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In the commercial, which is specifically for the "new" 928S4, we get to see the car soaring down what seems to be an endless stretch of the Bonneville Salt Flats.

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BoxsterG

That brings back great memories for me. I purchased my first Porsche 928 S from Southpoint Porsche. These dealers were all located in Houston I think. I know Southpoint was on Highway 59 which is now Momentum Porsche, Don McGill was on I-10 which is now Porsche of West Houston. I cant remember where Gullo-Haas was located if in Houston.

Captain_Slow

I've seen this many times...but just now noticed this one has an AT.

jcorenman

Here's a long version. The car that did the record run was a 5-speed, other cars were used for some of the filming.
In this video you will note that mirrors disappear and re-appear, etc. Pretty cool, still!

James Bailey

And on Oct 2 1988 Al Holbert lost his life in a plane crash at age 41......such a successful driver owner and businessman ! You can only wonder what else he could have accomplished.

BigCavolo

Thanks for the education. So satisfying to learn these things and then go drive it for myself. He mentioned the noise level which tickled me. I was in my new (80 yr old) metal building during a heavy rain and hail storm, face to face with a friend. The noise was so loud deafening that we couldn't hear one another screaming. I got in the 92great to move it away from a broken window. When I opened the door I realized that I didn't hear the storm. I closed it again and heard nothing. It was like the Ace Ventura scene with Jim Carry on the balcony sliding the door open and shut like playing with a mute button.

Chris Lockhart

Love that commercial. It's a shame Kibort destroyed that car.

James Bailey

Right but what is a handmade preproduction special Porsche with a world record speed driven by Al Holbert really worth in todays market ???? But the bent chassis still exists.

linderpat

tongue obviously in cheek! I'd put it in the same range as the Derrick Bell SE pre-auction estimate.

Chris Lockhart

Between it being the Holbert car and the IMSA safety car I always thought it a shame to wind up as a stripped down track car, and not being restored. But then again I took a cosmetically challenged '89 GT and turned it into a Germ-erican muscle car, so who am I to talk? LoL.

James Bailey

Seemed like the right thing to do at the time

Bill Ball

That's a little misleading. Kibort rescued the car essentially from the scrap heap. It had been donated to a high school auto shop classroom and was forgotten and abandoned. No one else wanted it except possibly Mark Anderson to part it out. Kibort got the car back on the road and put it to use as a track car, driving it regularly to and from events, tracking it for more than several years, letting a large number of people see the car doing something Al Holbert likely would have appreciated. The track accident that led to the demise of the car's body was the fault of another car that spun out and ran into Kibort. I enjoyed seeing the car at local events and on the track and working on it with Mark. It's too bad what happened to it, but without Mark's interest and effort it's not likely anyone would ever have seen it again.

James Bailey

Yes the shop teacher could not stand to see his students dismantle it so it sat untouched for years..... still had the oddball weird pattern cloth seats and the ZZZ vin number for an 86 model which they modded to LOOK like the upcoming 1987 S-4 model. Porsche cheated a bit by swapping in 86 cams, special computer boxes with external swappable chips, and anything else they thought they needed. Did testing at the Nardo ring in Italy to assure that it was fast enough and reliable before shipping it to Holbert. At Bonneville it appears to be setup rather low , used 7 inch rims on all 4 corners no mirrors and they had both USA and Euro transaxles in case they needed to swap out the final drive ratios. Kibort somehow was lucky enough to wander into a California DMV and get the ZZZ car titled and registered with NO PROBLEM ????

Chris Lockhart

All very true Bill. I certainly don't mean to take anything away from Mark, and his rescue of this important 928. ( I should have said that IT was destroyed, not that HE destroyed it. That came out WAY different than what my brain was thinking. My bad. Sorry Mark!!!) Just musing about what it may have been if it had been put back to record setting configuration, especially considering that the 928 is finally starting to come into it's own as a collectible. I wonder what the "auction value" would be today in the Holbert configuration as a historical Porsche?