Inside the $2M 24k Gold Iron Man Porsche with James Pumphrey
4/22/202656 min
Spike sits down with James Pumphrey from Speeed to cover everything from a $3,000 VW Golf project car to a $2.1 million gold plated Iron Man-themed 840HP Turbo Speedster. Plus: the 911 GT3 SC, 911 GT4, watchmaking in Geneva, and a live engine start in the SCR Garage.
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James Pumphrey hit the Dakar Rally with Tudor watches, then flew to Geneva to attempt building a watch movement by hand. Spoiler: tiny screws are no joke. Back stateside, he's turning a $3,000 VW Golf with 300k miles into a project car built for regular people, not influencers with sponsor budgets. Peter Nam of Gunther Werks crashed the episode last-minute to bring in the 'Endgame': a one-of-one 4.0L twin-turbo Speedster commissioned by a client with a serious Marvel obsession. We're talking 840 horsepower, 2,600 lbs, 24k gold-plated engine components, and a shifter micro-pavéd with real gemstones representing the Infinity Stones. The candy red paint was matched to high-end Iron Man figures. This thing is absurd in the best possible way. Along the way: Porsche GT3 SC debate, the 911 GT4 rumors nobody's officially confirmed, a Malibu GT3 RS crash Spike definitely wasn't involved in, and a roast of a Porsche dealership's Botox-and-matching-outfits marketing campaign aimed at women. Also: Peter drops insider intel on Porsche's upcoming $2.5–3M Hybrid V8 halo car. Not the Mission X. Something much more interesting.
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Timestamps: 00:00 - Introducing James Pumphrey 01:27 - Rally cars and building watches with Tudor 11:38 - Why you should have a cheap project car 21:51 - 2027 Porsche 911 GT3 SC announced 25:29 - There's gonna be a 911 GT4? 27:26 - Brutal Porsche GT3 crash 29:44 - Porsche and Pilates is back with a vengeance 37:06 - $2M Gunther Werks Iron Man Porsche Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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First 90 secondsSpike Feresten· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Here we are at Spike's Car Radio. It's a good show. James Pumphrey is here.
James Pumphrey· Guest0:07
Hi.
Spike Feresten· Host0:08
My friend, James Pumphrey, and Peter Nam and, uh, Gunther Werks. The last-minute addition, Peter's gonna be bringing on this, uh, one of one Turbo Speedster that's behind us here. It's... I guess it's already on. He's gonna be telling us about this, but this was added last night. It was very exciting.
James Pumphrey· Guest0:23
Yeah, you texted me.
Spike Feresten· Host0:25
Yeah, I texted you because we were gonna have boat show guy on again.
James Pumphrey· Guest0:28
Yeah.
Spike Feresten· Host0:29
Our boat car guy- Yeah ... was coming on. I ran into him at, uh, this, uh, car show called Good Boy Bob on the West Side of LA that they have every once in a while, and I said, "Bring something new on." So we'll, we'll, we'll do that next week.
James Pumphrey· Guest0:40
It's not, it's not every day. I, I normally don't get upgrades- [laughs] ... so, like, to he- to have a text that's like, "Hey, we're not gonna have the, the funny car. We're gonna have a- [laughs] ... a crazy, cool car," uh, it doesn't happen to me a lot.
Spike Feresten· Host0:53
That's good. And you- Usually it's the other way around ... and have you met Peter?
James Pumphrey· Guest0:55
I haven't, no.
Spike Feresten· Host0:56
He's a fan of yours- Oh, really? ... and he's mentioned you many times. This is gonna be nice. You'll get to meet him, and you can talk to him about the car, too. But f- first, we're gonna talk about James Pumphrey- Yeah ... and his empire, the growing empire- The growing empire ... of speed.
James Pumphrey· Guest1:07
The- It- ... burgeoning speed empire ...
Spike Feresten· Host1:09
it's fantastic. I mean, I- I'm watching your channel just explode. Congratulations.
James Pumphrey· Guest1:13
Thank you.
Spike Feresten· Host1:14
It's, it's, uh, I, I... You know, you do the work, though. You, you, you- We do ... sit with, you write, you edit, you shoot, and, uh, you don't put out crap like some shows, like this show. [laughs] You actually put out good content. But let's, uh... When I last had you on, you were- Mm ... on your way to Dakar-