I Couldn't Sell My Unfixable Porsche Nightmares and Lost $45,000

[00:00] This thing stuck here. This thing's a

[00:02] refund. The Range Rover's a refund.

[00:04] There's the losses. All in $45,000 in

[00:08] money if you count the refunds and then

[00:10] the losses on the Lincolns.

[00:11] It's a

[00:12] It's It's a tough day.

[00:18] >> [laughter]

[00:19] >> Welcome to Hoovie's Garage, the dumbest

[00:21] automotive channel in all of YouTube.

[00:22] And I tried to sell eight of my cars to

[00:24] fund my dream car or now nightmare car

[00:27] rebuild. It's a bottomless pit, my 300SL

[00:29] Gullwing. And uh selling those eight

[00:31] cars or trying to was a total disaster.

[00:33] Well, I say that two of them went well,

[00:35] three were expectedly terrible, [music]

[00:37] and three were a complete and total

[00:39] disaster. Two I had to give the money

[00:41] back on, refund, and one I can't sell.

[00:44] Two people have flaked out at this

[00:45] point. [music] It's probably never going

[00:47] to sell. So, it is pretty frustrating,

[00:49] but let's start with the ones that went

[00:51] well. The first one being the Breaking

[00:53] Bad Cadillac, which this one was

[00:55] actually a disaster for me YouTube

[00:56] views-wise. This is from the last

[00:58] episode of Breaking Bad where Bryan

[01:00] Cranston's character engineers a machine

[01:02] gun in the trunk to mow down his enemies

[01:04] in one epic climax. And this is actually

[01:07] the car. It wasn't damaged in filming.

[01:08] That was all CGI and tricks. And this is

[01:10] the actual one that he drove in the last

[01:12] episode of the film. It sold in a pop

[01:14] auction for over $20,000 a few years

[01:16] ago. And then the Mob Museum raffled it

[01:18] off, and the winner sold it at

[01:19] Barrett-Jackson. And I bought it for

[01:21] only $8,800. I knew it was a great deal

[01:23] at the time, but unfortunately it was

[01:25] probably my worst video views-wise in a

[01:27] couple of years, which is fine, but it

[01:29] didn't inspire me to really do more for

[01:31] this car, make it a feature in any other

[01:33] videos. So, it kind of sat there. Even

[01:35] though it broke a lot, it actually broke

[01:37] down on us three times. Three trips to

[01:39] the Car Wizards, and I spent $2,800 on

[01:41] it plus eight or $900 to ship it back to

[01:43] Kansas from Arizona. But the good news

[01:45] is when I sold it on Cars & Bids No

[01:47] Reserve, it brought $16,500.

[01:50] And it's going to a museum, which is

[01:52] really cool. This place in Texas has all

[01:54] kinds of movie and TV cars, Batmobiles,

[01:56] Knight Rider, you name it. So, it's the

[01:58] perfect place for it, and they paid

[01:59] $16,500

[02:01] for it. So, even after the shipping and

[02:02] the fixing, I made like $4,500 on the

[02:05] thing. So, you could definitely call

[02:07] that a win, a rare win for me. Now, the

[02:10] absolute home run was my 2004 Maybach

[02:13] 62, which I had for 4 years, but I

[02:16] hadn't driven very much in the past

[02:17] year. I bought it at Barrett-Jackson for

[02:19] $44,000 with fees. Probably over the

[02:21] years spent around $5,000 maintaining

[02:23] it. No big failures. Not bad for 4 years

[02:26] of owning a Maybach 62 that was $400,000

[02:29] new, and it was one of my most

[02:30] successful YouTube cars ever. Multiple

[02:32] videos over a million views, one I think

[02:34] over 2 million views. So, I was really

[02:36] happy with the car. It could have sold

[02:38] for free, and I would have been happy

[02:39] with the ownership experience and what

[02:41] it did for me and my channel. But, it

[02:43] actually sold on Cars and Bids for

[02:45] around $53,000.

[02:47] So, once again, I made another four or

[02:49] five thousand dollar profit on that car,

[02:51] and it sold to a really cool guy in New

[02:53] York City who planned his entire summer

[02:55] around the car, things that he was going

[02:57] to do with it. So, pretty cool there.

[02:59] So, two big successes. I am very much

[03:01] going to miss that car, but I do have

[03:04] this 1998 S500 that I can fix up now

[03:06] with the money. A new alternator was

[03:08] just put in. Stock wheels come in

[03:10] because these aren't the right AMG

[03:12] wheels. They're from a newer S-Class.

[03:13] They just don't look right. And I also

[03:15] have the S350 diesel that I've actually

[03:18] been daily driving. 180,000 mi, even

[03:21] though it needs a new turbo and some

[03:22] shocks, it's still driving fine as is.

