The Very First Flachbau

What’s even more rare than the 58 first-generation flachbau 911s? Few prototypes were built before the official ‘Special Wishes’ production run started in 1982. The first car, built in 1980 for Gerhard Siegfried Amann, left the factory finished in Silver with the first-generation “hammerhead” style front bumper and headlights. “Hammerhead” refers to the fact that rather than having pop-up headlights like we’ve all become accustomed to on later Slantnose cars, the headlights were in a cluster in the bumper.

That first car was then returned to the factory’s Special Wishes program in 1985 to receive modern Special Wishes upgrades, a repaint in Black, a 330 hp upgrade, and a brass plaque in recognition of this being one the first placed on the glovebox reading “G.S.A.-0/13/31”. This 1981 911 Turbo Slantnose Coupe is that car.

The market for the M505 Slantnose 930s has been quite the opposite of the rest of the Porsche market over the last five years, with prices falling from 2019 to 2022 and now picking up again over the previous twelve months. The average price now sits around $200,000, with lows just below $100k and a recent high sale of $313,000 for a PTS second-generation car with 40,000 miles.

Our special Spotlight car, showing 9,000 miles on the odometer, failed to sell at a high bid of $181,000. Most likely, it is more than $100,000 short of the reserve based on recent sales and the cars province. Rightfully so, the seller decided to hold onto this one. Maybe we’ll see it again in the Spring. Let’s hope the market for significant cars has picked back up by then.

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