This GT3 is CURSED!

[@switchcars]

Ed is not a fan of my puns or dad jokes, but I told him that #flatinthecurve was the best 2020 pun ever, and came up with a shirt to prove it. Help support my dad joke habit and pre-order yours using the link in the description!

[@VanekLarson]

Getting famous off of comments day 163,so I can live the dream, live life to the fullest🚀🤙

[@beev]

that jokes gonna go viral....

[@theanomalous1401]

I know where you're coming from Doug and I get it. The way every moment of 2020 has gone so far and shows no signs of letting up. The notion of selling reminders of 2020 warrants a 2nd opinion. #GodIsInControl #VinWiki #SwitchCars

[@paulcarmi8130]

Doug, I'd love to buy one, but I'd get yelled at by shitty liberals if I wore it in Colorado.

[@brandon893]

Pass

[@chancock4222]

“The car had a salvage title...” Tavarish has entered the chat...

[@jackbuckleyauto]

Facts

[@powerking451]

Doug: "..about 10 years ago." Me: Oh, cool, back in the 90s, weird they'd have a photo on their phone from there... Also, me: Holy shit, he meant 2010

[@daniels3899]

Time flies man haha

[@RBeeMedia]

It hit me like a ton of bricks too lmao

[@GreeneGuyTV]

Haha no matter what year it is I still feel like the 90s were last decade for some reason.

[@azargelin]

yea wierd how time flies

[@Valdismith]

@@daniels3899 Yes, it still looks like the seconf to last GT3 gen 911, like the one before 992.1 and 992.2 (I consider the .2 a slightly updated version of the same model, which it is, it still has the 992 platform. All nicely touched Turbo's, Gt3/2's after 05, maily after the 996 platform looks modern to me. I love the one before the 996, with back to the circular headlights. The only time I really loved the 996 was, when I saw the car new, in Bulgaria at 2001, and I was 17. Then I thought, lol, they did extend the headlight, and changed the beetle style, it is a different design this time! No, I love the older nd newer, not the 993 though.

[@chrisahn2398]

One of the best Porsches ever released. No wonder they still sell for close to their original msrp.

[@GriotDNB]

And such an absolute joy to drive.

[@AAMSFR]

Yes and especially the GT2 version, it deserved the name “Widowmaker”

[@touringteg]

I drove one once and still want one!

[@dr.curious5136]

I liked mine , bit the day I drove my 991 GT3 RS GT3 , I forgot all about it ...

[@Bladeserpent]

You mean *“*more*”*

[@EdBolian]

This sounds like my kind of Porsche!

[@locogtr6475]

Hi ed

[@tsaurus5051]

I'd take a possessed GT3 if I could take it home lol.

[@biniamkahsai6966]

🤣

[@bcncsj]

Hi Ed! Keep up the great stories!

[@behindthen0thing]

I bet

[@brandenjones192]

The real question is, why is he sitting in his boxers?😂

[@okbutwhocares]

Wondered the same, must be quite hot on the VINwiki studio

[@lsedanolg]

Castingchair 👀

[@TylerMoto]

They are shorts

[@trenthanson4322]

@@lsedanolg the studio is connected to Ed's house...

[@27x27]

@@trenthanson4322 so a sleep over between vinwiki stars. So @vinwiki where's the pillow fight montage?

[@redram5150]

I worked at an RV dealer like that, but it was on consignments. After their coach has been sold for well above what was agreed upon by us and the owner, our GM would call the guy claiming we have an interested buyer but the offer is well below that amount. If the owner didn’t agree the first time this lie was told, another call would follow a few days to a week later about a another phantom prospective buyer. Usually a second call wasn’t necessary cus my GM was genuinely an excellent salesman who could “sell a ketchup popsicle to a woman in white gloves”.

[@johnh2349]

Doug; “Almost hit an Elk just outside of Vegas.” Me; “Yeah, ok.” Checks interwebs... “elk are as far south as Mt Potosi.” Who knew?

