If you go back into the 1980s tuning scene, you will see a few different tiers of customization. There’s the companies like Erebuni which took out advertisements in seemingly every import magazine ever published, hawking body kits for everything from Maxima sedans to Nissan hardbody pickup trucks. But then there were full-scale tuning shops that would offer custom touches for your high-performance European sports car ranging from exotic body kits to two-tone interiors. Strosek was a brand closely tied to the Porsche community, and this unrestored 1986 Porsche 928 listed here on eBay is an incredible find with its peri0d modifications still intact.
This 928 is a project car, with the seller acknowledging he is not going to give it the attention it deserves. I’m not a bodywork expert, but when you look at the completeness of the car – and the clean execution of the widebody kit – I have to believe this was a high-dollar install back in the day. The Strosek conversion appears to incorporate flared fender arches, a rear spoiler, lower body cladding, side strakes, a wide front air dam, and deep dish basket-weave alloy wheels. I also see a rear fog light integrated into the back bumper, which suggests this is a European, or gray-market, model.
The interior has also been thoroughly re-worked, with red carpeting and corresponding two-tone door panels. White leather on the dash and center console matches the factory bucket seats, and the aftermarket three-spoke steering wheel coordinates nicely. Interestingly, the work didn’t include wrapping the instrument binnacle in white leather, but there’s a good reason for that: the seller notes the cluster was swapped out when the car was imported, which is why it doesn’t match. He also notes that the dash is presently out of the car as he was working on repairing the heater controls before age and health got in the way of further progress.
As it typical with styling conversions like these, the 928 appears to be bone-stock under the hood. While that may seem like a miss by some of you, I wouldn’t categorize this in the category of your typical Autozone-modified import. The cost of the Strosek conversion was likely significant when completed in the 80s, and the odds are good it was sent straight from the dealer lot to Strosek with no miles on the clock. Restoring this 928 won’t be cheap, but given how powerful nostalgia is at the moment, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s restored back to near-mint condition with fresh paint and the loose ends tidied up.
Sold already. Cool car
A comment was added by the seller that it was taken down because of weather and it will be relisted. Nice car, can’t wait.
Whew, I guess I’m the outlier here; that looks like a ruined 928 to me LOL. Sonny Crockett might’ve used it when the Tetarossa broke down. IMO, the stock body has aged better than this body kit.
What, no add on wing on the hatch?
Porsche 928 needs no aftermarket body kits.
Great news for those worried about 928 bodies looking not right when modified: They made a bunch of them and 99% of the surviving ones aren’t modified, so you have your pick, right? Go shop one of those if that’s important to you.
Sorta the same situation as the Corvette people who worried about the impending mid-engine setup that we just recently got being “not a Corvette” when there were 7 generations of mass-produced front-engined cars laying all over that tended to have high survivorship rates available all over the place.
If you’re coming on the internet to demonstrate to everyone how good your taste is by negging on a unique car, I hope that you sit on a tack and it reminds you to try to have something nice to say.
This car only needs one person to like it, and they’re out there (possilbly here?). That engine is probably going to consume a bunch of soft rubber parts if my memory serves after poking around inside of one 25 years ago, but if it’s all stock, there’s gotta be someone serving that market, right?
Any comment on what the soft parts under the hood are like to get? Prob expensive. Prob available?
Except the Corvette was re-designed by Corvette design team.
These body kits are not designed by Porsche.
Like any vehicle, an owner should think twice before making mods to it. Just because they think it looks great, doesn’t mean everybody else will.
If you want to put Cragar’s on Lambo, go ahead. Just save your original rims so you can put everything back to stock when you sell it.
Pimpin ain’t easy. Whacked a nine two eight with a Strosek ugly stick.
These cars are burned into my brain from the Tom Cruise film, Risky Business (1983). Two (2) images stick in my head. First, Dad’s Porche 928 has just been put on a service lift at the dealer’s service department, after falling off of a pier into Lake Michigan while Tom Cruise is on a “date” with high-end hooker, Rebecca DeMornay. As the mechanic opens the door and a catfish flops out of the car, the Service Manager yells: “Who’s the U-Boat Commander?”
The other is when Tom Cruise, in Daddy’s Porche 928, is being car chased by DeMornay’s pimp, with DeMornay beside him in the front seat, and his best friend Miles in the back seat, when Miles exclaims: Miles: “I don’t believe this! I’ve got a trig midterm tomorrow, and I’m being chased by Guido the killer pimp!”
I can’t imagine how anyone could love this drug-dealer special, but as you said, only one person has to like it. I actually like the early stock ones, but 928’s are notoriously complex and expensive to keep running. When I got my ’73 911 in the early 2000s through a very respected SoCal shop, the owner basically told me, “whatever you do, don’t get a 928, stick with 911’s.”