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.
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.
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
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
@@Tyleeclinton i don´t make any own Videos.... why should I ? To have guys like you using them to attack me? Nope Buddy, no chance. I have a REAL LIFE and not seeking for attention like you GEN Z Kiddos. And guess what.... I own and have owned cars like this. So no need for me to wank off over a Videogame about cars I will not even have chance to ever touch in my life... LIKE YOU Kid. My Garage is well equipped and I own a nice collection of Classic cars. Something people wasting their life with Videogames will never have. Get a Life Kid... throw away you childish Games and get a Job to live a REAL LIFE!
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 🇺🇸
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.
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.
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.
Fulda is also famous for its Excelero concept cars. The last one was the Maybach Excelero Coupe, created in 2005 around Maybach 57S mechanicals. It is now part of the Friedhelm Loh museum car collection in Germany that is open to the public.
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!
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!!!
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.
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
@@MisterMonsieur out comes the nakai glazers, they look cool but the quality of the work is nowhere near as good as porsche tuners. look up rwb nakai welding on google lol
I have owned a 2005 Porsche Cayenne Gemballa gt750 Aero 3 for ten years now, everyone in the family calls the car Uwe after the great man. Im looking for more information on the engine build. The car is uploaded to my channel.
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 🏴
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
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.
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.
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
I remember this story, back in the day. South Africa is really not for sissies.. Radovan Krejčíř is still in Jail here for the murder of Lolly Jackson, a lot of rich folks connected to him died
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...
"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
I don't think enough people appreciate this guys insane storytelling skills.
Kinda started to lose me after like the 4th gemballa diss lol
So underrated unfortunately..
Absolutely love listening to this guy!!
Not to mention the ads his team does makes youtube ads look like amateurs or even beginners (except one)
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True, I never get bored watching his videos. I always wait for the next video
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.
Just goes to show anybody can be touched..
His son’s car is sick
"Habibi, I've got to have it!" LMAO 😂
Great video as usual :)
As a Arab that means hey (but in a another way)
@@BLJMARIOSM64 what how
The MIG-U1 was the last car Uwe made. It was based off the MIG-25 Foxbat.
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A mini bar in a car. Gotta love the 80s.
Gemballa designs look like if Pimp My Ride had money to actually build out the stuff they made just temporary for TV.
Yup pretty gaudy....... He ain't no Kremer brothers .....
Today years old learning this but not surprised 😂😂😂
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 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.
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
I remember the rumor that he was stashing cash inside the wide body during shipping for laundering purposes.
Great video. A friend of mine has a genuine 993 Gemballa Gtr 600 and it is just insane
Nice video. DM 390,000 were about USD180,000 back then, I didn't know they did BMW.
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" They are not MTV , they didn't pimp cars . Xzibit A"
It can't be a coincidence 😂
Didnt even catch that, lol.
Great video bro! Well put together 👌
The Mirage GT was Gemballa's best work!
military guy with the bmw in the pic is hard as fuck
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@@billwillson890 jealous much?
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
I need to hire you to tell my boring life story, you surely will make it AWESOME! 😂💪🏻. You have talent telling stories.
Deal!
I didn’t know you are in the Chicago area. I’m about 45 mins north of the city. Love your channel man!
Only reason I know of Gemballa is thanks to Midnight Club 3 and Toca Race Driver 3.
I still have both of those games on my shelf from back in the day haha
cause you are a Gamerkid with no real Life ;-)
@@FRITZI999and you joined RUclips 18 years ago with no videos still 😑
@@Tyleeclinton i don´t make any own Videos.... why should I ? To have guys like you using them to attack me? Nope Buddy, no chance. I have a REAL LIFE and not seeking for attention like you GEN Z Kiddos.
And guess what.... I own and have owned cars like this. So no need for me to wank off over a Videogame about cars I will not even have chance to ever touch in my life... LIKE YOU Kid.
My Garage is well equipped and I own a nice collection of Classic cars. Something people wasting their life with Videogames will never have.
Get a Life Kid... throw away you childish Games and get a Job to live a REAL LIFE!
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
“This ain’t pimp my ride, exhibit a”.
I see what you did there.
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)🤣
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 🇺🇸
Fantastic channel man keep up the good with
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 wished we had more content creators like this
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.
That Mercedes was decades before its time, truly timeless build!
Albon I love you ❤ please keep making fire automotive content
Another banger, thank you!
