Though the Porsche 928 was built all the way up through the 1995 model year, most of the ones you'll see— on the street, in the junkyard, or at a LeMons race— are going to be from the Malaise-y 1978-1982 model years. I see them in junkyards every so often, although mostly they've been picked over too much to be worth photographing. In this series, we've seen this weirdly wrapped movie-car 928 and that's been it until today's '82, which I saw in California last week.
I'd always wanted a 928 intake for my garage wall, but never had the energy to remove all those finicky German fasteners. Then a generous LeMons team gave me one last month. I thought about grabbing the rubber hoses and hose clamps from this one, but got sidetracked by one of the greatest finds I've ever run across in a junkyard.
This one has been picked over pretty well, with the interior and electrical goodies being most desirable.
These cars depreciated hard, and you can get a runner for under a grand if you don't mind a little ugliness. Then you'll be scouring the country for parts donors.
The interesting thing about these cars is that they've proven themselves to be among the fastest legit $500 cars that you can run in the 24 Hours of LeMons (the Ford Probe, believe it or not, appears to be the quickest of all the cheap crapcans, in terms of raw road-course lap times). 928s with automatic transmissions and stock suspensions have set down the quickest lap times at three of the past five races (and every single one has been knocked out by catastrophic mechanical failures, but that's another story).
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