You forgot to link Leonard’s video

Yes please….. Leonard!

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Link to Leonard?

I got you! look up "The 911 Den"

U forgot the blue vw combi with yellow headlights, red vw bug and countless cool motorcycles. Timestamp 9.45

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He is was my biology teacher in Arkansas. Super cool guy. Amazingly nice.

Yep he is living a nice dream, but he worked hard has hell for it :)

@@ABpub But he's my skateboarding coach in Detroit! How...?

Welded? Like the differential has been spooled?

Oof

@@16driver16 Stock 3/4 gears are a press fit rather than keyed so you weld a few spots to prevent slippage under high torque.

@@djambrosia thanks! Yea I know nothing about VWs

On a smaller power scale, Fiat had a press fit ring gear on the transmission final drive (what the * were they thinking?) the fix is three Dutch dowels to lock the car to the differential housing.

James may of Clarkson in a 928 'come along to help me refinance my mortgage '

I don’t know if this makes any difference, but this motor is in front of the trans (mid engine)

Yeah, I didnt miss that. Sealed the deal that he was a legit guy for me... I think? Maybe I am just naive...

That movie should have won an Academy Award!

Where are ya watching it? I remember looking and couldn’t find it on any streaming services.

@@playwme3 Yeah, I have it on DVD. 😇

Yeah I believe that front and rear bumper are time period correct race spec replicas/tuning items? I am all about that time period correct tuning, much better and more characterful than 100% original if you ask me. Looks and feels more like what a petrolhead would do to it back in the day.

Agreed, looks great to me

i grew up in wichita and saw that car at countless cars and coffees. it stung when he said he was gonna be changing all the appearance bits

Literally hidden lol, I used to go hiking and would always see an abandoned land cruiser, found out about Leonard’s page and saw him and his brother bought the thing

Because it's a V8 not one of Porsche's finicky V6s

@@Christoph-sd3zi Ehhh I am sure everyone will say the flat 6:s are much less likely to break than the equivalent age v8?

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@@GoldenCrocYou don't know what you're talking about. It's usually electrical issues that plague the 928. The 928 V8 is one of Porsche's most reliable engines, ever.

@@GoldenCroc Oops, sorry about that. I thought you were replying to me, disregard. I get a little testy while defending the 928.

And his restored "Hair" is on point. Takes a bald dude to sniff out another bald dude.

Dude is really living the dream. And that age aswell!

He made his hobby pay for it self. On the other hand it's must be hard for him to escape work

I'd spend hours in that man cave what a place

One of the coolest guys around..... Wealth of knowlege he is willing to share... awesome Leo...

Cause you’re a gay man?!?!

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I’m just a young mexican stoner that smokes weed on my KZfaq channel, tryna me it out the hood One Day👌 When i look at the top where all the successful people are… there isn’t NO mexicans ):

Cuz u poor

get a better microphone bud

@@thekaiitlin8744 Make less asinine comments bud...

Hey thanks man! I still think of you and your class every time I play one of those groovy songs!🎶

Doubt it, wizard gives hoovie a discounted price as it is, Hoovie is essential to wizards channel and wizard wouldn’t want to lose that. Regardless of that, they are also best friends and wizard would never do that.

Hourly rates and minimum charges are a thing...

@@rorylindholm6811 I'm reading this one close.. Wizard looks like the type of guy that when he thinks he's right or in the right he's not budging, for no one.. right or wrong.. and as his own channel becomes more successful he will need Hoovie less and less.. Hoovie is prob a totally diff cat behind the scenes.. I bet he's a berserker, prob a real bad temper.. he plays a role his channel.. just watch, it's coming.. Hoovie will say one day "I am taking this hootpie to my friend in so and so because Wizard is too covered up this time" .. watch

Well, when you do it yourself, it's different than when you just do it with your checkbook, you know?

I guess when you have 30 cars, it becomes impractical. Especially with the parts situation for his exotics

Right? I do this too. I'm just too excited to let it sit in the garage, I want to get it back on the road as fast as I can. At the time I'm restoring a bmw e36 which was sitting since 2015.

@@ExUSSailor the old checkbook, can’t leave home without it

What is the name of Leonards channel?

@@germanium1872 kzfaq.info

@@germanium1872 it's 'The 911 Den' - he replied to another comment here as well...

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I agree. Also, he needs to take Hoovie (and us) out in all of those cars.

I really wanted them to walk around the truck and Bug as I love that style 'hauler'.

You got it! 😀

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Because the car wizard can’t fix them. He takes the same cars back time and time again with the same problems and they come out.. well, the same.

Guards Red is not my thing. I'd paint that car back to its original gold colour.

@@OMGWTFLOLSMH Ummm I took extra time to note the spot in the video I was commenting on. Click on the 8:45 time stamp and you will see what car I was talking about. Not sure how you know that the maroon/dark red car with the black targa bar was originally gold. My car is guards red, and this car clearly isn't.

