**A Collector's Paradise: A Tour of J-Paul's Unique Car Collection**

As I stepped into J-Paul's garage, I was immediately struck by the sheer variety and uniqueness of his car collection. From classic American muscle cars to Australian icons, each vehicle told a story of its own and seemed to have been carefully curated by its owner. The first car that caught my eye was an old man's JJ, which had been purchased with great enthusiasm back in the day. "We could never buy another new one," he recalled, chuckling at the memory of having bought the original model for $36,000 - half the price of the newer version.

As I continued to explore the garage, I noticed a beautiful 64 Galaxie Mustang, adorned with gleaming chrome and a bold purple finish. J-Paul explained that this was one of his favorites, having been restored from its 1994 origins and fitted with a massive 460 big block engine and a 671 Super Tuber motor. "It was mind-blowing when it came in," he said, "and still holds up today." This Mustang had an impressive racing pedigree, having been driven by John Zakia to eight-second quarter-mile times - the first car in Australia to achieve this feat.

Next to the Galaxie sat a sleek and modern Sprint, its bright red paintwork gleaming under the fluorescent lights. J-Paul told me that he had recently acquired this car through racing events, where it was known as an "X-Rat." This Sprint boasted a 930-liter engine, which J-Paul proudly described as being "like having a rocket ship under your feet." He regaled me with stories of driving the Pony Mustangs on forest roads and trails, feeling like he had finally experienced what it meant to drive in America.

Meanwhile, in the corner of the garage stood an XY JT, a 1980s-era Australian icon that J-Paul had owned since he was 16. "It's my right arm," he joked, gesturing fondly at the rugged and utilitarian vehicle. He told me about how it had been his daily driver for years, until it finally got to retire and be put on display. This car held a special place in J-Paul's heart, representing memories of fun times spent driving around with friends.

As I continued my tour of the garage, I noticed a beautifully restored 1960s-era Ford Falcon, its bright blue paintwork gleaming under the lights. J-Paul explained that he had recently purchased this car through a special event where several rare vehicles were auctioned off. "It's been a labor of love," he said with pride, as I took in the level of detail and care that had gone into restoring this classic Australian model.

Finally, my tour came to an end with a visit to J-Paul's prized 1985 Mustang GT, which boasted a unique twin-turbo upgrade. This was "my first right-hand drive Mustang experience," J-Paul chuckled, as he took me on a thrilling ride through the nearby forest. With the car's massive V8 rumbling beneath him, he told me that it felt like he had finally experienced what it meant to drive in America.

As I concluded my tour of J-Paul's incredible car collection, I couldn't help but feel a sense of awe at the sheer diversity and passion behind each vehicle. From classic American muscle cars to Australian icons, every car seemed to have been carefully curated by its owner to represent a unique moment or memory from his life. And as I left the garage, I knew that I would be back to explore more of J-Paul's incredible collection - a true treasure trove for any car enthusiast.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso I just landed here in Perth and waa Western Australia I'm here with my friend frosty who's hosting me this week here for race Wars and what are we about to check out right this is probably one of the best collections you see in Australia of Ford's gt's you name it he's got it so it's a private location outskirts occur but yeah think you like it looks like a made for the right please Paul Kyle yeah nice to meet you so you got quite the collection here but my dad actually sold it when we started our business when I was six years old I'm 50 now we've got it back a couple years ago and rebuilt the whole car again you got it back yeah I was praying heard there's a stick shift yeah yeah yep still manual you're gonna notice everything here's right hand drive we are in Australia we had a bunch of classics in here huh what years them they were actually built in 39 but weren't assembled 249 because of the war oh yeah my daughter's favorite yeah really cool car I was so well ahead like for 1956 they were well ahead of their time a lot of cars that we did get back home and a lot of cars that we didn't - I don't think we ever got this mighty styled Falcon America had the galaxy we had the Fairlane and there was kind of like a cross I have a point where he's we both got a bit of a chip mm-hmm what's the oldest car that you have here the 1913 speedster over here that is over a hundred years old supposed to be like a rice guy you see that era by 1913 standards the point that's all yeah if you had a Bonnie and Clyde oh yeah that was a letter a copy of the letter that I wrote in 1934 - for explaining I have to and easily IDs when you could get away with one serious - yeah for different portions to the tutors that are in it yeah we're on a second see your dad started this collection how long ago I was probably about 3035 he's a guy okay frosty was telling me about the purple car here what's the story