When you have a company as storied as Porsche, with enthusiasts at every corner of the globe, some of those enthusiasts will start to collect cars. For some, it might be a project 928 in the garage beside the daily driver Type 996 911 Carrera. For others, it might be a his-and-hers Cayenne and Macan in the driveway. For a select few, however, it’s beyond that.
Some people, when they find themselves wealthy beyond normal in the financial sense, will buy several houses, one for each season of the year. Some will invest in art, others will collect various wine vintages, and some will start collecting cars. It’s just that some of these collections, when the owner is proud of what they have, have achieved a storied legend of their own. It is these collections, the best, biggest, weirdest, and coolest that we will be looking at with this article.
Jay Leno’s “Porsche Corner”
Anyone, absolutely anyone that is interested in things that have an engine and two to four or more wheels are familiar with Jay Leno’s collection. He is famously welcoming of everyone from the biggest TV shows to the most random of YouTubers into his collection, located at the Burbank Airport in repurposed aircraft hangars. He is one of the 30 or so lucky people to own a McLaren F1, he has several one off and extremely rare special edition cars, and he has collections of several brands all with their own section in the garage.
It is in “Porsche Corner,” which is literally one of the corners in the main collection building, where enthusiasts about the cars from Stuttgart will start to drool.
To start, he has a few pretty rare cars, including a 1957 Porsche 356A Outlaw, valued at well over $250,000. The 356A Outlaw models were made when the company was transitioning to the at the time new 911, and feature 911 suspension, transmissions, front disc brakes, and in this case a 911 flat six engine. They are exceptionally rare in the condition that his is in, which is museum-grade mint, and the best thing is that he drives every car in his collection. It’s one of Jay’s rules, that to be in his collection, the car must be fully running and driveable.
Another of his prized Porsche’s is a 1963 356 Carrera 2, the final 356 models that informed the shape of the 911 that followed them. It is a very rare car to find in North America, and it’s becoming more difficult to find them in Europe as well.
Other cars in his collection include a race-used 550 Spyder in fully restored condition, a 2005 Carrera GT, a 2015 918 Spyder, and several 911’s.
Of those 911’s, he also owns a few restomods including a Singer 911, a RUF CTR2, and most recently he brought a gold over black and white interior Lab Eleven 911 restomod into his collection.
While there is no complete count of just how many Porsche’s he owns as he buys and sells cars almost weekly, he does have a soft spot for the little German company from Stuttgart. However, it does get a little lost in just one corner of a collection totally over 190 vehicles!
Lisa Taylor’s “Rainbow of 911’s”
“Lisa who?” we can already hear you asking. Lisa Taylor is a California native that is one of the founders of, and currently the Vice President of Tayco Engineering Inc, an aerospace research, engineering, and manufacturing firm. Started in 1982, the company was quickly contracted by groups such as the Department of Defense, NASA, and Lockheed Martin.
Because of this influx of big contracts and lots and lots of money, Lisa was able to start buying her dream car: The Porsche 911. Living on a ranch in Orange County, California, she started with a 1973 911 Targa in Guards red, and has not looked back since. That 911 Targa was her daily driver, and every other year she would buy the latest 911 model that came out, in a different color than her last purchased. This has led to her garage building where her “Rainbow of 911’s” sits.
As part of her love for Porsche, Lisa is also a qualified and certified Porsche Driving Instructor, holds more than 10 autocross championship titles driving Porsches, and is one of the exclusive members of the secretive R Gruppe. That group is an invite-only club of Porsche collectors in California, and while the membership is not listed anywhere, it is rumored that many Porsche loving celebrities and businesspeople rub shoulders quite often at exclusive meetups.
Of course, having learned how to drive a Porsche 911 properly hard and fast, she owns quite a few of the more race-oriented models. Some of her most recent additions are a 2022 Type 992 911 GT3 in Rubystar, a 2021 Type 992 911 Turbo S in Signal Green, a 2023 Type 992 911 Targa 4 GTS in Carmine Red, and a 1991 Type 964 Targa 4 in Mint Green.
Lisa also does collect other brands and models, including a couple of Cayenne Transsyberia’s, a Macan Turbo, a 1973 911 Carrera RS 2.7, and another 1970’s era Oslo Blue 911 Carrera RS that has been modified to be her personal rally car. She also owns a 718 Cayman GT4, a 718 Cayman S, and from other brands, a Honda NSX (branded Acura in North America), several modern Ferrari’s, and a few Ultimate-model MSO McLarens.
