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title: 'I Couldn''t Sell My Unfixable Porsche Nightmares and Lost $45,000'
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date: 2026-07-01
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# I Couldn't Sell My Unfixable Porsche Nightmares and Lost $45,000

> Source: [I Couldn't Sell My Unfixable Porsche Nightmares and Lost $45,000](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Nwmf6hs9o4Q)

## Summary

In this video, Hoovie attempts to sell eight of his cars to fund his 300SL Gullwing rebuild but ends up with a total disaster. He details two successes, three expected losses, and three complete failures, including refunds and an unsellable car. The total financial hit amounts to roughly $45,000 in losses and refunds.

### Key Points

- **Selling 8 cars to fund dream car** [00:19] — Hoovie tries to sell 8 cars to fund his 300SL Gullwing rebuild, calling the process a total disaster.
- **Breaking Bad Cadillac: A rare win** [02:01] — Sold on Cars & Bids for $16,500 after buying for $8,800. After repairs and shipping, he profited about $4,500.
- **Maybach 62: Another profit** [02:47] — Bought at Barrett-Jackson for $44,000, spent $5,000 on maintenance, sold for $53,000. He made another $4,000–$5,000 profit.
- **Lincoln Town Car: $8,000 loss** [06:02] — Paid $16,400 plus shipping and repairs, ended up selling for $11,546—a loss of $8,000 due to mice damage and airbag light.
- **Lincoln Blackwood: $5,446 loss** [06:28] — Bought for $11,000, spent $4,500 on head gasket repairs, sold for $10,854. A loss of $5,446.
- **Range Rover: Refund and junk** [09:42] — Sold for $10,000 but coolant and oil leaks appeared. Refunded buyer, sold to salvage for $3,000. Net loss including shipping and repairs.
- **Porsche Panamera: Unfixable** [18:29] — Sold for $13,000 but buyer had stalling issues. Refunded and sold to J&J Auto Wrecking for $8,000. Intermittent electrical problem.
- **Porsche 911 997: Unsellable** [22:00] — Bought with hidden cylinder scoring. Two Cars & Bids auctions failed—both buyers flaked. Still unsold at video's end.
- **Giveaway: 1992 454 SS truck** [28:25] — Sponsor Fanathom.com is giving away a restored 454 SS truck. Entry via keychain or mug purchase.

### Conclusion

Selling cars to fund a dream rebuild turned into a financial nightmare, with over $45,000 in total losses and refunds. Hoovie's only bright spots were the Cadillac and Maybach sales, while the rest ended in disaster.

## Transcript

This thing stuck here. This thing's a
refund. The Range Rover's a refund.
There's the losses. All in $45,000 in
money if you count the refunds and then
the losses on the Lincolns.
It's a
It's It's a tough day.
>> [laughter]
>> Welcome to Hoovie's Garage, the dumbest
automotive channel in all of YouTube.
And I tried to sell eight of my cars to
fund my dream car or now nightmare car
rebuild. It's a bottomless pit, my 300SL
Gullwing. And uh selling those eight
cars or trying to was a total disaster.
Well, I say that two of them went well,
three were expectedly terrible, [music]
and three were a complete and total
disaster. Two I had to give the money
back on, refund, and one I can't sell.
Two people have flaked out at this
point. [music] It's probably never going
to sell. So, it is pretty frustrating,
but let's start with the ones that went
well. The first one being the Breaking
Bad Cadillac, which this one was
actually a disaster for me YouTube
views-wise. This is from the last
episode of Breaking Bad where Bryan
Cranston's character engineers a machine
gun in the trunk to mow down his enemies
in one epic climax. And this is actually
the car. It wasn't damaged in filming.
That was all CGI and tricks. And this is
the actual one that he drove in the last
episode of the film. It sold in a pop
auction for over $20,000 a few years
ago. And then the Mob Museum raffled it
off, and the winner sold it at
Barrett-Jackson. And I bought it for
only $8,800. I knew it was a great deal
at the time, but unfortunately it was
probably my worst video views-wise in a
couple of years, which is fine, but it
didn't inspire me to really do more for
this car, make it a feature in any other
videos. So, it kind of sat there. Even
though it broke a lot, it actually broke
down on us three times. Three trips to
the Car Wizards, and I spent $2,800 on
it plus eight or $900 to ship it back to
Kansas from Arizona. But the good news
is when I sold it on Cars & Bids No
Reserve, it brought $16,500.
