Vehicle Description
1982 Porsche 911/930 Turbo Arizona Car - 16k Original Miles -
Guards Red - Tastefully Modified (Please note: If you happen to be
viewing this Porsche 930 on a website other than our Garage Kept
Motors site, it's possible that you've only seen some of our many
photographs of this vehicle due to website limitations. To be sure
you access all the more than 170 photographs, please go to our main
website: GarageKeptMotors.) � Its sheetmetal bulged like Arnold
Schwarzenegger's chest. Its engine had turbocharged lungs. It
accelerated as if there were a Saturn booster strapped to its
tail. It became the altar at which car nuts worshiped.... �€"Rich
Ceppos, Car and Driver � The car Mr. Ceppos so breathlessly
described above was the Porsche 930, available in the late
seventies, but withdrawn from the U.S. in 1980 due to its high
price and low sales volumes. From that point on, there would only
be RoW (or Rest of World, in other words, non-U.S. model) Porsche
930s, and you'd likely have to go to Europe to source a new one. As
it happened, Americans determined to find such a car, effectively
did just that and created the gray market. These were 930s bought
mostly in Europe, and then privately federalized to meet U.S.
emissions and safety regulations for import.��As it turned out,
they were the last of the true Porsche 930 cars since, when the
factory reintroduced the model to the U.S. market in 1986, it was
re-named the Porsche 911 Turbo. � The Porsche 930 offered here is a
RoW car that came into the country at some point courtesy of the
gray market. Euro-specific factory-applied stickers are still
present on the door jamb. As is often the case with gray-market
cars-all of which bypassed the Porsche dealer sales
network-documentation is thin. Given the car's remarkably low
mileage-just over 400 miles per year on average-it likely spent a
good number of its early days locked away in a private collection.
The first available Carfax record has the car in Arizona in 1993
showing just 5,400 miles at that point. Over the next 26 years, the
930 would spend time in New Jersey and Texas, and accumulate
another roughly 11,000 miles. This is certainly a very low-mileage
Porsche 930, but still a car that has been driven. � Outside, the
Guards red single-stage paint appears to be factory applied and
retains a deep gloss free of blemishes. Exterior modifications have
been few and tasteful, most noticeably the front valance
incorporating larger driving lights and increased venting to the
oil cooler reminiscent of the highly successful Porsche 935 race
cars; the three-piece wheels wearing colored Porsche crest center
caps and wider-than-stock, staggered-width Hankook tires; and
racing mirrors (similar to the later Porsche 993 models). The
260-horsepower, 3.3-liter flat-six engine has received both
cosmetic and performance upgrades including re-worked B&B
exhaust, an enlarged intercooler, and updated air conditioning. �
The car's undercarriage is clean and tidy; oil lines are properly
routed and free of damage or kinks. Red brake calipers are in
place, as are Bilstein yellow shocks. A strut brace has been
installed in the front trunk. � Inside, the car features
well-bolstered tan-leather sports seats (displaying slight patina
and wear, especially on the driver's seat bolster, but no damage),
rear jump seats (the left-side one featuring the script turbo logo
incorporated into the carpeting on its reverse side), power
sunroof, dark-brown dash (displaying some warping near the defrost
vents), tan-leather door trim, Momo steering wheel, Momo leather
shift knob for the 5-speed transmission, and light-tan carpeting.
An aftermarket Alpine audio head unit is in place (with its
amplifier located in the front trunk). Instrumentation exclusive to
the 930 model includes the 180-mph speedometer (the car's
factory-reported top speed was shown as 163 mph) and 10,000-rpm
tachometer with 7,000-rpm redline. Gauges all display clear glass
covers
