By duPont REGISTRY –  November 06, 2026

Elferspot Spotlight: RUF SCR, RWB 964 and 991 GT3 RS

Three cars this week, and on paper they are all of different tastes. The first is a near-new RUF SCR that Alois Ruf delivered to its original owner in person. The second is a 964 that Akira Nakai reworked at RWB headquarters in 2025, with far more going on underneath than the bodywork lets on. The third is a 4,981-mile 991 GT3 RS carrying most of the options people actually shop for. This week's trio: one rear-engined formula, read three ways by RUF, RWB and Porsche itself. 2025 RUF SCR in Golden Classic GALLERY-EMBED Golden Classic is a quiet color for a car this technically serious, and we'd argue that's the smartest thing about it. This SCR was commissioned by its original owner, unveiled at the Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance and delivered there by Alois Ruf in person. It has covered 1,949 miles since. The Paint to Sample exterior sits over Charcoal leather with black and creme Pepita inserts and Golden stitching, and folding carbon-fiber RUF Lollipop seats share the cabin with a visible-carbon dashboard and doors. Silver lightweight wheels and silver RUF calipers over carbon-ceramic brakes keep the outside from tipping into showpiece territory. Don't let the familiar silhouette fool you. Underneath is RUF's own carbon-fiber monocoque with front and rear spaceframes and an integrated high-strength steel roll cage. The naturally aspirated 4.0-liter flat-six makes 510 HP at 8,270 rpm and sends it to the rear wheels through a six-speed manual and a limited-slip differential. With 1,250 kilograms to move, RUF quotes 3.4 seconds from 0 to 100 km/h and a 320 km/h top speed, just under 199 mph. The options list covers the sensible stuff too: a front-axle hydraulic lift, a fire extinguisher and magnetic number plates. Broad Arrow is asking $2,295,000. That's a serious number, and it's fair to ask what it gets you over ordering your own. Mostly, it buys time. If you aren't willing to wait years for a bespoke RUF build, here's a fully personal one that's barely through its break-in period. Just know what you're signing up for. Anyone hoping for a RUF that shouts across a parking lot should look elsewhere, because restraint is this car's whole personality. View Listing 1990 Porsche 911 Carrera 2 by RWB GALLERY-EMBED Ferrari Verde Abetone over Porsche Ascot Brown leather is an unusual place to start an RWB 964, and it's the first thing that caught our eye. The donor car is a Japanese-market, non-sunroof Carrera 2, and Akira Nakai converted it at RWB headquarters in 2025. JCARS in Canada is offering it for $285,000, with 75,000 miles showing on the odometer. RWB cars usually get talked about almost entirely in terms of Nakai's bodywork. This one deserves a different conversation, because the hardware reads like a 964 RS wish list. A 3.8-liter flat-six with sport camshafts, estimated at around 325 HP, runs through a shortened five-speed manual, a fresh Wavetrac limited-slip differential and a 964 Carrera RS lightweight clutch and flywheel. The engine mounts, short shifter, anti-roll bars and lightweight interior are RS-derived as well. Öhlins Road & Track suspension, 935-style spring plates and 993 Turbo "Big Red" brakes take care of the chassis, and the exhaust is a Cargraphic system with headers, heat exchangers, catalytic converters and valves feeding an Akrapovič GT3 RS titanium center muffler. Inside are genuine Recaro Pole Position seats, custom gauges and a Porsche Classic head unit. Porsche also removed and serviced the engine less than 2,000 kilometers ago, covering seals, the distributor belt, intake components, fluids and the A/C. A couple of honest notes before you get carried away. That 325 HP figure is an estimate, so ask JCARS what's behind it if the number matters to you. And RWB bodywork paired with this color combination is going to split a room. If you've written these cars off as showpieces, though, this is the one that might change your mind. View Listing 2016 Porsche 911 GT3 RS GALLERY-EMBED Not every Spotlight car needs a rare color to earn its place. This GT3 RS wears White over Black leather and Alcantara with GT Silver stitching, shows 4,981 miles and, according to the seller, has been dealer-serviced its entire life. Front paint-protection film is already on. Gas Motorcars in Marietta, Georgia, is asking $254,979. The option sheet is where it earns its keep. Porsche Ceramic Composite Brakes, front-axle lift, fixed-back carbon buckets, Sport Chrono, black LED headlights with PDLS and the extended-range 23.9-gallon tank are all here, which covers most of what buyers go looking for on a 991.1 RS. Racing Yellow seat belts and satin-black 20/21-inch GT3 RS wheels supply what little contrast there is. Behind you, the naturally aspirated 4.0-liter flat-six makes 500 HP at 8,250 rpm and keeps pulling to 8,800. This was also the car that brought rear-axle steering to the RS line, along with a magnesium roof and carbon fiber for the front lid and front fenders. Now the catch, and for some of you it's a dealbreaker. Porsche only offered this car with the seven-speed PDK, so if a third pedal is non-negotiable, keep scrolling. Everyone else gets a clean, properly optioned RS from just before turbo-era performance and more complicated aero changed what the later cars felt like. White over Black won't turn heads at a show. It doesn't need to. View Listing

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By duPont REGISTRY –  November 02, 2026

Elferspot Spotlight: A Weissach GT3 RS, a Rubystone 964 RS and the “Negroni”

