One to Buy: 1st of 14 built 1992 Porsche 968 Turbo S Prototype
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Porsche created two new models for the burgeoning early ‘90s GT racing scene: the Flat 6 normally aspirated 964-based 911 Carrera RSR and the forced induction inline four cylinder 968 Turbo RS.
Given its stellar racing credentials, the 911 RSR inevitably proved the more popular: 51 were built compared to a batch of just four of the turbocharged 968 Renn Sports.
At the time, homologation requirements had been slashed to just a single road-going base car from which the competition variant had to be derived. However, having incurred the expense to develop each base car, Porsche decided to offer both the resultant 911 Carrera RS 3.8 and 968 Turbo S to their customers.
14 examples of the 968 Turbo S were ultimately completed, one of which served as the factory prototype followed by a further 13 customer cars.
That prototype 968 Turbo S, chassis 800412, will be going under the hammer with RM Sotheby’s at their Monterey auction on August 18th.
Completed in late 1992 and finished in Paint to Sample Speed Yellow, chassis 800412 served as Porsche’s press car and was thus used in all of Porsche’s publicity shots for the 968 Turbo S.
It was subsequently sold to Sven Quandt whose father Herbert had rescued BMW from the edge of bankruptcy in 1959. Sven Quandt retained chassis 800412 for the next three decades and today the car remains in excellent, largely original condition having covered a little over 122,000km from new.
