One to Buy: 1 of 3 built 2500km from new 1991 Koenig Specials C62
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Having started out with a small line of body and exhaust parts for the Ferrari BB, Koenig Specials were soon offering some of the most elaborately engineered custom supercars on the planet.
Perhaps the most famous of these was the firm’s twin turbocharged Ferrari Testarossa-based Koenig Competition which took its visual cues from the F40 and offered performance to match.
However, arguably Koenig’s most ambitious project was the Porsche 962-based C62 which the company hoped to build 30 examples of at around $1m apiece.
Following the C62’s announcement at Geneva in March 1990, three brand new 962 tubs were ordered from TC Prototypes and a development mule was up and running by early 1991.
Unfortunately, by this time the red hot collector car boom had fizzled out and the economic recession that followed massively restricted demand for high end machinery.
As a consequence, once the original batch of three C62’s were completed, no further examples were built.
One of this trio, chassis 23001, is currently on offer as part of ISSIMI’s current North American listings.
Completed in July of 1991, it was the second of the three C62s built and, like many Koenig products of the period, originally found its way to Japan where it resided until 2019.
Subsequently exported to the USA, 23001 has today covered a little over 2500km and is presented in totally original, unrestored condition.
At a time when low volume Porsche 911 road cars and Nissan GT-R Skylines have reached well into seven figures, an asking price of $995,000 seems to represent very good value for what is a road-going incarnation of the most successful prototype racing car of all time.