This week's first pick from Elferspot is about as extreme as a current 911 gets: a 992 GT3 RS with the Weissach Package and close to $48,000 in factory options. The second is a Rubystone Red 964 Carrera RS, a Japanese-market car with 15,783 kilometers that heads to auction without reserve in January. And the third is the “Negroni,” a 1979 911 SC that Build2Sample turned into an S/T-inspired widebody, then backed up with a 61-page independent appraisal. The GT3 RS shows where Porsche's aero and chassis engineering has landed today, with nothing held back. The other two are lighter and more analogue, but they get there by very different routes: one was built that way by Porsche in 1992, the other was rebuilt that way by Build2Sample from the engine out. As always, we've kept the history to what helps explain each car. This week's trio: two RS cars 31 years apart and a restomod that brought its own paperwork. 2023 Porsche 911 GT3 RS With Weissach Package GALLERY-EMBED White is about the least unusual color you can order on a 992 GT3 RS, and on this car it works in its favor. Collective Auto Group is offering the 2023 car with 14,123 miles and roughly $48,000 in factory options. With nothing loud in the paint, your eye goes straight to the exposed carbon and all that aero hardware. Inside, there's Black Leather and Race-Tex with deviated red stitching, and you sit in carbon bucket seats. The $33,520 Weissach Package makes up most of the option spend. Past that, the spec stays on task: the extended-range fuel tank, black PDLS headlights, illuminated carbon-fiber door sills, a leather-covered steering column, black door pulls and a Race-Tex center console. You won't find comfort extras here. Somebody ordered this car around the RS hardware, which is exactly how we'd do it. The naturally aspirated 4.0-liter flat-six makes 525 PS and sends it to the rear wheels through PDK. Active aerodynamics, a centrally mounted radiator and DRS combine for up to 860 kilograms of downforce at 285 km/h, about 177 mph, and you can adjust damping, differential and traction settings right from the steering wheel. Collectors hunting delivery-mile cars should know going in that 14,123 miles puts this one outside that club. If you actually plan to drive your RS, that's the appeal: a properly specified car you won't feel guilty adding miles to. View Listing 1992 Porsche 911 Carrera RS in Rubystone Red GALLERY-EMBED Rubystone Red is enough on its own to make a 964 Carrera RS stand out. This Japanese-market car adds just 15,783 kilometers, which is under 10,000 miles, and a documented history that runs back to its first owner. It left the factory on April 2, 1992, in Rubystone with the Violet, Rubystone and Fraise seat centers that give the cabin its look. RM Sotheby's will offer it without reserve from The Boeckmann Collection on January 28, 2027, with an estimate of $450,000 to $500,000. The Japanese service booklet logs routine maintenance from 1992 through 1996, with the last early entry at 9,990 kilometers. The car stayed in Japan until it came to the U.S. in December 2019, then joined The Boeckmann Collection in November 2022, and both the booklet and the Japanese-language owner's manual are still with it. According to RM Sotheby's, 235 of the 1,987 Carrera RS cars built for the 1992 model year left the factory in Rubystone Red. If you're bidding, it's worth asking what paperwork covers the years after 1996, when the last 5,800 or so kilometers were added. The 964 RS brought the Rennsport badge back to a road-going 911 after a long absence. Porsche started with the rear-drive Carrera 2 and took out weight wherever it could, with thinner glass, an aluminum front lid and a stripped interior, to get down to roughly 1,220 kilograms. The 3.6-liter flat-six was tuned to 260 PS and paired with a five-speed manual and a limited-slip differential, and the suspension was stiffened to suit. Low-mileage RS cars already sit in serious collector territory, but Rubystone paint and early Japanese history push this one further. With no reserve, wherever the hammer falls should be a useful read on the market. View Listing 1979 Porsche 911 SC “Negroni” by Build2Sample GALLERY-EMBED You won't mistake the “Negroni” for any other restomod. Polyantha Red paint, an S/T-inspired wide body and a brown leather cabin see to that. Build2Sample built the 1979 911 SC around a DP-Motorsport CWB conversion, widening the front and rear while keeping the look deliberately period, and trimmed the inside in bespoke two-tone leather with red details and a Porsche California wooden steering wheel and gear knob. It's offered privately in Germany with 15,000 kilometers showing, at EUR 240,000. The work goes a lot deeper than the skin. Build2Sample took the original 3.0-liter flat-six apart and rebuilt it, including the cylinder heads, intake and exhaust passages and ignition, then added Weber carburetors and an Eisenmann sports exhaust for a documented 180 PS. If you shop restomods by horsepower, that figure won't wow you. The five-speed manual was refurbished and given a short-shift conversion, and the chassis got Bilstein dampers, rebuilt suspension components and an overhauled braking system. EUR 240,000 is a lot of money for an SC, and you're paying for the build rather than the car underneath it. That's why the paperwork matters so much. Automotive expert Rainer Wilming completed a 61-page appraisal in June 2024 and gave the car an overall condition grade of 1, with excellent marks for the body, paint, underbody and mechanicals. A restomod has no factory rarity to lean on, so it all comes down to execution, and this one arrives with an independent answer on that question. View Listing

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By duPont REGISTRY –  October 23, 2026

