BaT Auction Success Story: jerhofer’s Singh-er 911 — Explained

This latest Success Story comes to us from BaT member jerhofer, who won this G50 Carrera coupe from SinghMotors in a November 2025 BaT auction:

In November 2025, I won this 51k-mile, all-original 1988 911 Carrera coupe, powered by a 3.2L flat-six backed with the G50 transmission. It was located in Lakeville, Connecticut, a five-minute drive from Lime Rock. The seller was Bobby Singh, whose Porsche business was located in the very same building that Skip Barber had used for his racing school cars.

Bobby sold the car on consignment for an elderly gentleman who had broken his leg (I’ll add that I am an elderly person turning 80 this coming May). The seller was very cooperative. The tires were old, so I ordered and shipped a set of fresh rubber from Tire Rack to Bobby, who mounted and balanced them. He also performed a four-wheel alignment along with a compression and leakdown test of the motor, which passed with flying colors.

He changed the oil and replaced the air filter. The valves had been adjusted a year earlier, but with so few miles put on the car afterward, he adjusted them again as a precaution, since he had not done the work himself and knew he would do it correctly because of his 40 years of experience building 911 engines. He started working on Porsches after the loss of his Pan Am airline mechanic job following the Pan Am 103 bombing over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988.

Bobby picked up my son and me on the evening of November 7th at the airport in Hartford, Connecticut, which meant he had to get a babysitter since his wife was on duty as a nurse. He asked if we wanted to take delivery that evening and proceed to our hotel. We did exactly that after taking a tour of his shop. There were other Porsches there that were to die for, especially a couple of 356s. He and his partner also perform EV conversions on 964s.

My son owns a 1979 911SC that was converted into an electric car using a Tesla Model S motor, so he had a special interest in seeing that car. Bobby’s conversion was beautifully done. They named their company Sacrilege Motors, since that was the most common word they heard when Porsche traditionalists viewed their conversions.

After completing our business, we left in the rain (The Weather Channel said it wasn’t supposed to rain until later the next afternoon!) and went back to our hotel. Early the next morning, we were on our way to North Carolina. The car ran perfectly all the way back. We commented on how amazing it was that a 37-year-old car could drive and handle this well. Even the cruise control worked! The A/C still needed to be recharged; it blows cool air instead of cold air. It also needed hood and engine lid struts.

Underneath, car was untouched. That meant there was 37 years’ worth of crud on the bottom. I took it to a local place that does dry ice cleaning. They have done hundreds of air-cooled 911s and two 959s. The owner said they have had only one other car that was as original as this car on the bottom. The yellow marks on the nuts and bolts, showing they had been properly torqued, were still there from 1988.

All in all, Bobby made it an excellent transaction. My son and I drove the car over 700 miles and relived other trips we had taken in other 911s in the past. It was a great weekend.

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