[03:25] And the cool massaging seats, the

[03:27] freezing hot air conditioning, I'm

[03:29] driving this thing a lot in the summer.

[03:30] And that was the problem with the

[03:31] Maybach in the first place. It's

[03:33] engineered off the 140 chassis, which

[03:34] you go buy those for a fraction of the

[03:36] price. And then Mercedes redesigned the

[03:38] S-Class. This came out a few years

[03:40] later, and it looked more modern, more

[03:42] beautiful than the Maybach, and it was a

[03:44] fraction of the price. This would have

[03:45] been 60, 70,000 dollars compared to

[03:47] $400,000,

[03:49] and that's why the Maybach was a total

[03:51] failure from Mercedes. Now they're back

[03:53] as just existing S-Classes badged up and

[03:55] that's probably what it's going to be

[03:56] like forever. So the Maybach 62 is a

[03:58] really special thing, but I totally get

[04:00] why it was a failure and I'm not missing

[04:02] it that much because I am well stocked

[04:04] in S-Classes otherwise. There's also the

[04:06] Mercedes 6.9 that's in Georgia getting

[04:08] fixed at DC Motorworks. So I have three

[04:11] to replace it with. I'm doing okay.

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[05:54] the cars because I sold some

[05:56] >> [music]

[05:56] >> for some big big losses, but it's

[05:59] actually worse than that. So now it's

[06:00] time to talk about the losers going from

[06:02] the least loserest to the dumbest

[06:03] losers. And usually I expect to lose

[06:06] some money on these cars, especially

[06:07] going through fixing all of them. I

[06:09] don't make wise decisions like Euro

[06:10] Asian Bob where I let him have this

[06:12] Ferrari 348 for I think $45,000 for 5

[06:15] years ago. So

[06:17] yeah, I could own that car and I don't.

[06:19] Instead I had the 100,000 mile one that

[06:21] I sold even though I love that car. So

[06:24] let's start with the smallest loser and

[06:25] that's actually the 1923 Packard. And I

[06:28] am really happy with this because I

[06:29] bought it for $10,000 and it is an

[06:32] original paint survivor car that didn't

[06:34] run. It wasn't too crazy to get it

[06:36] running, but we did have a small wiring

[06:38] fire shortly after that because dummy

[06:40] wired up the battery wrong. It's a

[06:41] positive ground car and I put in the

[06:43] battery the wrong way and it caused some

[06:45] melted wires. Not a big deal, but

[06:47] $10,000 to buy it, $1,000 to ship it

[06:49] here, $1,800 in repairs, and it sold for

[06:53] $11,000. So I lost $1,800 on this car,

[06:57] but I got to own a 100-year-old original

[06:59] survivor Packard, get it running on the

[07:01] channel, the videos did well enough, and

[07:03] really enjoy this thing for the year

[07:04] that I owned it. So losing $1,800, not a

[07:07] big deal. The losses, they go up from

[07:10] there. So the pair Lincolns, I knew I

[07:12] was going to lose a lot of money on both

[07:14] Lincolns. Starting with the 1991 Lincoln

[07:17] Town Car. That really was April's car,

[07:18] but I egged it on and we went too far.

[07:21] We got definitely got carried away with

[07:23] the bidding on that one. With the fees

[07:24] we paid $16,400

[07:26] for a 40,000 mile silver rose a Lincoln

[07:29] Town Car, which they can bring that, but

[07:31] this one will have been sitting for a

[07:33] while and it needed a lot of work. The

[07:34] selling dealer did a lot to wake it up,

[07:36] but as you start driving a car more

[07:37] things break to the tune of this one

[07:39] around $2,000. The air conditioning,

[07:41] windows, a lot of little stuff that

[07:43] needed to come back in action. And

[07:45] unfortunately, we spent $1,200 shipping

[07:47] it here as well. So, we are close to

[07:49] $20,000 into this thing. And uh there

[07:52] were some issues that popped up. The

[07:53] thing is, if you want big money for a

[07:55] car, you have to make it perfect. It's

[07:57] either perfect or it's cheap. Another

[07:59] dealer's going to buy it and fix it and

[08:00] flip it for more. And that's what

[08:01] happened with this one. It had the

[08:02] airbag light on. Also, mice got into it

[08:05] and chewed a hole in the seat that I

[08:06] didn't fix. So, it was expected to bring

[08:08] less, and it sold for $11,546.

[08:12] We lost $8,000 on that one. $8,000.

[08:16] That that's That's a big hit,

[08:18] unfortunately. I wasn't expecting that

[08:20] much, but it does make sense considering

[08:22] I didn't have the car as nice as it was

[08:24] when I bought it, unfortunately. Now, I

[08:27] said I was going to do this in order,

[08:27] but there were two Lincolns. They were

[08:28] kind of close. The Lincoln Blackwood was

[08:30] also another expected loss because I

[08:31] bought that one not knowing it had

[08:34] failing head gaskets. Bought it at

[08:35] Barrett-Jackson for $11,000, I think

[08:38] with fees. Then $800 to ship it home,

[08:40] and then a whopping $4,500 in repairs to

[08:43] do the heads on that car, unfortunately.

