This 1979 Porsche Turbo 930 Coupe is a documented California delivered car when new, rust free, and with desirable options including sunroof, 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 are likely to the 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.
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The 1979 Model year is a desirable one for the Turbo Porsche line – last year for US delivery until 1986, final year for no Catalyst, and 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 tires in the correct sizes, new fuel pumps (front & rear fuel pumps), fuel filter, some new oil lines, and new battery.
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The whale tail , flared fenders and 16X8 rear Fuchs forged wheels give it a great look!
1979 Porsche 930 Turbo for sale
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Good look at the rear section. All of the lights work, including backup lights, we’ll see that in the video.
It’s the original paint, but there are significant areas of paint distress, such as what we see on the decklid.
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The panel gaps are excellent, and the doors, hood and decklid fit and shut as they should.
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A fundamentally good car, that could benefit from further re-commissioning
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The original window sticker and doorjamb stickers for California. The California ’79 Turbos did not use a catalytic converter, instead, they met the smog requirments 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.
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The rear view of the Porsche Turbo is wonderful!
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And in profile!
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Factory sunroof, and it works great as we’ll see in the video! And we see more of the paint flaking. I’m always amazed when I find a car like this, a supercar when new, that someone didn’t take care of properly. when it was new, it was one of the fastest production cars made, up there with Ferrari, and Lamborghini , yet with high quality German engineering and build quality!
Fortunately, the car survived, and is still solid, and now operational, so the next owner can take it to whatever level he chooses.
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That’s the original interior, still in remarkably good shape, with leather sport seats up front.
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Amazingly good originals.
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Excellent original dash & instruments. No cracks in the dash or steering wheel, All of the instruments work except for the oil level gauge and clock. The Odometer is also not functional, it’s stopped at 062,030
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Nice doorpanels. Note the aftermarket speaker.
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Between the console & dash you can see an aftermarket sound equalizer. The radio is a Blaupunkt, but doesn’t look like the original Blaupunkt.
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Nice Steering wheel!
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Original owner’s manual & aftermarket Alpine alarm booklet.
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Another view of the sport seats
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Rear compartment with seat backs up – all original here!
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And with seats folded down. The car had some evidence of mice, so there is some damage at the bottom of the rear cushion, you can see in this picture.
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Excellent door openings, no sign of overspray or tape lines
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Good doorjambs
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No dash cracks
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3.3 Liter Turbo engine.
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Here’s the engine number. Fits right in the correct range for USA/California 930/63 engines as shown below in an independent serial number listing.
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Here’s the transmission number – 930/34 is the correct type of transmission for this car based on the Porsche spec sheet. 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.
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Here it is from underneath – Still has the smog pump and distribution tubes, but not the thermal reactors.
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Rust free original sheetmetal underneath!
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California!
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Big Porsche Turbo brakes with drilled rotors – descendants of the 917 Race Car brakes!