pretty rough. Pretty dirty. Yeah. Now it's time for the moment of truth. Not bad. I don't think I'm wet at all, at least not on my shirt. Pants. Knees are a bit wet. A little bit of crotch water, but I'm going to count that as a success. My socks are dry. My feet are dry. My whole upper torso is not wet. That's a win. Now before RJ had a chance to polish the paint, Mike and I took it upon ourselves to polish all the metal. It doesn't really matter what order you do this in, but I'm kind of glad we did this first because we got a little bit of metal polish on the paint, but that just wipes right away. All right, now it's time to polish the 356, and I am super excited to do so because this car is going to turn out beautiful. But before I do that, I'm going to obviously go ahead and inspect the paint to see what I'm working with, and I see a ton of staining from all the organic material that was sitting on the vehicle for all those years. And as I come around to the side of the vehicle, I see that there's some pretty heavy scratching, almost as if someone was washing this car with a Brilla pad or something very, very abrasive. And so my original plan was to only use a single-step light polish just to bring back the luster and shine of the vehicle, and I might still do that, but it just depends on how soft the single-stage enamel is because my goal is to not remove a ton of paint, but I would like to remove a good amount of these scratches. And I think that this is all original paint except for one area on the car, which is right here. I think I can find a little bit of the blend line. That seems to be the only spot that's ever been painted on this car. I'm not sure when that happened or why it happened, but I will actually take some measurements and see if any bodywork was done there to see if it had been bonked or bruised during its existence. But this Porsche 356 is going to turn out beautiful. I can't wait to see the end result, and it really is a pleasure to bring this thing back to life. All right, moving on to the interior of this Porsche 356, I have to say this is the nicest vehicle I have been inside. Everything feels so sturdy and well-made, like every button clicks appropriately. The sounds it makes, the magnetic for that, like, I don't know, something about this is unlike any other car I've been in, and it feels really, really special. Now this interior is in rough shape, but luckily it wasn't in the sun or anything like that, so I think everything you're seeing here on the door will be able to come out. And Mike, do you think that all this mold is going to leave any kind of staining? Because we've seen that a lot with white and tan interiors. So usually on white and tan interiors, staining or browning from mold is very common, but black interiors and black leather like this can usually be saved, and I'm really, really hoping that we can bring this car back to life. The rest of the interior is in rough shape, too, it is just super dirty, so I'm going to be very careful, but also try my hardest to get this thing back up to snuff, because it deserves it. This thing really deserves a special treatment. I'm just blown away by this car, I really am. There's a bunch of little random stuff in here, like there's a really, really old ketchup packet that what's inside here is... It's not even red anymore. It's not red, it's like... It's hard? It's not hard, it feels like really thick grease. This is a receipt for fuel from Sinclair, and it's dated 469, so from 1969. Can I see it? Yeah. Let's see what it is. Where's the 69? Oh, wow. 1969 receipt. The total for the fuel was $3.79. The price was $0.35 a gallon. That's pretty crazy, I've never seen a receipt quite like this. So there's a lot of history with this car, and I truly understand now why this car is as special as it is, and I'm hoping we can take really good care of it and bring it back to life. I'm actually going to take all this stuff out, because it seems like this carpet comes out really easy, and these mats do as well. So we're left with a bare floor, and then I'll start vacuuming up this bare floor after I get these out of here. These are all pretty simple. You know, it makes me feel like I did actually a really good job on that truck, seeing how they did this back then. Man, old cars were just, they were just made better. And now we're going to clean up the rest of the interior, and this is where our interior cleaner shines, and if you guys have ordered it and used it, you know exactly what I'm talking about, especially that amazing scent. If you haven't already, I mean, you can get entries for the truck, and you can see how good this stuff is. All right, now it's time to reinstall the front bumper, but before I do, I wanted to know if Mike likes it without the bumper, or with the bumper. You know, I was going to say that I liked it without more, but now that it's back on, I don't mind it whatsoever at all. What about you? Now that you say that, I was going to say without the bumper too, but it's painted, it adds chrome. I'm still going to go with no. I think that these cars were designed to not have this, and so I think it still looks more European without it, obviously, because this is an American bumper, but I'm going to say no bumper. What do you guys think in the comments below? Bumper or no bumper? And now we're going to put the final touches on the car, and then roll the NB roll, but after that, we have one more big surprise that we landed just for you guys, so keep watching. And now we're at Porsche of Beechwood, and somehow, someway, we got the coolest opportunity ever to bring this car to Porsche of Beechwood, and they were so gracious to give us a tour and let us have private access to their second floor showroom, where we got to talk about the 356 next to some of the greatest cars Porsche's ever designed. And now we're here with Brad, who is a Porsche ambassador, to tell us not only about the history of the 356, but then how it turned from this car to these cars. Brad, thank you so much. I appreciate you having us here and giving us the opportunity to show off this 356 amidst some of the greatest cars that Porsche's ever made. It's awesome for us to see it here. I mean, this is an example of where Porsche started. 