I was curious on how rare this car actually is? My dad owns this Porsche 968 that is Wimbledon Green. It is and has been sitting in a garage with a flex damper problem, and I would say it's been there roughly 9 years now. Even before sitting in that garage it sat in our old houses driveway untouched under a tarp for many years. The pictures I will try and attach will be from the time it was sitting at our old house around 2009. Me myself, I have no memory of the car working but there is a video of me when I was around 3-4 years old riding in the backseat with my brother. Now I am curious about the rarity because from what I have read on these cars, is that this color in particular makes the car a 1 of 9 car.

Exterior

Interior

 

@jeff968 is the authority on this. Could be even more rare based on triptonic and interior color.

Definitely a color you will likely never see again in your lifetime.

 

Although a tip, it is a very exclusive color which will no doubt add value. Mileage, condition, and maintenance will also play a major factor.

 

Here are some pictures of the interior. How many others had this color interior?

 

I love this car in any of the greens. Big fan of Wimbledon Green especially even though I've likely never seen one in person.

 

There is no clutch as in a manual transmission car, but there is the flex damper that goes bad in the tiptronic cars. This is probably the issue. It is not a horrible repair, pretty straight forward. Easy for someone who knows the cars and a big job, but not impossible for the DIY guy. Tip transmission failures are very rare, so a bad transmission is unlikely. This car NEEDS TO BE RESCUED.

 

Ah yes I was thinking of the wrong thing. I have asked my dad and he said that it needs a new clutch damper disk. I have been pushing him to rescue this car and the 928 that sits next to it nowadays with a fuel issue. He tells me nowadays that he doesn't have any time since he juggles a couple of other cars and other life things. He says one day he'll get around to it and get it running. Nowadays it is being protected by a layer of cardboard boxes that we just set on it.

 

Maybe my dad will chime in, as I just reminded him that these forums exist. Any bit of an estimation in price?

 

X10 if it is running...Milage pays an important roll in value. But get it running first!!!

-Yogii
AKA 968 Novice

 

It does run according to my dad, he just doesn't want it to run too much with the clutch damper disk needing to be replaced. I clarified miles and everything and he said around 100k. A bit more than I always thought.

 

Besides the obviously uber-cool 968, what can you tell us about the 928?

 

The 928 that sits in the same garage is a 1980 928s Euro in Tabaca Metallic color. A couple of years ago we pulled it out of my great aunts garage, which was where my dad had stored the car for I think 20+ years. Now it sits by this 968 under covers waiting to be fixed up. For what we know, it only needs a rework of the fuel tank and maybe fuel system. My dad tried fixing it years ago when moving it from the great aunts garage to ours but was unsuccessful with driving it the 10 or so miles that it needed to make. It only made it about 2-3 miles before dying out in a church parking lot. For now it sits in the garage with at least a cover over it.
One day soon I could get him to at least get that one going as I may have another 928 that I myself will work on as a project car. My motivation to him has been that if I were to possibly get mine to run then he would have to make the same effort to fix his. About the one that I will possibly start, is a 1977 (or 78' can't remember off the top of my head) Porsche 928 Euro. Everything is still in the German and even the gauges are in German. I think the odometer read 90,000km (roughly 60k miles). It has sat in a driveway the last 20 years under what I think was like 5 layers of tarps.Hopefully in the near future when I have the time I could get it running. In fact I will probably use these forums if I have question that my dad couldn't answer for me.

 

Hi, yes, the car is 1 of 9 North American Wimbledon green coupes. Of those, 9, 7 were 6 speeds and 2 were tiptronics. I'm guess your car is PS820659 as it looks to have the standard 16" wheels.

Let me know if you have any other questions and be sure to check out 968register.org

BTW, I see the rear of a 1970 Dodge Challenger. I have one of those as well. a T/A.

 

Cool, so at worst that car is 1 of 2 if the other has the same interior. Likely it's the only car like that sold in the US. Looks like the driver's seat needs to be reconditioned. If you take more pics we'd like to see if there are any cracks in the dash and if the gauges/clock are still bright orange like the car was stored in doors. Running, timing/balance belt replaced, etc and cleaned up I'd guess the value around $20k, but I'm not really guessing that color and rarity will bring much of a price premium. Just fixing the trans and not doing much else I'd guess $15k.

 

Yep and it still sits there today as we own both houses still. That house has kind of just turned into a car park/anything else kind of place. Parked right in front of it in the garage is a 58' corvette. I'll attach a photo from around the same time. With the pictures of the 968, for now those will be the photos as the car is just too deep in stuff to take out just for some pics but one day I will come back here with some updated photos. (And yes it does have a cover that goes over it to protect it from that mayhem) Anyways this is getting a bit off topic so I'll make sure to drop in again with any kind of updates.