behind it in this for years and years and years and I hid it away cause somebody tried to steal it and then the guy passed away and we heard about the car I had to buy it without seeing it I said to him get a price off whoever you like tell me what the price is when she came up with that I offered a 10 grand more and she took it when I first pulled it out of the shed I don't know if I did the right thing or not that's pretty who was under about an inch of dirt good luck model is off it's an X Y GT Walt eyelet manual with black trim is probably one of the rarest sort of setups that you could have with a roof you know the water back sunroof so it's a fairly rare car that's why her down look and now this just like that annoy or Zygon should be restored us from that but people like the look of you know we like papal site we do have a lot of shiny ones we probably don't need them all to be shiny but being being priceless like that are being rare like this how much you think that it's worth well we were offered 150 grand for it which is a few times more than what we paid for it Wow okay whether it's worth that I suppose a B everything's on e worth but somebody's prepared to pay for sure yeah I'll tell me about the cover back here I love the paint scheme on it yeah 300 of them the first 30 were made for race cars which are really big dollar cars now but these things by infection in good condition like that you know it's still a couple hundred grand which true Ford guys that I know don't really rate Cobras that highly and on one of them I always find that people that like GM and Ford like them that'd be me and that's that I've got plenty of mates that like both and they like that car and I said again almost every game I saw no offense yeah I see you got a few bears here yeah yeah I didn't think that anybody would take the time to save me so these are a couple of local Amish cars you know really they turn forward around such a awesome engine instead of they're just a worldwide engine that everybody wants now you know they're like so much power for the size of the Australian too dizzy yeah and what about the penal man this car will sponsor back in 1976 it was one of the fastest street cars in Wi I mean that was used to race it there's some pictures of it there pretty sure it ran about a 12-6 which in those days was as a street car yeah yeah he's that was his only cat and the thurman he was a young guy he used to drive it down there you know race it then drive it home and change the wheels mm-hmm easy Cobra replica I mean yeah yeah it was a lot less Australian are the Hampton of the body done a beautiful job built yeah really oh yeah beautiful job watch cheaper than importing one and it was lost with the big walk in it which you can't do that anymore you know what I feel pretty safe with a big-block car that's made out of cocaine you just bar drops some fast cars but they're generally safe cars so do you offer to the public tour is it just like friends we've got a website like Ford farm.com today you can go on there and say how many people you want to bring in your find a date what date where opens usually like a Sunday you said Sunday of each month okay around lunchtime for a few hours we hit people up 20 bucks a head but a hundred percent of it goes to the Perth Children's Hospital really yeah that's a great idea I want some urea so far nearly 190,000 so what yeah so we got to see you up here well that's amazing you got your own diner yeah there was a daughter in Midland that cause down it was there for years you know a lot of people that my family needs to go so yeah we've got all the people that closing it down and portable stuff often rebuilt it just yeah I set it all up we'll just so pretty cool nice entry to the car shape you just need a grill now here's the third oh wow what what are you got going on so this is every bottle JT that we had here in Australia we have one of each one in this garage yeah yes so just stop me boy okay I've seen a lot of ex-wives around especially at Perry's last weekend yeah they love them I think for every genuine one there's 50 reviews on the right which is like a like you don't have to care as much a better replica but in saying that I've had that car since I was 16 I've run off the road more times in that car that I hate true you know like it's still here this is your was it your first car now I've had constant sauce about eleven years old she's still living a property where you step push pressures all the time and stuff perfect the last car to make the full collection is this car because the ex a coupe so hard to get being red pepper sunroof manual black trim it's really as good as an ex a coupe ever got it was one of the dearest cars we brought but when I said to the guy can you send me some pictures of the restoration he sent me 500 pictures oh yeah anybody found the right car he rewrapped the wiring harnesses and had pictures of that and I know this 100 years ago it makes 420 horsepower toss this car it's just a great fun car to drive for us it's not so much about every single thing being perfectly original or whatever you have to be able to get in it enjoy it beat it up a little have some fun you know you're acting maybe three this is like a smushed Thunderbird yeah I am Taurus and thunder Burke of mind Ford stop lights for a while so when they brought the v8s