SOLD!!! Actually traded this for a 1991 Carrera 4 Cabrio.

Car is almost completely original-including the sport option package-except for the items that you would want to upgrade anyway, including SSI Heat Exchangers, turbo lower valve covers, oil-fed chain tensioners, braided stainless brake lines. I bought the car with just over 53,000 miles - and it's 30 years old!!!

This car is one of only 3687 Carrera 3.0 ever built and one of only 1472 Coupes built as a 1977 model year car. It's even rarer here in the U.S. as they were never sold here. Instead, Porsche sold cars with the 2.7 litre motor, which was much more troublesome than the 3.0 litre motor this car features.

In 1978, Porche decided to use this motor-de-tuned to 178 hp-for all normally aspirated 911s and the 911 SC was born. Even though they used the same motor, this car had almost 20 more horsepower than the 911 SC did and is about 200 pounds lighter out of the box as well.

Performance numbers for the Carrera 3.0 are astonishingly similar to those of the famed Carrera RS of the early 70's and it's the last time Porsche would use the Carrera name until the Mid 80's.

While the Carrera RS productuion numbers from 1973 are certainly less, (just 1580) and the 1974 Carrera RS 3.0 had even more limited production, it is suprising that the Carrera 3.0 of 1976-1977 does not currently have the same aclaim and desirability of it's predecessors. Without the emissions and U.S. safety requirements that followed, it is certainly lighter and more powerful than the models that followed it.