YouTuber flies to Toronto to ask man why he drove Porsche 911 Turbo 1,330,326km - that's the distance to the moon and back three times
Published on Nov 01, 2025 at 3:41 PM (UTC+4)
by Daisy Edwards
Last updated on Oct 30, 2025 at 4:31 PM (UTC+4)
Edited by
Amelia Jean Hershman-Jones
A YouTuber just flew all the way to Toronto to uncover one of the wildest car stories ever told – it involves a Porsche 911 Turbo and the moon.
He met the owner of a 1976 Porsche 911 Turbo that’s been driven over 1.3 million kilometres since it was driven off the forecourt.
That distance is the same as travelling to the moon and back three full times.
And even more unbelievably, it’s still owned and driven by the man who bought it nearly 50 years ago.
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The Porsche 911 Turbo that went to the moon and beyond
This devoted supercar fan, Bill Bill MacEachern, was in his thirties when he ordered the very first turbocharged Porsche 911 available to the public.
He ran a small carpet cleaning business at the time, and while others parked their Porsches in garages, he drove his pretty much every day – except in snowy Canadian winters.
TJ Lamb, the YouTuber also known as Magnacars, decided he wanted to meet the legend that is Bill MacEachern and see why he is so devoted to his Porsche 911.
The original 3-liter engine has been rebuilt a few times and expanded to 3.4 litres, now kicking out an estimated 550 to 600 horsepower.
It’s been tuned, modified, and even raced, once clocking 176 mph at the Texas Mile, beating a brand new Ferrari 458 in the process.
Why did he never let it go?
Despite half a century of new models from Porsche, Bill MacEachern has never been tempted to trade it in.
“Every once in a while, a company gets it perfect,” he said. “This was the one.”
The car’s still got its special order Mercedes midnight blue paint, a color Porsche only agreed to apply after Bill MacEachern signed a waiver, and the interior is still mostly original, right down to the gauges still reading in miles.
Now in his seventies, the septuagenarian says he’ll keep driving it ‘for the rest of [his] life’.
If the odometer is anything to go by, he might just make that fourth trip to the moon before he’s done.
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Daisy Edwards is a Content Writer at supercarblondie.com. Daisy has more than five years’ experience as a qualified journalist, having graduated with a History and Journalism degree from Goldsmiths, University of London and a dissertation in vintage electric vehicles. Daisy specializes in writing about cars, EVs, tech and luxury lifestyle. When she's not writing, she's at a country music concert or working on one of her many unfinished craft projects.
