1000 mile 78 930

sewell94 · 02-09-2007, 06:20 AM

I went out to dinner last night with a buddy for his birthday. His dad was telling me that he going to look at a 78 930 on sat. The car was owned by friend of his who had passed away, and his wife was looking to sell it. Its an all original ac kept 78 930 with only 1063 miles on it. Its been under a custom car over and is 100% perfect. The wife offered it to my buddys dad and he wants to buy it to drive it, i'm all about enjoying our cars and think that letting them sit is stupid, but this is different, there can't be that many 930's like this around, what do you guys think??? Whats something like this worth(to a collector)??

EarlyPorsche · 02-09-2007, 06:37 AM

100K

dentist90 · dentist90's Garage

Being the cynic I am, I wonder how and why someone would buy a turbo 29 years ago yet only take it out a few times in all those years??
Not to say it's not as advertised, but it sounds to good to be true.

As far as making it a driver again, I would expect just about every rubber seal in the engine and tranny to need replacing now. If a vehicle search checks out (eg, only one registered owner) I'm sure it's a top dollar car. Probably worth way more than it cost new.

sewell94 · 02-09-2007, 07:34 AM

My friends dad knows about the car w/o question. He worked for the guy when he bought it new. He talked about the whole why didn't he drive it kinda thing, and it was more of an accomplishment/bragging rights thing for him to have it. The guy owned one of the most well known vw shops in the country, he raced a bunch of different cars, and was a well known man in the racing scene in the 70's. My friends dad pit crewed for a bunch of of the 934 935 guys and really knows his porsche stuff. I really want to go and see the car with him on staurday but i was just in a bad car wreck and im stuck in a wheelchair so it'd be a real pain for me to drive 2 hrs to go with him. I've heard about this car before, stories from other friends/shop owners and was always thought of it as a "myth" or "to good to be true" but its real. I just think it would be a shame to see this car turned into a driver, i'm sure it'd take a ton of work to make happen.

JMatta · 02-09-2007, 08:08 AM

Museum piece...

Sorry to hear about your accident; must not have been a good one (if there is such a thing).

I used to get down to your area a couple times a year. Folks had a vacation condo in the area. Spent my days at Hutchinson Island beaches or Jupiter.

cak · 02-09-2007, 08:14 AM

Museum piece and/or disaster. Every seal and rubber piece is dried out and cracked ... or will be.

Great find for the concours set, but not something that anyone is going to (or should) drive soon...

Porsche_monkey · 02-09-2007, 09:09 AM

That will be a project, not a car you jump in and start driving. Pull the engine and re-do the seals and fuel/vacuum lines asap.

therotman · 02-09-2007, 10:18 AM

You could probably sell it to a collector and buy multiple low mileage 930's that you could drive around with the money.

kycarguy 935 · 02-09-2007, 10:21 AM

Here is a 78 930 on EBAY right now with 9,060 original miles with a Buy It Now for $42,995.

Ebay # 160081712540

RetroSC · 11:46 AM

9K miles and the goofballs repainted it! Sorry, but it's only original once. No need to worry about those ultra low mile's anymore, somebody can actually enjoy that one now. I bet that paint was salvageable though, and with only 9K that car would've brought some big money.

Sure looks nice!

Formerly Steve Wilkinson · 02-09-2007, 10:40 AM

When the 930 came out, I was the editor of Car and Driver, so an extremely wealthy acquaintance called me and asked my advice: did I think the Turbo would someday be such a collector's item that he should buy two and immediately put them in a warehouse as an investment? I said absolutely, though that really wasn't very good advice.

Wonder if he still has them? His name is Bob Englander, and he owns a company in Connecticut called Belvoir Publications (Aviation Consumer, etc.)

sewell94 · 02-09-2007, 11:38 AM

You can't aymore original than this car unlike the 9k mile one, I'm not even sure the oil has been changed. My sure my buddys dad would know that stuff. I would think the car's worth about 100k and hate to see it get driven,

Jmatta,
thanks for the kinda words, ya it was a "good" wreck, lets say semi 2 us 0, semi gets 2 because we were hit almost head on then , spun around and then ran over by the back wheels. Its was one of those wrecks where you say to yourself wow god or some outside force saved them.

jac1976 · 02-09-2007, 11:53 AM

"Hate to see it get driven???????????????????????"

Did it not leave the factory with wheels?
Help me!

dsmeyer · dsmeyer's Garage

Sell it to a collector for something over 100k like Richard Slone would do... www.sloancars.com
Then buy a 997 or a late '80s 930 or something in between if you just want a driver.

Macroni · Macroni's Garage

This car is worth serious money with the right buyer. Unfortunately, it will never be a driver to that person.

carrera1975 · 02-09-2007, 02:24 PM

he was scared *****less, and parked it....

Formerly Steve Wilkinson · 02-09-2007, 02:29 PM

Oh, come on. I think somebody who drives a 400-hp Escalade while talking on a cellphone can probably handle a little 260-hp nazi slot car even if it has a big, bad blower. We tend to make ourselves into heros...

carrera1975 · 02-09-2007, 02:46 PM

whooo' nellie, maybe in New York they drive like that, but here in cali we go 80, sippin starbucks....listening to News talk radio.

But Porsche put the "T" in trippin

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