Elferspot Spotlight: 996 GT3 Clubsport, 959 Komfort and Carrera 3.0 Backdate

This week’s Elferspot selection leans hard toward cars you’d actually want to drive. There’s a one-owner 996.2 GT3 Clubsport that has just been through a long list of Porsche Centre maintenance, a 959 Komfort showing about 13,000 kilometers after a mechanical refresh by Bruce Canepa, and a Signal Yellow Carrera 3.0 backdate whose engine and drivetrain go well past what the bodywork suggests. The common thread is the recent work. A badge tells you what a car was when it left the factory. The service history, the specialist work and the dyno sheet tell you what it is today, and all three of these cars have plenty to say. 2004 Porsche 911 GT3 Clubsport in Carrara White GALLERY-EMBED You won’t find one spectacular option on this GT3. The appeal is in how much lines up at once. It’s a 2004 Clubsport in Carrara White over black fabric with a single ownership entry, no accident history and 54,256 kilometers on the clock, and it pairs the six-speed manual and rear-wheel drive with PCCB. Porsche sharpened the GT3 considerably for the 996.2. For 2003, output rose to 381 PS, the rev limit went to 8,200 rpm, and PCCB became available on the GT3 for the first time. The Clubsport package then added a bolt-in roll cage and further safety equipment, which draws a direct line from this road car to Porsche’s GT3 competition program. The maintenance is what makes this one ready to use. Porsche Centre Vaughan lists the 90,000-kilometer service, new ignition coils, transmission maintenance, front inner tie rods, a four-wheel alignment, new tires and fresh PCCB pads. If I were buying a 996 GT3 to drive, that’s the kind of list I’d want to see. A Manthey short shifter has been fitted, and the car currently runs an aftermarket exhaust, but the original system is included for anyone who wants to return it to stock. Porsche Centre Vaughan in Ontario is asking USD 142,900. View Listing 1987 Porsche 959 Komfort With Recent Canepa Work GALLERY-EMBED Every 959 is rare, and Porsche built just 292 series-production examples. What sets this one apart is roughly 13,000 kilometers and a recent mechanical refresh by Bruce Canepa that ran past USD 95,000. It’s a matching-numbers, accident-free Komfort in Silver Metallic 980 over Dark Grey Metallic leather, with the 959’s characteristic tri-color seat inserts. According to the listing, the car was delivered new to Japan and came into the United States in 2003 under the federal “Show or Display” exemption. Canepa’s work in late 2024 included the installation of manually adjustable coilover suspension. That’s worth a pause, since the 959’s adjustable suspension was part of what put it so far ahead of its time. The good news is that every original component removed during the work comes with the car, so the next owner gets to decide. The rest of the specification still explains why Porsche treated the 959 as a rolling development program. Its 2.85-liter M959/50 flat-six uses four-valve cylinder heads and sequential twin turbochargers to make 450 PS, which goes through a six-speed manual and Porsche’s electronically controlled PSK all-wheel-drive system. ABS and extensive use of lightweight materials put it years ahead of most road cars of its day. For me, though, the Canepa work is the real hook. It separates this example from a 959 that has spent decades sitting in a collection. Hatch Motors is asking USD 2,600,000. View Listing 1977 Porsche 911 Carrera 3.0 Backdate With a Rusnak-Built Engine GALLERY-EMBED Signal Yellow and a ducktail do most of the talking from across the lot. Get closer, though, and this 1977 Carrera 3.0 backdate has a lot more going on than its RS-inspired looks let on. The car was originally Light Yellow and has been refinished in Signal Yellow, with a steel long hood, early lighting and bodywork built around its original Carrera 3.0 rear flares. The engine is the real story. Rusnak Air-Cooled built the replacement 3.0-liter 930/10 flat-six in 2018 and 2019, with Weber 46 IDA carburetors, custom camshafts, 9.5:1 CP pistons and MSD ignition. On the dyno it made a documented 221 hp and 199 lb-ft. Behind it sits a 915 five-speed manual with an OS Giken limited-slip differential and a Sachs clutch, and stainless headers feed a Dansk sport muffler. Green Bilstein dampers, rebuilt front brakes and staggered Fuchs take care of the rest. Inside, the rear seats are gone, and fixed-back buckets, an early-style dashboard, an RSR steering wheel, silver-button instruments and Sportex rally timers set the tone. The paperwork is strong, with a Porsche Production Specifications certificate, extensive service records, the dyno sheet and 2026 compression-test results. Go in clear-eyed on one point, though. Total mileage is unknown, the odometer shows around 1,300 miles and the title carries a non-actual odometer notation. This is a developed driver’s car rather than a factory-original collector piece, and judged on those terms, it’s a strong one. Pinnacle Motorgroup in College Station, Texas, is asking USD 157,500. View Listing

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By Edward Jones –  October 19, 2026

Elferspot Spotlight: Boxster 25 Years, 993 Turbo and 356 Carrera GT

The range on Elferspot is exceptionally broad this week. At the accessible end, there’s a Boxster 25 Years with a manual gearbox and just 6,699 miles. At the other sits a 1959 356 A Carrera GT, a road-registerable competition car from the years when Porsche was still working out what a GT car should be. In between is a Glacier White 993 Turbo carrying the factory upgrade to 430 PS. As usual, we’ve kept the history to what explains each car. The interesting part is the specification of the individual example, and all three have one worth talking about. 2021 Porsche 718 Boxster 25 Years With a Six-Speed Manual GALLERY-EMBED If you remember how Porsche presented the Boxster 25 Years at launch, this one will look familiar. It wears the anniversary model’s signature combination of GT Silver Metallic paint, Bordeaux Red leather, a matching red fabric roof and Neodyme-colored exterior details. Those colors deliberately reference the 1993 Boxster concept, so the car reads as a 25 Years from across a parking lot without needing an unusual Paint to Sample choice. The part enthusiasts will care about most is the gearbox. This example has the six-speed manual rather than PDK. Because the 25 Years was based on the 718 Boxster GTS 4.0, the manual is paired with the naturally aspirated 4.0-liter flat-six, rated at 394 hp in US specification and driving the rear wheels. PASM Sport suspension and Porsche Torque Vectoring with a mechanical limited-slip differential were standard. Porsche built 1,250 of these worldwide, and a manual car is the version I’d want. The options lean toward grand touring. The Premium Package brings ventilated seats, BOSE Surround Sound, Porsche Entry & Drive, Lane Change Assist and the Light Design Package, and the car also has power-folding mirrors, Power Steering Plus and body-colored supplemental safety bars. Front paint-protection film is already on. As for the odometer, 6,699 miles is low enough to matter to a collector but not so low that you’d feel guilty adding a few more. West Coast Exotic Cars in Murrieta, California, is asking USD 124,990. View Listing 1997 Porsche 911 Turbo WLS1 in Glacier White GALLERY-EMBED Glacier White over black leather is about as understated as a 993 Turbo gets, and at 14,732 miles, this one is unusually clean before you even reach the important line on the spec sheet. That line reads 430 PS. It’s Porsche’s factory WLS1 power upgrade, and it’s what separates this car from an already special group. The 993 Turbo brought two major changes to the Turbo line at once: twin turbochargers and permanent all-wheel drive. Porsche initially rated the 3.6-liter flat-six at 408 PS, then began offering a factory performance upgrade to 430 PS from the 1996 model year. Those extra 22 PS mattered at the top end. In period, the WLS Turbo was even faster flat out than the contemporary 430-PS GT2, with Porsche quoting 297 km/h, or about 185 mph. Everything else is classic 993 Turbo, including the six-speed manual and all-wheel drive. A standard car is already one of the defining Porsches of the final air-cooled generation. The factory upgrade narrows the field considerably, and the color and mileage make this a car for the collector who prefers quiet. Ryan Friedman Motor Cars in Glen Cove, New York, has it listed with price on application, so you’ll need to make a call. View Listing 1959 Porsche 356 A Carrera GT in Ruby Red GALLERY-EMBED Ruby Red over black sounds almost conventional for a 356. Then you get to the aluminum panels and the four-cam engine. This 1959 356 A Carrera GT was delivered new in Europe and is presented in its original Ruby Red 5702/Reutter 702 color configuration, and its Kardex file comes with the car. Lightness was the whole idea. Porsche used aluminum for the doors, front hood and engine lid, fitted lightweight alloy wheels and Perspex windows, and swapped the usual window mechanisms for simple leather straps. Bucket seats and thin felt carpeting followed the same thinking, and the dealer states that the Carrera GT was roughly 200 pounds lighter than the GS. For 1959, it also received an enlarged version of Ernst Fuhrmann’s four-cam flat-four, now 1,587 cc and good for roughly 115 to 120 hp depending on which period figure you go by. The model kept its Carrera GS lineage in the name even after the engine grew past the original 1.5 liters. What strikes me is how familiar the formula feels. Porsche sold the Carrera GT as a road-registerable competition car alongside the more comfortable Carrera de Luxe, and anyone who has followed the GT3 and GT3 RS will recognize the thinking. Porsche was working it out decades before either existed. The seller says just 31 Carrera GTs were produced. We’ll leave that figure with them, but this car’s rarity hardly needs help. Animoya Garage in Pontiac, Michigan, is asking USD 750,000. View Listing

