Everyone’s heard the story of the 3-million-mile Volvo, but what about the 283,000-mile Porsche 911 Speedster?
It’s certainly a new one for us, but there’s one such machine currently for sale in the UK and, what’s more, it looks to be in remarkably good shape.
The 1989 Speedster is advertised on UK site Collecting Cars in an online auction that has 12 days left to run, and right now the highest bid is just £5000 – though it’s fair to say we don’t expect it to stay that low; these cars regularly change hands for more than £100k…
The 1989 Porsche 911 Speedster is a fairly uncommon sight: only 2104 were produced, and of those a mere 174 were in RHD guise. This is one of those 174, making it a rare beast among the air-cooled Porsche brigade.
Presented in Diamond Blue with a Cashmere interior, it was delivered to the UK in 1989 and was purchased by its second (and current) owner in 1992.
At that stage it had just 600 miles from new, but its new custodian had no intention of keeping it as a show pony and instead set about using it as his daily driver.
