Safari All The Porsches

December 02, 2022

In the “Safari all the Porsches” camp, this is a new one. A 2006 911 C2S custom-built by a highly talented fabricator. While the mechanical bits might be off the shelf, the rack, front bumper, rear bumper, and skid plates are all hand-built. Really well.

But the question remains, did the builder make out like many others who have ridden the Cayenne and 964 Safari bandwagon for the last few years? Or was this a steal by the buyer at $92,000 as the cost to recreate it would be significantly more?

Let’s start with the base car—a 2006 911 C2S with 56,000 miles and a 6sp transmission. Market value would be roughly $65,000 to $75,000 based on prices over the last year. Now how much would it cost to build?

Lucky for us the builder documented all the bits and bobs that he used to create this off-road 911. Total costs for the parts on the car came to $32,673 but the seller notes that these prices are with a discount because of his shop, add about 10-20% in markup if you had someone else do it.

Car and parts alone put you above the sales price, and then there is labor. The builder estimates he has about 500 hours into the build, 200 more than he estimated it would take when he started out. (sounds like every restoration project to me). No matter what the shop rate you’d have to say that this Safari was well bought. You couldn’t re-create this one-of-a-kind car for what was paid.

But for the seller, it was all about putting his idea onto the pavement, not making money. Cheers to you sir and I for one look forward to your next build.