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Jerry Seinfeld is a man who loves his privacy. Despite starring in a show as a fictionalized version of himself, we don't know a lot about the man. And that extends to his car collection. It's been reported that he has 47 Porsches, including 10 Boxsters, but Seinfeld's mum about the specific models.
To find out more, we had to do some sleuthing. We found cars he's been spotted in, cars he's sold, and cars he's driven in Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee. Although the cars are always credited to another entity, we found out that one of them, Columbus 81 Productions, was started by Seinfeld. We can therefore conclude that the cars attributed to the company are actually owned by Jerry. Look past his smokescreen with 13 Cars We Know About from Jerry Seinfeld's Car Collection.
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1949 Porsche 356/2
Estimated Value: $700,000
The car appeared in an episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee in which Jay Leno was the guest, so, you know, it would be a crime to pick up Jay Leno and not bring the heat. The 556/2 is one of the very first Porsches produced (No. 40 of 52 of this specific car) and has a hand-hammered aluminum shell. It's also the only car we know about in Seinfeld's collection older than Leno.
1952 VW Bug
Estimated Value: $30,000
Can you tell Seinfeld has a thing for blue cars? This bug appeared in the very first episode of CCGC. Its powerful engine boasts 25 horsepower and is one of the most iconic automobile shapes in history.
1955 Porsche 550 RS
Estimated Value: $3.35 Million
Jerry was kind enough to let his 550 go in display at the 2008 L.A. Auto Show. Only 70 of the cars were produced, and one of them was the car James Dean was driving on the night of his death.
1962 Volkswagen Bus
Estimated Value: $14,000
We're not sure why Seinfeld hasn't done the work to restore this car. He certainly has the time and money. Perhaps he wanted to preserve the nearly faded marks from the Porsche shop it was once driven for. Regardless, its rough shape was appropriate for an episode with Michael Richards, who was in rough shape himself after he dropped the n-bomb onstage.
1963 VW Karmann Ghia
Estimated Value: $45,000
The Karmann Ghia was Volkswagen trying to capitalize further on people's love for the bug. Seinfeld showed off his Karmann Ghia in season one episode of CCGC with Joel Hodgson. As he tells us, it comes with a four-cylinder Porsche 912 engine. That addition means it'll fetch more than the average value for a '63 Karmann Ghia.
1964 Porsche 911
Estimated Value: $205,000
It's hard to put a price on Jerry's '64 Porsche, because it was the first 911 to be imported to the United States. The record price for a similar model is $205,000, but Seinfeld's would probably blow that out of the water.
1966 Porsche 356 SC Cabriolet
Estimated Value: $160,000
Only 10 of these were produced by Porsche for the German Police back in the 1960s. It's exactly the kind of quixotic car we expect Seinfeld to own.
1970 Porsche 911S "Henri"
Estimated Value: $37,000-$58,000
We only get a brief glimpse of this Porsche at the end of the Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner episode of CCGC, but it doesn't take long to be impressed. Even Mel Brooks had to comment on it.
1973 Porsche 911 Carrera RS
Estimated Value: $519,590
In the beginning of the episode with Seth Meyers, Seinfeld asks, "What if at just the right time just the right people made just the right thing?" He's talking about the '73 Carrera RS, considered one of the best cars of all time. Coincidentally, Meyers was also born in 1973. These puppies came with a 210bhp air-cooled, horizontally-opposed, six-cylinder engine and a five-speed manual gearbox.
Porsche 959
Estimated Value: $700,000
Seinfeld reportedly dropped $700,000 to get his hand on a rare Porsche 959, of which only 337 were built. Originally built as a rally car, the 959 was the world's fastest street-legal production car when it was first introduced thanks in part to a twin-turbo six-cylinder boxer engine.
1994 Porsche 964 Speedster
Estimated Value: $101,000
Here's another car that Seinfeld was somehow able to part with. 964 is the internal name for the 911s sold between 1989 and 1984. Its low mileage, celeb history, and upgraded engine helped jack up the price.
Porsche 993
Estimated Value: More than $40,000
The license plate on this Porsche reads "LAST," as in the last air-cooled Porsche ever made. Seinfeld was spotted in the 993 by a fan, doing what many journalists haven't been able to do.
2004 Porsche Carrera GT
Estimated Value: $499,900
This one is no longer in Seinfeld's collection. He sold it back in 2011, which sounds crazy to us. Only 1,200 of these monsters were built, and less than half of that were actually sent to the streets of the U.S. It's also been known to be one of the most dangerous supercars ever built and was the car that Paul Walker was driving in his recent accident.