Take a Look Around Porsche Santa Clarita's Wünderground Museum

At Porsche Santa Clarita, you can see the sky from the basement. Not that you'll spend much time staring up through the showroom. Not when there's a 700-hp 935 clubsport race car, plus another 15 Porsches displayed as reverently as the Mona Lisa. Not to mention assorted historical materials and the full sweep of the 911's design history brightly illustrated on a nearby wall.

Not bad for a space that was once underground parking for a Saturn dealership. Branded the Wünderground Museum, the space was the brainchild of Beau Boeckmann, president and COO of Galpin Motors, a Southern California-based dealer group with a history of wild custom cars, motorsports, and spiffing up the customer experience.

For help with this project, Boeckmann turned to some of the same people who helped create "The Porsche Effect" for the Petersen Automotive Museum in 2018. Many of the cars on display are on loan from collectors, and none are for sale. "It’s a win-win," general manager Joe Allis said. "They need to put them somewhere, and we like to display unique sports cars."