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Ask Jay Leno: What's my Porsche worth?

Jay Leno tells one viewer how the modifications he made to his Porsche will affect the car's value.

Each week, Jay Leno answers questions sent in by viewers. Tune into "Jay Leno's Garage" for the first episode Oct. 7 at 10 p.m. ET/PT on CNBC.

In 1947, Porsche began engineering its first sports car — the 356. For nearly 20 years, it was the flagship vehicle from the famed German automaker; today, they're worth silly amounts of money.

As in hundreds of thousands of dollars.

In 1972, Bob Lane — owner of RWL German Imports in Atlanta, Georgia — finally got his hands on one. He traded his 1962 Super 90 Porsche motor for a 1956 356A Speedster, and has spent the past 40-plus years working on it.