back in they thought they'd make a GT we've got that brand-new was embarrassingly $65,000 back in 93 was a fair bit of money yeah it's still a bit of money after we bought that and saying how quickly as I dropped I said to the old man we could never buy another new JJ because you know that was crazy and this one came out which is ugly but we still had that one so we didn't buy it here we waited two years and we bought it for 36 grand half the price of what though damn it's done twenty thousand times we learned that was a lot smarter yes much smarter I just put a salt bath supercharger on so that makes four hundred and sixty other tires with the original exhaust selamat yeah it's not this come about I notice this one is locked in drive yeah it was damaged in the u.s. when they're only a few years old when they were going down still in price so I set up all night one night waiting for this option this car to come up and we brought it repaired it then brought it back home and yeah it's it's a good fun car to drive whenever they have some special events on I'll take for a spin and gallon put it on display he said this is a fun garage yeah this is more the toy shed stuff saved the best for last oh yeah there we go not all Fords but they all look fun yeah what's the purple car here it's a 64 Galaxie with one summer nuts I meet ya and the first one we went to is 30 yeah 1994 so what is the current salt Justin galaxy it's got a 460 big block the 671 on it was just a nice nice build what you know it was mind-blowing when it came in I still remember it and went up one and almost thought geez that'd be a cool car to happen here we go yeah so G via GPS drag car yeah it was known as X rat John Zakia was the driver owner of the car as far as tall Slammers go this was the first car in Australia to go eight seven and six seconds down a quarter-mile really yeah that's got a lot of history yeah it was right the last time was race was in 2002 but did like 219 while now all the old lead sled I love these cars yeah they're pretty cool I always wanted to build one and I wanted to buy one and you know they're real personal sort of thing you know like everyone you see you go I wouldn't have done that I would have made the roof lower or higher or the car wider or did something else because they're so over the top you know whenever you build these things it all comes down to ratios of the body to these things I think some people get it really wrong and they just look twisted out of shape but I think you know the guy that did this got her pretty right then we topped it the a bag to put a blonde 410 on it and nice Australian smell yeah so it's not the most legal car that we have tell anybody but it's one of the fun ones to show yeah do you have a you have a favorite car in the collection the mercury is probably close to it but the XY JT in the corner I've had that since I was 16 that's like my right arm sort of thing you know I've never sell it on it'll look so good around yes it's just brings back a lot of a lot of memories you know of doing fun stuff in cars so I can't help but notice the late model enough thing you got out here and the cocky plate you got on the back - yeah my refuge ets when I first arrived at home my wife said you're driving Gail's cars now because it was dead standard yeah we finished then tell me about it now the 85 tune twin turbo we will make it 930 appetize perfect I went 10:1 it's not so bad for and I'll go over the manual oh yeah those new motors just slap a pair turbos on there and yeah no big deal yeah my first right-hand-drive mustang experience driving the pony through the pasture definitely got some power it's gonna be a fun forest and an agent that's right they gotta be loving us it's been fun this year this is your primary daily yeah when we first build over I said to so I'm gonna want to go cop well thanks again for the tour J - Paul yeah you do it what a collection lots unique stuff I love it you keep collecting next I'm out I'm out here I'll check out the new stuff but yeah yeah and that worries alright Cheers we're out here the Sprint's here now buddy after the role racing didn't I was going to be all here in the Falcon got a GoPro well if you guys are in Perth and have a chance check out their website I'll put it down in the description book your trip here and come check out the collection for yourself might have some new stuff here who knows youso I just landed here in Perth and waa Western Australia I'm here with my friend frosty who's hosting me this week here for race Wars and what are we about to check out right this is probably one of the best collections you see in Australia of Ford's gt's you name it he's got it so it's a private location outskirts occur but yeah think you like it looks like a made for the right please Paul Kyle yeah nice to meet you so you got quite the collection here but my dad actually sold it when we started our business when I was six years old I'm 50 now we've got it back a couple years ago and rebuilt the whole car again you got it back yeah I was praying heard there's a stick shift yeah yeah yep still manual you're gonna notice everything here's right hand drive we are in Australia we had a bunch of classics in here huh what years them they were actually built in 39 but weren't assembled 249 because of the war oh yeah my daughter's favorite yeah really