In 1986, the Porsche 959 was the world’s fastest street legal product car. Some 337 of these road-going monsters were built but not one of them was a factory-finished convertible. Regardless of what you may have heard or seen on forums, such a vehicle was never sanctioned by Porsche. There was a one-off “Speedster” built by Auto-Becker for the 1989 Frankfurt Motor Show but that’s about it.
So is this done and dusted? Of course not; this is the internet we’re talking about. 959 Speedsters are sighted by Porsche enthusiasts as much as Elvis Presley or the Loch Ness monster. If you believe what you’ve read, these things are everywhere. And I do mean everywhere, even in New Zealand.
So our seller throws in the usual platitudes we’ve come to expect from this sort of posting like, “This is one very rare and special car,” and that it was “professionally built”.
The conversion was completed in 2002, “in the USA” and the 959 Speedster features a fibreglass body, 1.8 L twin turbo and is right-hand-drive. It comes with a beige soft top and two tonneau covers in black and beige. The latter, “appears to fit but is not domed [sic]”, whatever that means.
And that’s about it, really. There’s documentation that comes with the car, but honestly we have no idea what it was before it became...this. And it can be all yours on eBay for the low, low price of US$33,000. Feel free to check our gallery and leave your piece in the comments section below.
By Tristan Hankins