And it's going to a museum, which is
really cool. This place in Texas has all
kinds of movie and TV cars, Batmobiles,
Knight Rider, you name it. So, it's the
perfect place for it, and they paid
$16,500
for it. So, even after the shipping and
the fixing, I made like $4,500 on the
thing. So, you could definitely call
that a win, a rare win for me. Now, the
absolute home run was my 2004 Maybach
62, which I had for 4 years, but I
hadn't driven very much in the past
year. I bought it at Barrett-Jackson for
$44,000 with fees. Probably over the
years spent around $5,000 maintaining
it. No big failures. Not bad for 4 years
of owning a Maybach 62 that was $400,000
new, and it was one of my most
successful YouTube cars ever. Multiple
videos over a million views, one I think
over 2 million views. So, I was really
happy with the car. It could have sold
for free, and I would have been happy
with the ownership experience and what
it did for me and my channel. But, it
actually sold on Cars and Bids for
around $53,000.
So, once again, I made another four or
five thousand dollar profit on that car,
and it sold to a really cool guy in New
York City who planned his entire summer
around the car, things that he was going
to do with it. So, pretty cool there.
So, two big successes. I am very much
going to miss that car, but I do have
this 1998 S500 that I can fix up now
with the money. A new alternator was
just put in. Stock wheels come in
because these aren't the right AMG
wheels. They're from a newer S-Class.
They just don't look right. And I also
have the S350 diesel that I've actually
been daily driving. 180,000 mi, even
though it needs a new turbo and some
shocks, it's still driving fine as is.
And the cool massaging seats, the
freezing hot air conditioning, I'm
driving this thing a lot in the summer.
And that was the problem with the
Maybach in the first place. It's
engineered off the 140 chassis, which
you go buy those for a fraction of the
price. And then Mercedes redesigned the
S-Class. This came out a few years
later, and it looked more modern, more
beautiful than the Maybach, and it was a
fraction of the price. This would have
been 60, 70,000 dollars compared to
$400,000,
and that's why the Maybach was a total
failure from Mercedes. Now they're back
as just existing S-Classes badged up and
that's probably what it's going to be
like forever. So the Maybach 62 is a
really special thing, but I totally get
why it was a failure and I'm not missing
it that much because I am well stocked
in S-Classes otherwise. There's also the
Mercedes 6.9 that's in Georgia getting
fixed at DC Motorworks. So I have three
to replace it with. I'm doing okay.
Since I've been daily in this S350, the
wheels have been getting pretty grimy,
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>> [music]
>> for some big big losses, but it's
actually worse than that. So now it's
time to talk about the losers going from
the least loserest to the dumbest
losers. And usually I expect to lose
some money on these cars, especially
going through fixing all of them. I
don't make wise decisions like Euro
Asian Bob where I let him have this
Ferrari 348 for I think $45,000 for 5
years ago. So
yeah, I could own that car and I don't.
Instead I had the 100,000 mile one that
I sold even though I love that car. So
let's start with the smallest loser and
that's actually the 1923 Packard. And I
am really happy with this because I
bought it for $10,000 and it is an
original paint survivor car that didn't
run. It wasn't too crazy to get it
running, but we did have a small wiring
fire shortly after that because dummy
wired up the battery wrong. It's a
positive ground car and I put in the
battery the wrong way and it caused some
melted wires. Not a big deal, but
$10,000 to buy it, $1,000 to ship it
here, $1,800 in repairs, and it sold for
$11,000. So I lost $1,800 on this car,
but I got to own a 100-year-old original
survivor Packard, get it running on the
channel, the videos did well enough, and
really enjoy this thing for the year
that I owned it. So losing $1,800, not a
big deal. The losses, they go up from
there. So the pair Lincolns, I knew I
was going to lose a lot of money on both
Lincolns. Starting with the 1991 Lincoln
Town Car. That really was April's car,
but I egged it on and we went too far.
