Porsche 911 RS Carrera 2.7
TIPPED BY: MARTIN CHISHOLM
We featured this car, in this price bracket, back in 2017 when it still seemed possible that such cars would climb and climb without a pause. That didn’t happen.
‘The lowest they got recently was about £350k,’ says Martin Chisholm. ‘Funnily enough I remember selling one about twelve years ago and I thought I’d absolutely rung the bell at £130k.
‘Since then, they’ve gone up and up apart from that pause in the last few years. But now they’ve moved again. You’ll have to be quick to find one under half a million.’
So what’s the appeal? Are the speculators back? Martin thinks not. ‘They are the most versatile and fun-to-drive car of the Seventies. Yet you can park it in the garage and forget about it for three months, six months, a year, and go back to it knowing it will start. If you don’t have faith in a classic car getting you to your destination, you’ll find an excuse not to use it. And that is the case for a lot of glorious, valuable classics – but not this one.’
These perennially sought-after 911s started as homologation specials for Group 4 road racing, so the 2.4-litre engine became 2.7-litres, we saw extensive lightening, larger brakes, wider rear wheels and arches, an air dam and a ‘ducktail’ spoiler.
Most of the 1590 examples made in 1972 and 1973 were in Touring specification, less spartan than the 200-odd Sport versions that took kerb weight down below a ton.
‘Every single great collection has got a 2.7 RS in it,’ says Martin. ‘These guys are not wrong. For example, most of them have owned a Gullwing because they’re famous and gorgeous to look at, but they don’t keep the Gullwing. They keep the RS. Also, the colours the RS was sold in when new are really hot colours today. That Viper Green, the Imperial Purple, the Tangerine, all those funky colours are absolutely on point.’
‘They’ve moved again. You’ll have to be quick to find one under half a million’