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. We’ve tracked down six excellent options for Porsche folks to purchase today, including a pair of rare 964s, a mid-engine track day special, an engine swap donor candidate, a home-built special, and a perfectly restored former Sebring 12 hour competitor. Some of these cars could be great collection investments, while others might prove to do more financial harm than good. Either way, all of them would probably put a smile on your face.
1. 1998 Porsche 993 Speedster For Sale
Most people aren’t aware that Porsche actually produced a pair of 993 Speedsters, one tiptronic car for Butzi Porsche’s 60th birthday in 1995, and another manual-transmission model for Jerry Seinfeld in 1998. This car, however, is neither of those. This is a late production 993 Cabriolet that was involved in a rollover accident, and rather than rebuild it to good-as-new condition, the car underwent a complete revamp to Speedster-spec. The top, side windows, cowl section, and windshield are all sourced from a limited-edition 1989 Carrera Speedster, and transform this 993 into a one-off conversion, unique enough to get looks from even the most jaded Porsche fans.
At the same time as the top conversion was carried out, 100% metal 993 wide-body fenders and quarter panels were grafted on, along with a 993 Turbo front bumper and an Aero-Kit II rear decklid and wing. The end result is something that looks like it could have left the Porsche factory some 16 years ago. The factory and replica aftermarket pieces all blend seamlessly into something of a pseudo-factory wanna-be car. The car presents well, and aside from a less-than-perfect interior and a small scratch in the paint, the car could be cleaned up to look the bit. Keeping in mind the salvage title and lack of originality, I would think this car would be worth picking up for a bit of fun top-down driving.
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2. Low Mileage Full-Options 1993 Porsche 964 RS America For Sale
964s have always intrigued me as a proper blend of old-world styling, what with its ‘Carrera 3.2 with smooth-edges’ look, and refined modern driving dynamics, combined with its four-corner coil-over suspension and standard ABS. The 964 RS America special model makes the standard 964 feel just that little bit better. The RS America options package was a lighter-weight version exclusively for US consumption (not nearly as good as the 964 Carrera RS that the rest of the world got, but good nonetheless). Only a paltry 701 RS America models were built, according to Porsche, and a great number of them that I have seen have been used and abused, and many of them have racked up significant on-track mileage. With only 36,529 miles on this car, it might be one of the lowest-mileage cars in the world, let alone currently for sale.
The RS America, from the factory, received a rear-seat delete, a manual-steering rack, RS-style door panels, ‘M030’ sport suspension, and a fixed rear ‘whale-tail’ spoiler. Additionally, the package deleted cruise control, air-conditioning, the sunroof, and the stereo for weight savings, but this car had all three of those items optioned back in. While all of the running gear and the brakes package fitted to the RS America are identical to the standard 964 Carrera 2, the car still feels a bit more focused and involving than its standard brother. As such, these have received a high-profile following among P-car fanatics. Is this one perhaps a bit overpriced? I’d be inclined to say so, but some collectors might not be so quick to judge. Check it out and tell us what you think in the comments.
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3. One-Of-250 Porsche 964 America Roadster For Sale
By comparison to the RS America’s production run of 701 units, the America Roadster was produced for only 250 buyers. The America Roadster was a very limited continuation of what was previously known as the “Turbo-Look Cabriolet” in the Carrera 3.2 era. Effectively the widened fenders and underpinnings of a 964 Turbo were added to a standard Carrera 2 Cabriolet to create the America Roadster. It is a very effective package, creating a true thing of beauty. The wide fenders certainly help the 964 to look much more visually dynamic, and who doesn’t like drop-top fun in the sun?
These are excellent low-production collectors cars, and while this one has traversed more than 58,000 miles, it still looks as though it hasn’t aged a day. At a buy-it-now price of only seventy grand, this one shouldn’t last long, as it’ll be snapped up and squirreled away somewhere. Get it while you can, as you don’t see one of these for sale every day, and the prices are virtually guaranteed to continue rising as the 964 gains some much needed respect.
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4. 1965 Porsche 911 ‘Sebring 12 Hour Participant’ For Sale
An early-production 911 is always a treat, especially to find one on eBay. Even among early 911s, this one is rarer still, for having started (and finished) the 1967 running of the 12 Hours of Sebring. I have always lamented the loss of true production based racing, and the fact that this street car was driven to Sebring, competed in the four-hour SCCA Trans-Am race where it finished 3rd in class, and then went on to compete for the full 12 hours race where it placed 4th in class (20th overall) is just astonishing.