We got definitely got carried away with
the bidding on that one. With the fees
we paid $16,400
for a 40,000 mile silver rose a Lincoln
Town Car, which they can bring that, but
this one will have been sitting for a
while and it needed a lot of work. The
selling dealer did a lot to wake it up,
but as you start driving a car more
things break to the tune of this one
around $2,000. The air conditioning,
windows, a lot of little stuff that
needed to come back in action. And
unfortunately, we spent $1,200 shipping
it here as well. So, we are close to
$20,000 into this thing. And uh there
were some issues that popped up. The
thing is, if you want big money for a
car, you have to make it perfect. It's
either perfect or it's cheap. Another
dealer's going to buy it and fix it and
flip it for more. And that's what
happened with this one. It had the
airbag light on. Also, mice got into it
and chewed a hole in the seat that I
didn't fix. So, it was expected to bring
less, and it sold for $11,546.
We lost $8,000 on that one. $8,000.
That that's That's a big hit,
unfortunately. I wasn't expecting that
much, but it does make sense considering
I didn't have the car as nice as it was
when I bought it, unfortunately. Now, I
said I was going to do this in order,
but there were two Lincolns. They were
kind of close. The Lincoln Blackwood was
also another expected loss because I
bought that one not knowing it had
failing head gaskets. Bought it at
Barrett-Jackson for $11,000, I think
with fees. Then $800 to ship it home,
and then a whopping $4,500 in repairs to
do the heads on that car, unfortunately.
And the bidding? Well, $10,854.
So, basically $11,000, close to what I
paid for it, but I had to do all of
those repairs. So, if I didn't have to
do massive massive repairs to it, it
would have been okay, but obviously,
that's a big loss. Although, it still
had issues. It still had the ABS light
due to the module that I couldn't find,
and a few other little things. So,
that's why it didn't bring huge retail
money. A dealer bought it thinking he
could flip it. Actually, the same guy
who bought the '91 Town Car. Father son
flew out, drove it back to Atlanta, no
problems. And that one I lost $5,446.
But, it was a successful sale, just huge
losses between the two. Unfortunately,
though, it gets worse. It gets way way
worse because I had to refund two people
their money on my cars, and one
it it it's totally unsellable. So,
earlier, Magic Mike was here looking at
this Range Rover that I sold for $10,000
and then it started leaking everywhere.
Double the trouble right here and
Magical the Mike right here. How's it
going?
>> I'm not feeling so magical after this
Range Rover.
>> There's no winning on this thing. So,
this one I sold on Cars & Bids $10,000.
I got the money.
>> Mhm.
>> That's me making a $3,000 profit on a
car, which never happens.
>> I mean only
>> rarely happens. I was very pleased with
myself and then I walk out to it uh and
the shipper's coming to get it the next
day and there's just an explosion of
coolant on the ground and it is
splooging out
the fender. Like right here. So, I
assumed like okay, expansion tank cuz
that's right here, but
>> That's what I thought.
>> It's it's dry. There There's nothing
dripping around here.
So, unfortunately, open up the door.
>> We had to find out the hard way.
>> It is decided the heater core to let
loose. So, that is coolant inside of the
cabin.
It has busted, but that's not all.
I I I'm glad I caught it before it went
out. Imagine it went to this guy in Utah
and then he finds all this. I would look
like the biggest POS in the world, but
while we had it in the air looking for
the leak, uh we couldn't help but notice
it the oil cooler line has been changed
in the oil cooler, but it's still it's
still drippy.
And it's it's so We thought it was just
from the residual mess when that thing
kind of exploded, but it just keeps
>> It keeps accumulating around the
radiator right here, but it's not coming
from our oil cooler. Both the lines got
replaced, new oil cooler. It's dry up
top. It's only wet on the bottom.
>> And it only drips when the car is off.
So, when it's running,
we'll let it sit here and run for an
hour. It'll never leave a drip on the
ground. Then we park it and that's why
we assumed it was just residual mess
that was hard to clean out without
taking out the radiator or whatever, but
at this point, it's
Is it a bad Is it a bad line that brand
new something like that? So, once again,
weird, but then Michael's like, "Nope,
that's That's not it." So,
I can't believe this, but
the rear main is
a little drippy,
which maybe was a little bit of seepage
before normal little car stuff doesn't
matter. And then this transmission,
which was done 6 months ago,
it's it's leaking from the pan again.
So, that one See, that one's leaking.
Kind of a drip. The rear main, I guess,
would leave a drip every once in a
while but
>> Yeah.
