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.
It’s been with another Porsche collector for the last 15 years, during which time it has undergone a sympathetic restoration.
