Porsche 928, 1979
Porsche 928
Porsche 928•
•73 مشاهدة
Chassis No.: 9289201661
Registration: US Title
Location: Los Angeles, California
$14,300 USD | Sold
- 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. It's rolling on 15-inch phone dials and it's 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 man's 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 Walker’s 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 Porsche’s sophisticated V-8 tourer, this 928 is a great opportunity to acquaint oneself with, as Walker describes it, the thinking man’s Porsche.
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