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Good Morning Vroomers,

The requests kept coming, so the market leaderboard is officially back. It’s the usual four platforms holding court this week, with a couple of near misses - The Market and Hagerty both fell short by a single sale.

Speaking of Hagerty, yesterday’s auction offered an unexpected little window into who’s actually bidding over there. The comments turned into a candid back-and-forth between two buyers in their eighties comparing notes on getting in and out of a G-body 911. It raises the question. Is that a one-off moment or a pretty accurate read on Hagerty’s core demographic?

More on that below.

MARKET LEADERBOARD

💰 The figures shared below don’t count any other sales such as car seats, memorabilia etc… All online auction sites are analyzed to put this leaderboard together.

I only include websites that have sold 5+ vehicles in the chart below.

YESTERDAY’S TOP 5 SALES

Want to dive deeper into any of these listings? Just click on the car to take you directly to the listing.

Sale of the Day

Every so often a Hagerty auction turns into something bigger than a sale. This one turned into a snapshot of who’s actually buying these cars.

A one-owner G50 Cabriolet with 45k miles is already catnip for the air-cooled crowd. Dark Blue over Dark Blue, original books, window sticker, steady service history, and a seller who bought it new in 1987 as a post-crash celebration. That alone gives this car a narrative most 3.2s can’t touch.

It closed at $60,500, a perfectly respectable result for a clean, lightly used G50 cab that hasn’t been over-polished into oblivion. Not a moonshot, not a disappointment, just a fair-market handoff from one long-term steward to the next.

But the real moment happened in the comments.

The seller mentioned he’s 83 and finally admitting the physical part of 911 ownership has become a challenge. A bidder chimed in saying he’s turning 80 and feels every mile of it. Suddenly you had two octogenarians comparing the ergonomics of a G-body Porsche like they were discussing orthopedic strategy.

And that’s where this sale gets interesting.

We talk constantly about the “next generation” of collectors, but scroll enough Hagerty listings and you start to see who’s actually putting the money down. A huge slice of this market is still the original-era owners. The people who bought these cars new or nearly new. The people who remember when a 3.2 Carrera cab wasn’t a collector’s item, just a Porsche you took to lunch.

They’re nostalgic. They’re financially comfortable. And they still want something fun in the garage, even if getting out of it now requires a stretching routine.

This listing captured that dynamic perfectly. A beautifully kept one-owner 3.2, maintained like a family heirloom, being passed on with the same level of care. Hagerty’s platform naturally attracts this demographic, and you can feel it in moments like this: conversations rooted in decades of ownership rather than speculative flipping.

The car itself delivered exactly what it should. Honest miles. Long paper trail. Original colors. The kind of G50 cab you buy when you want the experience, not the bragging rights.

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