For all of the eccentric and eclectic Porsche collectors and enthusiasts out there, we’ve decided that it is about time someone aggregated the best of the best that eBay has to offer in the Porsches-for-sale department. Now we’ve tracked down five more exciting Porsches for folks to purchase. The list includes a 1987 959, a 944 Drag Racing car, a weird custom racer that’s been damaged, a gorgeous 964 Speedster, and a Porsche that is actually a Mercedes. Some of these cars could be great collection investments, while others might prove to do more financial harm than good.
1. 1985 Porsche 944 Drag Racing Car For Sale
Porsche isn’t exactly known for making cars that are good at drag racing. I mean, sure, the 991 Turbo S can dip below 3 seconds 0-60, and trips the quarter mile in the high 10s straight out of the box. And yes, Eddie Bello’s massively modified 964 turbo can pull wheelies. Even still, Porsche is more known for producing well balanced cars that tackle corners better than drag strips. Dig deeper and thing about the 944. That’s a car that has always valued momentum through the corners over outright top speed and acceleration. My old 1983 944 might have done a zero to sixty time in the high 10s. This 944 is a bit different, though. It flips everything on its end and bucks the trend. It’s got a massive 406 cubic inch V8 up front, a solid axle Ford 9″ rear end, a full tube frame, and the ever present Hoosier “Big n’ Littles”. It’s very strange to see a 944 set up like this, but as I hail from the midwest where cows outnumber people and there’s ‘no replacement for displacement’, I feel obliged to like it.
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2. 1981 Porsche 911 SC “#StrokeFace” Street-Legal Race Car (Slightly Damaged) For Sale
There are a few old saying among racers, but a couple that I really like are “Never take something to the track that you can’t afford to walk away from” and “Never run out of real estate, grip, and talent at the same time”. I’m not sure if this car was actually wrecked at the race track, or if it was an unfortunate road accident, but in either case, it looks like some bad fortune befell the driver.
If you’ve been paying attention for the last year or so, you’ve probably seen this car around the internet. It was designed to mimic the gaudy livery of a 1980 Plymouth mini-pickup, it has massive red Rotiform wheels, a whale tail wing seemingly bigger than the rest of the car, and it has yellow glass on all sides. It sticks out like a sore thumb, and you couldn’t have missed it if you tried. Don’t ask me why it’s called “#StrokeFace”, I haven’t got a clue.
I never really took to the car, as I thought the wheels were silly for a self described track car, it sat entirely too high off the ground, and the visual structure the owner was working with gave the appearance that the car was built in the late 1980s and then stuck on some modern wheels that were too big for the chassis. Is this car worth 20 grand? Well, the rear wheels look intact, and those are probably a few thousand each. The front left looks repairable, but the front right is gone. It’d need some metal work, for sure, a windshield, and a fender. It’s a unique car that’s made a lot of magazine features and it was all over the internet last year. If you love the look (or could at least live with it), you could own that car.
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3. Polar Silver 1994 Porsche 964 Speedster For Sale
One of 409 produced, one of only 5 in this color, and only 19,000 miles on the odometer, to boot! This car has all of the makings of a quality collector automobile. Last week we featured a triple black 964 Speedster, but this week, we found a Polar Silver example on eBay that is even more delightful. Given the choice between a 1989 Speedster and this 964 Speedster, the 964 would get my vote without question, and this looks to be one of the nicest examples out there. While I don’t exactly understand owning a car and not driving it, I would wager that a car like this could really clean up the trophies at a PCA Concours if it were properly prepared. It’s a great example of a rare car, so is that enough to make it worth the quarter million asking price? Depends who you ask, I suppose. (It’s also worth noting that the seller created a new eBay account specifically to sell this car and has no previous feedback. Caveat Emptor!)
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4. Extremely Rare 1987 Porsche 959 For Sale
What’s that? Is that a 959 on eBay? A real one? And the asking price is 1.85 million dollars? Ha!
That’s the thought process that went through my head when I saw this listing come up in one of my many searches. Isn’t it perhaps a bit absurd to try selling a 959 for a new record price on eBay with only a small handful of pictures and a pitiful description? I’m inclined to believe that this is nothing more than a marketing ploy, and I’m playing right into it by showing this listing to you, the loyal reader. No matter, it’s still a 959, it’s still on eBay, and if I didn’t include it in the list of most interesting Porsches on eBay this week, I’d soon regret it.
The car is currently in Italy, but the seller will generously send the car anywhere in the world by ship or by plane for what appears to be no additional cost. Of course, when you’re selling for well over the going rate these days, you can afford to negotiate on shipping. If you’ve got about $2 million dollars burning a hole in your pocket, there are worse ways to spend it than buying a 959 sight unseen over the internet. Of course, at a minimum it’d make a great story.
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5. Rare Porsche-Built 1992 Mercedes 500E For Sale
I’m not exactly sure why, but I have a penchant for 1990’s German sport sedans. I drive a 1995 Audi S6 as a daily driver, and I’ve always lusted after BMW’s E39 M5, and this car, the Merc 500E. After Porsche worked with Audi on the RS2 in the early 1990s, Mercedes wanted to get in on Porsche’s know-how and contracted them to build the 500E later known as the E500. Porsche hand assembled each car, including the V8 engine and 4-speed transmission, up to the point where it needed paint, and then it was transferred back to Mercedes for final shining.
As values of these creep upward, I regret not purchasing one years ago when they were at the bottom of their depreciation curve. These are mid-sized comfortable-for-four-adults sedans that have great power, and handle well. What more could you want from a car?
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