1991 Porsche 928 S4 Auto

This car spent the first 6 months of its life as a demonstrator at JCT600 Leeds, where it was supplied new with a few special additions.

It came with GTS wheels, wing mirrors and steering wheel – options that cost £5,327 in 1991 – more than enough to buy a perfectly good family car at the time.

It was also supplied with a rare, manually operated, hinged rear wing, the purpose of which was to make access to the rear luggage bay (and the rear wiper) rather easier.

Its first owner kept the car for 24 years, with servicing and maintenance coming from main dealer Merlin Porsche (Chesterfield) for the first 9 years, and specialists the Meersbrook Motor Company and Porsche Strasse thereafter.

In 2015, with the mileage at a paltry 57,000, he sold the car to a personal friend. The car was used sparingly over the next few years and spent most of its time in dry storage.

Today, the car has only just broken the 60,000-mile mark.

Its third owner (the vendor), is in the classic car trade and spent £4,671 on repairs, servicing and maintenance in 2023.

At that time the car was the grateful beneficiary of a new air-con condenser and pump, together with a new cambelt, water pump and idlers.

It has completed fewer than 1,000 miles since then.

The car presents very well and starts, goes, handles and stops with all the over-engineered capability and competence you would want and expect from one of Zuffenhausen’s finest.

It is finished in ‘Guards Red’ with a ‘Light Grey’ soft-shell leather interior.

The bodywork is untroubled by any dinks, dents, warps or creases worthy of attention and the vibrant and shiny red paint has done a very good job of resisting the shade’s occasional tendency to fade.

The shut lines and panel gaps are excellent and the two big doors close with deeply satisfying Teutonic precision and crispness.

The GTS Cup alloys are in fine fettle and the matching Continental Sport Contact 2 tyres look to have a decent amount of tread left in them.

What did we find to complain about? Nothing important, that’s for sure, but we spotted a few stone chips around the front of the bonnet and the ‘nose’ of the car.

The rubber trim around the windows is cracked and perished in numerous places and there’s a short section missing from the driver’s door seal.

Beyond that, we noted that the bonnet and rear hatch struts need re-gassing, the doors don’t stay in the fully open position, and there’s some delamination along the nearside edge of the windscreen.

All lights, lenses, badging and other exterior fixtures and fittings appear to be in good condition.

The interior may be very much of its time, but its condition is far more a reflection of the car’s low mileage than its 34 years of life.

Like everything else on a 928, the interior is feels solid, high-quality, and ‘built to the hilt’.

The ‘Light Grey’ soft-shell leather upholstery has little more than a few light creases to show for its long service, and the only signs of wear on the front seats are a few cracks to the piping around the outer bolster on the driver’s seat backrest.

Being ‘Light Grey’ in hue, the front seats would no doubt thank their next owner for a good going over with some effective cleaning products.

The rear seats, unsurprisingly, look as if they’ve never played host to much more than the odd bag of shopping.

The carpets, which are so thick your ankles will think that your feet have been stolen, are decent, as are the mats, front and back.

The rear luggage bay is also good and appears to have all of its various shades, carpets, trays, etc, intact – which is not always the case with 928s.

The instruments, dials and controls all look good, and we’ve heard nothing to suggest that anything is currently not working - all electrics work as they should, as far as we’re aware.

We think the only exception may be the handbrake sensor, which seems inclined to believe that the handbrake is on, even when it clearly isn’t.

The original Blaupunkt ‘Symphony’ radio is fitted, and has been upgraded to a Bluetooth system.

The bonnet release lever in the footwell is broken and, although you can pull on the cable to release the bonnet, it’s something that will need fixing.

The engine bay is reassuringly clean and dry, with everything in what seems to be its right and proper place.

With barely 60,000 miles on the clock, it’s basically barely run-in.

The undersides of the car look sound, solid and as you would expect to find on a car that’s spent much of the last decade inside.

The car comes with a thick box-file full of invoices, bills and receipts going back through the years.

It would appear to have been looked-after by all the right people and with no corners cut or costs dodged.

It comes with its original book pack with handbook, stamped service book and a copy of the original purchase invoice and cost options.

The November 2023 invoice from marque specialist Loe Bank Motors attests to what was a pretty thorough recommissioning of the vehicle after its years in storage.

The car’s MoT is valid until 20/11/2025.

Built to engineering tolerances that were obsessive even by the decidedly OCD standards of Porsche’s Meister Technikers?

Tick.

Only three owners from new?

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Just 60,000 miles on the clock?

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Properly looked-after and curated throughout its life?

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What’s not to like?We are happy to offer this car for auction with an estimate in the range of £23,000 - £27,000.

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