[@davidj9712]

Saying he saved a skidding elk on the 160 is way cooler than admitting that the burro that he almost killed had a better reaction time. It wouldn’t have been good business to actually prove he’s no better than a jackass...Either way Doug is not the best choice when it comes to dealing with animals.My guess is they smell him coming...

[@daniesalex7073]

What is an elk

[@nathanfrase9687]

@@daniesalex7073 basically a really big deer with a big nose and bigger antlers that makes loud yelling noises. Idk I’m from the south so that’s my best description

[@JoeKyser]

Nevada has some of the best Elk hunting in the country! Who would have thought that though right? I hear you

[@johnh2349]

Joe Kyser, I’ve driven all over that area, flown all over that area and boated all over that area. I’ve seen a lot of wildlife but never an elk.

[@codyblea3638]

"Never seen an animal skid before" Bro, the second mountain north of Piles peak has elk and deer going down the roads and trails like they are delivering tofu at 3 am.

[@GR.Ziomek]

I see Porsche, I know its Doug. I click. I check description during the ad. It is indeed Doug. Take my ad money

[@derrickfarrar5736]

Laughs in Ad Blocker

[@garrettmitchell5657]

If only James Dean were alive to tell the story of his cursed 550 Spyder. That would be a VinWiki video for the ages. Good stuff, Doug!

[@Sluggernaut]

Last time I was this early, a giant elk was sprinting into the road and I swear to god I've never seen an animal skid.

[@impslap7620]

I had a beautiful Carrara White GT3 that I absolutely loved. Speaking of crappy luck, I got into a fender bender that required a rear quarter panel repair replacement and basically the entire driver side repaired. I decided to make lemonade out of lemons but, boy, did that snowball. Figured, might as well do RS wide fenders. Well, since we should repaint it to match, let's delete the sunroof with a carbon panel, one fender needs replacement-let's do racing cf fenders... Ended up with a very cool look with the wider RS body and fenders but I kept the taco wing. To my regret, I fell in love with a Murcielago and sold/traded the GT3 and a Gallardo for it. My current GT3 Touring ticks all the same boxes and I won't make the mistake of letting it go and will be keeping it as it ticks all the same boxes for me.

[@brandoncaldwell95]

"Once its been deflowered, it tends to hurt a lot of buyers".. yep, and thats how i got my wife

[@shinankabeer]

Doug Tabbutt's stories are the best, ngl.

[@theanomalous1401]

Salvage title 997? No problem. Freddy's always up for a challenge and just a phone call away. #800CallTavarish

[@Che1seabluesdrogba11]

There really is no substitute for a Porsche 911.. except maybe a "cursed" one

[@pinchesancho0192]

James Deans Porsche 355 Spider: hold my beer

[@chasetiemeyer1056]

When did Doug start telling these stories in his boxers?

[@griffinmcmurray8727]

How safe are G Wagons? This is crazy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYFPy...

[@mattyp3119]

Lol 🤦‍♀️the amount of mental gymnastics required to make this story sound like he had good intentions and was a victim in these situations is astounding.

[@ElTyranto]

9:23 Thats a lot of rust on those "ceramic brakes"

[@phantommedia9964]

Yeah, at the same time those r yellow calipers so they should be PCCBs, but it’s also possible someone repainted the calipers 🤷‍♂️

[@xxpiympinxx]

Welcome back the Mexican stigg

[@fabulousprofound]

Huh. That GT3 was up here in British Columbia Canada where I am from... didn’t expect to see it here 😯

[@Finite-Tuning]

2005 I was getting out of the automotive field. Ya know what they say, if it floats, fly's, bounces or rolls, you're gonna have trouble with it!

