Back in 1994, the wildest car you could special order from Porsche had to be the Flachbau 964 Turbo S. A standard 964 3.6-liter Turbo in 1994 would cost you a massive $99,000, but if you wanted the slant nose and funky headlights, it was an additional $60,000 price tag! When adjusted for inflation, that same X85 option in 94 would cost you $104,000 …
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RM Sotheby’s Amelia Island Sale Puts Porsche’s 964 Front And Center With Exclusively Porsche Collection
This year for their Amelia Island sale, RM Sotheby's is preparing the "Exclusively Porsche" collection to blow the world away yet again. While it's not as mind-blowing and far-reaching as the Seinfeld collection was from a few years ago, it's a broader approach to collectibility. Technically, this collection of cars only includes eleven of the …
Continue to the full articleThis 930 Slant Nose Is Pure 1980s Nostalgia
There is no Porsche more anachronistic than the slant-nose 911 Turbo. It could not have existed were it not for the flash, exuberance, and absolute wealth of the 1980s, and looks out of place in any other era (look to the 964 Flachbau and you'll know this to be true). This particular car, as featured in Matt Farah's One Take show, is painted in …
Continue to the full articleOur Favorite Porsches On Ebay: Volume 99
We've been compiling some amazing Porsche models on eBay for nearly three years now, and we've seen some pretty astonishing cars pop up now and again. Keep in mind, some of these Porsches could be great collection investments, while others might prove to do more financial harm than good. INTERESTED IN HAVING YOUR PORSCHE FEATURED HERE Every other …
Continue to the full articleOur Favorite Porsches on eBay: Volume 75
We've been compiling some amazing Porsche models on eBay for over two years now, and we've seen some pretty astonishing cars pop up now and again. This week, thanks to some inspiration from SEMA, we focused on slant-nose 911s (the good, the bad and the ugly) another kit car we can't quite figure out and a very clean 914 we just couldn't pass up. …
Continue to the full articleModern Porsche 997 Slant-nose Steals The Show At SEMA
Every year it seems like the number of Porsches appearing at SEMA grows exponentially. This year you couldn't walk two feet without running into an RWB Porsche, one of Magnus' 911s, or even Magnus himself. However, there was one Porsche in particular that stood out from the rest, a retro-mod slant-nose 997. A photo posted by old & new …
Continue to the full articleThe Peerless Porsche 2016 Monterey Auction Preview
This year at the Monterey Car Week auctions, there is one particular house that has paid close attention to the Porsche market and aimed a large portion of their catalog at Porsche enthusiasts like you and me. I'll let you look at the auction listings and decide for yourself who is the committed Porsche auction house, but it's pretty self-evident …
Continue to the full articleAn In-Depth Look At The 16 Porsches Jerry Seinfeld Is Selling On Amelia Island
If you are a fan of Porsche, and you've been anywhere near the internet in the last month, it's unlikely that you haven't heard about the upcoming Seinfeld collection grouping of cars coming up for auction at the Gooding & Co. Amelia Island sale later this week. Many sites have shown you the list of cars, but no other site out there is showing you …
Continue to the full articleOur Favorite Porsches On Ebay This Week
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 five exciting Porsches for folks to purchase today, including a well known GT3 from SharkWerks, a strangely …
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