S1 Ep312: The Million-Dollar Porsche That Got Its Maker Killed
Past Gas
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🗓️ 10 November 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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This week on Past Gas: one of the most insane tuner stories ever told. In the ’80s and ’90s, Gemballa turned Porsches into wild, million-dollar supercars for sheikhs, rappers, and rock stars. But behind the gold interiors and Testarossa body kits was founder Uwe Gemballa, a perfectionist whose obsession with luxury led to his disappearance — sparking one of the automotive world’s strangest mysteries. How did a man who built the wildest Porsches on Earth simply vanish? And how is his son rebuilding the brand today?
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| 0:36.1 | Nolan. Barts across from me and this week we're talking about Gambala, a company that by the end of this episode, I'm sure you will agree, is really underrated, really underappreciated, created some amazing cars and unfortunately had a pretty sad ending. So this is a cool story, a sad story with some really badass cars along the way, sit back, |
| 0:56.0 | relax, or pay attention to driving if that's what you're doing right now. I don't know. And enjoy |
| 1:01.0 | the story of Gambala. The year is 2020. It's early morning on the streets of Manhattan, |
| 1:09.0 | when suddenly a sports car reins out of control, |
| 1:11.5 | sideswipes several parked cars and crashes to a halt. |
| 1:15.4 | The driver revs the $1 million plus machine and peels out, leaving an expensive path of destruction |
| 1:21.7 | before his engine seizes up and he has taken into custody. |
| 1:25.8 | Video of the debacle spread like wildfire across the internet, |
| 1:28.7 | and it doesn't take long for automotive enthusiasts to realize that this isn't just a normal |
| 1:33.9 | Porsche Carrera GT, which is a rare sighting in itself. |
| 1:38.6 | In fact, the car is arguably one of the rarest on the planet, the Porsche Gambala Mirage |
| 1:44.1 | GT, a $780,000 masterpiece |
| 1:48.0 | of engineering. But despite the waves it made, somehow the carnage of this event fits in perfectly |
| 1:54.0 | with the Gambala timeline. Just one more controversial blip for a company who redefined |
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