This Pininfarina-Designed Porsche 911 Could Be Yours for $1.2 Million

This unusual, one-off Porsche 911 gives you the chance to add a car with a unique place in automotive history to your garage.

The 1969 911 designed by Pininfarina is being sold for a cool $1.15 million by Hemmings, which says the manual-transmission car has 38,000 miles on the odometer. The car has been painted a neon green, along with the wheels, and is a distinctive hunchback shape. Plus, it’s the only Porsche 911 in the world like it, according to the auto marketplace.

“It was delivered in dark blue, but was a few years later converted to green, as it is today,” Hemmings says in its listing. “The gem was sold to a Porsche collector in Sweden 1974 by one of the largest Porsche dealers in Germany. It has remained in the Swedish Porsche collection since 1974.”

Hemmings also notes that it’s never been on sale since, representing a rare opportunity for the buyer whose taste in Porsches and Pininfarina includes quirk.

Pininfarina designed the car at Porsche’s request as a prototype to fit four people, back when the German marque was considering making a production four-seater 911. The wheelbase was extended by 7.5 inches to accommodate the need for a rear seat, and the roof extended as well for headroom. The result is a car that weighs 2,500 pounds and has unbalanced weight distribution, with 61 percent on the rear axle and 39 percent on the front.

The four-seater Porsche 911, also known as the 911 B17, never made it beyond this prototype, but still exists as an oddity and, potentially, a very valuable one.

“Pininfarina’s work on the B17 demonstrated the potential for adapting the 911’s platform to create a different body style, influencing future Porsche designs,” Hemmings also notes. “The B17 was never intended for production or widespread distribution, but the exploration of design and engineering possibilities later led to the creation of the 911 C20, a prototype 911SC model that played a significant role in developing Porsche’s all-wheel drive system.”

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The website itself is a bit short on details, though it says the car is in good condition and, with 38,000 miles on the odometer, present or former owners undoubtedly got some use out of it. It’s also short of pictures, though anyone spending $1.25 million on a car might do more due diligence than scan an online auction listing.