I came across this today. I'm sure many of you have seen it before, but I thought it was worth posting. I hope the attachment works.

Dave

 

Looks like an AMC Pacer!

 

PbFoot, your comment reminds me of an mpeg I once saw w/ a pacer morphing into a 928. I know its painful to think about, but I would love to see it again if anyone out there has it.

 

http://members.rennlist.com/jonf/pcto928.gif (370kb animated .gif)

Ask and ye shall receive.

 

That's one of the supposedly four 928 four door models built by American Sunroof Corporation. Do a search on this board, and you'll find multiple discueeions about this topic from the past.

 

THATS IT JOHN!! Thanks! Its been years since I've seen that thing.

 

Didn't Porsche actually build one 4 door 928?

 

Jon F,
Thank you for the link to the animated gif of the AMC Pacer (yikes!) morphing into the 928 (ahhhh!). I have to say that there are some striking similarities in the lines...funny that someone actually created this morph sequence. Many thanks...into my archives it goes!
Cheers,
Tim

 

No, they built a 4-Seater for Dr. Ferry Porsche's B'day in 1984. This car had two doors and was lengthened, also had a higher hatch, S4 lower body panels, projection lights, and a 4-valve engine.

To the best of my knowledge, all 4-door models were built by ASC.

Here is a picture of one that the factory still owns, and currently resides at the automuseum in Langenburg, Germany:



Note the difference in the rear end, compared to this one:

 

I stand corrected. Thanks Nicole.

 

The 928-4 Birthday car is very different from the ASC four-door versions. The birthday car was built at Porsche around 1984, and first featured some of the styling elements that were later found on the S4 (I wish we would have gotten the projection lights for the S4).

The four door versions were built around 1987 in cooperation with ASC (American Sunroof Corporation). I have heard rumors that there were four of them - all a little different - but have not been able to confirm this.

To the best of my knowledge, only one ASC 4-door 928 is in the US, and the 1984 928-4 Birthday car never saw US soil.

I have never seen any pictures of an ASC other than the above.

The amethyst metallic one has little over 5,000 km on the odometer and is likely still on display at the auto museum in Langenburg, Germany.

 

Metalcrafters in Newport Beach said they built 2 four door cars for Porsche many years ago . Metalcrafters makes many factory showcars ....including the Chrysler Atlantic (Bugatti) coupe of a few years ago which used a 928 style central tube , we made the driveshaft for them . So the people at Metalcrafters remembered the 928 driveline and used that concept on that big straight eight engine (two 4 cylinder neons end to end )car .

 

Chaos, Control, Chaos Contro. Pacers morphing into Sharks? Jeez, now I've seen everything. Now if Porsche could just morph their marketing dept. into getting us a new 928 (with 2 doors) I'd really be a believer. Ruf

 

I have seen the burgunudy one in person here in Louisville KY and they pulled it out for me to shoot photos of it. I sent pics to Adam B. for the 928 magazine for an article. It belongs to a car dealer here in Louisville. Interesting car with the suicide doors. Condition was decent with an average paint job(tape lines) and average interior(dirty and warping panels). This one was built by ASC and the owner purchased it at an RM or Kruse auction for the mid $40's. Not exactly my cup of tea.
Doug

 

So now we know where Ford Ripped off the design ideas for the rear doors on their F-150's!