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  • - The value of the collection,

  • it's truly priceless.

  • It's truly priceless, but we're accepting offers.

  • (upbeat music)

  • - [Narrator] This is Gabriel Iglesias,

  • everyone's favorite fluffy comedian

  • and star of the Netflix series "Mr. Iglesias."

  • We're taking a tour of his enormous garage,

  • which features a collection of classic Volkswagen buses

  • worth more than $3 million.

  • Gabriel's going to take us through what he calls

  • The Fluffy Museum and give us a look

  • at some of his personal favorite buses,

  • as well as a few other rare rides he owns.

  • - Why did I become interested

  • in collecting Volkswagen buses?

  • Because I don't have a cocaine problem

  • and I needed somewhere to spend the money, honestly.

  • I talked to Jay Leno, and Jay told me, he says,

  • "You know what?"

  • He says, "People are gonna tell you to invest your money

  • "certain ways."

  • He goes, "But with me," he goes, "I like the cars,

  • "because, first of all, if they're classic,

  • "it is an investment, it's an investment you can enjoy,

  • "so you can drive them, and when you sell them,

  • "they'll be worth more."

  • Each one of these is valued somewhere between

  • one to $200,000.

  • No, I have no intention of selling,

  • but at the end of the day, as soon as I'm gone,

  • and when I mean gone, this is gonna be turned into a museum

  • for the city of Long Beach.

  • (cheerful music)

  • - [Narrator] Gabriel says he built his Fluffy Museum

  • to resemble the famous Volkswagen factory

  • in Wolfsburg, Germany, with his own choices of artwork

  • and Fluffy pieces.

  • - Right here we have a 1967 Westfalia Camper.

  • I actually purchased it from a guy in Germany,

  • who had purchased it from a guy in Southern California.

  • So the car went from Southern California, to Germany,

  • back to Southern California.

  • So it gets around.

  • It was completely white, and it was kinda boring,

  • kinda boring camper.

  • We wanted to put something a little bit more elegant,

  • and we thought that this color scheme was something

  • that looked really, like, "Wow, look at that,

  • "you're gonna be afraid to get it dirty."

  • Probably wouldn't wanna take it into the woods now.

  • - [Narrator] Gabriel works closely with a team of experts

  • to restore his newest additions to the collection

  • and help keep all his metal babies in running order.

  • - Right here we have a 1966.

  • This started off as a pistachio green.

  • We decided that it needed an upgrade.

  • I'm a big comic-book guy,

  • and so I like the "Iron Man" colors,

  • 'cause Iron Man's my favorite character,

  • and so these are very much close to those colors.

  • There's no bus out there that has this color combo.

  • This is a 1963 15-window bus.

  • I call this bus Quinceanera.

  • Believe it or not, these are actually the rarest,

  • because there are only 15 windows.

  • But people always say, "Oh, I want the 21, I want the 21,

  • "I want the 21," 'cause they're just, you know.

  • But true collectors understand that these are super rare.

  • All right, something completely different right here.

  • I know from the front it looks like one of the other buses,

  • but this is not a bus, per se,

  • it's actually a double-cab little truck.

  • Back in the day, people did work, just like now,

  • and they needed trucks.

  • They didn't come this way, just so you know.

  • Back then it was a working man's truck,

  • so ain't no room for chrome.

  • This is total aftermarket.

  • It's pretty.

  • And it's got an engine that'll freaking.

  • (imitates engine roaring)

  • (cackles)

  • - [Narrator] Gabriel's love for Volkswagens

  • doesn't stop at buses, though.

  • The collector owns some of the rarest Beetles you can find.

  • - What we have here is one of the oldest Volkswagen Bugs

  • in the country.

  • It's a Hoffman edition, 1950,

  • which is basically the first year they started selling them

  • here in the United States.

  • An original, and I've got all the paperwork to prove it.

  • I got more paperwork for this car than I do

  • for most of my family members.

  • And yeah, they say that there's one of three of these,

  • and this is probably the nicest one.

  • - [Narrator] But Gabriel isn't strictly a Volkswagen lover.

  • The comedian also holds a special place in his heart

  • for muscle cars, particularly this rare Trans Am

  • signed by actor Burt Reynolds himself,

  • whose 1977 film "Smokey and the Bandit"

  • made the car a household name.

  • - It wasn't like this when we got it.

  • It was just a plain, black Camaro.

  • We sent this black Camaro over to our friends

  • at Trans Am Depot, over in Florida.

  • In about six months they turned that black Camaro

  • into this beautiful thing of art.

  • I am so scared to drive this car.

  • Unfortunately, as soon as Burt Reynolds passed away,

  • the value of this thing went through the roof,

  • and, yeah, if I scuff it at Starbucks, I'm gonna cry.

  • - [Narrator] Gabriel even owns two cars

  • in his personal museum that he didn't buy for himself,

  • but for his fish.

  • - All right, now, clearly, I will not be driving

  • either one of these.

  • These are my babies right here.

  • The nicest fish tanks.

  • Our good friends over at ATM, they came in and they said,

  • "Fluffy, we wanna make you something really cool."

  • And they did.

  • These were Brazilian Volkswagen buses.

  • Now, any bus that was made in Brazil, chances are,

  • the parts got mixed up a little bit.

  • Back in the day, there was nobody to say,

  • "Well, you know, all the parts need to be,

  • "they all need to match, on the numbers."

  • And in Brazil at the time, "I'll take this piece

  • "from the 1972, add it to this 1958,

  • "and put on some 1962 this,

  • "and add a little bit of 1981 that."

  • And so, a lot of the buses, we call 'em Frankensteins.

  • (upbeat music)

- The value of the collection,

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