1992 911 Carrera Cup USA

The history of Porsche’s 964 Carrera Cup USA cars is a wild one that ended with PCNA quietly selling cars through their dealership network with ZERO marketing or information about the cars being released publicly. You see, back in 1992 PCNA wanted to emulate the success of the IROC races of the early ‘70s by bringing the Carrera Cup series to the USA. But because of a certain ‘mishap’ in the ‘80s involving a couple 959s that were supposed to be “race cars,” the DOT and EPA required that any Porsche racing car that looked like a street car must meet all EPA and DOT requirements.

This led to a limited run of 45 US-legal Carrera Cup cars produced by the factory. Once through the port, these cars then had to be sent to Andial in California to be converted into race cars for the series. But during the process, the cost to produce the race cars grew substantially, and Porsche had a hard time finding teams willing to shell out the money. By this time, only 29 of the 45 cars had been converted to race cars, and they were subsequently returned to Andial to be converted BACK to street cars.

Because of the sensitive nature of the situation due to the failure of the series and cost involved in building, converting, and then re-converting these cars back to street versions, they were quietly sold through dealerships like Sewickley Porsche, where this 1992 911 Carrera Cup USA was sold new.

Finished in Grand Prix White, this example sports Carrera Cup graphics on the doors and shows just 27,000 miles on the odometer. It has seen track use, as it should, and has paintwork on the passenger front fender and driver rear quarter along with some chips and cracked paint shown in the detailed images in the gallery.

The Black interior is in good condition but is oddly fitted with a pair of replacement seats that really don’t fit with the track nature of the car. An aftermarket B&B exhaust system was installed and new Carrera RS-style Bilstein dampers were added in March 2023. The car comes with a file of service records and looks to have been well maintained under current stewardship.

This isn’t the first time we’ve seen this car at auction, or the second. The car first appeared on my radar at Worldwide Auctioneers when it failed to sell at a final bid of $250,000 out of Riyad, Saudi Arabia, a few years back. Interestingly, it was listed as TMU in that sale. The next time this car came to market was in June of last year when it again failed to sell, this time at a final bid of $228,000. So for it to finally sell at a final bid of $262,259 this time around, the seller did well. Well sold for sure, unless a few better examples come to market and shoot to the moon.

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