cool car I was so well ahead like for 1956 they were well ahead of their time a lot of cars that we did get back home and a lot of cars that we didn't - I don't think we ever got this mighty styled Falcon America had the galaxy we had the Fairlane and there was kind of like a cross I have a point where he's we both got a bit of a chip mm-hmm what's the oldest car that you have here the 1913 speedster over here that is over a hundred years old supposed to be like a rice guy you see that era by 1913 standards the point that's all yeah if you had a Bonnie and Clyde oh yeah that was a letter a copy of the letter that I wrote in 1934 - for explaining I have to and easily IDs when you could get away with one serious - yeah for different portions to the tutors that are in it yeah we're on a second see your dad started this collection how long ago I was probably about 3035 he's a guy okay frosty was telling me about the purple car here what's the story behind it in this for years and years and years and I hid it away cause somebody tried to steal it and then the guy passed away and we heard about the car I had to buy it without seeing it I said to him get a price off whoever you like tell me what the price is when she came up with that I offered a 10 grand more and she took it when I first pulled it out of the shed I don't know if I did the right thing or not that's pretty who was under about an inch of dirt good luck model is off it's an X Y GT Walt eyelet manual with black trim is probably one of the rarest sort of setups that you could have with a roof you know the water back sunroof so it's a fairly rare car that's why her down look and now this just like that annoy or Zygon should be restored us from that but people like the look of you know we like papal site we do have a lot of shiny ones we probably don't need them all to be shiny but being being priceless like that are being rare like this how much you think that it's worth well we were offered 150 grand for it which is a few times more than what we paid for it Wow okay whether it's worth that I suppose a B everything's on e worth but somebody's prepared to pay for sure yeah I'll tell me about the cover back here I love the paint scheme on it yeah 300 of them the first 30 were made for race cars which are really big dollar cars now but these things by infection in good condition like that you know it's still a couple hundred grand which true Ford guys that I know don't really rate Cobras that highly and on one of them I always find that people that like GM and Ford like them that'd be me and that's that I've got plenty of mates that like both and they like that car and I said again almost every game I saw no offense yeah I see you got a few bears here yeah yeah I didn't think that anybody would take the time to save me so these are a couple of local Amish cars you know really they turn forward around such a awesome engine instead of they're just a worldwide engine that everybody wants now you know they're like so much power for the size of the Australian too dizzy yeah and what about the penal man this car will sponsor back in 1976 it was one of the fastest street cars in Wi I mean that was used to race it there's some pictures of it there pretty sure it ran about a 12-6 which in those days was as a street car yeah yeah he's that was his only cat and the thurman he was a young guy he used to drive it down there you know race it then drive it home and change the wheels mm-hmm easy Cobra replica I mean yeah yeah it was a lot less Australian are the Hampton of the body done a beautiful job built yeah really oh yeah beautiful job watch cheaper than importing one and it was lost with the big walk in it which you can't do that anymore you know what I feel pretty safe with a big-block car that's made out of cocaine you just bar drops some fast cars but they're generally safe cars so do you offer to the public tour is it just like friends we've got a website like Ford farm.com today you can go on there and say how many people you want to bring in your find a date what date where opens usually like a Sunday you said Sunday of each month okay around lunchtime for a few hours we hit people up 20 bucks a head but a hundred percent of it goes to the Perth Children's Hospital really yeah that's a great idea I want some urea so far nearly 190,000 so what yeah so we got to see you up here well that's amazing you got your own diner yeah there was a daughter in Midland that cause down it was there for years you know a lot of people that my family needs to go so yeah we've got all the people that closing it down and portable stuff often rebuilt it just yeah I set it all up we'll just so pretty cool nice entry to the car shape you just need a grill now here's the third oh wow what what are you got going on so this is every bottle JT that we had here in Australia we have one of each one in this garage yeah yes so just stop me boy okay I've seen a lot of ex-wives around especially at Perry's last weekend yeah they love them I think for every genuine one there's 50 reviews on the right which is like a like you don't have to care as much a better replica but in saying that I've had that car since I was 16 I've run off the road more times in that car that I hate true you know like it's still here this is your was it your first car now I've had constant sauce about eleven