Welcome to hoovy's garage, the dumbest automotive channel in all of youtube, and we are inside my 1999 porsche 911, which i named apollo. 911, because when i bought it, it had 243 000 miles, which is the equivalent distance from the earth to the moon. But it was certainly no rocket ship that has certainly changed now. Here we go now.

It has an ls3 v8 for my chevrolet corvette and way way more power than stock, but somehow someway over the course of five years of ownership. That's kind of been off and on in love and hate. I have fifty thousand dollars into this porsche. Fifty thousand dollars into a car that looks like absolute trash.

It is in total terrible condition, as i said, 250 000 miles almost on it and uh. Well, it's the most unloved generation of 911 uh, pretty much ever made from the worst year with the ugliest headlines, and i have 50 000 into it. But i don't care, i don't care and we'll get back to the garage and i'll explain why i've managed to spend so much money on this car and why? Well i don't care it's worth it. No, i don't care the ls engine works beautifully with an adapter for renegade hybrids, uh with the porsche transmission, so the transaxle everything else is all porsche: the electronics other than this tech.

I'm gon na hear oh porsche. Ah, this thing goes down the road like it was born. This way, no more ims bearings to worry about with this 996, but i'll show you all that in a tour of this little haggard 996. But it fits in really really well with my collection of cars and well i'll in today's video, with a random drive of a car, that's worth three million dollars or more the most expensive car i've ever driven by a lot and my ultimate dream car.

Well, this was my ultimate dream car and then other cars, but my real ultimate end-all, be-all dream car. It was incredible, so you're probably wondering how how does this idiot have fifty thousand dollars into this old thing and uh? Well, it wasn't that hard. Actually, i bought the car for ninety five hundred dollars. It was the cheapest porsche 911 for sale in the usa.

The first time i had ever said that and well i ended up spending about five thousand dollars fixing and modifying it before the engine blew. So i had fifteen thousand dollars into it. When i made the decision to ls swap the kit was like seventy five hundred dollars, the engine itself around five thousand dollars and then other odds and ends labor and stuff, like that, was seventeen thousand dollars total all into ls. Swap the thing which put me at 32 000 into the car, i enjoyed it for a little while and then i blew it up on the track again.

I was so disgusted that uh well, i decided to sell it. I didn't think you all would want to watch another ls swap back to back of me doing it over and over again, and i didn't have the money to do it. I barely had the money to do the ls swap the first time maxed out a credit card, hoping the video views would pay for it and well it did, but i didn't think it was going to be able to do it again. So i sold the car for 10 000.

That means i took a 22 000 loss on this car and it sat for years now the person i sold it to did store it for a number of years and he bought a replacement ls3 engine, which was every bit of five thousand dollars. I imagine again, and he started to take things apart, but then sort of lost steam there and it sat for years and i messaged him wanting to buy the car back. He had a couple of grand in shipping, obviously an engine all that stuff and uh wanted to see what it would take to buy this car back and that number was 20 000 dollars. So i was 32 000 when i sold it.

So it was 22 000 into the hole, but then i bought it back for 20 000. That puts me at 42 000 into this 911. I had to ship it back and then i had to pay the wizard, as you saw three thousand dollars to put uh the engine back in and sort the thing out. I had also lost the wheels because i'd sold them the ones that were on it.

Were you know really bad, so i had to source these wheels, which were off my purple 911. These cost something like 16 1800 bucks. So i'm probably just shy of fifty thousand dollars into this car. Now fifty thousand dollars into this beautiful, beautiful thing, which i will give you a tour of now in its current well dusty, but shabby chic condition so the cheapest portion 911, the usa.

This thing certainly is not it just will. It looks like it a funny coincidence. The day after i brought this car home most recently here a few days ago, was also the five-year anniversary of me buying this car in orange county california. It popped up as a facebook memory, so i know it exactly facebook's a bad thing, but yeah picked it up in orange county drove it down to san diego to help open a freddy's down there, a friend of mine's, freddies and well, it didn't miss a beat.

The entire time we took it on the dyno as well, while i was doing that - and you know it had plenty of power, but one thing, i'm so glad that i didn't end up doing is painting it. I thought this thing needs to be cleaned up and made look nice again. The etched paint and everything uh and i didn't do it. This car has original paint work and i'm so happy that i left it original and in this patina i was gon na.