Was going to write a comment like this. Totally agree. This the type of guy you want to give your car to

This. It would be money well spent. Guards Red 911s are lame as hell, a dime a dozen. I know, I used to own one, and never again.

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Nothing says hotrod like velocity stacks !

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'hot rod' sounds like 'thats good enough'

I have to say my friends and I in the 80s drooled over the 928S, beautiful, wide and so damn fast.

I'm thinking that promotion dried up after they got the exposure they wanted and is no longer an option. Plus the strong chance they spent 5x their normal job time to do the work for him.

Movie should have won an Academy Award!

@@The911Den you sir....are a badass! Thanks for sharing your beautiful collection. Much love from WV

@@EvilChong1974 thank you sir

Hoovie OKs the ads

Just get KZfaq Premium...

I got 0 ads? 🤷‍♂️

I didn’t get any either, apart from Hoovies insurance ad or whatever it was.

Think u get more ads the more KZfaq u watch

928:s certainly are nice cars when they work...

@@GoldenCroc I drove mine for just over 19 years and it only stranded me one single time, and it did this when it was over 30 years old. And that is probably my fault for having a mechanic who didn't know what he was doing try to install a new shifter coupler on top of the transmission on the cheap. He got it wrong and 500 miles later it broke, leaving me with 2nd gear on the Bee Line highway near Orlando.

@@Flies2FLL Yeah, I dont doubt it. If you will allow me to go on a bit of a tangent here... Nothing personal about your post, but I find the American fascination of "stranded" quite curious. I have often read "never left me stranded" etc and so on in used car ads, and so on. I have heard other people say their cars have only left them stranded 2-3 times over 10 years ownership (from new), and that is supposedly considered not too bad at all? This, to me as a european, seems incredible. I have never owned a car that has left me stranded a single time, and that includes lots of sub 1000 dollar cars. I dont know anyone that has got a car that left them stranded. Just a different perspective. I can only assume it is a function of the quality of servicing and regularity of proper servicing being way, way less. And perhaps also interest in their car by the general owner. Cheers mate.

@@GoldenCroc Thank you "Golden Croc", I'm sure you would be welcome here in Florida. My spouse is from Belgium and I flew out of Brussels for a time all around Europe for DHL, so I understand the European perspective. I grew up in Michigan south of Detroit and my dad always kept his cars at least 7 years, but by that time the American cars were rust buckets. My first car was a '77 VW Golf [Rabbit] and it had rotted floorboards. When it was 7 years old it really wasn't safe anymore, because when I went 60 mph on one of Michigan's concrete roads, the failed floor pan started a harmonic situation that resulted in a loud "wuh wuh wuh" and the car started to go sideways! This taught me that cars need to be replaced at some point despite how they look. My girlfriend loved that bright Bali green Golf, but I had to sell it. As to the 928, it was the only car I have ever had to have towed. It was 30 years old at the time and had 160,000 miles on it, but the real problem wasn't the car, it was the stupid maintenance that I had done on it. To make a long story short, if you don't do proper maintenance on a car it will break down on you. But in the end, no matter how much maintenance you do, the car will die at some point: That Golf failed completely [I sat down in August of 1984, and the seat fell straight through the floor and hit my parent's driveway due to RUST~], and the 928 just failed a bit. Cars break, we just have to deal with it when it happens.

@@Flies2FLL Wow, thanks for your nice reply. I would love to visit one day, I have never been in the US so far. I am in a quite severe rust territory myself, and it was probably the most common cause of scrapping cars up until the early 2000s. Rust protection have gotten a lot better over the years, and by the early 2000s, most cars had good enough protection to last at least 15-20 years even in this enviroment. This meant other failures took over. Since we have, as many/most european countries do, a quite strict yearly inspection, I would wager an illuminated airbag light is the most common reason for scrapping cars around here, since its an inspection fail. And often uneconomical to fix on old, low value cars unless you can do it yourself. But I realise now while I am typing this I maybe missed the forest for the trees, surely the yearly inspection is what is incentivizing most people to keep the vehicles in ok shape over here, hence a big part why they dont strand people as often.... Anyway, loved the stories; I believe I might be a bit younger than you, so this account of another place and another time I havent experienced myself is very interesting. Cheers mate.

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The others are fine as well. To me at least.

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@@The911Den I've lusted after a 930 since high school and I blame that movie! I have a 958.1 Turbo but I still have the dreams of my youth! :) Your experience, and dedication to these cars show. You're a true professional.

@@Pipers Keep looking for that 930. They are still out there! Thank you

All tales form the 1976 Turbo on, are called Whale Tails, the fact that they have different shapes makes no difference. Tea tray is something the Brits invented.