Former Jockey Leaves Horses Behind for Porsches
Following a horseback riding accident, one woman turns her farm into a haven for her stable of Porsches.
What’s better than having one Porsche in your garage? Two of them? What about three or four? If you had that many, you’d definitely want your garage to be as awesome as your collection, yes? Something as immaculate as a Porsche dealership, perhaps?
Would you consider a horse stable? YouTube channel Car Throttle recently visited the home of Lisa Taylor, a simple “vice president of an aerospace company” who has turned her horse farm into a haven for her stable of various McLarens, Ferraris, and Porsches.
Taylor’s love of cars began when she helped her father, a car enthusiast himself, built a Fiberfab Aztec kit car as her first car, which she drove when she was only 15 and a half years old. Though her father never owned any Porsches, Taylor caught the bug in 1981 when she drove her friend’s 911. The next day after the drive, she sold her Mazda RX-7 for what would be the first of many Porsches to come.
Unlike most Porsche owners who seem to prefer storm clouds for color palettes, Taylor goes for the whole rainbow with her Porsches, including a Ruby Star 911 RS, which she says was “a pretty bold move to order.” The car’s color so impressed the organizers of the California Festival of Speed that it was immortalized on the 2017 edition’s poster. And of course, there’s her GT3 RS formerly owned by fellow Porsche enthusiast (and actor/coffee aficionado) Patrick Dempsey, Taylor’s first race car.
“Being a female in the car collecting [world] is very rare,” says Taylor, who adds that most who see her stable of Porsches think they belong to her boyfriend, since “women don’t collect cars.” We’re just happy to have someone like Taylor out there collecting some of the finest Porsches around, and in a wonderful assortment of colors, too. Not bad for someone who used to race horses before an accident turned her towards horsepower from a rear-mounted, German flat-six.
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