[08:45] And the bidding? Well, $10,854.

[08:49] So, basically $11,000, close to what I

[08:52] paid for it, but I had to do all of

[08:53] those repairs. So, if I didn't have to

[08:55] do massive massive repairs to it, it

[08:58] would have been okay, but obviously,

[09:00] that's a big loss. Although, it still

[09:02] had issues. It still had the ABS light

[09:03] due to the module that I couldn't find,

[09:05] and a few other little things. So,

[09:07] that's why it didn't bring huge retail

[09:09] money. A dealer bought it thinking he

[09:11] could flip it. Actually, the same guy

[09:12] who bought the '91 Town Car. Father son

[09:14] flew out, drove it back to Atlanta, no

[09:16] problems. And that one I lost $5,446.

[09:20] But, it was a successful sale, just huge

[09:23] losses between the two. Unfortunately,

[09:25] though, it gets worse. It gets way way

[09:28] worse because I had to refund two people

[09:30] their money on my cars, and one

[09:34] it it it's totally unsellable. So,

[09:36] earlier, Magic Mike was here looking at

[09:39] this Range Rover that I sold for $10,000

[09:42] and then it started leaking everywhere.

[09:45] Double the trouble right here and

[09:47] Magical the Mike right here. How's it

[09:49] going?

[09:50] >> I'm not feeling so magical after this

[09:52] Range Rover.

[09:53] >> There's no winning on this thing. So,

[09:55] this one I sold on Cars & Bids $10,000.

[09:59] I got the money.

[10:00] >> Mhm.

[10:01] >> That's me making a $3,000 profit on a

[10:03] car, which never happens.

[10:05] >> I mean only

[10:05] >> rarely happens. I was very pleased with

[10:08] myself and then I walk out to it uh and

[10:11] the shipper's coming to get it the next

[10:13] day and there's just an explosion of

[10:15] coolant on the ground and it is

[10:16] splooging out

[10:18] the fender. Like right here. So, I

[10:20] assumed like okay, expansion tank cuz

[10:22] that's right here, but

[10:23] >> That's what I thought.

[10:25] >> It's it's dry. There There's nothing

[10:27] dripping around here.

[10:29] So, unfortunately, open up the door.

[10:33] >> We had to find out the hard way.

[10:35] >> It is decided the heater core to let

[10:38] loose. So, that is coolant inside of the

[10:41] cabin.

[10:43] It has busted, but that's not all.

[10:46] I I I'm glad I caught it before it went

[10:48] out. Imagine it went to this guy in Utah

[10:50] and then he finds all this. I would look

[10:51] like the biggest POS in the world, but

[10:54] while we had it in the air looking for

[10:55] the leak, uh we couldn't help but notice

[10:57] it the oil cooler line has been changed

[10:58] in the oil cooler, but it's still it's

[11:01] still drippy.

[11:03] And it's it's so We thought it was just

[11:05] from the residual mess when that thing

[11:06] kind of exploded, but it just keeps

[11:09] >> It keeps accumulating around the

[11:11] radiator right here, but it's not coming

[11:13] from our oil cooler. Both the lines got

[11:15] replaced, new oil cooler. It's dry up

[11:18] top. It's only wet on the bottom.

[11:20] >> And it only drips when the car is off.

[11:23] So, when it's running,

[11:25] we'll let it sit here and run for an

[11:26] hour. It'll never leave a drip on the

[11:27] ground. Then we park it and that's why

[11:29] we assumed it was just residual mess

[11:31] that was hard to clean out without

[11:32] taking out the radiator or whatever, but

[11:34] at this point, it's

[11:36] Is it a bad Is it a bad line that brand

[11:38] new something like that? So, once again,

[11:41] weird, but then Michael's like, "Nope,

[11:44] that's That's not it." So,

[11:46] I can't believe this, but

[11:49] the rear main is

[11:51] a little drippy,

[11:53] which maybe was a little bit of seepage

[11:55] before normal little car stuff doesn't

[11:57] matter. And then this transmission,

[11:58] which was done 6 months ago,

[12:00] it's it's leaking from the pan again.

[12:03] So, that one See, that one's leaking.

[12:04] Kind of a drip. The rear main, I guess,

[12:06] would leave a drip every once in a

[12:07] while but

[12:08] >> Yeah.

[12:08] >> I can't I can't send it out this way.

[12:11] So,

[12:12] I've had to refund money on this one.

[12:14] And guess what? Selling it to J&J Auto

[12:16] Wrecking for $3,000.

