Porsche Built Two Special-Edition 911s With The Same Production Number

One of the important things for many car enthusiasts is having a vehicle that’s unique. It’s got to have something that other versions of the car don’t have. This mindset can be indulged to extreme levels when it comes to wealthy buyers with expensive cars. It’s part of why many high-end automakers create special-edition vehicles and open up all kinds of custom options for buyers with bank accounts to handle them. When they’re limited in production, too, they’re frequently numbered, so that each owner knows which unique car is theirs in the production count. So, it’s a little awkward when it turns out two of those special cars may have been assigned the same serial number. That seems to be what happened with a pair of Porsche 911 S/Ts.

The Number Is 1,724

The discrepancy was spotted by The Supercar Blog after two 911 S/Ts were posted to Instagram. One of the cars went to an owner in Guatamala, and it was shared nearly a year ago by an Instagram page that keeps track of examples of the Porsche and shares photos. That car was finished in the same Shore Blue seen in the launch photos of the S/T. In the photos of the car, it clearly shows the dash badge noting the model and showing the serial number of 1,724 out of a total of 1,963 units. The total number was a reference to the year that the 911 first launched.

The other car is a special commission from the Porsche Sonderwunsch division, so it has a unique combination of paint, interior, and more. Notably, they’re all varying shades of pink. In Porsche terms, the exterior color is Rose Red. The car showed up at a Porsche dealer in Germany, and the dealer shared a video. In a brief moment showing the dash badge against the glowing leather, it’s possible to make out the serial number, which also reads 1,724.

We’ve reached out to Porsche to see if the company can shed some light on the issue, and we’ll update this post if and when we get a response. On the whole, it’s not a major issue, especially since both cars almost certainly still have their unique vehicle identification numbers and can probably be sorted out. We’re also betting that there was a simple parts mix-up somewhere in the process of building these cars that led to duplicate badges being affixed to two different cars. Still, considering the rarity and cost of these cars, we can imagine the owners would like to get this sorted quickly.

The 911 S/T Is Rare And Valuable

As a refresher, Porsche launched the 911 S/T in 2023 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the 911’s introduction. It’s a bit like a 911 GT3 Touring, but receives unique bits from other GT3 models. For instance, it has the engine from the GT3 RS, but it’s paired to the six-speed manual transmission, and it has a number of weight-saving changes to make it among the lightest examples of this 911 generation. The base price was $290,000, which isn’t outrageous for such a limited-run and highly-specified 911.

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Of course, multiple owners, such as the one who ordered the Rose Red one, clearly spent far more money to customize their cars even more, making them even more special for better or for worse. The cars likely won’t lose much value, and may even gain some. One example was sold at auction for more than $1 million, though that was also a charity auction, which may have helped raise the purchase price.

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