If you follow me on twitter (www.twitter.com/joeyredmond) you would of seen that I spotted a Gumpert Apollo today on Fairfax Ave. by my house. I was on the phone (hands free CHP) and screaming and annoyed with traffic that the car past me so fast I hardly realized what I just saw.

With that being said I didn’t score any photos but I figured with some Internet research I could find out about this Gumpert Apollo. Someone spotted it about 5 months ago at the Fatburger down the street from me on Santa Monica Blvd. (FYI that Fatburger is amazing)! Matching the plate it appears this is the same one that ran on the 2008 Gumball 3000 in May from San Francisco, California to Beijing, China.

After doing some research on who drove the Gumball 3000 Gumpert Apollo (assuming this was the same one, now painted orange from black) it is driven by Mr. Moto AKA Reza from Teckademics fame. You would recognize him from some of the older films when he traveled with Dado and Dustin in the older films. Here is Reza’s website (http://www.mrmota.com/).

That is my detective work for the day! It looks like 10 were sent to the USA and a shop called Evolution Motorsports in Arizona is the only approved shop to work on the cars by Gumpert. Thanks to Team-BHP and Jarod DeAnda (Gumball 3000) for some information to help out.

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