[12:18] So, instead of 10, I get three, which is

[12:20] what I paid for it. Then I spent

[12:22] $1,000 shipping it here, and then $2,000

[12:25] fixing it up, and then sell it for three

[12:27] to get just parted out to salvage yard

[12:29] because it's it's absolute junk. So,

[12:31] anyway, the good news is

[12:34] we got we figured this all out before it

[12:36] went out to Utah cuz basically I would

[12:38] have had to give the guy a full refund

[12:39] and just let him keep the car, but even

[12:40] at that point, like

[12:42] I The concern is like are the head

[12:44] gaskets starting to go? Like all this

[12:46] stuff, it's just

[12:47] >> It's extremely inconvenient and it's all

[12:49] at the same time. We fix I thought I

[12:52] fixed one and then another one shows up

[12:53] that's completely unrelated.

[12:55] >> It's kind of

[12:56] It's Yeah, something's not right. So,

[12:58] another one like a perfectly

[12:59] good-looking beautiful car

[13:01] that just just being parked here

[13:04] mechanically totaled itself because this

[13:06] stuff wasn't leaking before when I drove

[13:08] it back from the Wizards and parked it

[13:09] months ago, it just

[13:11] It just started going.

[13:13] >> Ever since I touched it.

[13:15] >> [laughter]

[13:16] >> Oh, are we blaming you?

[13:17] Well you

[13:18] >> That's what it feels like.

[13:19] >> You haven't touched this one yet. So,

[13:20] this is from my last video with the LR3,

[13:23] and I wanted to top off the transmission

[13:24] fluid to see if it would shift cuz it's

[13:26] flaring and and slipping right now. And

[13:28] I saw there was a seal for life

[13:30] transmission. Everybody screamed, "It's

[13:31] not seal for life. You can fill it from

[13:32] the side." And so,

[13:34] you're right in the comments, you can

[13:35] fill it from the side. But now we have

[13:36] it up in the air. Look at this wonderful

[13:38] mess here. I mean,

[13:40] this is everything. This is this is this

[13:42] is leaking everything. It's more Ran

[13:46] Land Rover. It's more Land Rover

[13:48] struggles. It's got me feeling like I'm

[13:51] maybe not as magical as I once thought I

[13:52] was, but this one

[13:54] >> You haven't touched it, so

[13:55] >> [laughter]

[13:56] >> I can't curse it if I haven't touched

[13:58] it.

[13:58] >> I mean, valve covers, timing chain

[14:00] cover,

[14:01] front diff, rear main, and then the

[14:03] transmission obviously is just a total

[14:05] mess. And yeah, there is a fill hole on

[14:07] the side, but this is in the way. This

[14:10] is This is in the way. They make it so

[14:12] hard.

[14:13] And also, it has either a timing chain

[14:16] or a cam phaser rattle, so that's going

[14:18] to let go any moment on the engine.

[14:19] That's going to be done. So, this thing

[14:21] is mechanically totaled. But, we are

[14:23] going to put fluid in the transmission

[14:24] cuz you all are so mad that I didn't try

[14:25] it because apparently this is the best

[14:27] Land Rover ever. And we're going to see

[14:29] if it actually fixes the transmission

[14:31] even though it has 200,000 mi. So,

[14:33] uh Is there enough out of the way?

[14:35] >> Yeah, we got enough out of the way. I

[14:36] got my little hydraulic pump with me.

[14:38] We'll We'll see what we can do.

[14:39] >> Okay. Is it in?

[14:40] >> We're in.

[14:52] >> Use this at your job at night, too.

[14:55] >> [laughter]

[14:57] >> I've had a little bit of practice. I

[14:59] think we'll

[15:00] I think we'll be able to bring breathe

[15:01] some life back into this transmission.

[15:03] >> You think so?

[15:05] >> A quart and a half low is pretty low.

[15:08] >> Fix a Land Rover for once.

[15:11] >> Maybe.

[15:12] >> You know, the previous owner actually

[15:13] reached out to me when he saw the video

[15:15] on this and said, "Yeah, I trade dumped

[15:17] it because of the transmission and the

[15:19] timing chain noise." He bought it, it

[15:20] was still running warm and quiet.

[15:22] Somebody had warmed it up before he

[15:23] bought it.

[15:24] >> Yeah.

[15:24] >> And then the uh radiator exploded on his

[15:27] wife the first day she was driving it.

[15:30] And left her stranded. So, he had a very

[15:32] bad ownership experience, but

[15:35] let's see.

[15:36] No slip there.

[15:39] Big Oh, man.

[15:40] >> That one's got a little bit of a slip

[15:41] there.

[15:45] >> There's a flare.

[15:47] I guess it's improved.

[15:49] >> It shifts, but it's not very smooth.

[15:52] >> No.