[@madg00se]

A friend of mine had a Porsche Boxter 986 that we said was cursed. He had 13 accidents in 13 months, some his fault others were not. It was imported from Germany, a very early model made in the first year of production, 1996? It had already been involved in a serious accident in Germany before it was imported to the UK and Porsche were not yet selling Boxters in the UK. So it was the first one I ever saw and a lot of other people too, finished in Guards red it got a lot of attention. Some of the accidents were stupid like reversing and catching an 18-24 inch high post on the rear bumper and another was cutting to the lane nearest the pavement only to catch overhanging scaffolding and leaving it with a scar that looked like somebody had opened up the flared wing over the rear wheel with a can opener. Another time he had bought some lunch and sat on the grass in a park, and a crowd gathered around the car, he thought that they were just admiring it so he did not run over, until the police turned up. When he got to the car it turned out that a truck had caught the front bumper and tore it off and did not stop, nobody got the trucks details. He then had almost a complete respray to hide and blend all of the repairs because the car was starting to look patchwork. This work was done by a friend of mines father who restores exotics, beautiful job done, car was in "showroom condition" again. A month later a woman does not stop at a give way and t-bones him spinning him 270 degrees. It turns out that the woman is banned from driving with a drink/drive conviction and is also drunk at the time of this accident. The cars goes back to my friends workshop and Porsche will not issue the "laser alignment patterns?" or the "jigging templates?" or they were not available for the "private market yet", (did I remember that correctly, does that make sense???) or is it something that connects to the jigging equipment and also to the car???. It takes weeks to get the parts from Porsche but eventually the car is back to tip top condition. He decides to sell it. Because it is a left hand drive he feels he will get a better price on the continent. He goes to Amsterdam where he has friends with the intention of selling it. He lets his friend take it for a drive and all goes well, the friend loved it. Later that evening he and his girlfriend go out for dinner and as he starts the car it lurches forward and he ends up with a Citroen's exhaust touching his windscreen and the nose of the Porsche buried under the Citroen. The friend had parked the car and left it in gear. He had to reverse the car out from under the Citroen resulting in it looking like it has come out the loser in a battle with a JCB. We think somebody was killed in that car in Germany before he bought it and it just should never have been rebuilt, it should have been recycled into baked bean tins!

[@Onewheelordeal]

If owned that body shop with the Elk, I'd be feeding all the local wildlife too. Pretty easy repeat customers with giant animals in the road lol

[@brettbilger1390]

There is something very special about the 997.1 GT3

[@en1126]

My father knew a mechanic who had a green Porsche 930. He bought it from someone who killed themselves he was a guy who owned a gun shop. The mechanic was good friends with my father and my dad wanted to buy the car (thank god he didn’t). The mechanic then took it to the track and wrapped it around a tree and had to have his brain drained and almost died. Then some guy bought the broken car and actually restored the car completely and then drove the car while testing the carburetors or something like that and hit a pole and broke a lot of bones and almost died as well. He only hit the front, however, and someone else bought the car to part it out. The story gets kinda lost from here since the guy who hit the front of the car stopped talking to the mechanic. But the guy said that somebody bought a transmission from the broken car and then hit the car he put the transmission in. We don’t know what happened to him but hopefully he didn’t die. Lesson of the day, don’t buy cars from people who killed themselves because they are probably cursed.

[@gsmith207]

This proves the fact that you don’t mess with Maineah’s and some of us wear shorts to everything... love it! Thanks Vinwiki!

[@jayringo77]

"I knew it had had a hard life because I had been part of that hard life." Preach! I get it...at the same time seems like such a waste to see these standing still for most of their life under glass and behind locked warehouse doors.

[@me3333]

His version of CURSED and mine are definitely two totally different ideas. My version would have been something like the last three owners were killed while driving the car and I unknowingly bought it, parked it in the garage and the garage caught on fire, burnt to the ground and took the house with it but the car was fine. It sounds to me like he made money off of the car many times and had a good track weekend in it between one of those times.

[@sohchx]

Bruh..... Doug looks like he's in his boxers LOL

[@d0083K]

I saw an animal skid. It was my cat. It ran down the staircase to get food and skidded into the wall like when an FD car crashes into a wall. That was kind of funny.

