1979 Porsche 928
For Auction
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Vehicle Specifications
- VIN9289201661
- Classic Car ID102735333
- Stock Number1405918
- CategoryImport Classics
- Body StyleN/A
- New/UsedUsed
- MileageN/A
- EngineN/A
Classic Car Overview
Offered Without Reserve $10,000 - $15,000 USD
- Forward-looking Porsche styling underpinned by sophisticated engineering
- Finished in white over a factory brown leather interior
- 4.5-liter water-cooled V-8 with a Weissach five-speed transaxle
- Sunroof-delete example riding on classic phone dial wheels
- Acquired by Magnus Walker in 2018
My white 1979 five-speed 928 is the second 928 I ever bought. Its rolling on 15-inch phone dials and its got a pretty cool chocolate leather interior. This is what I would call a great entry-level 928. Sunroof delete, manual five-speed. The grand touring car, the thinking mans car.
Magnus Walker
The first-ever production V-8 Porsche road car, the 928 was launched in Europe in 1977 and exported to the US the following year. The muscular, luxurious 928 was intended to replace the popular-yet-idiosyncratic 911, differentiating itself as a more mature and refined option. As if to underline the evolution of the marque, Porsche broke with its penchant for rear-engined, air-cooled engineering by endowing the 928 with a front-mounted, water-cooled 4.5-liter engine, capable of pulling the 928 to a top speed of 171 mph.
Magnus Walkers Porsche 928 was completed 1 January 1979, finished from the factory in a very period-appropriate combination of Cashmere Beige over a brown leather interior. Now wearing a white exterior, brown hides still wrap the seats and dashboard inside the cabin. Riding on set of phone-dial wheels, it is a sunroof-delete slicktop example, lending the car a cleaner look. In fact, build information on file includes a power passenger mirror as the sole factory option. Though buyers seeing a more relaxed experience could order their 928 with an automatic transmission, this chassis sends its V-8 power to the rear wheels via a five-speed manual gearbox.
Acquired by Magnus Walker in 2018, this 928 showed 95,798 miles at time of cataloguing. As an attainable example of Porsches sophisticated V-8 tourer, this 928 is a great opportunity to acquaint oneself with, as Walker describes it, the thinking mans Porsche. To view this car and others currently consigned to this auction, please visit the RM website at rmsothebys.com/auctions/mw26/.
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