This 1979 Porsche Turbo 930 Coupe is a documented California delivered car when new, rust free, and with desirable options including sunroof, Leather Sport Seats, Air Conditioning, electric passenger mirror, and leather interior. It's just been awakened from lengthy storage, and has it's original interior and paint. The engine and transmission fit within the correct range for a California delivered car and may be the original units. It runs and drives now, and it's electrically very good and operational. It can only be sold to an outside California Resident or Licensed auto dealer, we don't have a smog certificate for it.
The 1979 Model year is a desirable one for the Turbo Porsche line - last year for US delivery until 1986. ’79 was the final year for no Catalyst, and the second year for the 3.3 liter engine. It was stored for many years - the last sticker on the California license plate is from 1998 - and has just been carefully woken up, with clean gas, new alternator, new oil & filter, new Pirelli P Zero tires in the correct sizes, new fuel pumps (front & rear fuel pumps), fuel filter, some new oil lines, and new battery.
The whale tail , flared fenders and 16X8 rear Fuchs forged wheels give it a great look!
The lights work, including backup lights.
It's the original paint, but there are significant areas of paint distress. The panel gaps are excellent, and the doors, hood and decklid fit and shut as they should.
It is a fundamentally good car, that could benefit from further re-commissioning
It has the original window sticker and doorjamb stickers for California. The '79 Turbos did not use a catalytic converter, instead, they met the smog requirements by the use of an air pump to the exhaust port, EGR valve, vacuum controlled distributor and "Thermal Reactors" that heated up the exhaust for complete combustion. This car doesn't have its thermal reactors anymore, instead just standard exhaust pipes to the exhaust system mufflers. we'll see that in the undercarriage photos.
It has the factory sunroof, which works great! This was a supercar when new! It was one of the fastest production cars made! Porsche’s 930 chassis was the basis of the 1979 Le Mans winning Porsche 935! This car was right up there with Ferrari, and Lamborghini , yet with high quality German engineering and build quality!
This car survived, and is still solid, and now running, so the next owner can take it to whatever level he chooses.
It has the original interior, still in remarkably good shape, with factory equipped leather sport seats up front. Excellent original dash & instruments. No cracks in the dash or steering wheel. I found evidence of mice from the storage, which we’ve cleaned out, the rear package cushion shows some damage from that. All of the instruments work except for the oil level gauge, the odometer (stuck at 062,030) and clock. Between the console & dash you can see an aftermarket sound equalizer. The radio is a Blaupunkt, but doesn't look like the original Blaupunkt. Original owner's manual & aftermarket Alpine alarm booklet are included.
The engine and transmission may be the originals, the numbers fit within recognized correct ranges. However, Porsche will only give the original exact numbers if you send your car to a Porsche dealer, endure delay and expense for a "certification". That's for the next owner, if he chooses.
There were only approximately 1,669 Porsche 930 Turbo cars imported to the US in both 1978 and 1979, according to the Gabriel and Franz book "Porsche 911 turbo air-cooled years 1975 -1998" so it’s a rare and desirable car, worthy of being taken to the next level!