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.
Fulda is also famous for its Excelero concept cars. The last one was the Maybach Excelero Coupe, created in 2005 around Maybach 57S mechanicals. It is now part of the Friedhelm Loh museum car collection in Germany that is open to the public.
Remembering when slant nose 911 were a thing, before the Singer retro fetish era.
The mob boss tried escaping and was taken to solitary confinement around 2015.
why did uwe get involved with this crime boss?
2:42
Is that Alpine?
Anyone know?
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!
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!!!
This was one my favourit tuners i'm so sad!
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.
Great video man
Love seeing the celica in the back
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
Read the title and thought Akira Nakai san was killed 😮
rwb does bodykits with self tapping screws not tuning 😅
Worldwide cigarette and Coca-Cola consumption would drop by 10%
@@xav1uz Show some respect. Those mere "bodykits" are more iconic than Gemballa monstrosities.
@MisterMonsieur stop the glazing, they're both good. No need to hate on one to like the other
@@MisterMonsieur out comes the nakai glazers, they look cool but the quality of the work is nowhere near as good as porsche tuners. look up rwb nakai welding on google lol
He wasn't Porsche's biggest tuner. He wasn't even a Porsche-exclusive tuner.
So, who was it ?
@@tt-rs1457 RUF
Also love your page, I’d love to see what you would do with DP dynamic plastics
9:19 My mk7 Ford Fiesta has better panel gaps.
I used to own a avalanche die cast car growing up as a little kid😅😅.
TXR3 was my first exposure to gemballa
Gemballa MIG U1 is perfect
I have only seen 1 silver 911 gemballa in california
I have owned a 2005 Porsche Cayenne Gemballa gt750 Aero 3 for ten years now, everyone in the family calls the car Uwe after the great man. Im looking for more information on the engine build. The car is uploaded to my channel.
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 🏴
did I just see Ruf Gemballa one ?😮
Best looking Ferrari I’ve ever seen
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
improving down force with that slant nose front end 😁
Please do Mansory! Pretty please! ^__-
Gemballa mirage gt👌🏻
Ive been calling it "gumball porsche" for majority of my life 😂
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.
There is more to this. George Louka and Lolly Jackson.
Once he said the mirage GT I immediately thought of that one guy who crashed it 😭
The blue one in NYC? That guy is a moron who should be allowed to drive a Volvo.
Any TXR and Midnight Club game fans should know about Gemballa 😏
Give me the most clickbait title. No, not that much clickbait!
Best wishes.
The early cars were not really that pretty to look at. the later ones were something of a masterpiece.
I knew Uwe… the Avalanche was a very cool thing… RIP…
I'm drive gemballa biturbo gtr 550 and dont ask who was a owner
Awesome job. Sexy powerslides heheh. More videos plz
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.
Sounds like you were a shitty kid
😂 we all know for sure there no soldier with deep enough pockets to cop a gamballa car 💯 😅
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
Bro im living in fulda
dude I thought nakai san had been murdered
I remember this story, back in the day. South Africa is really not for sissies..
Radovan Krejčíř is still in Jail here for the murder of Lolly Jackson, a lot of rich folks connected to him died
Subbed!
Wasn't ruf the biggest porsche tuner?
All the shady stuff has to happen in SA
The safe was for your nose candy.
1 1 SECONDs faster.... ? wow imagine if he had almost swap the entire engine before hand what he would do :|
Wowzerz!
i love you alboooooon
I love you more
I'm from SA the crime is out of control but with the DA party forming the GNU things are changing since the elections
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...
Gemballa was murked because of cocaine, you can't tell me otherwise
One more reasons never send aid money to Africa.
audio on this is fucked up.
keeps getting disturbances
frankly from what iv seen of these "customs" far as im concerned they made nice cars look shite
Rip
Rip
CGT actually needs an introduction since before I was a car enthusiast I literally never heard of it 🗿
Wow BMW is a lesser car?
It is pronoused OOVAAE not uwa lol.
Please, for a great engineers memory's sake: It's "uwE!", not Uwa.
That sound so appalling!
Just a thought,
from a severe gearhead and engineer
Not for us poor guys.
Speak for yourself dude. I ain't poor, I'm dirt poor. 😂😂
Like him, those cars did not age well.
Gemballa was the best Porsche. Now, it’s not even in the top 3
"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
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 !!!
Didn’t Michael Jordan owned a flatnose Porsche?