[15:55] So, it makes it drivable now, but that

[15:57] was a very hard one-two shift. There's

[15:59] definitely some damage in there.

[16:00] >> Yeah.

[16:01] >> Now, we'll give it one more try. Maybe

[16:03] it's circulated a bit.

[16:05] I've never attempted to floor this thing

[16:07] before.

[16:08] >> [laughter]

[16:09] >> So, why not now?

[16:17] I like that.

[16:18] >> Wow.

[16:23] That's

[16:25] way better than what I would have

[16:26] thought it was going to be.

[16:27] >> that was good.

[16:29] >> [laughter]

[16:29] >> Okay.

[16:30] >> I said one more.

[16:31] >> One more. I'm just going to do a normal

[16:33] pull here. I think because it was in

[16:35] here, first shift, transmission command

[16:37] selected is forcing it into second here.

[16:46] Yeah, there's still a little bit of a

[16:48] when it shifts, just a little but but

[16:50] >> It's definitely drivable, though.

[16:52] >> Yeah, someone could actually get maybe a

[16:54] few weeks out of this.

[16:56] >> [laughter]

[16:58] >> But, I think I'm going to make a decree,

[17:00] Michael.

[17:01] No more Land Rovers.

[17:03] >> Please, no more Land Rovers.

[17:04] >> I I

[17:05] after all the years of abuse and all the

[17:07] many that I've owned,

[17:08] I think

[17:10] I I think this is it for me. I I

[17:12] honestly think that I've gone through

[17:13] every single Land Rover that I've ever

[17:15] wanted to own or experience.

[17:17] And they've all been [laughter]

[17:18] horrible.

[17:20] And I I think this is it.

[17:22] >> I I think you'd be making a good

[17:24] decision.

[17:27] I just don't know if I believe you cuz

[17:28] I've got a feeling there's going to be

[17:29] something that shows up for the right

[17:31] price.

[17:31] >> But what is What is a worse brand?

[17:35] I I honestly I cannot think of one where

[17:38] they just hold up so terribly.

[17:42] >> Land Rover's up there for [music] me.

[17:43] Top three least desirable.

[17:46] >> Yep.

[17:48] So there you go.

[17:50] Hoopties. But now it'll drive smooth to

[17:52] the junkyard at least.

[17:54] >> [laughter]

[17:54] >> Assuming that the timing chain or the

[17:55] camshafts don't explode. So thank you

[17:57] for that.

[17:58] >> Absolutely. Happy to help wherever I

[18:00] can.

[18:00] >> So here they sit on death row. Three

[18:02] generations of Range Rovers from the

[18:04] '90s, from the 2000s and 2010s. All

[18:07] mechanically totaled. This is my buddy

[18:09] Rob's. We did a video on this one on

[18:10] April's Garage. It has a bad head

[18:12] gasket. It's going to get dumped at the

[18:13] auction. But this one, yeah, going to

[18:15] the junkyard. And this one going to

[18:17] Eurasian Bob's junkyard. But it just

[18:19] keeps getting worse. It'd be fun to put

[18:20] a brick on the gas pedal and just let

[18:21] them ghost ride out into the corn field

[18:23] forever to never see them again. But the

[18:24] farmers would probably get mad when they

[18:26] hit a Range Rover out there when they're

[18:27] harvesting. But I also had to refund

[18:29] someone on a Porsche as well. Porsche

[18:31] Panamera 4S that was fine when I sold

[18:33] it, but then it started having all kinds

[18:35] of problems. And the car ninja can't fix

[18:37] it.

[18:37] >> Johnny, it's Are you saying a little

[18:39] prayer here?

[18:40] >> Uh he's going to need more than that.

[18:42] >> What happened? Cuz I put 3,000 mi on

[18:45] this car over the better part of a year.

[18:47] It It was never stalling. It was never

[18:48] conking out. It had issues that we

[18:50] fixed, but why 5 years after I sell it

[18:53] does it just all of a sudden

[18:54] just

[18:57] >> Hey.

[18:58] If it doesn't happen, it would not be

[18:59] you.

[19:00] >> I guess so. But I mean this is

[19:02] This is happening uh a lot.

[19:04] Unfortunately, this is sort of a theme

[19:06] on this uh sales video, but this is one

[19:08] I didn't expect. It was a friend of a

[19:09] friend who bought this thing.

[19:11] I

[19:11] I had a lot of confidence in this car.

[19:13] So,

[19:13] >> Me, too.

[19:14] >> So, what is causing it? Obviously, you

[19:17] don't know cuz you can't figure it out,

[19:18] but what do you think's happening?

[19:20] >> Well, there is a communication between

[19:22] all the modules. We thought that there

[19:24] is the gateway. We got the used one,

[19:26] installed it, programmed it. Same issue.

[19:29] >> Okay.