This car is said to have its original engine, and has been restored over the previous 4 years to the absolute letter of originality. The car has been painstakingly refinished to look just as it had that day at Sebring, and features all of its original sheetmetal, including the floor pans. After its life as a racer, the car was returned to road-car duty, and fitted with Porsche-Air in the late 1960s, which is still retained.
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5. 1997 Porsche Boxster Track Day Car For Sale
This Boxster is one heck of a car. A 1997 model, this one has been severely upgraded for track use, and looks as if it is ready to take on all comers. The car has never been raced wheel-to-wheel, despite having been built as a track car four years ago. Since that time, it has been used exclusively as a DE and track day car, also having run a single hill-climb event. The focus with this car has been on safety, as it features a Recaro Profi SPG seat, a set of Schroth harnesses, a factory hardtop, and a nice Specialty Engineering built full rollcage.
The car has a highly modified Jake Raby (Flat 6 Innovations) built Boxster S engine punched out to 3.6 liters and producing in excess of 300 horsepower through use of a fabspeed muffler, and Dansk headers. The car includes a nice set of lightweight wheels (either OZ Alleggerita HLT or Fikse FM10 wheels available), over 996 Carrera brakes with GiroDisc front floating rotors, Pagid pads, and Goodridge stainless brake lines. A whole laundry list of weight loss modifications are used to assist acceleration braking and cornering, and the bespoke mounted GT3 Cup rear wing helps to keep everything on the ground. The suspension is almost 100% new with Moton Club Sport remote reservoir coilovers, bump-steer adjustable ERP tie rods, H&R sway bars, GT3 lower control arms, Tarrett Engineering rear toe links, and a Quaife limited slip differential helps the suspension get the power down. That’s a whole lot of parts on a nicely track-prepped car for the $38,000 asking price. It might seem steep for a Boxster, but in the right hands this car would absolutely destroy GT3s (in the wrong hands) on track, and look good doing it, too.
I think my favorite part of this car, the trick track parts notwithstanding, is the Lamborghini Grigio Telesto paint. That gloss grey color is among my favorites in the entirety of the car world.
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6. 2007 Porsche GT3 Salvage Car For Sale
415 horsepower isn’t usually cheap, especially in OEM packaging. In the case of this 997 GT3 street-car, its Mezger-based flat-six is still in excellent condition, and has covered only 26,500 miles in its life. This engine is widely considered to be one of Porsche’s best ever, and has earned something of a reputation for being almost impossible to kill. If you treat this engine right, it’ll give you high-revving joy for hundreds of thousands of miles. The car itself has obviously been involved in a serious front end collision, but the engine and transmission remain unharmed, as they are located out back. With a buy-it-now of forty-five grand, this mechanic’s special could be the cheapest way to get a 997 GT3 engine and all of its ancillaries.
So what would this car be good for? Well, if I were setting out to build an excellent track car, this would be a great place to start. All of the front sheet-metal needs to be tossed anyhow, so why not replace it with carbon-fiber? The radiators could probably do with an upgrade since you’re in there anyway. Throw a Le Mans conquering GT3 RSR front bumper cover on there to aid with air extraction, downforce, and to give the car a more menacing look. As you’d probably be swapping out the suspension for a set of coil-overs anyhow, the front suspension damage isn’t a worry. Like I said, sounds like a great starting point.
Should you not really want to go that route, this engine and transmission would be an excellent candidate for swapping into a different chassis. Call it blasphemy if you’d like, but I’d like to see this water cooled engine in the back of a ‘Turbo-Look’ Carrera 3.2. Water-cooled swaps aren’t all that rare these days, and it wouldn’t be the first time, but it would certainly give that good-looking car a much-needed increase in power. Failing that, I’d probably try to shoe-horn this engine into the middle of our Project Boxster. Lord knows that is a chassis that can handle some additional power. I’m a fan of the Boxster’s low-power driving dynamic, but I certainly wouldn’t pass up the opportunity to hear this engine wind out to 9,000 RPM twenty or thirty times per day on my commute to work. It sure would work well in the Boxster track car we’ve featured at #5 above.
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