Poster companies made a lot of money in the eighties.  Every kid seemed to have a bedroom wallpapered with prints of supermodels and exotic cars.  If royalties were paid, Porsche, Lamborghini, and Ferrari probably made more money off posters than production cars.  Now, decades later, emerges a car that still looks ready to be photographed and turned into a poster.  This 1987 Porsche 911 Turbo for sale on eBay in Friendswood, Texas is in fantastic shape and still evokes those same emotions in enthusiasts.  With its Guards Red paint job, outrageous whale tail, and wide rear end, this car will always be Porsche’s high-water mark in the eighties.  The bidding on this time capsule Porsche with a possible 46,000 miles on the odometer has already surpassed $100,000 with three days to go.  What do you think it will ultimately sell for?

The holy trinity of supercars in the eighties were the Lamborghini Countach, Ferrari Testarossa, and the Porsche 911 Turbo.  While other cars got the poster treatment, such as the Lotus Esprit Turbo, Jaguar XJS, and the Chevrolet Corvette, they were definitely on a lower rung of popularity in comparison.  With Miami Vice as a showcase for exotic sportscars every Friday night from 1984 through 1989, every kid wanted to grow up and find a job that would allow them to drive such beautiful and exotic machines.  Until then, a poster or two would have to suffice.

I guess it was just as well that the teenagers of my generation never got to drive the cars of their dreams.  The 911 (930) Turbo came to be branded “The Widowmaker.”  Why?  When you combine a rear engine car with a McPherson strut/torsion bar suspension and add a whole lot of horsepower from a turbocharged engine with a heaping helping of turbo lag, bad things happen when you enter a corner at the car’s limits.  A well-trained driver of one of these beasts knew to not lift off the gas, as that would result in snap oversteer.  The problem was the average 911 Turbo customer was not a well-trained driver in most cases.  They were too busy fixing teeth and seeing you for your annual physical.  When you have to keep your foot on the accelerator as that turbo kicks in like Chuck Norris, it goes against every survival instinct you have.  Hello, thrills!

A peek in the cockpit reveals that the perfection continues with an all-black leather interior.  There are no imperfections evident in the dash, carpet, or seats, and the car even comes equipped with a sunroof.  The driver’s seat features power adjustments and the tunes come pouring out of a Blaupunkt AM/FM cassette stereo.