You Could Have Bought Richard Hammond's Old Porsche 924 For £7k

The 924 used and distastefully modified by Hammond in an old Top Gear episode was auctioned off at the weekend for a relatively low price
You Could Have Bought Richard Hammond's Old Porsche 924 For £7k

As we’ve discussed before, Top Gear has a habit of killing the older cars it features. Happily though, there have been plenty of survivors, like this Porsche 924.

It didn’t come away entirely unscathed, with the car’s ‘owner’ - Richard Hammond - adding some rather questionable modifications including a matt black bonnet, a fake hood scoop and some stickers that look like they belong on a Hot Wheels car. But hey, it’s an amusing piece of Top Gear history, and someone bagged it at Coy’s Autosport International auction at the weekend for just £7,080 (note: not £6000 as previously reported).

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It was the car Hammond used in a cheap car challenge way back in series five (over 12 years ago), and was the subject of much mockery due to being - according to Jeremy Clarkson and James May - not a ‘proper’ Porsche. It fared better than Clarkson’s 928 entrant though, which was pretty much dead by the end of the film.

According to Coys, following its appearance on Top Gear it was sold into private ownership and competed in various sprint events. It’s good to know it’s been getting some proper use, and hopefully that’ll continue with whoever just bought it.

Would you spend £7000 on a slice of TG history like this?

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Comments

TipsyTimothy

Buy it and do a giveaway!

01/16/2017 - 12:20 |
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Anonymous

£6000 for an Ex-Top Gear presenter’s challenge car?

01/16/2017 - 12:24 |
174 | 4
Gites

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

7,000

01/16/2017 - 20:26 |
10 | 16
Joshua Lue

But its personalised to R.Hammond

*goes gets bank loan and changes name by depol

01/16/2017 - 12:32 |
30 | 0

Yep, it’s ‘Personalised’ by him.

The real reason it looks so…Weird, is because he’s always 36. So he’s kind of Childish.

01/16/2017 - 12:47 |
12 | 0
Anonymous

He didn’t name that one then?

01/16/2017 - 12:36 |
0 | 0
Joshua Lue

In reply to by Anonymous (not verified)

No, but he put Jeremys age at the time on the side.

01/16/2017 - 12:50 |
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Anonymous

Damn I just watched that episode again yesterday wow

01/16/2017 - 12:44 |
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HfromB

No hamster decal

No deal

01/16/2017 - 12:53 |
4 | 0
P5 Ford

“matt black bonnet” Okay.. sees reflections of the shiny bonnet Definetly matte black..

01/16/2017 - 12:58 |
6 | 0

Maybe you see reflections in a wet bonnet.

01/16/2017 - 15:25 |
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nobody 1

GIVE ME, GIVE ME, GIVE ME!!!! (200 bis)

01/16/2017 - 13:05 |
4 | 0
Harrison Joyce

I saw that car at the show, dam £6000 what a steal!

01/16/2017 - 13:18 |
4 | 2

Isn’t a steal, in my country a porsche 924 in good conditions can cost that. In spain a second hand car can cost the double of costs in the uk.

01/16/2017 - 14:47 |
4 | 0
Luke 15

I saw it

01/16/2017 - 13:59 |
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01/16/2017 - 14:08 |
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01/16/2017 - 14:08 |
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