Inside the $2M 24k Gold Iron Man Porsche with James Pumphrey

Spike's Car Radio

Spike Feresten

Automotive, Leisure

4.3 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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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. ______________________________________________ 🫧 Meguiar's - 125 Years of Passion Premium products to clean, restore, and protect your vehicle https://meguiarsdirect.com/collections/new 💧 Pocket Hose - The #1 Expanding Hose in the World Text SPIKE to 64000 to get a FREE Pocket Pivot and 10-Pattern Sprayer with Purchase of the Pocket Hose Ballistic! 🛠️ RaceDeck - Transform Your Garage Get 15% off plus free shipping with code SPIKE356 https://RaceDeck.com 🔵 BlueChew - Get Bricked Up with BlueChew Gold Buy 2 months of BlueChew Gold, get the 3rd month for FREE with code SPIKE911 https://BlueChew.com GRAB SOME SCR MERCH: https://spikescarradio.com GET MORE SCR ON PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/spikescarradio ______________________________________________ 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. _____________________________________________ 📧 To advertise with Spike’s Car Radio, contact Neon Tiger Media: contact@neontiger.media 🌐 or visit: https://scrpod.com/sponsor Produced by Skyview Entertainment & Q6 Media https://q6.media ______________________________________________ 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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0:00.0	Here we are, Spikes Car Radio. It's a good show. James Pumphrey is here.
0:08.0	Hi.
0:09.0	Our friend James Pumph and Gunther works, the last minute edition. Peter's going to be bringing
0:15.2	on this one-of-one turbo speedster that's behind us here. I guess it's already on. He's going
0:20.4	to be telling us about this, but this was added last night. It was very exciting. Yeah, he texted me. Yeah, I texted you because we were going to have boat show guy on again, a boat car guy was coming on. I ran into him at this car show called Good Boy Bob on the west side of LA that they have every once in a while.
0:38.1	And I said, bring something new on. So we'll do that next week. It's not, it's not every day. I normally don't get upgrades. So like to hit to have a text, it's like, hey, we're not going to have the the funny car. We're going to have a crazy cool car. It doesn't happen to me That's good.
0:53.6	Usually it's the other way around.
0:54.6	And have you met Peter?
0:55.7	I haven't.
0:56.2	He's a fan of yours and he's mentioned your. a crazy cool car. Doesn't happen to me a lot. That's good. It's the other way around.
0:54.7	And have you met Peter?
1:30.6	I haven't. He's a fan of yours and he's mentioned you many times. This is going to be nice. You'll get to meet him and you can talk to him about the car too. But first we're going to talk about James Pumfrey and its empire. The growing empire of speed. The burgeoning speed empire. It's fantastic. I mean, I'm watching your channel just explode. Congratulations. Thank you. It's, it's, uh, I, I, you know, you do the work, though. You, you, you sit with you write, you edit, you shoot, and, uh, you don't put out crap like some shows like this show. You actually put out good content. But let's, when I last had you on, you were on your way to Dakar. Yeah.
1:31.0	With Tudor. shows like this show. You actually put out good content. But let's, uh, when I last had you on,
1:28.7	you were on your way to Dakar. Yeah. With Tudor. Yeah. Yeah. There's some of the, that stuff is a,
1:34.6	yeah. Well, there's more than that. But tell me about this trip. This looked like like a dream
1:43.0	trip of a lifetime.
1:46.3	I mean, it was the coolest thing ever.
1:50.3	And it was like this weird juxt position because living in Southern California and being part of cars, you get exposed to a lot of off-road culture.
1:54.7	Yeah.
1:55.1	Like I've been to King of the Hammers.
1:56.6	I've been to the beaches and stuff like that.
1:59.3	But being around the Dakar scene, like, it's all like
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