[19:30] >> So,

[19:33] obviously, I don't know if you want to

[19:34] go deep. I mean, we have to got the

[19:35] whole interior, trace every single wire.

[19:38] Only problem is it's not staying

[19:39] consistent or pretty much broken all the

[19:42] time, so we'll know.

[19:44] Cuz every time you cycle the key,

[19:46] >> it just resets.

[19:47] >> If it would just stay stalled out, if it

[19:49] would break and then stay broken, you

[19:51] could figure it out.

[19:52] >> Yeah, well, absolutely, yeah.

[19:53] >> But, otherwise, it's just

[19:55] Nope.

[19:56] >> Yes.

[19:57] >> Nope.

[19:57] >> Nope.

[19:58] >> Nope. Nope. Times, I don't miles and

[20:01] miles of wires, and you've tested

[20:02] everything,

[20:04] and it's just

[20:05] it

[20:06] >> Yeah.

[20:07] >> It's an unfixable car.

[20:10] >> It could, like I say, it just has to

[20:11] stay broken.

[20:12] >> Right.

[20:13] >> Otherwise, it's going to be a guessing

[20:14] game on computers and all that, so I

[20:16] don't want to do that.

[20:17] >> It's Yeah, fire the parts cannon at it,

[20:19] which is dumb because Porsche parts are

[20:21] expensive. Drive it until it actually

[20:24] breaks, breaks, but it's really

[20:25] dangerous to drive it because it just

[20:26] stalls out on the highway, stalls out in

[20:28] random places, and like it's it's a

[20:29] dangerous thing to do. Or

[20:32] junk it. And

[20:34] >> [laughter]

[20:34] >> like this is such a nice car. I can't

[20:36] believe I'm doing this, but

[20:37] >> great. I mean, not too long ago we fixed

[20:39] the

[20:40] variable timing.

[20:40] >> Right. Right. So, that is what is

[20:42] happening. Johnny, we're punting it. I

[20:46] gave the guys money back, which was

[20:48] $13,000 what I sold it for.

[20:50] And J&J Auto Wrecking, which is an

[20:51] outfit that specializes in, you know,

[20:53] especially exotic

[20:55] salvage, they're giving me

[20:57] quite a bit of money for it. Still not

[20:59] quite $13,000, but a lot because it does

[21:01] have carbon ceramic brakes.

[21:03] >> Nice.

[21:04] >> Those are worth, you know, six or $7,000

[21:05] on their own.

[21:07] >> And yeah, the wheels are nice. The

[21:09] engine itself for five, the PDK

[21:10] transmission itself for five, and then

[21:12] all the little trim pieces, the bumpers,

[21:14] the headlights, everything's so nice

[21:15] that they might make you know, they'll

[21:17] be 50,000 as

[21:19] >> Yeah, this one is brand new.

[21:20] >> The headlights are super nice. So,

[21:22] by the end of it they'll have like

[21:24] maybe 50 grand in sales from the thing.

[21:26] Obviously they're taking apart and sell

[21:27] there's a lot of work with that, but by

[21:29] giving me

[21:30] I think it's going to be around $8,000,

[21:32] they're obviously in the green. So, it

[21:34] it's insane cuz we have sent cars to J&J

[21:37] before. They have an amazing inventory.

[21:38] I know like the the BMW Alpina was one,

[21:40] the 760 is another. There there's

[21:43] there's plenty of them gone what car

[21:44] trek cars to the Maserati and the Audi

[21:46] S8.

[21:47] >> Maybach.

[21:47] >> Their selection Yeah, the Maybach, the

[21:49] Range Rover. There's so much great

[21:50] selection there. Uh they're the

[21:52] specialist for it, but

[21:54] I never imagined this one, 116,000

[21:57] mi on it.

[21:57] >> an idea. You should open your own

[21:59] salvage yard.

[22:00] >> I I

[22:01] >> [laughter]

[22:02] >> I'd break everything taking it apart.

[22:03] You want to do it?

[22:04] >> Sure, why not?

[22:06] >> I just can't believe this one, 116,000

[22:09] mi.

[22:10] It's done. It

[22:13] it's

[22:13] >> It's going to bug me.

[22:15] >> It's going to keep you up at night?

[22:16] >> Mhm. Yeah, cuz I want to know what

[22:18] happened.

[22:18] >> Well, the thing is like J&J, I've sent

[22:20] them cars before

[22:22] and he gets them and he I want to fix

[22:23] this one, I'm going to fix this one. And

[22:24] then he fires the parts cannon and then

[22:26] regrets it. So, hopefully they've

[22:28] learned their lesson there, but

[22:30] I can't imagine it

[22:31] it's not something stupid like a crank

[22:33] sensor, it's not something it's not like

[22:35] like a a voltage regulator.

[22:37] >> or the main DME

[22:40] could be shorted.

[22:41] >> So, you could replace that like

[22:43] computer.

