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curious - would a LHD japanese row 1988 s4 auto no sunroof silver/greenish gray thats lived half its life in Australia have a premium over an equivalent US 928 s4?
I have examined this car if anyone is interested or wants pricing insight
1985 Porsche 928 · Coupe · Driven 141,000 miles
1985 Porsche Euro 928S. All guages are metric. 4.7L, 5 speed. Runs and drives great! Brakes work. Sounds awesome! Not a perfect show car, but with a little work it could be. Rear passenger tail light is broken, passenger side door molding is missing, dents in drivers side rear quarter panel. Slight oil leak, slight fuel leak from return line. Will need new fuel level sending unit. All kinds of paperwork ( owners manuals and service records back to '85 ), and the original set of wheels. Located in Maine, USA. $15,000 obro
1985 Euro S 5-speed C00 - German market M28.21 - engine serial # range 82F 00001 >05000 G28.10 - transmission serial # range 11F 00001>05000 Interior code LA S2- Garnet red metallic QC2- Standard seats without heating in Greyish green, full leather 8JK- greyish green carpet
M058 - "Impact absorbers front and rear, Bumper with shock absorber instead of shock absorber-tube" M261 - Outside mirror - plain-passenger's side, electrically adjustable and heatable I319 - Changed set-up of fan (additional engine cooling for hot climate countries) - 86 mm pulley instead of 106 mm I330 - Blaupunkt Atlanta SQR 23 I415 - Widening of the gauge on the track on the rear axle I490 - Hi-Fi sound system ( 8 speakers, balance control, 1980-86.5) ("Equipment Group IV") M533 - Alarm I567 - Windshield tinted, upper part I593 - Antilock brake system (Bosch)
It would need to be painted at some point, there's two missing spots of clear coat on the roof, one small dent, one small wheel arch issue (hit something)??? Would not stay running.
Interior is pretty good. There is some spot in the drivers seat to fix. No sunroof. I think its a car to pick up for 8500.
I believe it needs an alternator or ground strap for the running issue. I think you could sort it out cheap less the paint. You could 100% polish and buff it and get many years out of the paint its in a garage. The guy inherited it from his father in law a couple years ago. The car looks solid short of deferred maintenance.
No sunroof. One rub strip to fix. I wanted to do it but I have two 928 projects on going so ultimately I opted to get my ZZZ fix off of BAT. I just cant take on a project now. Lots of cars at 80% to finish I would love to see this rare car go to a good home.
I have examined this car if anyone is interested or wants pricing insight
1985 Porsche 928 · Coupe · Driven 141,000 miles
1985 Porsche Euro 928S. All guages are metric. 4.7L, 5 speed. Runs and drives great! Brakes work. Sounds awesome! Not a perfect show car, but with a little work it could be. Rear passenger tail light is broken, passenger side door molding is missing, dents in drivers side rear quarter panel. Slight oil leak, slight fuel leak from return line. Will need new fuel level sending unit. All kinds of paperwork ( owners manuals and service records back to '85 ), and the original set of wheels. Located in Maine, USA. $15,000 obro
1985 Euro S 5-speed C00 - German market M28.21 - engine serial # range 82F 00001 >05000 G28.10 - transmission serial # range 11F 00001>05000 Interior code LA S2- Garnet red metallic QC2- Standard seats without heating in Greyish green, full leather 8JK- greyish green carpet
M058 - "Impact absorbers front and rear, Bumper with shock absorber instead of shock absorber-tube" M261 - Outside mirror - plain-passenger's side, electrically adjustable and heatable I319 - Changed set-up of fan (additional engine cooling for hot climate countries) - 86 mm pulley instead of 106 mm I330 - Blaupunkt Atlanta SQR 23 I415 - Widening of the gauge on the track on the rear axle I490 - Hi-Fi sound system ( 8 speakers, balance control, 1980-86.5) ("Equipment Group IV") M533 - Alarm I567 - Windshield tinted, upper part I593 - Antilock brake system (Bosch)
I'd take pricing insight and thoughts. How's the rust? Oil leak where? Timing belt/water pump? Thanks for any beta!
I'd take pricing insight and thoughts. How's the rust? Oil leak where? Timing belt/water pump? Thanks for any beta!
Engine has that haven't been cleaned look
I didn't jack it up but will say on my 82 that snugging the oil pan bolts and changing the $2 rear can seal did the trick.
Some surface rust at rear quarter windows (common to cars that need to be painted)
driver rear fender lip needs foxed when painted
I think he had some record of the timing belt via the father in.law but can't remember. I would assume you should do the belt, WP, and tensioner
Given where the market is and the miles I would buy it for $8500 if accepted. Its been for sale for a while.
It didn't set off my scam detector. The description seems honest, with some history. Photos are current.
Matt
found it. I stand corrected, that price actually seems about right, based on the condition of the car. It looks like it has led a hard life, and I doubt if the odo works and the miles are correct. Still, at that price, worth fixing up. The rear bumper cover would need to be replaced, as it is cracked all the way through on the right rear corner. Who knows what the engine bay looks like, and so forth. Still maybe worth the risk. A 5 speed 78, with pin stripe interior.
I'd love to read the full back story on that car. Was it discussed / documented on rennlist? I'm looking for pretty much that car, although I doubt I could keep up with BaT bidders on this one
Back story is that I bought the car from a guy up in Bend, OR in late 2021, who bought it from a long time owner in 2018. The car had been sitting since 2004 (63058 miles in November 2004, 63066 miles in December 2021), and the PO had tried to get it running but was defeated by the CIS system. I got it running with all new fuel components and then went deep on the restoration. The challenge on this one was that the PO had the mixture set stupid rich and he'd washed down cylinder 5 that had some debris in it. So there were some scratches in cylinder 5 that I had to have overbored to 95.5 mm and installed a NOS 95.5 piston in that hole. Which meant splitting the block and starting from scratch (no pun intended). Pictures of the start of reassembly below:
I didn't document it here because it was essentially the same journey as documented in William's #107 Minerva thread- started with really good (but neglected) bones and ended up with a nice car. That, plus I'm a little more over-employed than I was in 2015-2016, so I haven't really had the bandwidth.
09-20-2023, 09:51 PM
I would love to see this rare car go to a good home.