356s were the first Porsche models. They first started being built in 1948. This is the last generation of that. There was a 356, and then there was an A, and a B, and a C. By 63, 64, they were Cs. This is an SC. S stands for super, Porsche World, or horsepower. And it still does. So if you get a Carrera S today, it has more power than a standard Carrera. This car is very rare. It's very original, very correct. Not many like that anymore. Most of them have been used and abused and worn out over 40, 50, 60, 70 years worth of use. One of the things you see with the Porsches is that there's a Porsche DNA that happens all the way through. We see the sports cars here, and this 356, the next year, 64, they started making 911s. The cars next to it are the current top-of-the-line 911 models. So this 911 Turbo S, it's a 50th anniversary, so it's a limited edition car. The Turbo Stripe, that's something they did in the mid-70s on the early Turbos, first use of Turbos in a production car there. Interior with the fabric. You see them coming back to that fabric today, where it started off back when these cars were newer, you started to see fabric being introduced in the interiors. Even though this car has, I don't know, six or seven times the horsepower of this car, it's obviously faster, there's similarities in the way they drive and feel. Looking out over the hood, seeing the fenders bulge upward, it's the same thing in this car. And they're still fun, no matter what speed you're going at that. One of my favorite things about Porsche is the silhouette. It may be the most recognizable silhouette in the automotive world over time. And the cool thing is that I didn't see the connection between the early 356s and then the next generation 911s, or the first generation of 911s. This carries over that body, that silhouette that we all recognize and know today. That has become Porsche's trademark. It was probably smoothed out more in the 911s than the 356s. You still see it, the Speedster, from the late 50s. It lives on in the current Spiders that Porsche makes today. So that shared DNA there is really a big deal. And even simple things like, look at the shape of the window coming into this building. That's designed by Porsche and it brings back that kind of a shape there. And you see this GT3 RS in the window. It fits perfectly. And that's all by design. It was not done happenstance because somebody liked that shape for this building. It was done by Porsche to make it Porsche-like. That's brilliant. I love it. I did have a question. This is a flat 4, the Boxer 4, I believe. This engine, when they made the new 911 the year after, was that when they changed over to the flat 6? Correct. Yeah. The 911 started the 6-cylinder cars. Some of the early 912s were 911s with these engines in them to make a lower-cost, lower-performance version there. And that was a big switch. Just like today, people may not want an electric car or want a 4-cylinder version of some cars. Porsche faithful didn't want 6-cylinder Porsches in the mid-60s because the real Porsches were 4-cylinders at that point. Of course, now it's gone full circle at that point. My last question for you, if you had the choice out of all the cars sitting in this area right here, what are you driving? What are you taking home? Wow. I'll give you two. Give me two? Yeah, I'll give you two. That way you have a little bit of variety. It's hard to pick just one. Probably if it's two, I'd take this 356 and the Spyder RS over there. That kind of embodies, I think, a lot of what Porsche is all about between those two cars. So if I had my choice, I would absolutely have this in my garage, but then it would be sitting next to a GT3 RS. This is the pinnacle. This is everything I've ever dreamed of. Actually, what I want is a 991.1 in Miami blue. Or 991.2. I'm not too picky, but it has to be manual. But obviously, this is the pinnacle of Porsche. It's a flagship car when it comes to racing. What is so special about this car? Why is it the flagship? So this is the current GT3 RS. RS means it's lighter, faster, more performance, more track oriented. You can see all the aero on this car. You know, we've gotten used to some of the air intakes there. There is no front trunk on all the rest of the cars that you're seeing here. There is space for at least some small luggage in the front. This is all radiators, air transfer, carbon fiber. That's what it's about. The rear spoiler is larger than what you've seen on other cars. It's active. Those flaps move depending upon what you're doing. You know, they go flat for high speed. They go not so flat for braking and cornering to provide downforce. So this car performs at a level that's just beyond what earlier RSs and earlier GT3s do. This particular car is one of, I don't know exactly how many, but small numbers of cars that were done in this livery. All the green trim in this was done specifically as a tribute to the earliest RSs that were in the early 70s. You know, the earliest 911 RSs. So that's what kind of makes this car special compared to other RSs that are effectively the same car but are not going to look the same. So this is a unique car. If one of our viewers wants to buy a Porsche and they want to buy it from you guys here, how can they get in contact? PorscheBeachwood.com. You know, we're online or stop in if you're in the Cleveland area, but we'd love to see you and help you out. Awesome. Well, thank you so much for the time, Brad. Thank you. Seriously, this is a dream for us. So we really appreciate it. Awesome. All right, guys. We're all the way back in Indiana. We just brought the 356 back and we're here with Robert, the owner, and his son, Lee. And they haven't seen it yet. You guys have any expectations? Oh, great expectations, of course. I'm extremely excited to show you guys this car. We're all extremely excited to see it, I can tell you that. Yes, sir. We have so much more that we did with the car that I can't wait to tell you. But without beating around the bush too much, let's go ahead and lift the garage, let you see the car. All right, here we go. All right. Oh, wrong door. There we go. Oh, my God. Oh, man. You guys. That is just crazy. That is crazy. I didn't expect near that great a paint job on there, but that's just... I didn't know it was that color. Is that nice? That is nice, guys. God, I can't believe that. I mean, this is my favorite car that we've ever worked on in the history of our channel. Beautiful, man. Yeah. Got them chrome wheels polished up. Yeah. We were blown away too when those wheels came back. We polished it with four-out steel wool and some metal polish. Everything turned out phenomenally. The paint held up. Yeah. Me too. I am totally blown away. Haven't seen it like this since the photograph that Kyan sent you. Oh, man. You guys. The interior is just... Oh, nice. Nice. Really nice. So nice. I can't express how thankful we are for your grandson and his trust in us and by his trust, your trust in us by proxy. Yeah. His mom was trying hard to get him to come down. We offered him a plane ticket and he just couldn't make it. But yeah, we got to give another big shout out to Kyan. He's the one that instigated this whole thing and brought me and you guys together. Another big shout out to Kyan. Yes, sir. Thank you, Kyan. None of this is possible without you guys. Exactly. None of this is possible. All right. This was seriously my favorite car we've ever worked on and I can't thank you guys enough for the opportunity. Yeah. And we thank you guys so much for watching as well. Without you guys, none of this would be possible either. So if you like this video, give it a thumbs up. And if you want to see more videos like this, hit subscribe. And also do not forget our 1960 Apache giveaway is live. And right now there's multipliers on all the bundles. 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