JWise

Fun thread revival - enjoy seeing everyone's lists. Here's mine:

• #1
• Perlglanz
• 95GTS 5spd, I'd say the Midnight Blue metallic in the factory museum but they'll never sell that one
• Derek Bell CS, or really any other factory driver CS but preferably Derek's
• 88SE
• 89GT
• 91GT XX8
• GTE
• Holbert car before Kibort Kiborted it
• Euro 86 5spd with the M28/21 4.7L 310hp 16v
• Velvet Hammer ( just kidding)

WALTSTAR

I have the 22nd 84 to come off the line and it is a 5 speed.

Landseer

The two Perl white 87 S4 cars, particularly the 5 speed one that Jadz928 rescued from a marina in Annapolis.

The turquoise stroker with the laser leather seats that Eman drives

928 GT R

How about adding Dariens "Unicorn" GT to the list?

Its the closest thing to a Club Sport built in 1990 - and its a no sunroof Euro GT with sport seats, no rub rails and almost no options!

Lightweight fun Plus, Original and polished/detailed to the 9's!

Tom. M

I'll add to this list (15 years later )
95 5sp GTS, no rub strips, no sunroof, cloth sport seats, no rear air. Does this car exist @Rob Edwards ?
I suppose any GTS in this configuration would be OK LOL.
P.S. I didn't get my super early OB, but did find a 79 (with 78 build date) to play around with.

Rob Edwards

There are only 54 ROW '95 5-speeds to start with, out of total '95 ROW production of 399 (vs. 30 5-speeds out of a total of 77 for the US). Of those, 17 with no sunroof. Of those, 9 without rubstrips. Interestingly, none of those 9 have rear AC. And only 3 have sport seats. All German market, VINs ending in 154, 167, and 353.

drooman

If we go by sales figures, it seems like a 1979 bronze 5-speed that may or may not have been driven by Tom Cruise tops the list.

Seriously though I was just discussing the market with 928GTR earlier this week. As he points out it was not that long ago when these car were categorically ignored by collectors and as such the knowledge of all the variations and special editions was also widely unknown. All of that has changed now and every day more individuals are deep diving into the obscure special versions...and there are so many!

My list in no particular order:

Pilot series cars, these were completed 928s (with the exception of the interiors) made in late 1976, and appeared in magazines in 1976 and early 1977. I estimate there were 6 to 10 units but I dont know if any exist.
Press Cars, 12 units. I suspect most if not all of the pilot cars were made into press cars in January 1977....maybe. Currently a more than 50% survival rate!
Factory show cars
Anything from the "SE CS" group
89 GT
Any special GTS
Last GTS
Last GTS manual
XX8
XC1
Any prototype of any model
Rothmans factory driver cars.
Certain celebrity cars (including race drivers, factory personnel, Porsche family owned, etc.)
Crazy, controversial, and wonderful color combos
Any model in spectacular original condition
Any model completely bombed with options in nice condition.
Cars with multiple items from this list.

Best one of all: The one you currently drive and just love.

JWise

FIFY

drooman

Best passenger seat wear?

tv

so close to what I was going to post, (like those rear tires, great looking car)

An 85/86 Euro M28/22 with A28/06 trans- no rub strips, aero mirrors, sport seats, San Fran radio and all the extra's

Darklands

I looked a few YT documentations about early 911 and Mercedes Pagode Restauration in my covid break and I think in 10 years the 928 market will be there.
Shops will do highest quality Restauration with odometer reading zero as the result and the car will cost 250.000 $ and up.

Examples are BrabusClassic or Early 911S.

The feeded people will buy a new classic car 40 years old and be sure it‘s an very rare animal.
Before this all prices for 928 willl rise,especially 5 speed because they are rare.
Look at the 996, a few years back the misloved stepchild now expensive. I think the lines of the 996 aren‘t iconic but aged but that‘s my taste.


Let the investors in cars licking blood with rising prices and the market will be fast very tight.

drooman

I hope that happens to the 928 in a similar manner but the complexity of a 928 FAR exceeds that of an air 911 or Pagoda, changing the whole cost analysis.

The car we used the most this summer... with #4

linderpat

Well, so much for props outside of our world. I just received the SCM Pocket value Guide for the new year, and while last year certain variants of the 928, like the really early and the GTS rose from a D rating (the worst; virtually no collectability) to a C rating, they all slipped back to a D collectability rating again. I just can't figure that out. SCM uses a pretty robust data base. Martin himself even had one for a bit.

Darklands

17 years ago I purchased my 928 S and MB Pagodes cost 25-40.000 € . Now the 928 is four times the price and the Pagode too.
At that time nobody wants the 964, too complex.

drooman

What kind of cars are in his A B or C "collectability" rating? What does that term even mean? Keith is a successful and talented guy, but I find most of his content is designed for a very short attention span. (hence the success)

Lets have Derek Bell comment on the "collectability" of mustangs.