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The Gold Metallic 1972 Porsche 911E Sunroof Coupe we featured at the end of October is back up for sale this time with a $127,995 Buy It Now price. When we featured it, bidding on the reserve auction reached a little above $100K so the asking price here may be a bit optimistic, but we’ll have to see if anyone can work out a deal for this 911 that is quite clearly from the ’70s.
Part of the allure of vehicle tuning is to create something that a particular manufacturer may have glossed over. Whether it was a particular body style that wasn’t offered with a certain type of engine, or perhaps a special livery never attempted, there a number of ways towards making that bespoke machine of your dreams. This 2002 you are seeing here has been breathed on heavily. It pays homage to the 2002 turbo, but has been beefed up with a 3.0 liter, twin-turbo inline-6 mated to a 5-speed manual gearbox. We’ve seen a few inline-6 swaps into 2002s before, but nothing quite as bonkers as this machine. Thanks to our friends at Classic Car Club Manhattan for the tip!
The 1972 Porsche 911E with a 911SC exterior and 3.2 Carrera heart is back up for auction after failing to meet its reserve the last time around. Bidding of the original auction stopped at $27,400 and this auction already sits at $30,000 so we are slowing moving up. As some noted in the comments, this car could make for an excellent foray into the world of air-cooled 911s without having to spend an insane amount of money. And it should make for some great driving!
Over the past couple of weeks I’ve gone through a run of interesting colors on the Porsche 911, or at least they’ve been interesting to me. We had a week of blues and a week of greens. Now we turn to…purple? Here we have a Royal Purple, also known as Lilac, 1972 Porsche 911T Targa, located in Ohio, with Tan interior and 72K miles on it. Unlike the blues and greens I don’t suspect that I’ll come across a large number of purple 911s for this week, but with this one we have an extremely rare example in, if my mind serves me correctly, one of the few non-metallic purple shades we will ever come across.
I have been reading over the past months how the market for long-hood Porsche 911s has begun to stagnate as buyers shift away from these early examples in favor of, predominantly, various iterations of the 911 Turbo. Those statements correlate well with where I’ve seen various auctions as bidding and asking prices appear to have reached a plateau with only the most exceptional and rare examples commanding any significant premium. While none of these early cars can be classified as inexpensive there at least now is an opportunity to exercise patience without concern that your patience might result in paying a much higher price down the road. Another possible advantage may reside with exactly a car like the one we see here, the 911E. As the mid-tier model of the 911 the E provided meaningful upgrades to interior comforts and engine performance over the entry-level 911T, including the use of mechanical fuel injection similar to that of the top-tier 911S, but without the significant increase in value we see with 911S. This particular example also comes in a very unique, and period-correct, color combination: a Gold Metallic 1972 Porsche 911E with Brown leatherette interior. Of the various years of long-hood production, many consider the 1972 to be the best given its unique use of an external oil filler. The purpose was to provide the car with better balance, but after one year it was moved back to its original location after confusion arose distinguishing it from the gas tank. We can hope current owners will suffer no such disorientation and then will be left with one of the more unique 911 models.
