A Great Buy or Further Softening of The Market?

January 17, 2023

Porsche’s 968 Club Sport is a fairly rare model with only 1,900 produced but since they were never officially offered here in the US market, the rarity of the model here is even furthered. With less than a handful of cars sold stateside in the last few years, and the majority of sales being right-hand-drive examples in the UK, it’s quite a difficult car to put a number to.

The 968 Club Sport was a stripped-down version of Porsche’s final iteration of the four-cylinder transaxle cars that started with the 924 in 1976. To shed approximately 200 pounds from the standard 968, the car uses manually adjustable Recaro race seats, crank windows, an airbag-less sport steering wheel, and is void of rear seats, useless plastic covers in the engine bay, and sound-deadening material. But this wasn’t just an exercise in cutting out the flab either as the car utilized a revised sport suspension and larger wheels and tires.

The most recent US sales of Club Sports are this 36,000-mile example which sold for $71,500 on Bring a Trailer almost one year ago and this 45,000-mile example which sold for $80,000 in November of 2021. So at $57,000, was the 1993 968 Club Sport above a steal or a sign of a softening market?

There are two important items to note with this sale. First, like all 968 Club Sports in the US, this car’s CarFax history report of having “No Accidents Reported” is absolutely useless. And with the car having gone through a full re-spray, without a thorough inspection who knows what the paint could be covering? Also, the car is being offered for sale out of New Hampshire, a state that does not issue titles for vehicles of this age, only a registration, which may hamper registering the car in your state.

With those two items to consider, the car sold at a market price, although lower than other sales we’ve seen over the last year or so. But looking at the prices paid for these overseas, we’d have to call this one well-sold as the seller probably made a decent profit importing and flipping the car here in the states.