Paul Walker's Favorite Cars in his Collection

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Minus his lack of knowledge on the Supra...the man just keeps getting respect points from me.

My grandfather was a race car driver. For me, cars are a hobby that’s turned into a real business. It’ll always be a big part of who I am, that’s for sure, not to mention the Fast & Furious component.

I mean, I’m buying and selling all the time; I have a dealer’s license. We manufacture high-end performance parts, we do exhaust systems and race prep, specialized in Porsche and BMW, but we do a lot for the Nissan Skyline and we’re starting to do more for Audi now.

I have about 20 or 30 cars on my forecourt. It’s a lot, but they’re always on the market. If somebody walks in to the showroom I have set up, everything’s lit. They’re functional pieces of art.

I tinker with cars a lot -- it’s cathartic. If you’ve got a lot on your mind, you can go in and get underneath a car doing even something as simple as just swapping out tires. You got all the equipment in there, putting it on a rack, getting underneath it. I like doing that. It’s fun. Oil changes, basic stuff. I’m not a mechanic by any stretch, especially when it comes to the modern stuff, but I can do all the basics.

BMW '74 2002 Touring

The pride and joy of my garage right now? The BMW '74 2002 Touring. It’s an anomaly in the States. I picked this one up -- and we had the 2002s come in, but they weren’t the hatchback. The thing that’s cool about this one is it has all the Alpino parts. Alpino wasn’t actually manufacturing cars or selling cars at the factory, like they are now, but it’s kitted out with all the Alpino stuff from ’74, so it’s a rare configuration. Especially in the States, because the car was never even for sale there. I really like it -- it’s this bright orange hatchback; it’s a cool looking little car. The Mini to Mini Cooper is like what the 2002 is to BMW. That was really their coming out. And that’s the car that ultimately led to the M3.

I like that it’s got a really cool throaty sound to it. It’s just a four-cylinder -- it’s not fast, by any stretch. But you’ve got 160 horsepower. In its time, it was revered as a pretty quick car, by European standards. In the States, it would have been scoffed at because everyone was running V8s. But I like the oddball stuff. I have more European tastes than I do American tastes. Even though I appreciate American muscle cars -- I grew up around that stuff -- I like the European stuff more.

Ford Escort Cosworth

I really like the Ford Escort Cosworth -- the rally car that I’m driving in this newest movie [Fast & Furious 6]. It’s late '60s/early '70s vintage, and it’s really revered here in the UK. It was a real killer in the rally circuit, back in the day. At first, it wasn’t one that I was really all that hip to, but I fell in love with it on this one. So that one’s up there for me. It’s funny because I don’t know how well it’s going to be received -- it’s Smurf blue, and it doesn’t really look that cool… But that’s what makes it so cool. It’s kind of like the 2002; it falls under the same category. I remember showing up and Tyrese [Roman Pearce in the movie] and Chris [AskMen: that’s Ludacris to you and me] were like, "Oh, man, they did you wrong!" I was like, "No, actually, I like it. I think it’s cool." Tyrese was like, "Yeah, of course you like it!"

R33 Nissan Skyline

We had an R33 Nissan Skyline in the first movie. It was the yellow car that had all the plastic vinyl on the side. Peel the vinyl off and repaint the car, and then I really like it.

Toyota Supra

I also like the Toyota Supra from the first Fast & The Furious film. Recently, I finally got a Toyota Supra. I got a ‘95, which is close to the last year they brought them in -- I think they brought them in up to ‘97. And it's white and hard top, which is a really rare color combination.

BMW M3 E36 Lightweight

Right now I have the largest private collection of E36 M3 lightweights, which is, in my opinion, the best generation of the BMW M3. The lightweight LTWs, they only brought 60 of them to the States and they didn’t come with AC. They were basically like a weekend racer’s car: real light, everything just lightened up like what the GT3 bearing is to Porsche. It’s just really cool, so I started nabbing those up a while ago, because I realized that was going to become the “it” car. I got in just in time. I amassed a bunch of them, so I’m just going to sit on them for a while.

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