>> I can't I can't send it out this way.
So,
I've had to refund money on this one.
And guess what? Selling it to J&J Auto
Wrecking for $3,000.
So, instead of 10, I get three, which is
what I paid for it. Then I spent
$1,000 shipping it here, and then $2,000
fixing it up, and then sell it for three
to get just parted out to salvage yard
because it's it's absolute junk. So,
anyway, the good news is
we got we figured this all out before it
went out to Utah cuz basically I would
have had to give the guy a full refund
and just let him keep the car, but even
at that point, like
I The concern is like are the head
gaskets starting to go? Like all this
stuff, it's just
>> It's extremely inconvenient and it's all
at the same time. We fix I thought I
fixed one and then another one shows up
that's completely unrelated.
>> It's kind of
It's Yeah, something's not right. So,
another one like a perfectly
good-looking beautiful car
that just just being parked here
mechanically totaled itself because this
stuff wasn't leaking before when I drove
it back from the Wizards and parked it
months ago, it just
It just started going.
>> Ever since I touched it.
>> [laughter]
>> Oh, are we blaming you?
Well you
>> That's what it feels like.
>> You haven't touched this one yet. So,
this is from my last video with the LR3,
and I wanted to top off the transmission
fluid to see if it would shift cuz it's
flaring and and slipping right now. And
I saw there was a seal for life
transmission. Everybody screamed, "It's
not seal for life. You can fill it from
the side." And so,
you're right in the comments, you can
fill it from the side. But now we have
it up in the air. Look at this wonderful
mess here. I mean,
this is everything. This is this is this
is leaking everything. It's more Ran
Land Rover. It's more Land Rover
struggles. It's got me feeling like I'm
maybe not as magical as I once thought I
was, but this one
>> You haven't touched it, so
>> [laughter]
>> I can't curse it if I haven't touched
it.
>> I mean, valve covers, timing chain
cover,
front diff, rear main, and then the
transmission obviously is just a total
mess. And yeah, there is a fill hole on
the side, but this is in the way. This
is This is in the way. They make it so
hard.
And also, it has either a timing chain
or a cam phaser rattle, so that's going
to let go any moment on the engine.
That's going to be done. So, this thing
is mechanically totaled. But, we are
going to put fluid in the transmission
cuz you all are so mad that I didn't try
it because apparently this is the best
Land Rover ever. And we're going to see
if it actually fixes the transmission
even though it has 200,000 mi. So,
uh Is there enough out of the way?
>> Yeah, we got enough out of the way. I
got my little hydraulic pump with me.
We'll We'll see what we can do.
>> Okay. Is it in?
>> We're in.
>> Use this at your job at night, too.
>> [laughter]
>> I've had a little bit of practice. I
think we'll
I think we'll be able to bring breathe
some life back into this transmission.
>> You think so?
>> A quart and a half low is pretty low.
>> Fix a Land Rover for once.
>> Maybe.
>> You know, the previous owner actually
reached out to me when he saw the video
on this and said, "Yeah, I trade dumped
it because of the transmission and the
timing chain noise." He bought it, it
was still running warm and quiet.
Somebody had warmed it up before he
bought it.
>> Yeah.
>> And then the uh radiator exploded on his
wife the first day she was driving it.
And left her stranded. So, he had a very
bad ownership experience, but
let's see.
No slip there.
Big Oh, man.
>> That one's got a little bit of a slip
there.
>> There's a flare.
I guess it's improved.
>> It shifts, but it's not very smooth.
>> No.
So, it makes it drivable now, but that
was a very hard one-two shift. There's
definitely some damage in there.
>> Yeah.
>> Now, we'll give it one more try. Maybe
it's circulated a bit.
I've never attempted to floor this thing
before.
>> [laughter]
>> So, why not now?
I like that.
>> Wow.
That's
way better than what I would have
thought it was going to be.
>> that was good.
>> [laughter]
>> Okay.
>> I said one more.
>> One more. I'm just going to do a normal
pull here. I think because it was in
here, first shift, transmission command
selected is forcing it into second here.
Yeah, there's still a little bit of a
when it shifts, just a little but but
>> It's definitely drivable, though.
>> Yeah, someone could actually get maybe a
few weeks out of this.
