Happiness Is Collecting Unloved Porsches and Driving Them Hard
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Cyrus has a few rules for his Porsches: they have to be underdogs, they have to be great colors, and they have to be driven hard.
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Starting out as a broke 17-year-old spending all his savings on a terrible $1500 Porsche 944, Cyrus got a job washing cars at a dealership, worked his way up to the sales floor, and built a successful career. When he was ready to buy his first “adult” Porsche, he realized something.
“I noticed going to Cars & Coffee, more and more you’d see these paint to sample GT3s, these cars coming in that you need to know a guy to know a guy in order to get one,” he says. “So I started looking to what at the time was the more unloved Porsches.”
Since then, he’s built what he calls the Jelly Belly collection: a salvage-title 1986 944 Turbo, 2004 911 Carrera 4S, 2008 Boxster S Limited Edition, and a Peridot Green 2012 Cayman R. All united by the feeling that these cars didn’t get their due. It doesn’t matter that they’re not the fastest or sharpest or most exclusive models. They’re amazing drivers—visceral, emotional, and just incredibly fun. To Cyrus, that’s gold.
When he bought the 996, he put a piece of electrical tape over the odometer so racking up the miles wouldn’t stress him out. It was the salvage 944 Turbo that showed him the beauty of “driving unconcerned.” Now, his goal is to make his Cayman R the highest-mileage example on the planet.
“Being in these cars, spending time around them, it brings me back to… that feeling of pure joy and excitement. I’m not able to duplicate that in anything else I do.”
Produced, shot, and edited by instagram.com/tomgorelik
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[CARISMA is The Drive's new series exploring the connection between enthusiasts and their cars. NEW EPISODE TODAY! youtube.com/watch?v=vmwN-PFonJ...
Starting out as a broke 17-year-old spending all his savings on a terrible $1500 Porsche 944, Cyrus got a job washing cars at a dealership, worked his way up to the sales floor, and built a successful career. When he was ready to buy his first “adult” Porsche, he realized something.
“I noticed going to Cars & Coffee, more and more you’d see these paint to sample GT3s, these cars coming in that you need to know a guy to know a guy in order to get one,” he says. “So I started looking to what at the time was the more unloved Porsches.”
Since then, he’s built what he calls the Jelly Belly collection: a salvage-title 1986 944 Turbo, 2004 911 Carrera 4S, 2008 Boxster S Limited Edition, and a Peridot Green 2012 Cayman R. All united by the feeling that these cars didn’t get their due. It doesn’t matter that they’re not the fastest or sharpest or most exclusive models. They’re amazing drivers—visceral, emotional, and just incredibly fun. To Cyrus, that’s gold.
When he bought the 996, he put a piece of electrical tape over the odometer so racking up the miles wouldn’t stress him out. It was the salvage 944 Turbo that showed him the beauty of “driving unconcerned.” Now, his goal is to make his Cayman R the highest-mileage example on the planet.
“Being in these cars, spending time around them, it brings me back to… that feeling of pure joy and excitement. I’m not able to duplicate that in anything else I do.”
Produced, shot, and edited by instagram.com/tomgorelik
Previous episode: S54-Swapped BMW E36 → youtube.com/watch?v=OkjxfuPpgq...
The Drive is the chronicle of car culture. We write stories you actually want to read. → thedrive.com
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