Pennsylvania man has an absolutely wild garage of supercars at just 27 years old and it's all thanks to one noisy BMW he had when he was 17

This 27-year-old Pennsylvania man is living a petrol-head’s dream with his supercar line-up, and his success traces back to one noisy BMW.

Austin Huffman, from Boyertown, Pennsylvania, has a diverse car collection ranging from Teslas to Porsches and Bugattis.

But a decade ago, it was just him and one noisy BMW that his mom hated.

However, if it wasn’t for that ear-splitting 335i, he might not have the enviable collection he has today.

Austin Huffman has made a big success of himself at a young age – and he has the cars to prove it

For many people, their 20s is a period in which they try new things and figure out their life.

But for Austin Huffman, it’s been a time of building his business.

Valvetronic Designs began life when Huffman was a college student, before growing into the business it is today.

The company’s success has helped the 27-year-old amass a supercar line-up that would make any car lover green with envy.

He owns a Tesla Model S Plaid, a 2010 Porsche Cayenne GTS, a 1995 Mazda Miata, a Porsche Boxster, and a Ford Explorer, among others.

One of his cars – the Bugatti Veyron – was featured on the Magnacars YouTube channel.

“So here’s the thing that I find about all these cars as an aggregate, whether it’s the Carrera GT, the Veyron, any of this stuff,” Huffman told Supercar Blondie.

“Life becomes a lot more fruitful depending on who you know. 

“I have a shop in Boston that I’ve worked with for 10 years, EuroTech Motorsports.

“The ultimate reason that I am here today, and I have the cool stuff that I have, is because Barley, who owns that shop, is an absolute mastermind. He is fearless.

“He is willing to take on any project and solve any issue, and he’s very, very reasonable when it comes to me.

“When I got the Veyron, it needed $200,000 worth of work. The gearbox was leaking, the spark plugs needed all the service, oil changed, all of it.

“Two weeks [after I dropped it off with them] it was all done. And the cost I paid to fix it was 2 percent of what Bugatti was going to charge me.”

A noisy BMW was the car that started it all

His car collection may be the stuff that automotive dreams are made of, but it didn’t happen overnight.

It all started with an ingenious business idea – and one noisy BMW.

But before he even got the cash to buy his BMW, he was working hard to save up the cash.

“I began my entrepreneurial journey when I was 14 to 15,” he recalled.

“My family has summer house in Rhode Island, and we’d let people park on our property so they could be close to the beach.

“I [made money] by cleaning Teslas and vacuuming up maggots out of the back people’s Toyota Land Cruisers.

“At the time, I was making good money doing that – better than I was earning flipping burgers and making sandwiches at this convenience store I worked at.

“So I embarked on this entrepreneurial journey cleaning cars and getting paid in cash. I ended up having $30,000 by the time I was 17.”

That’s when he decided to buy a BMW 335i.

There was just one problem – his mom didn’t like how loud it was.

“I ended up making the car excruciatingly loud. My mom hated the car,” he said.

“And the car had the BMW performance exhaust that I had purchased from a guy and that removes the factory exhaust valve. 

“So my mom said to me one day, she said, Austin, it’s so loud, you either got to get rid of the car or you got to make it quieter.

“And I was like, ‘Well, those are two not ideal options. Can you give my third option?’

“Turns out my third option would materialize when she said ‘Why does it have to be loud all the time? Why can’t you just make it quiet sometimes?'”

This sparked an idea in him to create a valve exhaust system.

“So I found a local kind of fabrication shop to make me this idea that I had. We kept the valve, took the factory muffler and cut it in half, welded the pipes in, and kept the original side stock,” he recalled.

“Then I had the valve on one side with a controller that I made and then we had a stock side so that you had this bypass system.

“It actually sounded better than my performance exhaust because it was even, it was a little bit louder.  But when the valves were closed, it was like the car was stock.”

Sharing it online, he soon realized there was an audience for the project and it kept getting bigger and bigger.

What cars does Huffman have his eye on for the future?

When you have a car collection as impressive as Huffman’s, you’d think there’d be no cars left on his wishlist.

But that’s not the case – he’s a lover of cars through and through, with an eye to obtain some more.

“I’d really love to drive around California in a 360 Spyder,” he admitted.

“I’d also like a Lamborghini LP570 Superleggera. But that’s about it – I’m very blessed that I have the cool stuff I’ve always wanted.”