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By duPont REGISTRY –  October 09, 2026

Elferspot Spotlight: GT2 RS, IROC RSR and Sport Classic

This week's first highlight from Elferspot is a 700-hp GT2 RS ordered in a Lamborghini color, then finished with an almost obsessive amount of matching detail inside. The second is a 1974 IROC RSR that won both races it ever started in the series, first with George Follmer and then with Mark Donohue, before Al Holbert took it on to win again. And the third is a 992 Sport Classic in Paint to Sample Auratium Green, which might be the most interesting way we've seen anyone spec Porsche's rear-drive, manual, twin-turbo oddity. As always, we've kept the history to what matters for each car. This week's trio: three definitions of special, told through paint, provenance and the option list. 2018 Porsche 911 GT2 RS in Azzurro Thetys Metallic GALLERY-EMBED Azzurro Thetys Metallic comes from Lamborghini's palette, not Porsche's, and that alone sets this GT2 RS apart from the many low-mileage examples already tucked away in collections. It's a Paint to Sample car with 1,783 miles, and the first owner clearly didn't stop at the paint. The Weissach Package magnesium wheels have their outer rims finished in the body color. The same blue turns up again on the air-vent slats and even the key fob. Black leather and Alcantara are stitched in Platinum Grey across the seats, steering wheel, dash and door panels, with yellow picking out the headrest embroidery, the steering-wheel marker and the lightweight door pulls. The illuminated door sills carry the 6:47.3 Nürburgring lap time, in case anyone forgets what this car was built to do. Underneath all that detail is the familiar recipe: a 3.8-liter twin-turbo flat-six making 700 hp, a seven-speed PDK and rear-wheel drive, with the listing describing the drivetrain as matching numbers. Front-axle lift, BOSE Surround Sound and the Light Design Package take a little of the edge off daily use, and the nose is protected with PPF. Here's the honest bit. A low-mileage GT2 RS isn't hard to find anymore, and plenty of them have covered fewer miles than this one. What you won't easily find is one where the color runs through the whole car instead of stopping at the bodywork. Azzurro Thetys on a 911 is a bold call and won't be for everyone, but nobody is mistaking this one for another GT2 RS. View Listing 1974 Porsche 911 Carrera RSR 3.0 IROC, chassis 0124 GALLERY-EMBED Roger Penske's first International Race of Champions put twelve of the world's best drivers into identical Porsches, told apart only by their colors so the crowd and the TV audience could follow along. Porsche built fifteen RSRs for it: twelve to race and three spares. Chassis 9114600124, the black car, started out as one of those spares. Damage from the opening race at Riverside put it on the grid for Race Two, where George Follmer started ninth and won. The next day Mark Donohue took it from pole and won again. Two starts, two wins, which is why you'll often hear 0124 called the most successful IROC RSR of the lot. Al Holbert bought it after the Daytona finale and raced it through 1974, winning at Road Atlanta, Lime Rock and Mid-Ohio and finishing second overall at Daytona later that year. Then a testing accident in December did serious damage. Holbert moved the usable mechanical parts into another shell for his 1975 season, and what was left of 0124 went into storage for decades. That last part matters, so it's worth being clear about. In 2008 a German collector bought the remains along with the documentation and the rights to the serial number, and used them as the basis for a full restoration. What's on offer is a car rebuilt from damaged original remains, not a preserved survivor, and the parts Holbert salvaged went elsewhere. The seller says there are no competing claims to the 0124 identity, and it's that unbroken thread of chassis, serial number and paperwork that lets you follow the story at all. Recently serviced by Retro Sport in Richmond, California, it wears new Michelin TB15s and is described as fully streetable, with a 330-hp 3.0-liter flat-six and a manual gearbox. An onboard fire system is already fitted if you'd rather take it back where it belongs. There's a video on this one, too, and it's worth a few minutes. View Listing 2023 Porsche 911 Sport Classic in Auratium Green GALLERY-EMBED The 992 Sport Classic is one of the stranger things Porsche has built lately, and we mean that as a compliment. It borrows the Turbo's wide body and 3.7-liter twin-turbo flat-six, sends 550 PS (about 543 hp) only to the rear wheels, and makes you shift it yourself through a seven-speed manual. Just 1,250 were built. PCCB, rear-axle steering, PDCC and Sport Chrono all came standard, and the fixed ducktail points straight back at the Carrera RS 2.7. Most of them wear Sport Grey with the double stripes, which is a big part of the appeal. It's also why so many of them look alike. This one went another way. Paint to Sample Auratium Green sits over the Heritage Design Classic Black interior with Pepita seat centers, and since Porsche didn't offer the double stripes with PTS paint, number 21 side graphics do some of that period work instead. We'll admit the combination works better than we expected. The green leans vintage without sliding into costume. The first owner also ticked a long list of comfort and tech boxes, from Burmester High-End Surround Sound and Night Vision Assist to Exclusive Design taillights, lightweight noise-insulated glass and Power Steering Plus, with leather carried onto the trim inlays and inner door sills. It has 3,028 miles and full-body PPF. At USD 719,990 you're paying well beyond the original sticker, and some of that premium is the color. If the usual grey Sport Classic leaves you a little cold, though, this is the one to look at. View Listing