[22:44] >> clone it for cheap. That's I would not

[22:46] do the the brand new one, but if you can

[22:48] find someone to clone it.

[22:49] >> If you bought it from the Porsche dealer

[22:51] and spent

[22:52] >> a couple of three

[22:53] >> thousand dollars and then it doesn't fix

[22:55] it.

[22:55] >> Oh yeah. No. No.

[22:57] >> [sighs]

[22:57] >> I can't

[22:59] I can't believe it. It's

[23:01] it's so weird cuz it was fine for me and

[23:04] then 5 days after selling it. But I I

[23:06] can't like kick this to someone else.

[23:08] So, I could take this to the Hooptie

[23:10] auction. It runs and drives. Nobody

[23:12] would know the problem. It may not stall

[23:14] on the dealer until they sell it or

[23:16] something. But then it's going to be

[23:17] someone else's problem. They're going to

[23:19] be in the same boat. I can't I can't

[23:21] kick the can down the road, which also I

[23:22] can't do this every single time either

[23:24] where I'm diving on all the grenades and

[23:26] taking all the hits cuz obviously I

[23:27] would go bankrupt. But in this case I

[23:30] feel like I feel like I have to.

[23:33] But it's so sad, Johnny. This thing is

[23:35] so nice.

[23:36] >> It is.

[23:38] >> [sighs]

[23:40] >> Man.

[23:41] >> You going to say my last goodbye?

[23:43] >> It's crazy. But

[23:45] even crazier this this is not the only

[23:47] Porsche that's just been

[23:50] Anyway, selling things has been very

[23:51] challenging lately.

[23:53] Okay, I'm going to keep this camera

[23:54] rolling the whole time to see if it

[23:56] conks out because it's something that

[23:58] never happened to me. It just happened

[23:59] to

[24:00] the next owner about a week after he

[24:02] bought it and it happened to CarNinja a

[24:03] few times.

[24:05] But

[24:06] we'll see.

[24:08] It's probably going to behave perfectly

[24:09] with me.

[24:11] >> [music]

[24:17] [music]

[24:27] [music]

[24:33] >> Nothing.

[24:35] It's fine.

[24:37] Of course, I would love for it to go on

[24:39] camera and show what it's doing, but

[24:41] it's not going to do it.

[24:45] Well, that's certainly weird. Usually

[24:46] it's the opposite where I have all the

[24:48] misery, experience all the bad stuff,

[24:50] fix all of it, and then the next owner

[24:51] has all the joy of my misery basically.

[24:54] But in this instance, it's totally

[24:56] behaving for me. The CarNinja, it was

[24:58] breaking on him, the next guy who bought

[24:59] it, it was breaking on him. So, I did

[25:02] refund the money. I own this Porsche

[25:03] again for a little bit, although I did

[25:06] just sell it to J&J Auto Wrecking for

[25:07] $8,000. So, thanks to J&J Auto Wrecking

[25:10] for buying this thing. And no, I'm not

[25:12] selling this one to J&J Auto Wrecking,

[25:14] but it has been impossible to sell. So,

[25:17] it's had two rounds on Cars and Bids,

[25:19] and both times the buyer has flaked

[25:21] because this is an 88,000-mi Porsche

[25:24] 911. And I got scammed on this one. They

[25:27] told me the engine was fine, they put

[25:28] 200 mi on it, changed the oil. It seemed

[25:30] like it didn't have the famous cylinder

[25:31] scoring, but when it showed up, it

[25:33] completely smoked out the entire

[25:35] driveway, the garage. The thing has

[25:37] really bad cylinder scoring. So, the

[25:38] engine needs to be rebuilt. You can see

[25:40] the paint is bad, but also needs a

[25:42] suspension gone through, it needs the

[25:43] brakes gone through. The interior is

[25:45] actually pretty nice, and the

[25:46] transmission and the clutch are good,

[25:47] but the ignition is sort of falling

[25:48] apart, there's no air conditioning. So,

[25:50] it basically needs a whole restoration.

