Probably the world's best privately owned selection of turbo Porsches is coming up for sale. The Drendel collection of 18 cars covering 25 years of Porsche history will go across Gooding & Co's block at Amelia Island on 9 March.
Star lot is the 1973 917/30 Can-Am Spyder, carrying an estimate of $3.25-4million (main picture). Chassis 004 was intended to be the 1974 Penske-Sunoco team car but was instead sold to Australian Porsche Importer Alan Hamilton and later bought by the Porsche factory.
Second billing is shared by the 1984 two-owner-from-new, double Daytona-winning 962 (above, $1.75-2.25million) and the experimental 1974 RSR Turbo Carrera 2.14 that raced extensively in Europe ($1.75-2.25million), while the first 935/76 built (below) is expected to make fractionally less.
Matthew Drendel was devoted to Porsches from an early age, with a particular focus on collecting the most important turbocharged cars.