This 1988 Porsche 911 Carrera was purchased new in Concord, California and has lived in Northern California all its life. The car is from the last year before the switchover to the 964 body and features the factory G50 gearbox. The car has a documented 64k original miles and all original Grand Prix White paint apart from the foglight panel below the front bumper, which was resprayed at some point. The car sits low over period 16″ Mahle/BBS alloys, and has a matching rollbar that mounts only to the seat belt bolts. The car supposedly belonged to the shop foreman at Niello Porsche, and shows that it has been well cared for from new.

When we got the car it had some cheesy fake Xenon headlight set-up, and we removed all that and went back to the standard incandescents to match the fogs. We also removed a sat radio unit mounted to the lower center console. Those were out of place, because the rest of the car has a very period hot street set-up, like what a Porsche enthusiast would have done with a daily driver back when new. The interior is often mistaken for black, but is actually dark blue leather. Seats, carpets, and dash are near perfect, and the car has a sunroof, power windows, and A/C. We don’t think that the factory ever offered white gauges on cars in ’88, so we suspect that is aftermarket.

The 3.2L engine starts easily every time and makes very smooth power. It sounds great and runs cool. There is a slight rattle from the clutch throwout bearing at idle that changes as the pedal is depressed. It is not enough to drive you crazy, but we thought the new owner should know. Both the front and rear lid struts were weak, so we replaced all three just this month.

This is a really nicely preserved car in great colors. We’ve thought about sourcing original Fuchs, raising the ride height, and removing the rollbar, but the car looks and performs so well that we could never bring ourselves to do it. Below is an AutoCheck report showing the mileage progression (see the full report and other mileage docs in the gallery and in our comment below):

Here is the old style Certificate of Authenticity that is dated 1996:

This car is being sold by Bring a Trailer Inc., a licensed, bonded, and insured California dealer. Sales tax and registration fees are due upon delivery for California buyers. We think that charging customers the allowable $80 documentation fee is lame, and so we won’t be doing that.