[@facusan2339]

That car needs to be called "Little bastard"

[@Andreas-yt9wv]

You sore the inside guys, it was sold so often cause it's a racecar not a road car. No cushions, no stereo, super tight suspension. They spend a lot of money to make the car lighter for racing at Porsche. Owners woke up quickly to that fact and sold for a comfy seat.

[@touringteg]

Sunroof delete! I see BC plates and Volk TE37. Not sure if that’s the same car from the stories. Still my favourite car and I want one for track and street.

[@ToolkiT73UK]

When I read the title I was hoping it would be a Doug story. I was not disappointed :)

[@aaroncook5681]

Now that it has been rolled, its a perfect car for Ed. Next Season?

[@thegurem]

I drove one of those on a track in spain 6-7 years ago. Damn they good

[@mikeyburns]

He was literally in his boxers

[@braddeicide]

Insurance companies won't cover accidents on public roads anywhere near a racetrack here.

[@robertwfetech8691]

The three slimmest people in the world lawyers,politicians and CAR DEALERS. Not necessarily in that order.

[@UpTownSmoke]

That car lived a good life

[@lukeduke1212]

Tavarish: I just bought this internet famous GT3

[@theenzoferrari458]

Have you never heard of James deans little bastard? That car is to not be messed with. Its killed, injured and maimed people and even burnt down its own garage and remained unscathed in the fire. Lmao that Porsche GT3 is harmless.

[@austinwilburn1772]

My father and I do a little used car selling on the side, super causal stuff out of our own garage, but we had a cursed car, it was a 09 Pontiac G5, it was a great little hatchback with good gas miles but it was cursed. It got crashed in the front 5 times. 2 times before us and 3 times with us. The funny thing we joked about the numbers 666 were in the vin of the car.

[@gmofftarki]

See, I liked Doug, but then he said the thing about "never saw an animal skid". Can't trust someone that doesn't like dogs, and anyone who's been around dogs would have seen them skid on a hardwood floor at some point or another.

[@MrTJones15]

At 10:22 it looks like it was up in Canada with a BC plate.

[@chronomatica]

I don't suggest putting in practice either but a family member went in with another family member purchase a vehicle they didn't call insurance 3 days later totaled the car we got fully reimbursed yes this law is true

[@gavinford7447]

I am in high school and I have a personal finance class. We did a project on car loans. We had to pick two cars. An affordable one and a, and I will quote her, a “dream car”. I suddenly got very excited to do this project. I do a Volkswagen Golf GTI for the affordable one. And as I am about to do a Ferrari FXXK Evo, she said no race cars. Not sure what made her say this but I thought, “ no worries, I will pick another”. I pick the F12 TDF. I finish the project and I had the price of the F12 at market value rather than original MSRP, so it was really expensive. I turned in the project. She looked at it and said “😳 do it again and make it more realistic”. I asked what price range and get this, she said 75k. For my dream car. I have some expensive taste. So now, I guess my dream car is a Camaro SS 1le.

[@DocR16]

Its apparent your teacher is forcing her broke dick salary on your dreams and forcing students into a price range of what she could theoretically afford after she pulled a second mortgage on her house and moonlit as a stripper for 6 months

[@cmart8992]

Dougs' story telling is an art!! ..Also Ed's tOO!! :)

[@trueG922]

That car plate is from BC Canada lol

[@rjnation5042]

Thanks Doug , always ready to stay up late to hear a story about your car selling history, Rj in Oz.

[@daverussell457]

I wonder if Doug ever considered that he was cursed and the car was fine... as long as he didn't possess it.

[@boytechnichian]

"I basically started my career as a 911 scalper"

[@freakeasia]

Little bastard the 550 spyder: *good job son*

[@jmton6510]

How do you know if a car is yours from a picture if your not seeing the vin

[@ListerMotorsports]

I've been a big part of a few cars " Hard Lives " lol. Ahhh the memories.......

[@cialisttv1290]

Bc Canada plates in pics?

[@user-el5mg4it9t]

When you're as rich as "nah, I just pre-ordered a few Porsches".

