Typical: you spend ages waiting for one legendary competition Porsche to go to auction, then three arrive at once.
That’s the situation at Gooding & Company’s Amelia Island sale next month, where three such cars will be vying for bidders’ attention – and wallets.
How special? We’re talking a 1979 Porsche 935, a 1987 Kremer Porsche 962C and a 1973 Porsche 911 Carrera 2.7 RS Lightweight. And if all three hit the top of their pre-sale estimates, they’ll make the auction house a tidy $5.45m – that’s £4.2m.
The car expected to achieve the highest value of the three is the 935 pictured above (and, indeed, in a video below).
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Porsche built just seven 935s for 1979 and this – chassis 930 990 0027 – was built to order for Los Angeles Times publisher Otis Chandler, finished in Vintage Racing Blue to match his Sunoco-liveried 917/30.
He raced it just the once, at the 1979 Los Angeles Times Grand Prix of Endurance at Riverside, and the 935 remained in his collection until 1993.