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By duPont REGISTRY –  October 02, 2026

1. Elferspot Spotlight: A 996 Anniversary, a MIZWA 993 and an Olive Spyder RS

This week was different for our Elferspot spotlights, and frankly more fun. The three cars picked earn their spot through how they were ordered and what has happened to them since, which means each one rewards the buyer who actually reads the details. We start with a 996 40th Anniversary car carrying a thick service file and a title history that deserves a straight conversation. Then it's back to the air-cooled era for a 993 Carrera S that Porsche Exclusive built for its Japanese importer, and forward again to a one-owner Spyder RS in a Paint to Sample green that may be the only one of its kind in the US. Asking prices run from roughly $60,000 to $285,000. At both ends, the lesson holds: on a Porsche, the option codes and the paper trail tell you more than the badge. 2004 Porsche 911 Carrera 40th Anniversary Edition GALLERY-EMBED Porsche built 1,963 of these to mark the 911's 1963 debut, and the Anniversary package was more than badges and trim. Every car got the X51 Powerkit, lifting the 3.6-liter flat-six from 320 to 345 PS (340 hp), along with a limited-slip differential, sport suspension and a Turbo-style front end. This one wears the model's signature GT Silver Metallic over Natural Grey leather, with the six-speed manual and 60,052 miles. The file is what caught our eye. CARFAX logs 28 service records, and PA Euros fitted a new clutch and flywheel in 2024, alongside timing-chain tensioner seals, an A/C compressor, a power-steering line and a recent brake-fluid flush. Plenty of 996s at this money are coasting on their badge. This one has had the bills paid. Now the part PA Euros, to its credit, puts right up front. Porsche bought this car back in October 2004 over wiring-harness concerns, and every title since has carried a Manufacturer Buyback or Lemon brand. CARFAX otherwise reports no accidents, structural damage, airbag deployment or odometer issues, and two decades of regular servicing is reassuring. It also shows 11 previous owners, which is a lot of hands for 60,000 miles. Neither point kills the car, but both will follow it at resale, so I'd ask for whatever paperwork exists on the original repair. And since this is an M96-engined 996, I'd ask about the IMS bearing too; the service list doesn't mention it. Get good answers, and you're looking at a rarer, quicker 996 with a lot of the expensive work already done. View Listing 1997 Porsche 911 Carrera S (993) GALLERY-EMBED Harper Porsche in Knoxville, Tennessee, sourced this one off-market from Austria, but its story starts in Japan. MIZWA, Porsche's importer there at the time, commissioned a small run of 993s through Porsche Exclusive, and this silver-over-black coupe is one of them. The option sheet reads like the list most 993 shoppers carry around in their heads: slick top (no sunroof, so a little less weight and a little more headroom), hard-back sport seats, the factory Aerokit, sport exhaust, sport suspension, a limited-slip differential, red calipers and Classic wheels. Finding a couple of those on one car is normal. Finding all of them is not. After its early years in Japan, the car spent most of its life with an enthusiast owner in Austria, and today it's a matching-numbers, two-owner example showing 107,050 km, or about 66,500 miles. The Carrera S arrived in 1997 with the wider rear bodywork of the Turbo and Carrera 4S, but kept rear-wheel drive and the 285-PS (282-hp) Varioram 3.6 with a six-speed manual. Here, the Aerokit and sport chassis sharpen that formula without dragging it into RS territory, which is exactly the balance a lot of air-cooled buyers are after. To be straight about it, $285,000 is serious money for a Carrera S that isn't a low-mileage car. What you're paying for is the combination, the Exclusive provenance and a car Harper's Classic team has already been through extensively. If you'd rather buy a finished car than spend two years hunting options one at a time, this is about as complete as a 993 Carrera S gets. View Listing 2025 Porsche 718 Spyder RS GALLERY-EMBED Spyder RSs tend to turn up in silver, gray or white. This one was ordered in Paint to Sample Olive Green, and the seller believes it's the only US-market Spyder RS in the color. It has one owner, 1,500 miles, a clean accident history, matching numbers and full paint protection film, and it's offered privately in Los Angeles. The spec under the paint is just as considered. There's the Weissach Package, PCCB, front-axle lift and the 20-inch forged magnesium wheels, which Porsche says save almost 10 kg (about 22 lb) over the standard forged aluminum set. Inside, 918-style carbon buckets in black leather and Race-Tex carry extended yellow deviated stitching across the seats, wheel, dash, console, gear-lever boot and door panels. Racing Yellow belts and door pulls and a yellow 12 o'clock marker on the wheel finish the job. It's restrained from 20 feet away and full of detail up close, which is the best kind of PTS car. Behind you sits the GT department's naturally aspirated 4.0-liter flat-six, good for 500 PS (493 hp) and driving the rear wheels through a seven-speed PDK. There's no manual on a Spyder RS, which will bother a few purists and nobody who has heard this engine near the top of its range. Speaking of which, the owner, who kept the car at Concours Collection Storage in Los Angeles and washed it by hand, reports that it has never seen more than 7,000 rpm. Redline is 9,000. So the next owner gets a properly run-in engine with its best 2,000 rpm still waiting, which might be the most appealing line in the whole listing. At $244,000, you're paying for a nearly new car in a specification that would be hard to replicate. View Listing

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By duPont REGISTRY –  September 25, 2026

