Take one Porsche 928. Add fiberglass, custom paint and some, shall we say interesting design elements, possibly even a tube frame, all added by a custom car shop in West Virginia. Fast forward 30 plus years and you have this Porsche 928 Wolf for sale here on eBay as well as here on topclassiccarsforsale.com. Depending on which site you go to, you can buy it now for $18,000 although bidding is at less than $300 at the moment! The car is now located in Gulf Breeze, Florida.
I searched quite a bit to try to find out more about this car, whom some compare to a Viper, others to an overgrown Miata and some to an E-Type Jaguar (those are E-Type bumpers, aren’t they?) but I was unsuccessful. This posting and follow up on a Porsche 928 message board seem to have the most information (also note that the car was priced at $22,000 at that point) and call some of the 928 information into question. I’ll tell you this, with only three supposedly produced, you won’t run into yourself very often in your travels!
Although most of the design seems well thought-through, I have to wonder a little about the front bumpers that just don’t seem to fit the rest of the car. The other curious feature is the two leather straps for the trunk. Were those added as an afterthought rather than working out a latch, or are they purely for style? Maybe to hold on a pair of skis? Extra dog collars? Ok, I’m out of ideas but I’ll bet you have some!
I’m also wondering if there is any type of weather protection at all. I certainly don’t see any. Despite how sunny even Florida is, those pesky rain showers can do nasty things to car interiors.
Please make my day and tell me those are the famous iconic AMC exterior door handles repurposed to be interior door handles!
Actually, the interior doesn’t look bad at all, and from what we can see the conversion and paintwork are flawless. Of course, looking closer might reveal more, but if you like the shape this might be worth looking into!
Here’s the 928 aluminum V8. Looks nice under there. So–what do you think about this Wolf? Would you want it to join your pack, or will it remain a lone wolf?
Oh my, only question in my mind is Why???? What sounds like a great idea, just sometimes comes off as-well unless it was a wrecked basket case-shoulda just left it alone!!!!! Kinda reminds me of the Tojan– both ideas that shoulda stayed on the drawing board—IMO!!!
Interesting contrast between this car, with 2 bids to $202 after a number of days, and the rusty, very needy 1970 Datsun 240Z VIN 0105 from a few days ago, with nearly 50 bids to $15K after the first 4 hours on Ebay.
One way to put it is: The market is speaking.
This “Porsche 928 Wolf”, or “1980 Porsche 928S”, or 1986 Porsche 928 engine/transmission on a tube frame—take your pick, it’s been described as all of those—looks like it might be a good build, or a bad one, but you would need to go to it and do your due diligence to find out for sure since there’s almost no information in the listing. Underside shots would have helped to show the build, since there’s a tube frame and not a Porsche chassis under there.
It doesn’t look bad, with some E-Type, Miata, and later Griffith shapes, and I could be wrong, but I don’t think it’s going to go for big money.
Is that $202 in Canadian dollars?
EWWWWWW… what the hell… this is the ugliest 928 I’ve ever seen.
And it’s even a automatic, SMH. what a waste.
Why????????????
Must have been wrecled at some point and came back from the body shop like this, he wasn’t a Porshe man.
Utter abomination. I see hints of Miata as well as 3rd Gen RX-7, but over all its a jumbled conglomerate of unrelated ideas. Yuck.
Omg! Seeing that reminds me of my nightmare 928’s that I have owned! No no no thank you! Looks lie yes another ebay re-listvile. Just like that 240 the other day on ebay, typical ended early car.
Best looking 928 I’ve ever seen. I don’t get the Porsche thing, never will.
Omg! Seeing that reminds me of my nightmare 928’s that I owned! No no no thank you! Looks like yet another ebay re-listvile. Just like that 240 the other day on ebay, typical ended early car.
To echo Joe Howell’s excellent comment:
“Why????????????”
I can only hope the donor-928 was a total loss (preferably a “flood car,” or otherwise, no resulting injuries).
My first thought was “Overgrown Miata,” with a Mustang back-end (and from not a particularly-attractive, early-2000’s vintage).
Is this thing worth more than the sum of it’s parts? I guess so, if it runs and drives, but, when I think about the perfection of the 928’s styling, reduced to THIS…UGH!
This thingnis so ugly, no one even bothered to complain about the auto trans… That’s a 928 in a port-a-potty clothing!
Dude likes his racing stripes, and at that price those trunk straps better be gen-u-wine leather. I’d rather have the Kia Soul in the background.
“….they have never changed hands publically until now.” Gee, can’t for the life of me think why!
Interesting…but at the end of the day this seems rather stupid. Seems like someone wanted a Porsche version of a Cobra and came up with this thing. What do you end up with? A car that gets as little use as a Cobra, and instead of nice cheap American V8 parts and transmissions you gotta Porsche V8 and transmission known for their high cost for repairs and parts and complicated enough it costs a lot of labor hours to work on. Heeeelllllll no – it’s just dumb.
Is that a functional rollbar or just a piece of fiberglass?
My God!!! What were they thinking? This is the most henous example of poor taste I think I have seen in a long time. Unfortunatly you just cant un-see somethings, and it will take a long while to erase this vision from my memory.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I have a prettier car which is a
beauty to me. But I think this 928 is pretty cute and would like to have it myself. Since I have absolutely no use for it, so it have to be 1/3 of asking price for me to get out of the chair to see if I have that much on me.