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The Polar Silver 911 Turbo 3.6 we featured back in March is up for sale another reserve auction. Bidding sits at $175,500, which is right around where it was bid to on its last reserve auction. The reserve remains unmet so we’ll have to see if either the seller will lower his reserve or if another buyer is willing to pony up to steep asking price being sought here.
Edit 8/24/2017: A little over two years later, this RS has resurfaced on eBay with 70 more miles and about the same $400,000 asking price.
Another week, another wonderful 964 Carrera RS. This time, however, we’ve gone a little more aggressive in the color department with a Rubystone Red (Sternrubin) 1992 Porsche 911 Carrera RS with contrasting interior and just 19,919 miles on it. I recall that we featured a Rubystone 964 Turbo a while back and that 911 had a Grey interior that, frankly, was entirely unbefitting of the dynamism of the exterior. We have no such problem here as the black interior with purple and violet seat inserts provides the right balance of flash and subdued character that highlights, but doesn’t overshadow, that exterior. Inside or out, there should be no mistaking what this car is.
The Midnight Blue 1994 Porsche 911 RS America we featured in early March is back up for sale and again looks to be struggling to garner sufficient attention to meet the seller’s asking price. With one of the rarer color choices available on these cars and pretty reasonable mileage we’ll have to see if this one can finally find the right buyer.
I have always been drawn to the 911 Targa for its balance of open-top motoring with a fixed rear window and as such I’ve written up a wide variety from the air-cooled market. Yet, rarely do I come across and write about the 964 Targa. I’m not sure whether that’s a function of their relative rarity or simply a matter of happenstance, but without going back through the archives I think I’ve only written about one once, if at all. On the 964, the Targa formula remained unchanged from the design we had become familiar with since Porsche originally introduced the hard-window Targa in the late ’60s. This formula would change dramatically on the 993 before having a more intermittent presence within the 911 model range, with the original design finally returning on the 991 – though in a much more technological package. The 964 took the traditional Targa staples of a removable panel with a fixed roll-hoop and large rear window and integrated them into the newly designed body. The rest was pure 964 Carrera: a rear-mounted 3.6 liter flat-six mated to a 5-speed manual transmission delivering power either to the rear wheels or to all four wheels in the newly released Carrera 4. The example here comes from near the beginning of the 964’s run: a Guards Red 1990 Porsche 911 Carrera 2 Targa, located in Brooklyn, with 112,901 miles on it.
The very rare Polar Silver 1994 Porsche 911 Speedster we featured back in early April is back up for sale. The price has been reduced by $10K, but at $225,000 it’s still quite high. With only 5 examples produced in this color will someone be willing to take the plunge?
