Maybe.
$5,500,000 can get you more than 160 Mazda MX-5 RFs, about 2750 Challenge cars, roughly 47,820 torque wrenches from Harbor Freight, or this single Porsche 911.
Granted, it’s an ultra-rare, lightweight R model from 1968, but $5.5 million–the estimate–can sound like a lot of money to spend on a car.
What do you think? Worth the price of entry, or would you rather spend that kind of dough on something else–maybe even multiples of that something else?
Read more about this 1968 Porsche 911 R over on Classic Motorsports.
Don't get me wrong, I'd love the 911 R, but a virtual lifetime supply of torque wrenches seems like a pretty attractive compromise.
I appreciate beautifully restored, rare cars with cool provenance and I'm a big fan of 911s but I don't think I could ever justify spending that kind of coin on any car to myself. In a weird hypocritical kind of way I'm glad that there are people who do.
$5.5M could buy me a donor Capri and have enough left over to start my own automotive restoration company to build it into an RS3000 clone which would mop the floor with that 911. Two birds, one Capri shaped stone.
I do like the idea of hurling a torque wrench into the garbage after using it on ONE fastener.
For 5.5M it doesn't even have a "sweet wing" as my son would say.
I need to confirm, but I believe that Porsche had a tough timing selling these when new. (And the same can be said for the Cobra.)
In reply to David S. Wallens :
According to RM, Ferdinand Piëch wanted to build a whole bunch of them, but management said no because they thought the R cost too much to build.
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