years old she's still living a property where you step push pressures all the time and stuff perfect the last car to make the full collection is this car because the ex a coupe so hard to get being red pepper sunroof manual black trim it's really as good as an ex a coupe ever got it was one of the dearest cars we brought but when I said to the guy can you send me some pictures of the restoration he sent me 500 pictures oh yeah anybody found the right car he rewrapped the wiring harnesses and had pictures of that and I know this 100 years ago it makes 420 horsepower toss this car it's just a great fun car to drive for us it's not so much about every single thing being perfectly original or whatever you have to be able to get in it enjoy it beat it up a little have some fun you know you're acting maybe three this is like a smushed Thunderbird yeah I am Taurus and thunder Burke of mind Ford stop lights for a while so when they brought the v8s back in they thought they'd make a GT we've got that brand-new was embarrassingly $65,000 back in 93 was a fair bit of money yeah it's still a bit of money after we bought that and saying how quickly as I dropped I said to the old man we could never buy another new JJ because you know that was crazy and this one came out which is ugly but we still had that one so we didn't buy it here we waited two years and we bought it for 36 grand half the price of what though damn it's done twenty thousand times we learned that was a lot smarter yes much smarter I just put a salt bath supercharger on so that makes four hundred and sixty other tires with the original exhaust selamat yeah it's not this come about I notice this one is locked in drive yeah it was damaged in the u.s. when they're only a few years old when they were going down still in price so I set up all night one night waiting for this option this car to come up and we brought it repaired it then brought it back home and yeah it's it's a good fun car to drive whenever they have some special events on I'll take for a spin and gallon put it on display he said this is a fun garage yeah this is more the toy shed stuff saved the best for last oh yeah there we go not all Fords but they all look fun yeah what's the purple car here it's a 64 Galaxie with one summer nuts I meet ya and the first one we went to is 30 yeah 1994 so what is the current salt Justin galaxy it's got a 460 big block the 671 on it was just a nice nice build what you know it was mind-blowing when it came in I still remember it and went up one and almost thought geez that'd be a cool car to happen here we go yeah so G via GPS drag car yeah it was known as X rat John Zakia was the driver owner of the car as far as tall Slammers go this was the first car in Australia to go eight seven and six seconds down a quarter-mile really yeah that's got a lot of history yeah it was right the last time was race was in 2002 but did like 219 while now all the old lead sled I love these cars yeah they're pretty cool I always wanted to build one and I wanted to buy one and you know they're real personal sort of thing you know like everyone you see you go I wouldn't have done that I would have made the roof lower or higher or the car wider or did something else because they're so over the top you know whenever you build these things it all comes down to ratios of the body to these things I think some people get it really wrong and they just look twisted out of shape but I think you know the guy that did this got her pretty right then we topped it the a bag to put a blonde 410 on it and nice Australian smell yeah so it's not the most legal car that we have tell anybody but it's one of the fun ones to show yeah do you have a you have a favorite car in the collection the mercury is probably close to it but the XY JT in the corner I've had that since I was 16 that's like my right arm sort of thing you know I've never sell it on it'll look so good around yes it's just brings back a lot of a lot of memories you know of doing fun stuff in cars so I can't help but notice the late model enough thing you got out here and the cocky plate you got on the back - yeah my refuge ets when I first arrived at home my wife said you're driving Gail's cars now because it was dead standard yeah we finished then tell me about it now the 85 tune twin turbo we will make it 930 appetize perfect I went 10:1 it's not so bad for and I'll go over the manual oh yeah those new motors just slap a pair turbos on there and yeah no big deal yeah my first right-hand-drive mustang experience driving the pony through the pasture definitely got some power it's gonna be a fun forest and an agent that's right they gotta be loving us it's been fun this year this is your primary daily yeah when we first build over I said to so I'm gonna want to go cop well thanks again for the tour J - Paul yeah you do it what a collection lots unique stuff I love it you keep collecting next I'm out I'm out here I'll check out the new stuff but yeah yeah and that worries alright Cheers we're out here the Sprint's here now buddy after the role racing didn't I was going to be all here in the Falcon got a GoPro well if you guys are in Perth and have a chance check out their website I'll put it down in the description book your trip here and come check out the collection for yourself might have some new stuff here who knows you\n"