>> [laughter]
>> But, I think I'm going to make a decree,
Michael.
No more Land Rovers.
>> Please, no more Land Rovers.
>> I I
after all the years of abuse and all the
many that I've owned,
I think
I I think this is it for me. I I
honestly think that I've gone through
every single Land Rover that I've ever
wanted to own or experience.
And they've all been [laughter]
horrible.
And I I think this is it.
>> I I think you'd be making a good
decision.
I just don't know if I believe you cuz
I've got a feeling there's going to be
something that shows up for the right
price.
>> But what is What is a worse brand?
I I honestly I cannot think of one where
they just hold up so terribly.
>> Land Rover's up there for [music] me.
Top three least desirable.
>> Yep.
So there you go.
Hoopties. But now it'll drive smooth to
the junkyard at least.
>> [laughter]
>> Assuming that the timing chain or the
camshafts don't explode. So thank you
for that.
>> Absolutely. Happy to help wherever I
can.
>> So here they sit on death row. Three
generations of Range Rovers from the
'90s, from the 2000s and 2010s. All
mechanically totaled. This is my buddy
Rob's. We did a video on this one on
April's Garage. It has a bad head
gasket. It's going to get dumped at the
auction. But this one, yeah, going to
the junkyard. And this one going to
Eurasian Bob's junkyard. But it just
keeps getting worse. It'd be fun to put
a brick on the gas pedal and just let
them ghost ride out into the corn field
forever to never see them again. But the
farmers would probably get mad when they
hit a Range Rover out there when they're
harvesting. But I also had to refund
someone on a Porsche as well. Porsche
Panamera 4S that was fine when I sold
it, but then it started having all kinds
of problems. And the car ninja can't fix
it.
>> Johnny, it's Are you saying a little
prayer here?
>> Uh he's going to need more than that.
>> What happened? Cuz I put 3,000 mi on
this car over the better part of a year.
It It was never stalling. It was never
conking out. It had issues that we
fixed, but why 5 years after I sell it
does it just all of a sudden
just
>> Hey.
If it doesn't happen, it would not be
you.
>> I guess so. But I mean this is
This is happening uh a lot.
Unfortunately, this is sort of a theme
on this uh sales video, but this is one
I didn't expect. It was a friend of a
friend who bought this thing.
I
I had a lot of confidence in this car.
So,
>> Me, too.
>> So, what is causing it? Obviously, you
don't know cuz you can't figure it out,
but what do you think's happening?
>> Well, there is a communication between
all the modules. We thought that there
is the gateway. We got the used one,
installed it, programmed it. Same issue.
>> Okay.
>> So,
obviously, I don't know if you want to
go deep. I mean, we have to got the
whole interior, trace every single wire.
Only problem is it's not staying
consistent or pretty much broken all the
time, so we'll know.
Cuz every time you cycle the key,
>> it just resets.
>> If it would just stay stalled out, if it
would break and then stay broken, you
could figure it out.
>> Yeah, well, absolutely, yeah.
>> But, otherwise, it's just
Nope.
>> Yes.
>> Nope.
>> Nope.
>> Nope. Nope. Times, I don't miles and
miles of wires, and you've tested
everything,
and it's just
it
>> Yeah.
>> It's an unfixable car.
>> It could, like I say, it just has to
stay broken.
>> Right.
>> Otherwise, it's going to be a guessing
game on computers and all that, so I
don't want to do that.
>> It's Yeah, fire the parts cannon at it,
which is dumb because Porsche parts are
expensive. Drive it until it actually
breaks, breaks, but it's really
dangerous to drive it because it just
stalls out on the highway, stalls out in
random places, and like it's it's a
dangerous thing to do. Or
junk it. And
>> [laughter]
>> like this is such a nice car. I can't
believe I'm doing this, but
>> great. I mean, not too long ago we fixed
the
variable timing.
>> Right. Right. So, that is what is
happening. Johnny, we're punting it. I
gave the guys money back, which was
$13,000 what I sold it for.
And J&J Auto Wrecking, which is an
outfit that specializes in, you know,
especially exotic
salvage, they're giving me
quite a bit of money for it. Still not
quite $13,000, but a lot because it does
have carbon ceramic brakes.
>> Nice.
>> Those are worth, you know, six or $7,000
on their own.
