With its eye-catching double-humped fiberglass tonneau cover and dramatically lowered windshield, the one-year-only 1989 Porsche Speedster is instantly recognizable to Porsche enthusiasts. Designed as a lightweight, racy homage to its 356 ancestor, the Speedster was reintroduced following a 35-year absence, with most examples of the highly desirable two-seat variant quietly disappearing into private collections. The Speedster nameplate would be revived for the final year of the G-body Carrera 3.2, with a limited run of two-seat Speedsters (Option M503) built from January through August of 1989.
Now offered from the venerable LAPIS Collection of noted California-based Porsche enthusiast Todd Blue, this remarkably well-preserved 1,300-mile “Turbo-Look” Speedster, built on the wider body of the 911 Turbo, was delivered new to Riverside Motors of Little Rock, Arkansas, on 25 July 1989. One of just 823 examples of its kind allocated to the US market, it wears Dark Blue paintwork over beige leather beneath a matching Dark Blue top and was tastefully specified with a limited-slip differential, air conditioning, cruise control, a steering wheel with raised hub, power seats, the optional rear storage box, and a shorter gear shift lever.
Mr. Blue relentlessly pursued this fully documented wide-body 911 Speedster for more than a decade. He recounts that every time it was brought in for servicing to his dealership, he would instruct to have its keys returned not to the service department desk, but to his personal office, in a drawn-out and passionate bid to convince its original owner to sell him the car.
The original owner finally acquiesced in March 2018, at which point Mr. Blue acquired the beloved Speedster with the odometer indicating only 1,064 miles.
Now showing just 1,244 miles as of cataloguing time, this incredibly well-preserved and desirably specified 1989 “Turbo-Look” 911 Speedster has been sparingly driven but thoroughly cherished since new by an extremely short chain of just two owners and is among the most exciting examples of this highly sought-after model to come to market, ever.
