13 Cars We Know About From Jerry Seinfeld's Car Collection

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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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

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.

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.

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.