HIGHLIGHTS
- Very honest example
- Service history stamped up to 100k
- Super retro interior
- Two long-term owners to 2016
- Low mileage for its year
THE APPEAL
The 928 was the first sports car to win the European Car of the Year Award, taking the accolade in 1978. It was also a massively important car for Porsche – a new large GT that would move the brand upmarket and away from the more hardcore air-cooled performance models for which it had become famous, powered by a fruity 4.7-litre V8 water-cooled engine and hugely over-engineered, with delightful rotating pop-up headlamps and practical 2+2 coupé bodywork.
Uniquely styled, it was delightfully quirky as well as marvellously well screwed together. It’s a car that has an increasingly ardent following in classic and collector circles, thanks to its wonderfully unique styling and its oh-so-Eighties interior, not to mention its fine handling and effortless performance.
This one had just two owners until 2016, when it was returned to the road after a long lay-up. The second owner had kept it since 1993, and the first for a decade having bought it new form Monarch Porsche in Warwick.
THE HISTORY AND PAPERWORK
- UK V5C
- Five owners, first two for 33 years combined
- Recommissioned in 2016
- Service book stamped all the way to 100,402 miles – in private collections since
- MOT and tax exempt
THE INTERIOR
- Rare burgundy leather and matching dash
- Tartan seat inlays
- Seats in very good order with minimal wear
- Original burgundy carpets and mats
- Some minor wear to steering wheel and gearshift T-selector commensurate with age and mileage
- Wonderfully retro Panasonic radio-cassette player
- Burgundy vinyl headlining coming slightly loose at front corner
- Good carpets and door cards
- Factory sunroof
THE EXTERIOR
- Paint is apparently mostly original
- Some minor scuffs and marks
- Small scratch on nearside front wing
- Minor paint deterioration on passenger door
- Small crack on front lower bumper trim
- Very small scratches and chips to bonnet
- Minor wear to trim on window channels
- Seemingly very solid with no notable corrosion or damage
- No visible rust in tailgate
- Later 968 alloy wheels, finished in Anthracite Grey
- Pop-up lights in good order
THE MECHANICS
- 4.7-litre V8
- Automatic transmission
- Engages all gears correctly
- Drives well and starts on the button
- Vendor reports that there are no known mechanical issues
SUMMARY
The 928 is a car that is rapidly gaining popularity and desirability among the collector community and this one is a really smart and mostly original example that’s well worthy of a good long-term home.
It’s a car with bags of appeal, and the interior colour scheme is wonderful and sits in lovely contrast with the White Gold exterior. A really tidy and extremely original example of the Porsche GT that’s widely tipped to be one of the next big things in the classic car world, a good 928S is something well worthy of attention. And this is a good 928S.
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