In 1986, the Porsche 959 was the world�s fastest street legal product car. Some 337 of these road-going monsters were built but not one of them was a factory-finished convertible. Regardless of what you may have heard or seen on forums, such a vehicle was never sanctioned by Porsche. There was a one-off �Speedster� built by Auto-Becker for the 1989 Frankfurt Motor Show but that�s about it.
So is this done and dusted? Of course not; this is the internet we�re talking about. 959 Speedsters are sighted by Porsche enthusiasts as much as Elvis Presley or the Loch Ness monster. If you believe what you�ve read, these things are everywhere. And I do mean everywhere, even in New Zealand.
So our seller throws in the usual platitudes we�ve come to expect from this sort of posting like, �This is one very rare and special car,� and that it was �professionally built�.
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