>> And yeah, the wheels are nice. The
engine itself for five, the PDK
transmission itself for five, and then
all the little trim pieces, the bumpers,
the headlights, everything's so nice
that they might make you know, they'll
be 50,000 as
>> Yeah, this one is brand new.
>> The headlights are super nice. So,
by the end of it they'll have like
maybe 50 grand in sales from the thing.
Obviously they're taking apart and sell
there's a lot of work with that, but by
giving me
I think it's going to be around $8,000,
they're obviously in the green. So, it
it's insane cuz we have sent cars to J&J
before. They have an amazing inventory.
I know like the the BMW Alpina was one,
the 760 is another. There there's
there's plenty of them gone what car
trek cars to the Maserati and the Audi
S8.
>> Maybach.
>> Their selection Yeah, the Maybach, the
Range Rover. There's so much great
selection there. Uh they're the
specialist for it, but
I never imagined this one, 116,000
mi on it.
>> an idea. You should open your own
salvage yard.
>> I I
>> [laughter]
>> I'd break everything taking it apart.
You want to do it?
>> Sure, why not?
>> I just can't believe this one, 116,000
mi.
It's done. It
it's
>> It's going to bug me.
>> It's going to keep you up at night?
>> Mhm. Yeah, cuz I want to know what
happened.
>> Well, the thing is like J&J, I've sent
them cars before
and he gets them and he I want to fix
this one, I'm going to fix this one. And
then he fires the parts cannon and then
regrets it. So, hopefully they've
learned their lesson there, but
I can't imagine it
it's not something stupid like a crank
sensor, it's not something it's not like
like a a voltage regulator.
>> or the main DME
could be shorted.
>> So, you could replace that like
computer.
>> clone it for cheap. That's I would not
do the the brand new one, but if you can
find someone to clone it.
>> If you bought it from the Porsche dealer
and spent
>> a couple of three
>> thousand dollars and then it doesn't fix
it.
>> Oh yeah. No. No.
>> [sighs]
>> I can't
I can't believe it. It's
it's so weird cuz it was fine for me and
then 5 days after selling it. But I I
can't like kick this to someone else.
So, I could take this to the Hooptie
auction. It runs and drives. Nobody
would know the problem. It may not stall
on the dealer until they sell it or
something. But then it's going to be
someone else's problem. They're going to
be in the same boat. I can't I can't
kick the can down the road, which also I
can't do this every single time either
where I'm diving on all the grenades and
taking all the hits cuz obviously I
would go bankrupt. But in this case I
feel like I feel like I have to.
But it's so sad, Johnny. This thing is
so nice.
>> It is.
>> [sighs]
>> Man.
>> You going to say my last goodbye?
>> It's crazy. But
even crazier this this is not the only
Porsche that's just been
Anyway, selling things has been very
challenging lately.
Okay, I'm going to keep this camera
rolling the whole time to see if it
conks out because it's something that
never happened to me. It just happened
to
the next owner about a week after he
bought it and it happened to CarNinja a
few times.
But
we'll see.
It's probably going to behave perfectly
with me.
>> [music]
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>> Nothing.
It's fine.
Of course, I would love for it to go on
camera and show what it's doing, but
it's not going to do it.
Well, that's certainly weird. Usually
it's the opposite where I have all the
misery, experience all the bad stuff,
fix all of it, and then the next owner
has all the joy of my misery basically.
But in this instance, it's totally
behaving for me. The CarNinja, it was
breaking on him, the next guy who bought
it, it was breaking on him. So, I did
refund the money. I own this Porsche
again for a little bit, although I did
just sell it to J&J Auto Wrecking for
$8,000. So, thanks to J&J Auto Wrecking
for buying this thing. And no, I'm not
selling this one to J&J Auto Wrecking,
but it has been impossible to sell. So,
it's had two rounds on Cars and Bids,
and both times the buyer has flaked
because this is an 88,000-mi Porsche
911. And I got scammed on this one. They
told me the engine was fine, they put
200 mi on it, changed the oil. It seemed
like it didn't have the famous cylinder
scoring, but when it showed up, it
completely smoked out the entire
driveway, the garage. The thing has
really bad cylinder scoring. So, the
engine needs to be rebuilt. You can see
the paint is bad, but also needs a
suspension gone through, it needs the
brakes gone through. The interior is
actually pretty nice, and the
transmission and the clutch are good,
but the ignition is sort of falling
apart, there's no air conditioning. So,
it basically needs a whole restoration.