[25:52] This is the first 997 probably that

[25:53] needs a full restoration. And I put it

[25:56] on Cars and Bids, no reserve, whatever

[25:59] it brings, it brings. I knew I was going

[26:00] to lose my butt. And the first time it

[26:01] got bid up to $18,500, which

[26:05] that's a lot of money, obviously, but if

[26:06] you're attacking this in your garage,

[26:08] let's say you reuse the heads, you're

[26:09] using a machine shop to realign the

[26:11] cylinders, and you're doing most of it

[26:12] yourself, it does kind of make sense

[26:14] because the crazy Porsche market,

[26:16] Porsche people are totally nuts. They're

[26:17] paying 70, 80,000 dollars for cars just

[26:20] like this in nice condition. It's not a

[26:22] turbo, it's not a 4S, it's not anything

[26:23] special, it's just crazy what Porsche

[26:25] people are paying for the older analog

[26:27] cars, and it makes no sense to me. But,

[26:30] the first bidder, I don't even think he

[26:32] read the description. I think he saw,

[26:33] "Oh, cheap Porsche, hit the button." And

[26:35] then started reading and realized, "Oh,

[26:37] no, I'm not buying it." So, he was the

[26:39] high bidder, he got banned from Cars and

[26:40] Bids, and they relisted it. I never

[26:42] heard from the guy at all. And the

[26:44] second time it got bid up to $20,500,

[26:47] $2,000 more, which was great. And the

[26:50] bidder actually called me, he was

[26:51] excited to buy it. He was planning to

[26:53] swap the engine with something else,

[26:55] maybe an LS, maybe an Audi Volkswagen

[26:57] engine like a 2.7 turbo or something,

[26:59] which would have been really cool. But

[27:00] then the next day he called me and said,

[27:02] "Hey, I didn't think I was going to win

[27:04] with my bid, and I didn't tell my wife

[27:07] about it, and my wife said, it's either

[27:09] her or the car. Basically, if you buy

[27:11] this car, we're getting divorced." I

[27:13] don't know if it's true, but I heard

[27:14] that line a lot in my decade in the car

[27:15] business where somebody shakes your

[27:16] hand, makes a commitment, and then wants

[27:17] an excuse and uses their wife as an

[27:19] excuse, but it could be true. He could

[27:21] have not consulted his wife on a major

[27:22] purchase and got in trouble. So, he

[27:24] said, "I can't buy it either." So, Car

[27:27] and Bids is currently looking for one of

[27:29] the under bidders. I'm willing to go

[27:30] way, way down to whatever, whatever's

[27:32] close to the previous bids to get this

[27:34] thing sold. But, if they can't find

[27:36] somebody, they have to relist it again.

[27:39] Yeah, again, a third time. And that has

[27:41] never happened to me, ever. I've had to

[27:43] relist them once sometimes, like when a

[27:46] viewer wants to help me and they think

[27:47] they're helping me by bidding and not

[27:49] thinking that they would actually be the

[27:50] high bidder and then they freak out and

[27:51] they'll buy it. That's happened a few

[27:53] times, but it's never happened twice,

[27:56] and it's never been kind of the same

[27:57] reason. Even though the second time

[27:58] around, I listed this thing as project

[28:01] in the heading to where it wouldn't

[28:02] catch people who didn't know what they

[28:04] were getting into if they weren't going

[28:05] to read the description before bidding,

[28:07] which is just totally not. So,

[28:09] this thing's stuck here. This thing's a

[28:12] refund. The Range Rover's the refund.

[28:14] There's the losses. All in, that's like

[28:17] $45,000 in money if the refunds and then

[28:20] the losses on the Lincolns.

[28:22] It's a

[28:23] It's it's a tough day. But, what would

[28:25] be almost impossible to lose money on is

[28:28] this, because I am giving it away on

[28:29] fanathom.com. [music] They sponsored the

[28:31] channel, and this 1992 454 SS sport

[28:35] truck, I am giving away by [music] a

[28:37] keychain or a mug and it enters you for

[28:39] a chance to win this incredible sport

[28:41] truck. [music] It is so cool. It's been

[28:43] redone, hot rodded. This wood cover, you

[28:45] could cover it up if you don't like it,

[28:47] but it's hand done, intricate, and

[28:49] beautiful. Same goes for the inside, a

[28:51] bed liner, and more of this hand done

[28:53] woodwork in [music] here, which if you

[28:55] wanted it all stealth black, you could

[28:57] go back really easily, but I just

[28:58] couldn't do it because it's like

[28:59] artwork. The bumper has been flushed

[29:01] [music] out, the dual exhaust, the

[29:03] aftermarket wheels, and a really, really

[29:05] nice interior with [music] bucket seats,

[29:07] along with a 454 cubic inch V8 that

[29:10] looks like it's been upgraded. And

[29:11] actually, the transmission, I thought it

[29:13] needed to be rebuilt, it [music] didn't.

[29:14] It was the throttle position sensor that

[29:16] was not uh hooked up properly, and that

[29:18] was stopping it from going into [music]

[29:19] overdrive. So, I got lucky there, along

[29:22] with a bunch of other fixes, including

[29:23] new air conditioning, all that stuff.

[29:25] This thing is good [music] to go. And

[29:26] once again, I'm giving it away to one of

[29:28] you. All you have to do is go to

[29:29] fanthome.com/hubbysgarage,

[29:31] buy a keychain or a mug, and it enters

[29:32] you for a chance to win this incredible

[29:34] truck. So, you [music] don't want to

[29:36] miss it. Just a few weeks left, and as

[29:38] always, thank you so much for watching.