Porsche's Most Famous Tuner Went Missing 

"Habibi, I've got to have it!" LMAO 😂 Great video as usual :)

I don't think enough people appreciate this guys insane storytelling skills.

Gemballa designs look like if Pimp My Ride had money to actually build out the stuff they made just temporary for TV.

His son’s car is sick

I remember this story being news in South Africa back in the day and being so shocked that Uwe was murdered. Like, crime happens in SA but you never expected a globally famous person to have been murdered here. As a car enthusiast it was a surreal feeling.

The MIG-U1 was the last car Uwe made. It was based off the MIG-25 Foxbat.

A mini bar in a car. Gotta love the 80s.

military guy with the bmw in the pic is hard as fuck

Just found you but really appreciate bringing light to such a automotive legend and honoring his legacy and sharing it with the broader audience ❤

I remember the rumor that he was stashing cash inside the wide body during shipping for laundering purposes.

1:50 " They are not MTV , they didn't pimp cars . Xzibit A" It can't be a coincidence 😂

I never knew Gemballa was murdered, its shocking to find out so randomly all these years later. This tuner and styling genius was the icing on the cake for Porsche production cars during the 80s and 90s, right up there with Alois Ruf, RIP.

I need to hire you to tell my boring life story, you surely will make it AWESOME! 😂💪🏻. You have talent telling stories.

I grew up on long island we moved to Boca Raton Florida in 95. I saw so many amazing rides and I remember looking at real slang nose 911 at the mall. Stunning.

Only reason I know of Gemballa is thanks to Midnight Club 3 and Toca Race Driver 3.

Great video. A friend of mine has a genuine 993 Gemballa Gtr 600 and it is just insane

The Mirage GT was Gemballa's best work!

Been huge car guy since birth even though prob won't be able to afford a 911 turbo I've been in love with since my first time seeing one. The 80 s tuning houses of then were insane. Gemballa,Koneig,ABC what a time. Great videos

Nice video. DM 390,000 were about USD180,000 back then, I didn't know they did BMW.

is a freedom dollar one that goes down in value every day like the sun? one like we have today ?

“This ain’t pimp my ride, exhibit a”. I see what you did there.

I didn’t know you are in the Chicago area. I’m about 45 mins north of the city. Love your channel man!

The mob boss tried escaping and was taken to solitary confinement around 2015.

I remember seeing UWE here in Miami, Coconut Grove, which is a few blocks away from my house. People used to go crazy for him. (Well, the guys)🤣

As a side note, Savy's real name is Krejcir. And he is also been named, but not proven, to have been behind the killing of South African "exotic" dance club franchise owner, Lolly Jackson, who himself had a lot wild and exotic cars. Lolly was also shot and wrapped like Uwe

Remembering when slant nose 911 were a thing, before the Singer retro fetish era.

He wasn't Porsche's biggest tuner. He wasn't even a Porsche-exclusive tuner.

Gemballa coffee table book I found.. the Cars featured are.. design adventures, Camera Side mirrors etc . Aero Kits ... Incredible.. Thanks for sharing this story... Cheers from Orange County California 🇺🇸

My dad was part of the crew when settings the world record, he still has ton of Pictures and shirts with the lap time printed

I remember back in the 80s, Radio Shack had leaflets you could take with you, that had a purple Gemballa Porsche with a fancy Pioneer sound system. It seemed really cool back then :) Also had a magazine that showed one of the cars being made.

Great video bro! Well put together 👌

That Mercedes was decades before its time, truly timeless build!

Another banger, thank you!

Fantastic channel man keep up the good with

Sure miss the DP Porsches.. IF you don't know the name Gemballa, you don't know Porsche or performance Mercedes much at all.. Excellent video / coverage!! Thanks for the flashbacks!!!

TXR3 was my first exposure to gemballa

I’m from Czech Republic, and Radovan Krejčíř is still remembered as an absolute and utter monster. He was feared even by the most notorious mobsters here due to his brutal ways of handling business. A SWAT team went to his house here from which he fled by an underground passageway, allegedly upon bribing the officers. Since he was to be arrested here in Czech Republic, he eventually fled to South Africa where he quickly solidified his control over the Johannesburg drug trade, even having one of his rivals there murdered. Today, our local authorities are still trying to convince the South African authorities to extradite him back here just so we can be sure that he doesn’t get out and cause more mayhem, but they are very reluctant about it, probably glad that they have him well guarded behind their bars.

Give me the most clickbait title. No, not that much clickbait! Best wishes.

9:19 My mk7 Ford Fiesta has better panel gaps.

Albon I love you ❤ please keep making fire automotive content

IMHO Gemballa is the most exclusive Porsche tuner. Hard press to see a REAL Gemballa out in the wild. When was the last time you saw one at Cars and Coffee? I didn't know they did BMW's! Would love to find that car. The Ferrari Enzo was a surprise. But I LOVE IT!

Gemballa MIG U1 is perfect

This was one my favourit tuners i'm so sad!

Stunning to take German cars and radicalise them,yet still carry some class . I used to work for a guy called Klass Zwart ,he owned a company called Petroline,An absolute gentleman and I’m not sure of this,he was an engineering genius,invented a bunch of wireline tools,they were all super efficient and some I’d reckon he designed,patented and produced some world beating oil tools. So to my point ,He sold of Petroline to Halliburton possibly,fu.k knows what I do know is he designed and proceeded to construct a hyper car and he’s possibly still making them,Ascari and I’d have to go searching but I have the brochure for the first Ascari. It’s a beautiful brochure and I had a company car whilst working there,the Golf VR6 and I drove him home one evening,that’s when I got that brochure and he’s only got an Ascari in his garage of cars of stunning motors. I’ll need to hunt that brochure out ,a great man,engineer,boss and generous to a fault . That was a great video mate 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Great video man

Love seeing the celica in the back

Fun fact! the tire company Fulda, is closing its doors for good in the end of 2025, i had no idea they had a car like that at the time, even tho they are local to me.

