Did you see Jerry Seinfeld on Jay Leno's Garage earlier this week? Don't worry if you missed it, it will be available on demand and on Jay's Youtube channel soon enough. Meanwhile, small clips of the show are starting to surface and this was one of the better ones. Featured is Jerry's unrestored 1958 Porsche 356 A Speedster. As he and Jay go …
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Set Your DVR: Two of the world’s Biggest Porsche Celebrities Visit Jay Leno’s Garage
Porsches are nothing new on Jay Leno's garage. Jay himself is a big fan of our favorite marque and over the years he's featured everyone from Magnus Walker to John Willhoit. This week's upcoming episode, however, is a bit different. A Porsche Can Only Be Original Once With the help of both Jerry Seinfeld and Patrick Dempsey Jay tries to …
Continue to the full articleAstounding Automotive Archaeology Uncovers Porsche’s First Le Mans Winner
In 1950, at the Paris Auto Show, the organizers of the 24 hours of Le Mans invited the Porsche family to enter a car in the 1951 race. Porsche accepted and decided to use one of their left over aluminum bodied Gmünd Coupes as their entry. In fact, they prepped four cars for testing with the intent to enter two cars in the 1951 race. The two …
Continue to the full articleWatch John Willhoit Explain His 356 Engine Building Process To Jay Leno
Back in 2013 Jay Leno acquired a '63 Porsche 356 Carrera 2 and wanted to know its past ownership history. During his search for the car's provenance he learned that John Willhoit (of Willhoit Restoration) was a past owner and the man responsible for its restoration. Jay decided to have John on his show, Jay Leno's Garage, and since then the two …
Continue to the full articleMeet The GT2 Love Child Of Magnus Walker And Alex Ross Of SharkWerks
If you follow Magnus Walker on Facebook you know he's been talk a lot lately about OPP (Other People's Porsches). That's because last November Alex Ross, of Porsche tuner SharkWerks, stopped by Magnus' LA shop and dropped off his 997 GT2 telling Magnus to keep it for as long as he wanted and to treat it as if it were his own. Magnus took that last …
Continue to the full articleListen to the Cacophony Created by the Porsche 918 as it Switches from All Electric to Gas Power
In the video below, Jay Leno interviews Frank Walliser (Head of the Porsche 918 Spyder project) at the Quail Lodge on the Monterey Peninsula. Walliser walks Jay through the new super sports hybrid that Porsche says will act as the "gene pool" for its sports cars of the future. While I'm not a huge fan of Jay's interviewing style (I think he was …
Continue to the full articleJohn Willhoit of Willhoit Restoration on Jay Leno’s Garage
Jay recently acquired a 1963 Porsche 356 Carrera 2 and decided to track down its previous owner. Upon making a few calls he found out that the person he bought it from, purchased it from the John Willhoit (of Willhoit Restorations) who previously owned it and restored it. In the video below John revisits the 356 for the first time since 1977 and …
Continue to the full articleWatch Magnus Walker and His 1971 911T on Jay Leno’s Garage
On a recent episode of Jay Leno's Garage "Urban Outlaw" Magnus Walker stopped by to talk about his love of Porsche and this particular 1971 911T. Perhaps, even better, Magnus gives a back room tour of his Porsche workshop in downtown LA. For more on Magnus, his Porsches and Urban Outlaw check out his site at http://magnuswalker911.com/. …
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