[@SHADOW517joe]

Sometimes cars are a bitch that you love... I had an 89' Jeep Grand Cherokee fully loaded.. clean beautiful interior, low miles (for the age).. constantly overheating no matter what we do, would not shift right.. but then one day a month it ran perfectly.. I had the emissions done and sold it short for $1800

[@devinwalton408]

Did these have the IMS bearing issue also?

[@timstarac]

Nope

[@williamegler8771]

The Elk didn't want to defile fine German machinery...

[@quique7764]

One things I've noticed is car guys tend to be good story tellers.

[@tjclt250r]

heyyy ED thanks for ALL you DO

[@mohawkvalleyphenomenon2974]

"Whoooooo almost wrecked my freshly fixed car" "elk whoooooo almost lost my life good thing I stopped he would have been really mad"

[@codymanring9129]

So you know the blue Diamond road I hit a donkey on that road. In my srt8 magnum. I was going around the road I won’t say the speed, but nothing left of the rear end of the donkey... magnum was rebuilt but it was a fun night hitting the damn thing. All I can say is shit will stop you really quick

[@Seppy39]

so a more tamed version of james dean Porsche

[@morkovija]

Friday Doug story - couldnt be better

[@caveone-365]

Ohhhhh Moton's! Love em!! 👍👍

[@poky8390]

This car came into the shop I worked at in Oregon

[@SpaceShipDeathstar]

That ain't no curse if you take lots of enjoyment off it.

[@csp4983]

does milage matter on these cars?

[@bobdingle2539]

So.... what was the curse supposed to be?

[@jakobmontgomery471]

I'm beginning to learn that high end cars get returned and sold frequently. I guess the people who buy them have the money to just get a different super car or luxury vehicle every year or so and just want something more exciting.

[@ericroberts235]

If an elk hit that car you ain't repairing it and they aint repairing dude

[@jakeburton1280]

That's a British Columbian license plate!

[@sethrhoades3674]

Ohio fam! Doug you ought to host a meet/show somtime

[@clay612]

Edd!!!! That car is still on the road here in va !!!!! Iv seen it here in Virginia

[@MrInternFTL]

Dang where is it mowed

[@kellykonoske91]

An elk...in the desert...riiiight.

[@guopa1]

I'm curious. My question is, after which animal or reptile is the body of Porsche (any porsche) imagined? Coz they remind me of frogs especially the American bullfrog. Porsches look like frogs, right?

[@VINwiki]

Frogs are amphibians

[@wheelieryan8837]

Hit by an elk 👏👏👏👏

[@iyeetdog4853]

Lol this car has curse of binding

[@cerealkilla8930]

"Haven't ever..."

[@NickTaylorRickPowers]

These 2 were meant to be together forever

[@mohawkvalleyphenomenon2974]

I think we all know what is going on there😂.

[@ae3496]

Who else noticed the camera was to low

[@locogtr6475]

It be friday

[@Jenuin]

Haha some cars have a story and this one is no slouch

[@1koolkat76]

Awesome story as always. But if i have own this car, i would have done this before driving it. "The Power of Christ Compels You". lol

[@pablocruise678]

Ummmm... elk exist only in higher country here in Vegas... not on lower ground.. I’m calling bull.. nitro, wild horse sure... Elk? No way

[@smartman123]

great personality

[@2vcrew782]

All cars will be scrap eventually you might as well live it up and drive them like they were meant to be

[@Che1seabluesdrogba11]

I see GT3, I click

[@DeepStatePuppy]

Good and sad story 😢

[@rickp5987]

Dang Dougie, tie a pink sweater around you neck to go with those shorty shorts!

[@Somepepperwiththatsalt]

Ed's storys are the shit.

[@dm7559]

Isn’t the term, “very well respected broker” an oxymoron?

[@shubhammanchanda885]

He should have called Joe Rogan when saw the elk

[@fatman1288]

not meant to be?!?!?! sometimes the good/bad memories is worth more than 5k

[@gautham_narayanan]

Q:Can an engine from a fwd car swapped to a rwd car?

[@timothydillon6421]

VW bug has entered the chat