Elferspot Spotlight: A Certified Carrera RS 2.7, 993 GT2 and a GT2 RS Weissach

Every so often the listings line up and tell a story without much help from us. This week it's the story of two badges. RS first went on a 911 for 1973, on a lighter, sharper car Porsche built so it could go racing. GT2 arrived in the mid-1990s on a stripped, rear-drive 993 Turbo built for exactly the same reason. By 2018, Porsche had put both names on one car. All three are on Elferspot right now, and all three sit at the far end of the market, where the car is only part of what you're paying for. The rest is paperwork. These listings come with very different amounts of it, from a Porsche Classic certificate issued this summer to a detailed spec sheet and not much else, so we've been straight about where each one stands. The first 911 RS, the first GT2 and the car that finally wore both badges. 1973 Porsche 911 Carrera RS 2.7 Touring GALLERY-EMBED Porsche needed 500 of these to homologate the 911 for competition, and buyers had other ideas. Demand pushed production to 1,580 cars, most of them in M472 Touring trim, which kept the RS running gear but gave back a properly finished road-car interior. The formula was simple enough: a 210 PS Type 911/83 flat-six, less weight, wider rear arches and that ducktail. Chassis 9113601491 was built on June 14, 1973, late in the run, in Signal Yellow over black leatherette. It keeps its matching-numbers engine and Type 915/08 five-speed, and the factory equipment includes Recaro sport seats on both sides, headrests and H3 auxiliary lamps. What really makes this car is the paperwork Porsche produced for it in July. An authorized Porsche Classic Partner in Japan, where the car sits now, inspected it and issued a Technical Certificate confirming the chassis, engine and transmission numbers, the Signal Yellow body and roof, the interior and the Touring specification. The body showed no visible damage, overall condition was rated excellent, and every mechanical area inspected passed without anything flagged for corrective work. For a 2.7 RS changing hands across borders, that carries more weight than any amount of seller enthusiasm. You aren't taking anyone's word for the numbers, because Porsche checked them a couple of months ago. A certificate tells you what a car is rather than where it has been, though, so the ownership story is still the conversation to have. And if you're buying from the US, budget for getting it home from Japan. View Listing 1996 Porsche 911 GT2 GALLERY-EMBED Porsche named the GT2 after the racing class it was built for, and the road car made very little effort to hide it. Starting from the 993 Turbo, Porsche deleted the all-wheel drive and cut around 205 kg (452 lb) in total, then added bolt-on arch extensions, a large fixed wing and a much harder chassis setup. It weighed 1,295 kg, about 2,855 lb, with 430 PS (424 hp) from the twin-turbo 3.6 going to the rear wheels alone through a six-speed manual. Porsche built 172 of these first-series road cars, followed later by just 21 with 450 PS. This 1996 car is one of the 430 PS originals, finished in blue with a two-tone black and blue leather interior and showing 55,860 km, roughly 34,700 miles. That's real use by GT2 standards, and personally I'd rather see one of these driven than stored. At USD 2,399,995, though, the badge only gets you so far. With 172 cars in the series, each one gets priced on its own history, originality and specification, and the listing doesn't go deep on any of that yet. Graham Rahal Performance is the place to ask, and the answers will decide whether this is simply a rare GT2 or an exceptional one. View Listing 2018 Porsche 911 GT2 RS Weissach GALLERY-EMBED Two decades on, the badges finally met. The 991 GT2 RS was the most powerful road-going 911 Porsche had built when it arrived: a 3.8-liter twin-turbo flat-six with 700 hp, sent to the rear wheels through a seven-speed PDK, with rear-axle steering and ceramic brakes as standard. The optional Weissach Package on this car is worth having for more than the look. Carbon roof, anti-roll bars and coupling rods, magnesium wheels and extra titanium hardware take off roughly 30 kg (66 lb). On paper this one is easy to like. One owner, 4,391 miles, carbon bucket seats and front-axle lift, with a red and black cabin that gives the car far more personality than the black paint does. West Coast Exotic Cars in Murrieta, California, is asking USD 729,990. The caveat runs opposite to the Carrera's here. Specification is covered in detail, chronology much less so, and the listing doesn't publish service records, accident or paint status, the original delivery market or an option-code sheet. That's not unusual for a dealer listing, but it's what you'd want in hand before committing at this level. Very low use over eight years also means tires, fluids and anything rubber deserve a close look, whatever the odometer says. View Listing

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By duPont REGISTRY –  September 18, 2026

Elferspot Spotlight: A Mid-Engined RUF, a Manual Anniversary 911 and Workshop 5001's First Car

Most Porsche shopping happens inside a fairly narrow band. You pick a model, settle on a year, sort by mileage, and go. What makes browsing Elferspot worth the time is everything sitting outside that pattern, the cars that only really make sense once somebody explains them to you. This trio needs the explanation. One is a mid-engined RUF wearing a finish that changes character depending on where you stand. One is a numbered factory special with three pedals, a thick folder of paperwork, and a signature from a Brumos legend. The last is a 1973 long-hood that looks almost stock and absolutely is not. Three Porsches, three completely different arguments for what makes one worth keeping. 2009 RUF CTR3 GALLERY-EMBED The CTR3 is the point where RUF stopped being a tuner in any meaningful sense. There is no 911 underneath it. The 3.8-liter twin-turbo flat-six sits ahead of the rear axle in a purpose-built mid-engine chassis, driving through RUF's own six-speed sequential manual transaxle, and the seller puts total production at roughly 31 cars since 2008. This 2009 example has covered 1,901 miles. Then there is the paint. Chroma Flash Hologram Matte does something genuinely strangeelfer in shifting light, and against a Sport Red interior it gives the car the kind of personality most low-mileage supercars have quietly optioned away. The rest of the specification is thorough rather than loud: carbon-ceramic brakes, a hydraulically adjustable front axle, leather-wrapped carbon seats, Grey Alcantara, RUF's own instruments and controls. One caveat worth flagging. The listing quotes 682 hp in the description and 701 hp in the structured specifications, so if the exact figure matters to you, get it confirmed by Young Motorcars in writing before you fall for the number. It changes nothing about how rare the car is. It is just the sort of thing you want settled early. View Listing 2014 Porsche 991 Carrera S 50 Jahre Edition GALLERY-EMBED Limited editions live or die on whether the individual car backs up the badge. This one does. Number 0906 of 1,963, Geyser Grey Metallic over Agate Grey with the model-specific houndstooth seat centers, 16,600 miles and, crucially, the seven-speed manual. Porsche built the 50th Anniversary on the Carrera S but handed it the wide Carrera 4 body, Fuchs-inspired Sport Classic wheels, Sport Chrono and PDCC, with 400 naturally aspirated horsepower going to the rear wheels only. What separates this one is the file that comes with it. Original window sticker, service records, both keys, previous Porsche CPO history and a recent DME report showing seven Range 1 ignition events, which is about as clean as these get at this mileage. Hurley Haywood has signed it, and that deserves a moment of thought, because a signature is permanent and a small slice of buyers would rather have the car untouched. Most will take the Brumos connection gladly. Beyond that it is front paint protection film and a hardwired radar detector, the second of which is an easy reversal if it bothers you. View Listing 1973 Porsche 911 Outlaw GALLERY-EMBED Marlon Goldberg left Singer and built this. Number 1 is the first complete car to leave Workshop 5001, and it was plainly meant to argue a point, because almost nothing about it shouts. Nardo Grey, narrow bodywork, steel wheels. Goldberg and John Bowman deliberately stepped around the wide-body, backdate-heavy formula that was taking over at the time. The original owner called it a "wolf in sheep's clothing" and eventually sold a 997 GT3 RS because he would rather drive this. Under the restraint sits real engineering. The 3.4-liter twin-plug flat-six makes north of 318 hp on Jenvey individual throttle bodies and a MoTeC M84, running through a rebuilt 915 gearbox with a limited-slip differential and KW three-way Motorsport coilovers. The chassis was stitch-welded and reinforced on a Celette bench, work Workshop 5001 puts at roughly USD 40,000 by itself and credits with a 15 to 20 percent gain in rigidity. It shows 7,870 miles since the build. Valuing it is the tricky part, since you are pricing a builder's reputation and a first car rather than a production number, and that is harder to benchmark than a numbered edition. The upside is how well documented it is. Elferspot's own feature on the car has Goldberg and the original owner on the record, which is more than most cars in this corner of the market can offer. View Listing

