Photo: Darin Schnabel/RM Sotheby's
For many of us, buying a car is more a necessity than anything else. And that means it's very hard to comprehend how someone can buy a car like this 1994 Porsche 911 Turbo S Flat Nose and keep it hidden away from sight, unused for the purposes it was made for.
The Porsche dates back to 1994, the last year of the 964 generation, and one of the last cars the Germans have made in this family with the single large turbocharger slapped over the engine.
And it's rare, too. Not only is it one of just 39 such cars to have been made that year for the American market, but it's believed to be one of just two to have been specced in Grand Prix White, but also sport the Porsche Exclusive Turbo S Flat Nose package.
The car was ordered like this and purchased by the California Blackhawk Collection, where it was kept, in an unused state, for 22 years. Then, in 2016, it entered another large Porsche garage, the White Collection, where it suffered the same fate.
The White Collection is selling in its entirety at the beginning of December, bringing to the market no less that 56 German-made sports and race cars, all of them with an exterior in white. On top of that, many have very low mileage as well.
This particular 911 reads just 39 miles (63 km) of use on the matching numbers 3.6-liter flat-six engine and five-speed transmission. That makes it according to the company tasked with selling it, RM Sotheby's, "one of the lowest-mileage, best-preserved examples of the coveted 911 Turbo S Flat-Nose in existence."
The car has been started and run to operating temperature on a monthly basis to keep it operational, but somehow I still see it as a waste of a perfectly fine Porsche. That's probably not what the owner feels, as the sum they expected to get for it is much larger than the car's MSRP, even if you take into account the over $60,000 in Flat Nose extras.
Among other things, those extras include an interior in Cashmere Beige leather and Rootwood treatments, 18-inch RS Cup wheels, and an electric sliding roof.
Somewhere between $1.5 million and $2 million is where the auction house expects the hammer to fall, for this factory-original and mostly unused Porsche. To make sure it reaches those sums, the owner is throwing in a lot of extras, including an air compressor, car cover, tool roll, original owner's books with pouch, original window sticker, and document binder.
The 1994 911 Turbo S is one of five Porsches in the White Collection to be estimated at around $2 million. We'll keep an eye out for it and return to the story once we learn how much it went for.
And it's rare, too. Not only is it one of just 39 such cars to have been made that year for the American market, but it's believed to be one of just two to have been specced in Grand Prix White, but also sport the Porsche Exclusive Turbo S Flat Nose package.
The car was ordered like this and purchased by the California Blackhawk Collection, where it was kept, in an unused state, for 22 years. Then, in 2016, it entered another large Porsche garage, the White Collection, where it suffered the same fate.
The White Collection is selling in its entirety at the beginning of December, bringing to the market no less that 56 German-made sports and race cars, all of them with an exterior in white. On top of that, many have very low mileage as well.
This particular 911 reads just 39 miles (63 km) of use on the matching numbers 3.6-liter flat-six engine and five-speed transmission. That makes it according to the company tasked with selling it, RM Sotheby's, "one of the lowest-mileage, best-preserved examples of the coveted 911 Turbo S Flat-Nose in existence."
The car has been started and run to operating temperature on a monthly basis to keep it operational, but somehow I still see it as a waste of a perfectly fine Porsche. That's probably not what the owner feels, as the sum they expected to get for it is much larger than the car's MSRP, even if you take into account the over $60,000 in Flat Nose extras.
Among other things, those extras include an interior in Cashmere Beige leather and Rootwood treatments, 18-inch RS Cup wheels, and an electric sliding roof.
Somewhere between $1.5 million and $2 million is where the auction house expects the hammer to fall, for this factory-original and mostly unused Porsche. To make sure it reaches those sums, the owner is throwing in a lot of extras, including an air compressor, car cover, tool roll, original owner's books with pouch, original window sticker, and document binder.
The 1994 911 Turbo S is one of five Porsches in the White Collection to be estimated at around $2 million. We'll keep an eye out for it and return to the story once we learn how much it went for.
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