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This Is Your Chance to Buy a Porsche 959 Prototype

Make no mistake about it - the Porsche 959 is hypercar genesis. The tech-laden engineering marvel from Germany set the benchmark for each and every car that can surpass the 200 mph mark. Only 337 units of the Porsche 959 were sold to the public and, to this day, these are highly sought-after machines. But then again, a 959 prototype is better.
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Helmuth Bott, the head of development who worked on the Porsche 959, took 29 chassis of the Porsche 930 to turn them into the 959 pre-production prototypes. Three categories of prototypes have been produced: F, N, and V. The V-series prototypes are the latest. These were used by Porsche for everything from media coverage to crash tests.

Cue chassis number 10067. Internally referred to as V1KOM and registered as BB-PW481, this Porsche 959 was built in 1985, a year before the automaker started production of the Porsche 959. This example of the breed is one of four surviving prototypes and one of the two street-legal prototypes. As is often the case with pre-production mules, early design units are often destroyed or scrapped at the end of the development process for an all-new model.

Happily, however, this one survived and it can be yours if your pockets are deep enough. During the development for the 959, Porsche engineers used #10067 for ABS and tire tests. As such, this mule hasn’t seen too much abuse throughout its career as a pre-production prototype. After development concluded, #10067 was sold to Tachio Saito, a professor that happened to be a close friend of Ferry Porsche. Better known as the founder of the Porsche Owners’ Club of Japan, Saito took delivery of his prototype after 16 months of restoration performed by Porsche themselves.

After Saito, this particular Porsche 959 unit changed owners at least five times until now. Eventually, the prototype came up for sale again via the Art & Revs automobile gallery. Besides its interesting history, this $1,450,000 Zuffenhausen unicorn shows only 400 kilometers (250 miles) on the clock and comes with the pre-production magnesium wheels. So, are you interested in making it your own?
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About the author: Mircea Panait
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After a 1:43 scale model of a Ferrari 250 GTO sparked Mircea's interest for cars when he was a kid, an early internship at Top Gear sealed his career path. He's most interested in muscle cars and American trucks, but he takes a passing interest in quirky kei cars as well.
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