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By duPont REGISTRY –  September 11, 2026

Elferspot Spotlight: Three Porsches, Three Very Different Kinds of Rare

Rarity gets thrown around a lot in the Porsche world. Almost every listing has a production figure attached somewhere, and some of those figures deserve a raised eyebrow. What we look for at Elferspot is the car where the rare part genuinely matters, where it changes how the car looks, drives or feels to own, and where the paperwork backs it up. This week's three all clear that bar, just from very different directions. One is a 997 you'll spot from the far end of a parking lot. Another is a 993 most people would walk straight past. The third is a RUF so thoroughly personal that you'll either love it on sight or need a minute to work out what you're looking at. 2011 Porsche 911 Carrera GTS in Paint to Sample Riviera Blue GALLERY-EMBED Riviera Blue is what stops you. According to the seller, only five 997 Carrera GTS Coupés were painted in this Paint to Sample color worldwide, and this German-market example still wears its original finish, with an accident-free history and maintenance kept entirely within the Porsche service network. Automotive Passion GmbH in Appen, Germany, is offering it with 121,174 kilometers on the clock, which we'd count in its favor. A PTS GTS that has actually been driven is far easier to enjoy than one that has spent its life as a delivery-mile ornament. The spec behind the paint holds up, too. Porsche introduced the Carrera GTS in 2010 as the bridge between the Carrera S and the GT3, giving it the wider body, center-lock wheels and a naturally aspirated 3.8-liter flat-six rated at 408 PS. This one has the dynamic options you'd hope for, with RS Spyder wheels, Sport Chrono Package Plus, the sports exhaust, PASM and a mechanical limited-slip differential all ticked, while the cabin pairs black full leather with an Alcantara headliner and Porsche Exclusive touches like stainless-steel door sills and embossed crests on the headrests. The caveat is the gearbox. It's PDK, and a good share of 997 buyers will only look at a six-speed manual. If you're not one of them, this is one of the most desirable naturally aspirated Carreras of the generation in a color you'll almost never see twice. View Listing 1995 Porsche 911 Carrera 2 With the Factory X51 3.8-liter Engine GALLERY-EMBED Black, narrow-bodied, no wing. Park this 993 Carrera 2 at any Porsche meet and most people would stroll right past it, which is exactly what makes it fun. Porsche fitted it from new with the X51 factory Motorsport engine package, taking displacement from 3.6 to 3.8 liters and output to 285 PS while keeping the early non-Varioram architecture. The seller, Popea Auto Collec in France, estimates that roughly 80 Carrera 2 X51 cars were built. Treat that number as theirs, but it goes a long way toward explaining why you so rarely see one come up for sale. The rest of the option sheet is unusually serious for a standard-bodied Carrera. Alongside the X51 you get the 033 sports suspension, option 220's 40 percent limited-slip differential, the six-speed G50/21 gearbox and 17-inch Cup wheels, and code 09991 points to Porsche Exclusive involvement. Air conditioning, heated seats and an electric sunroof suggest the first owner wanted the engine without giving up any comfort, which we find oddly charming. Now the honest part. At 209,500 kilometers this car has been used properly, the seller openly acknowledges age-related imperfections in the body, and the chassis now runs Bilstein B16 suspension with reinforced H&R anti-roll bars, a change that will please a driver more than an originality purist. What steadies the picture is the file: a service booklet, invoices from Porsche Centers and recognized specialists, and a recent round of work covering the clutch, brakes at both ends, rear tires, the air-conditioning condenser, plugs and fluids. Just under EUR 100,000 for a matching-numbers X51 manual with that kind of history is hard to argue with. View Listing 2002 RUF 3400S in Light Purple Opal and Amparo Blue GALLERY-EMBED Then there's this. The paint on this RUF 3400S starts in Light Purple Opal at the nose and gradually becomes Amparo Blue Metallic toward the tail, and the idea doesn't stop at the bodywork. The convertible top is purple. The cabin mixes blue leather and Alcantara, the 996 GT3 bucket seat backs are finished in Amparo Blue Metallic, and even the brake calipers follow the progression, purple up front and blue at the rear. According to the listing, the first owner was close to the RUF family and chose the colors as a tribute to her own hair. You can think whatever you like about the result, but nobody can say it was done halfway. Under all that is a proper RUF. The 3400S started from the Boxster concept and moved well beyond it, with a 3.4-liter 996-derived flat-six tuned to around 305 PS, a six-speed manual, upgraded suspension and a dual exhaust. This car adds RUF mirrors, side skirts, 19-inch RUF wheels, a removable rear wing and a 996 GT3 front bumper, and it carries a genuine RUF chassis number, which is the first thing any collector should check. The seller states only twelve 3400S examples were built. It has covered 75,700 miles with three owners, and it comes with invoices, manuals, spare keys and a service record spanning RUF Automobile, Porsche Centers and specialists in the UK, Germany and South Africa, plus a full restoration by Black Falcon in Meuspath between 2015 and 2019 that cost more than EUR 25,000. The obvious caveat is that a specification this personal narrows the pool of buyers to people who truly love it. For the right person, that's the whole point. View Listing

