Magnus Walker: Hi, I'm Magnus Walker.
Greetings to my downtown LA Arts District warehouse.
For those that don't know, I'm a man with a beard,
but I'm also an avid Porsche collector and enthusiast.
I describe myself as a builder, driver, collector, in fact.
Narrator: A fashion icon of the early '90s
who designed clothes worn by numerous Hollywood rock stars,
Magnus Walker has become a name synonymous with Porsche
thanks to his $7.5 million collection
and his knack for building
the most sought-after custom Porsches around.
Today we take a look at his most rare Porsches,
from historical limited releases
to one-of-a-kind custom builds from Mr. Porsche himself.
Magnus: So the car I'm standing next to here
is my 1980 924 Carrera GT.
Pretty rare car.
Porsche only made 406 of these.
Essentially it's the evolution from the 1980 924 Turbo.
To put it in Porsche perspective,
it's the same motor tuned differently
with different camshafts producing 210 horsepower
compared to approximately 160.
And it's the street version
of the Le Mans class-winning 924 GTS or GTR.
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So I'm standing next to the car affectionately known as 277.
Long story short, the number doesn't really mean much,
but the car means a whole lot more.
It started life as a 1971 911 T.
T was the base model of production back then.
By my math I've owned it for 21 years.
I started club racing in this car in 2002
doing tracks such as Willow Springs,
Laguna Seca, Thunderhill, California Speedway.
But it's become a pretty well-known iconic car.
It's the car I'm most associated with.
It's the car that I call my flat-foot car,
meaning I can keep my foot planted most of the time.
It's the car I'm most comfortable in.
It fits me like my favorite pair of old shoes or jeans.
Other than this car being repainted once
in its original Irish Green color,
it is bone stock original.
We can't really go back in time,
but I can get behind the wheel of my 1966 911
and it feels like I've gone back in time 54 years to 1966.
80 to 100 miles an hour feels really, really fast
in that car. It's moving around.
It's making a lot of noise.
You're connected to it, it's the visceral feeling.
100 in this car feels like you're doing 150.
150 in a new car feels like you're doing 100
because you're sort of disconnected.
This is one of my favorite cars, it's a 1978 SC.
I call it the 1978 SC/HR hot rod.
It's a car that I acquired, I don't know,
almost 10 years ago.
It was a former track car
that I converted to more of a street track car.
But the good thing about this
and the relatability to this car is it was a budget build.
So this is the do-it-yourself punk rock version
of creating a fun car for the street
without breaking the bank.
This is car number 300, 310.
It's the 310th 911 ever built,
if they built them in sequence, which they didn't.
This was one of the first half dozen cars
at the Brumos dealership.
If you're a Porsche guy, of course you know about Brumos.
The little Porsche dealership in Jacksonville, Florida
that had Peter Gregg and Hurley Haywood
as its number one and two drivers.
Hurley Haywood has won Daytona five times.
He's won Le Mans multiple times.
And he's really a Porsche racing icon and legend.
This is a '67 911 S.
The short-wheel-based 911 debuted in 1964
with a 2.0-liter motor and approximately 130 horsepower.
By 1967 Porsche had debuted the 911 S.
Same 2.0-liter motor, but different cam,
different carb setup, now producing 160 horsepower.
I owned five '67 S cars, I'm now down to two.
But this is a holy grail car.
They're now worth about 10 times what I paid for them.
So I'm standing next to my center row
of what I call the early Turbos.
These are the '75, '76, and '77 3.0-liter Turbos.
1975 was the birth of the Turbo.
Porsche only made 284 samples for the entire world.
Only 32 of them like this copper brown metallic one
are right-hand-drive.
This car over here is the first US production Turbo,
documented by the museum
to be the first Turbo sold in America.
Due to safety and emissions,
the Turbo didn't arrive on the US shore until 1976.
This was the first one sold.
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Here's a great example of Porsche's mid-engine car,
this is a 914.
That's a fun little project I did for the SEMA Trade Show
in Las Vegas back in November.
It was literally sort of cosmetically made over
in three days, by myself and Felix Holst,
the guy I bought the car from.
We essentially just sprayed it up with rattle cans
and took it to the country's biggest auto show
and displayed it with Mobile One.
Let's talk about the 1990 964.
This is my most performance-oriented build to date.
Obviously it looks like a 911,
but if you come around to the front,
the hood is channeled because the roof is channeled.
I had the fenders louvered.
This was something that had never been done.
These are individually stamped into the fender.
I took an early Turbo tail,
gave it a sort of gurney flap at the back.
But it's rolling on the 17-inch version of my Outlaw wheel
with Brembo race brakes.
It has a 3.8-liter RS spec motor built on a 1995 993 motor,
with approximately 320 horsepower.
The car's kind of subdued in its appearance,
but this is the car that the more you look at it
the more details you se, the more tweaks you see
that are being put into the car.
And it's a blast to drive.
So guys, thanks for taking the tour with me.
I'm a goal-oriented collector.
My new goal for the year is to grow my beard longer.
But all joking aside, let's get out and drive.
Pedal to the metal.
Stay motivated.
Never give up on your dreams.
And let's have some fun.
Cheers and rock on.