Up for auction is a transaxle Porsche with silver-screen fame.
Monterey Car Week is one of the most anticipated events on the annual automotive calendar, and for good reason. Some of the most rare, powerful, expensive, and desirable cars in the world are displayed, celebrated, and also auctioned. One of those earned its panache with its appearance in a movie, specifically Risky Business, which starred Tom Cruise. The car is a 1979 Porsche 928, one of the iconic front-engined Transaxle Porsches from the 70s, 80s, and 90s.
Powered by a V8 engine, the 928 was a veritable supercar in its time, and in the movie, it’s apparently the car in which Cruise delivers the line “Porsche, there is no substitute.” In addition, it’s reported that because the 928 was equipped with a manual transmission, and Tom Cruise didn’t know how to drive with a manual transmission before, this very Porsche 928 for auction was the car in which Tom Cruise learned to operate a manual transmission.
After its time on screen, the 928 lived life as a used car, until Lewis Johnsen of Denver, Colorado, discovered it. A fan of the car and the film, he found the car to restore it. Now, Bonhams has listed it for auction to be sold at The Quail Auction during the highly anticipated Monterey Car Week among some of the world’s most desirable automotive creations. With an appearance in an iconic film, this Porsche 928 is a sports car icon with an interesting history.
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