Todd Blue’s “Sea Of Blue”
Former real estate developer and now family dealership business executive Todd Blue is not someone that kicks open the doors to his collection often. It also helps that the family business is indiGO Auto Group, who sell everything from Porsches (6 dealerships including a 60,000 square foot main dealership) to Lamborghini (indiGO owns the most successful Lamborghini dealership of the 2010s in all of the USA).
He opened his collection for Petersen Automotive Museum to take a rare tour, in the video below:
Of course, his favorite color is blue. He dresses in blue Italian tailored suits, his office chair is blue leather, and his personal Porsche collection? You guessed it, blue color schemes.
One of his most prized Porsches is his 1973 Gulf Blue 911 Carrera RS 2.7, which is in pristine condition and was, for a while, his daily driver.
He also owns one of the 1980s slant-nose Type 930 911′s, which was one of his first purchases when started his Porsche collection.
It’s not just 911s that he collects either. He has probably the single-best condition 968 Turbo S in the USA, which is seriously in showroom condition despite having being driven for a while.
Being who he is, he also owns one of the 77 2019 Porsche 935 special edition models, of course in Gulf Blue.
Todd also has a selection of 911 Cabriolets, from a G-Series in deep blue to a modern Type 992 911 Carrera 4 GTS Cabriolet in Gentian Blue Metallic.
The centerpiece of his collection, however, is a 1986 Porsche 959 Komfort, which is parked between his Carrera GT and his 918 Spyder… all blue, of course.
There are many other Porsches, and even other brands in his collection, but they all, in some way, have blue included in their colorway.
“The White Collection”
It was only in 2023 when a private collection of an anonymous owner in Texas contacted RM Sotheby’s to handle auctioning off some of his or her cars that this collection even became public knowledge. Held in highly secure building that was built for the sole purpose of holding a car collection, the White Collection had well over 50 Porsches, all wearing white paint for their body color.
The auction sold 50 out of 56 cars, and brought in a staggering $30.5 million. Several sales records were also set, including individual sales records for a 2015 918 Spyder Weissach Edition at $3.9 million, a 2016 911 R, and a Type 991.2 GT2 RS.
A 1997 Type 993 911 GT2 that was one of 17 that were made with right hand drive sold for over $2 million. The final 1993 911 Carrera RSR also pulled in over $2 million.
In fact, most of the cars in the collection pulled in six figures. Only a few didn’t make it, such as a 1977 924 “Martini Championship Edition” that sold for $29,120.
Shockingly, a 1974 911 Carrera RS 3.0 didn’t get sold, and as far as anyone knows, is still available for offers via RM Sotheby’s.
Other cars that made it were a 1994 911 Turbo S X85 Flat Nose, a 1973 911 Carrera RS 2.7 Lightweight, another 911 Carrera RS 2.7 the Touring version, a 2019 911 GT2 RS Weissach, a 2009 Type 997.2 911 Turbo S, and for the classic lovers out there, a 1958 356A 1600 Speedster and a 1963 356B Carrera 2 2000 GS Coupe Reutter.
The Porsche Museum
With a collection of at least one of every model Porsche ever made, the Porsche Museum does count as a collection. Sure, it may have first party access to the cars, but when your collection is estimated at $1.2 billion in 2023 money, that’s a serious collection.
World famous Porsches are on display at the museum, with many more in environmentally controlled storage.
One such car is the 1971 917/20 Pink Pig, a combination of the 917 K’s stability with the low drag of the 917 LH’s low drag.
Another famous Porsche on display is the 356 No. 1, the very first Porsche ever made, with a priceless value attached to it.
The Museum holds the only known example of a 961 race car, an endurance racing variant of the 959 from 1986.
The Museum also holds many one-offs and “weird science” Porsches, such as the 1969 914/8, a proof of concept for a road car with the race engine out of a 908. Only two were made, and were the personal project of Ferdinand Piech to show what the chassis could handle. It was reportedly dismissed by Ferry Porsche on his 60th birthday as distasteful, and was relegated to the museum since.
The Museum also has two of the greatest Group C cars ever made, the 956 and 962, side by side on display. This was the end of and era of Porsche’s total dominance in endurance racing, and to see both cars as clean and well maintained as they were in the 1980s is something truly special.
In total, the Porsche Museum has a staggering 700 cars in its collection, including over 200 race cars, some of which are legendary and others nearly mythical in their importance to the company. The basic thing is that if Porsche in any way, shape, or form manufactured it, even if it was a one-off, they likely have it in their collection.
