Damian in NJ

Turns out he's had a couple

POR 968 BM6363 WPOZZZ96ZPS800229
POR 968 BM6161 WPOZZZ96ZPS830234
POR 968 BM6868 WPOZZZ96ZNS831360
POR 968 BM6060 WPOZZZ96ZNS830924

Redlyne_mr2

pics?

jeff968

He has good taste!!! Do you know the vehicle details?

Damian in NJ

I just saw a listing of his cars and found these, no pics sorry.

hot-J

Are any of them turbo?

Lord_Galva

Uh.
I don't like how that guy has 1/3 of all the rare cars on the planet.
What the hell for?
I think he owns all the McLaren GT's.
And most of the McLaren LM's.

But I also don't like people who barely drive there cars too.
I don't know what his driving habits are, but I seriously doubt he drives them all.

Edit: he has over 5,000 cars!

Damian in NJ

Usually his cars were RHD, I don't think any 968 Turbo S models were RHD. For sure he doesn't have a 968 Turbo RS.

Fox944

none of those cars are factory Turbo S cars. Would be nice to see pictures of them however.

Lord_Galva

Hey, does Jerry Seinfield own any 968's?
I know he loooovvves Boxters.
Anyone know?

JDS968

Here's all I really want to know: Does he have a staff to maintain them? Porsche has a very specific maintenance program for their museum, involving periodically lubricating and turning over the engines, shifting the wheel bearings, and driving them once in a while.

If in fact he has a staff doing this, I say it's great. Sooner or later he's going to die and maybe as many as 7000 of the greatest cars in the world are going to go up on the market, probably at greatly depressed prices.

potent951turbo

I believe he is more of a car hoarder than a collector at this point. Hopefully the cars he owns are sold one day and not just burned or buried in the desert.

He own's 3 of the 5 (6 including the factory prototype) McLaren F1 LM's. Ralph Lauren owns 1, and I'm not sure who owns the last one.

carreragt558

Indeed

Brunei got LM1, LM4 and LM5
Mclaren factory still has LMXP1 the prototype
Ralph got LM3
And LM2 is still with Yoshio Tsuzuki

Lord_Galva

Well once he passes leadership on I'm sure there will be a huge auction.

Vilhuer

Its his brother who actually has more cars than sultan himself, or had. Some years ago when oil price dropped they had financial problems. Oil in Brunei isn't chapest to extract and when barrel price goes below certain point wells in there have to be shut down. This caused financial crisis to brothers and banks they had loaned money against future oil income took over large part of the car collection. These banks then tried to offload them to RHD markets they could like New Zealand. There has already been many auctions and cars have also been sold to high end car dealers. Problem with many of the cars is that they were kept in non airconditioned garages and Brunei is very humid place. This caused rotten interiors and broken ecu boxes. Though some have gotten really good looking low mileage cars out of there its fact that they are RHD which is last limiting factor. And they aren't all that special. For example those four 968 do have options but nothing really out of the ordinary.

96PS800229;WP0ZZZZ;1993;968111;C26/R;M44.43;G44.00;M058M130M150M197I209M219I238I323M325M327M341M402M418M423 M425I434M437M438M441M480M492M533M561M567M573I596M605M650M651M685

96PS830234;WP0ZZZZ;1993;968311;C26/R;M44.43;G44.00;M058M130M150M186M197I209M219I238I323M325M327M341M402M418 M423I434M437M438M441M480M492M533M561M573M605M651M655

96NS831360;WP0ZZZZ;1992;945544;C26/R;M44.44;A44.00;M018M058M130M150M186I209M219I236M249M288I323M325M327M383 M387M402M423I434M441M492M564M573M605M651M655

96NS830924;WP0ZZZZ;1992;945544;C26/R;M44.43;G44.00;M130M150M186I209M219I236I323M325M327M379M380M403M423M431 I434M441M480M492M564M573M605M651M655M932M945

JDS968

Are all of the Brunei cars RHD?