Do yellow or something crazy like that what's funny is it even has the grease marks from when it went through the wholesale auction and they were noting damages and there's a little crack in the tail light right here. So that's from over five years ago, but this thing is well used and it wasn't really abused. It was just a well used car with almost 250 000 miles on it, but what was really cool being a 99 being an early car? It had this funky interior and the sport seats, which i absolutely love. The shifter well has gotten more beat up, since i first got it.

I mean this is five years now and the leathers continue to have wear and tear a little holes developed over there, but mostly it's the same faded lobster, pepto-bismol interior, that it's had this entire time and if there was one thing that i would have done different, I wish i had embraced the runny egg headlights when i got this car. I felt like i needed to hide them in shame and that's why i got these glue on covers, which are well pretty permanently glued on to there and the headlights are kind of melted, but i should have just embraced the runny egg look and left it alone, But now it's sort of part of the car, so i need to leave it. Of course, the stripe - that's not going anywhere. The wizard put that on himself five years ago, so so we'll leave that for the lulls and i'm just so happy to have this car back, because this was the attainable dream car.

For me before this, i had never owned a porsche 911. I had always wanted one and this car being only 9 500 bucks with my meager budget at the time made that possible. Of course, the real dream came true with the sls amg that came about a year ago, incredible car with the gold wing doors, the 6.2 liter v8, getting that car felt so good, and when you have that sense of accomplishment and joy for the first time, it's Hard to repeat, even as you raise the stakes with the sls as cool as it is, it's not the same as that, first feeling of getting this 911 a countach. Of course i have a countach.

Now it was a crazy spur at the moment. Total dream come true that i have a countach and well. It was very expensive as well, but it's not the same as getting the 911 and then, of course, the z8, which was the most expensive car i ever bought. The countach is certainly worth more, but this individually was the most expensive car i've ever bought.

I had dreamed of owning one of these since the james bond movie came out, and i have it now and i'm so happy, but the joy of having this 911 for the first time, taking a cross-country doing all the things i did with it. I mean you just can't replace that same with well anything else in the garage and that's why i am so so happy to have this thing back. It is my first big project, my first success really with youtube, and i mean look at this crazy thing. Look at it and without you watching this first big project and the other projects that came after this car well, none of this would be possible and that's why i'm so happy to have this thing back and that's why i'm totally happy having 50 dollars in this? Absolutely ruined 911.

That is certainly not worth that the memories, the content, the fact that this car created so much - i am so happy to have it back and well and directly because of this car, i was able to drive my dream car, a 300 sl going, and this happened Because of car trek, we were filming on pikes peak driving up in the cars which you'll see in december and randomly there was a rally of 300 sls going up as well. One of them was a gold wing, an original patina finish just like this and well ed, and i baked my way into driving this thing. So i'm filming for car trek right now about to drive up pike's peak in a car. That is not.

This just happened to be doing a 300 sl rally, and this is an original survivor. 1955-300 sl goldwing worth millions of dollars, millions of dollars and i'm driving it. My absolute dream car holy moly wow, it's gon na - be a short little jaunt, though, but still holy smokes. Now.

This sl is owned by rnr automotive restorations. They specialize in 300 sls. They have several for sale right now. Maybe someday i'll be mines on the road.

This one, oh, my goodness, the patina i'm hill, climbing mike's peak in a 300 sl going. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh this is so much better than tesla, hello, peasants, oh yeah awesome and it's green.

The green interior original, the green exterior just falling apart. Even a little battle damage down here. Oh my goodness. Oh my god i mean this is this.

Is the car my dreams right here and i'm driving it? Oh my god! Oh it's got the knockoff wheels. Oh my god! Oh sweet mother, wow holy moly! Thank you! So much r automotive restorations - oh this is this: this is the best car ever look at the gauges. Look at the wear on them, so, obviously a little random and disjointed. I had no preparation at all to drive a 300 sl going.

It was just there and i drove it absolutely incredible and maybe someday maybe someday i'll own one. I mean this car i've owned it and so many other amazing things. I never thought a 300 sl would be possible, but maybe it is. I never thought a countach.

Would be possible or a z8 or an sls, so maybe it's possible and it's all because you all watch these videos. So thank you so much for watching there you go there. You go all right. It's it's tina as a much more expensive call girl, millions and millions of dollars.

This car is what well i don't know about millions. What is the meaning they're having a rally for these up on pikes peak, where we're about to drive and they're like hey, you want to drive one i'm like and uh wow. What, if i told you we planned this entire thing along with ticket clinic on auto temp, is just so you'd have the chance to drive your absolute dream car. That's not true! It's not we're not that thoughtful tyler, but i'm very happy for you.

This is really really something special.