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By duPont REGISTRY –  September 04, 2026

Elferspot Spotlight: Three Porsches That Keep Their Best Details Hidden

Some weeks the three cars line up so neatly you could write the headline before you write the piece. A color story, a Paint to Sample run, a decade. This week refused to cooperate. What came out of the Elferspot listings was a Guards Red air-cooled Turbo, a silver 904 with a competition record most museums would envy, and a black 911 Dakar. On paper, nothing connects them. Spend a few minutes with each one, and the link shows up anyway. Not one of these cars tells you what it is from twenty feet away. The Turbo reads as a nice red 993 until you get into the option codes. The 904 reads as a 904 until you read the entry lists. The Dakar has quietly declined the livery that sells most of them. All three keep the interesting material below the surface, in the paperwork, the build sheet, or the seats, and that is exactly the kind of car worth slowing down for. 1964 Porsche 904 Carrera GTS, Chassis 080 GALLERY-EMBED Chassis 904-080 does not need the usual preamble about why the 904 matters. Gianni Bulgari watched Briggs Cunningham race one at Sebring in early 1964, then bought this car straight from Porsche that spring. Weeks later, he and Maurizio Grana were leading the Targa Florio outright before suspension damage ended the run. Porsche repaired the car at the factory, and in June, Bulgari took it to the old Mugello road circuit and won. There was a win at Vallelunga too, and further podiums, before the car crossed the Atlantic and Sam Posey got hold of it. In February 1966, Posey shared 080 with Jim Haynes and Harry Theodoracopulos for eleventh overall at the Daytona 24 Hours. Racing Sports Cars records period entries at all of it independently, which matters, because history this good is worth checking rather than repeating. The present-day picture is just as interesting. The car has stayed with its current owner since 1988, was inspected by Porsche specialist Jochen Bader in May of this year, and is now European-tax-paid and road registered. It also comes with two engines. A RUF-rebuilt six-cylinder is fitted for use, while the original-style Typ 587/3 four-cam, rebuilt by Dr. Pohl, comes with the car. Be honest about what that means: the four-cam is central to the whole 904 concept, the bonded fiberglass body over a pressed-steel chassis, Porsche's first production car built that way, and the six in the back is a practicality decision rather than a purist one. Some buyers will want it swapped back on day one. Others will drive it exactly as it sits and be glad of it. Porsche records 106 four-cylinder cars, and this is one of the ones with a story attached, so the argument is really about how you plan to use it, not whether it is worth having. View Listing 1995 Porsche 911 Turbo WLS1 GALLERY-EMBED Guards Red on an air-cooled 911 is not news. What sits underneath it here is. This 993 Turbo left the factory in December 1995 with the X50/WLS1 power package, which took the 3.6-liter twin-turbo flat-six to 430 PS through a six-speed manual and all-wheel drive, and Porsche confirms that increase arrived with the 1996 model year. It was then specified further through Porsche Exclusive: XD7 for the front strut brace, XD9 for body-colored wheel centers, X70 for the stainless steel Exclusive door sills, with codes 09971 and 09981 marking the Exclusive build itself. That is a much more deliberate order than a standard Turbo with a power upgrade bolted to it. The seller states 183 factory X50 cars were built. Worth keeping attributed to them rather than treating as a settled production figure. The documentation does real work rather than just filling a folder. The car was collected at the factory in Stuttgart on December 4, 1995, saw early service at Sportwagen-Center Schmidt + Koch in Bremen, and picked up an Approved Used warranty from Porsche Zentrum Hamburg in 1999. Porsche specialists handled it after that; the stamped booklet is still with the car, and a pre-sale service this year included new Michelin Pilot Sports. It shows 108,000 kilometers, has matching numbers, is accident-free, was supplied new in German-market C00 specification, and the seller describes the paint as original. That last point is the one that carries the price, and it is also the one to look at closely in person, because original paint at this mileage is a claim worth verifying with your own eyes. If it holds up, the appeal is straightforward. Factory WLS1, Exclusive specification, matching numbers and original finish rarely turn up in the same car. View Listing 2023 Porsche 911 Dakar GALLERY-EMBED Most Dakars introduce themselves from the far end of the parking lot. This one does not. Finished in plain Black L041 with the Rallye Design graphics left off, it puts the whole job on the raised ride height, the all-terrain tires and the bodywork, and it works. The mechanical package is unchanged: 480 PS from the 3.0-liter twin-turbo flat-six, eight-speed PDK, all-wheel drive, off-road chassis tuning and Pirelli Scorpion All Terrain Plus tires, riding 50 millimeters higher than a Carrera on sports suspension, with another 30 available from the lift system. Production stopped at 2,500. Those numbers are useful here mainly because they explain why a black car with no livery still looks nothing like a regular 992. The restraint stops at the door handle. Inside are carbon full buckets with checked fabric centers, the same material in the door inserts, and sill inscriptions reading "In doubt, never lift" and "Are you sure?". Add the carbon roof, Sport Chrono Plus, PDCC, darkened Matrix LED headlights, heated sports steering wheel, surround-view camera, and roof rack preparation. One owner, German delivery, built in November 2023 as a 2024 model year car, first registered that January, accident-free and matching numbers per the listing, with a fresh service from Porsche Heilbronn in August. The catch, if you want to call it one, is the 11,950 kilometers on the clock, which puts it outside the delivery-mileage bracket collectors tend to chase. I would argue that is the point. This is a Dakar that someone has actually used, kept up to date at Porsche, and specified with a sense of humor rather than a spec sheet aimed at resale. View Listing

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