Did a quick search but did not see this article posted here. I apologize if I missed it.

The only Porsche on the list of the top 12 rarest cars in the world and #5 on the list at $3M.

http://www.goliath.com/auto/the-12-rarest-...?streamview=all

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I haven't seen it. Thanks for sharing. I can't believe George's 916 is worth 3 million.
I think he paid around $125k for it.

Speculator for sure, I can't see spending 550/904/906 money on a 916!
Maybe they thought $300k must have been $3m for a rare porsche

Yeh 3 million seems a bit steep


Even if it was 300k id say thats money not too well spent


Id rather buy a 6 pack of tequiza beer
And 300.... thousands dollar a night hookers but thats just me


Mean while ill be putting around in my 73 1.7


Happy 4th people

Anybody can throw out a price. its not real until the money changes hands.

(and even then, its not always real.)

Value aside, one of the greatest features of air cooled Porsches is the ability to modify and build the car you want. The 916's performance can easily be achieved by any 914 conversion and you can have fun without keeping a museum piece.

did you guys not see the line.....

It has sold for $3 million to private buyers in recent years.

money has changed hands according to the article. There's no speculating there...

Anyone actually seen this car ?

If someone gave me a 916, I would quickly sell it. I would rather have my 914.

Yeah, it's on the internet, so it must be true. I'm calling BS on $3 mil. I thought the article was sketchy overall. $1,000,000 for a '69 Camaro...c'mon.

............run VIN to see if it was one of Ferry's cars?

I agree. Just google 10 most expensive cars and you get a whole assortment of lists! This just happened to be one of many.

I cannot tell if it is 0017 or 0018 but 0018 was at the 50th anniversary of Porsche in Monterey 1998. Car was beautiful with a pumpkin leather interior

I went to an event at Jerry Woods Enterprises in Campbell, CA years ago, I could have sworn there was an off white 916 in the parking lot, they had a rope offed barricade around it if I remember correctly.

No idea if real or a damn good conversion (had steel top)

0019 is the white car and I don't believe it has ever left the UK

Hi,

it is the no. 17

See here for more info:
http://www.pyritz-classics.de/fahrzeuge/porsche-916-2/

That car is currently owned by a member of the German Porsche 914-6 Club.

I saw it at the Stuttgart Retro Classics Show this year.

Here you find some more pics:
http://veedubclub.blogspot.de/2014/03/retr...ics-part-2.html

thanks, I know I have seen one there, could have been another color, I just remember seeing roof and thinking how cool that was.

For the life of me I cannot remember the younger guys name from Smart Racing, I think he was one of the guys that started the 911SC Cup Series from about 10 year ago. I think he was there at the time.

Andy might have been there, I think we got to sit in a 962 and get a picture taken in it.

Looking at the pix of that blue car, it's interesting the front shock towers aren't painted black like all the OEM 914-6's I've ever seen.
Does AA have the silver one that originally went to Peter Gregg and Brumos?

Yes, the silver one AA has came from Brumos.

This is the 00018 car that lived in California for many years. It carried the CA blue plate of "916 S" and it was repainted at the factory to Duncan Blue early in it's life. It always had the Cork color interior.

I must have a 100 pictures of this car from various get togethers over the years and the car was gorgeous in person. It came up for sale a few years ago, advertised in Hemmings, and a friend and I checked it out. The owner wanted $350,000 for it back then and I heard it was sold and went to Austria from California. Somewhere on YouTube there is a video of it on the autobahn being driven hard.

My wife wouldn't agree to sell our house to buy it.

I should've got the Jerry Leonard 916 when it was $75k, and I was single

nope - as Kaeferfreund already wrote, it's #0017 ...

the video you're refering to was made from me, when I got the passenger seat at a test drive in Austria on 2007-06-22

that's me, next to #0018

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that's #0017 at the Retro Classics 2014 in Stuttgart:

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All I can say is WOW!

I mean, its cool but id rather have a lot of other things.

Cool car, but 3 million ... WOW!

That's why I didn't bite on the GL 916. In 20/20 hindsight, vintage Porsches are a better bet than the market.

My guess is that the person who wrote the article on the 12 most rare cars probably owns one of those 916's...nothing like pumping up your own net worth

Yes it's a different car for sure than 00018; the first picture in this thread appears lighter than the last picture of 00017. Plus the interior shows in the second picture.

I saw the Blue 916 years ago in Seattle at a gas station. The owner was nice and the car was beautiful.....

One of my close business clients (owns a 916) informed me that the 916 started its life in the factory as a 914-4 tub. Having converted my 4 cyl to 6 cyl in 1978, I'm good with that .
Marty

I seem to recall that all 914's began production on the same line in Osnabrueck, right? Then at some point the 914/6 (and presumably the 916) were peeled off and given specific 914/6 items like trunk floor stamps, VINs and routed to Zuffenhausen for completion.

Does your friend on the #11 916 (Matsuda)

I too looked over #0018 in Monterey back in 1998.
Spoke to the owner and at that time, car was in the Bay area and he wanted 25k for it then.
Its another "could have, should have moments "....just like Jerry Seinfeld GT that got away from me... oh well, that's life

Maybe not $3mil, but these are true $500k cars now.
Only a handful.
They rarely come up for sale, so the price is the moon.

BTW, a recent 69 Camaro ZL1 sold for just under $500k at an auction.
Not too shabby either.