There are over $1 billion worth of cars in this LA collection and when man visits he’s like a kid in a candy store

This YouTuber had the chance to view a collection in LA worth $1 billion of absolutely spectacular cars in order to build his ‘dream car collection’ and he was like a kid in a candy store.

This museum houses some of the rarest cars in the world, it has prototypes, cars that belonged to celebrities and even famous cars from movies.

The content creator tasks the COO of the museum with a challenge to present him with three cars from different groups for him to pick for his metaphorical ‘dream car collection’.

There’s no place quite like this where Slash, Elvis and batman all happily reside together under one roof.

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Like a kid in a candy store

Car YouTuber Mat Watson travelled from the UK to LA to visit the Petersen Museum, home to over $1 billion worth of spectacular cars, and for this lifelong car lover, it was like a kid in a candy store.

Mat was challenged with building his metaphorical ‘dream car collection’ and so he roped the COO of the museum, Michael Bodell into his challenge, asking him to present him with three of the best cars from each category he decided he wants a car from.

The first category is ‘a car that no one else can own’ and Michael definitely delivered, presenting Mat with three rare Tesla prototypes.

The first was the famous Cybertruck prototype, complete with matching ATV to go in the back, which Michael estimates to be around $5 million.

Mat was also presented with a Tesla Roadster 2.0 prototype ($3M), and Tesla Semi ($1M), both of which were very exciting to Mat, but ultimately, he chose the Cybertruck.

The weirdest car collection in LA

Mat’s next category is ‘cars owned by a celebrity’ and again Michael delivers Mat some massively iconic cars owned by even more iconic celebrities.

Mat is first presented with a gorgeous vintage Jaguar XKSS, once owned by Steve McQueen, but at around $25 million, Mat wants to take a look at some cheaper alternatives, like a Porsche 911 Turbo S in a gorgeous green which was once owned by Slash, at $300,000 Mat thinks it’s a better alternative.

Even after being presented with a $1 million yellow bullet-riddled Pantera that used to belong to Elvis who shot it during a fight, Mat chooses the reasonably priced Slash Porsche

Mat’s next category is ‘weirdest cars’ and he is presented with three very strange, but cool looking vehicles.

First he sees a turbine-powered jet car that costs between $2 million-$4 million which Mat loves but deems quite expensive.

Next he sees a round-door Rolls Royce, the only one ever made, and also restored by the founder of the museum, so it is a pricy $10 million or more, but it was the Alfa Romeo ‘bat’ that really caught Mat’s attention and ultimately captured his heart.

Mat also looked at cars that were once owned by dictators and was presented with three options by Michael as usual.

He viewed Saddam Hussein’s Mercedes 600 Landaulet ($500,000), Khrushchev’s Soviet limo ($300-500K), and Ferdinand Marcos’ armored Mercedes ($250,000).

He ultimately plumps for Saddam Hussein’s Mercedes and splashes the (metaphorical) cash.

In his final category choice, Mat looks at famous movie cars and chooses between the genuine original Back to the Future DeLorean ($1 million) with all the bells and whistles from the movie and other film gems.

The Knight Rider’s KITT ($1 million) was not enough to tempt him, or another classic car, Nicholas Cage’s 1967 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 ‘Eleanor’ from the film ‘Gone in 60 Seconds'($500-750K). He chooses the DeLorean, obviously.

Finally, Mat got to see inside the museum’s hidden vault and got to view the rarest and most expensive cars in the world, like a Ferrari 166MM ($25-30 million) but learns another Ferrari could be worth over $100M.

All of Mat’s choices from his day out being a kid in a candy shop came to a cool $14.8 million, not too shabby considering the sheer amount of choice he was given.