This is the first 997 probably that
needs a full restoration. And I put it
on Cars and Bids, no reserve, whatever
it brings, it brings. I knew I was going
to lose my butt. And the first time it
got bid up to $18,500, which
that's a lot of money, obviously, but if
you're attacking this in your garage,
let's say you reuse the heads, you're
using a machine shop to realign the
cylinders, and you're doing most of it
yourself, it does kind of make sense
because the crazy Porsche market,
Porsche people are totally nuts. They're
paying 70, 80,000 dollars for cars just
like this in nice condition. It's not a
turbo, it's not a 4S, it's not anything
special, it's just crazy what Porsche
people are paying for the older analog
cars, and it makes no sense to me. But,
the first bidder, I don't even think he
read the description. I think he saw,
"Oh, cheap Porsche, hit the button." And
then started reading and realized, "Oh,
no, I'm not buying it." So, he was the
high bidder, he got banned from Cars and
Bids, and they relisted it. I never
heard from the guy at all. And the
second time it got bid up to $20,500,
$2,000 more, which was great. And the
bidder actually called me, he was
excited to buy it. He was planning to
swap the engine with something else,
maybe an LS, maybe an Audi Volkswagen
engine like a 2.7 turbo or something,
which would have been really cool. But
then the next day he called me and said,
"Hey, I didn't think I was going to win
with my bid, and I didn't tell my wife
about it, and my wife said, it's either
her or the car. Basically, if you buy
this car, we're getting divorced." I
don't know if it's true, but I heard
that line a lot in my decade in the car
business where somebody shakes your
hand, makes a commitment, and then wants
an excuse and uses their wife as an
excuse, but it could be true. He could
have not consulted his wife on a major
purchase and got in trouble. So, he
said, "I can't buy it either." So, Car
and Bids is currently looking for one of
the under bidders. I'm willing to go
way, way down to whatever, whatever's
close to the previous bids to get this
thing sold. But, if they can't find
somebody, they have to relist it again.
Yeah, again, a third time. And that has
never happened to me, ever. I've had to
relist them once sometimes, like when a
viewer wants to help me and they think
they're helping me by bidding and not
thinking that they would actually be the
high bidder and then they freak out and
they'll buy it. That's happened a few
times, but it's never happened twice,
and it's never been kind of the same
reason. Even though the second time
around, I listed this thing as project
in the heading to where it wouldn't
catch people who didn't know what they
were getting into if they weren't going
to read the description before bidding,
which is just totally not. So,
this thing's stuck here. This thing's a
refund. The Range Rover's the refund.
There's the losses. All in, that's like
$45,000 in money if the refunds and then
the losses on the Lincolns.
It's a
It's it's a tough day. But, what would
be almost impossible to lose money on is
this, because I am giving it away on
fanathom.com. [music] They sponsored the
channel, and this 1992 454 SS sport
truck, I am giving away by [music] a
keychain or a mug and it enters you for
a chance to win this incredible sport
truck. [music] It is so cool. It's been
redone, hot rodded. This wood cover, you
could cover it up if you don't like it,
but it's hand done, intricate, and
beautiful. Same goes for the inside, a
bed liner, and more of this hand done
woodwork in [music] here, which if you
wanted it all stealth black, you could
go back really easily, but I just
couldn't do it because it's like
artwork. The bumper has been flushed
[music] out, the dual exhaust, the
aftermarket wheels, and a really, really
nice interior with [music] bucket seats,
along with a 454 cubic inch V8 that
looks like it's been upgraded. And
actually, the transmission, I thought it
needed to be rebuilt, it [music] didn't.
It was the throttle position sensor that
was not uh hooked up properly, and that
was stopping it from going into [music]
overdrive. So, I got lucky there, along
with a bunch of other fixes, including
new air conditioning, all that stuff.
This thing is good [music] to go. And
once again, I'm giving it away to one of
you. All you have to do is go to
fanthome.com/hubbysgarage,
buy a keychain or a mug, and it enters
you for a chance to win this incredible
truck. So, you [music] don't want to
miss it. Just a few weeks left, and as
always, thank you so much for watching.