Read the title and thought Akira Nakai san was killed 😮

MPG'S Gemballa was actually released a Ville de testa in italy not pebble as my buddy was there, but its cool as for the Enzo MIG, Ive ridden in a Enzo (vlog is on my channel) and that hypercar deosnt need a single mod, its planedt , raw aanalog and fast a as f on its own, in my video you can here my say its like an F1 car when accelerating so the enzo I rode in is kinda famous its straight piped, was in a Drake video and shmee drive it in Miami and this week the same owner is taking me for ride in his 1 of 7 Yellow F50 . Anyway great videos I will be sure to check out more of your channel

I'm from SA the crime is out of control but with the DA party forming the GNU things are changing since the elections

The early cars were not really that pretty to look at. the later ones were something of a masterpiece.

If a car costs 390.000 Deutsche Marken in 1980's Germany. And 1 Dollar is about 2 Marken, when calculating very very quicly. Then 390.000 Marken translates to 390.000 / 2 = 195.000 Dollar and not 700.000 Dollar. You'r multiplying when you should be dividing.

I used to own a avalanche die cast car growing up as a little kid😅😅.

did I just see Ruf Gemballa one ?😮

Ive been calling it "gumball porsche" for majority of my life 😂

Also love your page, I’d love to see what you would do with DP dynamic plastics

Gemballa was murked because of cocaine, you can't tell me otherwise

I knew Uwe… the Avalanche was a very cool thing… RIP…

I have only seen 1 silver 911 gemballa in california

Please do Mansory! Pretty please! ^__-

There is more to this. George Louka and Lolly Jackson.

nice that you short your publicity... is way less anoying to watch your videos and see you showing respect for your viewers time. keep up the good work

Your stuff is fire bubba

Any TXR and Midnight Club game fans should know about Gemballa 😏

Come on dont call that guy a "Tuner" its more like a "pimp my ride" for rich guy's. And yeah you sad it right "Started with a RUFF Tuned" since that is a Tuner... they are NOT...

One more reasons never send aid money to Africa.

Gemballa mirage gt👌🏻

The safe was for your nose candy.

Awesome job. Sexy powerslides heheh. More videos plz

Once he said the mirage GT I immediately thought of that one guy who crashed it 😭

2:42 Is that Alpine? Anyone know?

As a 964 owner I must honestly say those car look like shit to me, the design lookedbad Wheatley came out but man did they age badly !!!

I'm drive gemballa biturbo gtr 550 and dont ask who was a owner

dude I thought nakai san had been murdered

Wowzerz!

2:30 Hahahaha My dad had this 500 SEC, a red Gemballa.....I HATED it... I was I think about 15 y/o...... He also later owned a Carrera GT Gemballa....Also red....Hated that one a bit less.

😂 we all know for sure there no soldier with deep enough pockets to cop a gamballa car 💯 😅

audio on this is fucked up. keeps getting disturbances

Honestly I been exposed a bit of Gemballa’s works the first one was the MIG U1, Mirage GT and the Avalanche but never known the history of it Spoilers: Even if the Original/ founder dies at least his legacy lives on

frankly from what iv seen of these "customs" far as im concerned they made nice cars look shite

Subbed!

Like him, those cars did not age well.

Wow BMW is a lesser car?

It is pronoused OOVAAE not uwa lol.

Wasn't ruf the biggest porsche tuner?

CGT actually needs an introduction since before I was a car enthusiast I literally never heard of it 🗿

Gemballa was the best Porsche. Now, it’s not even in the top 3

1 1 SECONDs faster.... ? wow imagine if he had almost swap the entire engine before hand what he would do :|

Why is it the usual suspects? Talk about a dark story … 🤦🏻‍♂️,

"wasnt fiber glass" well.. i dont know how the younger kids now days think of a bodykit . but for sports cars race cars you had the light weight easy to break and bend fiber glass bodykit with exposed hardWR . and then you had real bodykits.. hand shaped metal bodykits that would cost up to 15k 20k 30k (today) so him putting on a non fiberglass body kit wasnt wow it was standard . tho now days with some cheap marketing convince the entire usa the cheaply made easy to bend ""carbon fiber and fiber glass" part for high quality hard to make and expensive .... lol you re buying Ofbrand car part that been copy from an offbrand bbodykit then try to install it after you have paid 30 40k on it and it need a specialist to trip it down sand it down and most likely paint it too ,and the funny part is they made you feel ? happy ? for getting F lol

Rip

This feels like copy paste content, if you search the name Uwe Gemballa you basically get the same video over and over

no he didn't ............he always was a crime lord

i love you alboooooon

I detest of slantnose Porsche

Am I the only car guy who doesn't know about the Crara GT?

I didn't like the comment stating using lesser cars "BMW". I stop watching from there. You should drive one sometime fool... Go BMW!!!!???!

you glamorize murder and mayhem while you expose the killers yet nothing will ever come from it , tsk tsk

Sorry but you brought up the 2008 financial crash, so highlight "your telling me the entire world monetary system didnt have a multi shadowing / concurrent back up? F_____ING RIDICULOUS"

Some of the ugliest body kits you could buy for some seriously outrageous prices😂