---
title: "Yes, This Is a Porsche 959 Convertible"
description: "It's not a replica. And it's for sale."
date: "2016-06-02"
modified: "2016-06-02"
authors:
  - name: "Max Prince"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/max-prince"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/supercars/3774/yes-this-is-a-porsche-959-convertible"
categories:
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
  - "Porsche News"
tags:
  - "959"
  - "Convertible"
  - "Convertibles"
  - "Germany"
  - "porsche"
  - "Supercar"
---

# Yes, This Is a Porsche 959 Convertible

![](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/images-by-url-td/content/archive-images/12_1817.jpg>)
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In the pantheon of Porsche, more so even than the Carrera GT, the 959 stands alone. Originally unveiled at the 1983 Frankfurt Motor Show, the car was a technological tour de force, and has informed every great Porsche since. It was a pioneer, for composite materials and turbocharging and adaptive suspension. It was a racecar, off-road at Dakar and for 24 hours at Le Mans. The 959 was not, however, a convertible. Well, except for this one.

![959inline.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/959inline.jpg>)
**ADR Motorsport**

The backstory: German racing driver Jürgen Lässig bought the car new in 1987. A little over a decade later, while presumably doing racing driver things, Lässig binned it on the Autobahn. The roof was extensively damaged. So Auto Becker, a German firm, purchased the write-off and set to restoring it. In the process, the company decided it’d be better suited as a convertible. And, thus, the world’s only legitimate droptop 959 was born.

It’s still got the goods. Twin-turbo flat six, all-wheel drive, a six-speed manual gearbox, and enormous tires tucked under those vented kevlar birthing hips. It’s also got interchangeable windshields, one normal and one low-cut screen, plus a removable hardtop. The latter comes in a comically large, massively inconvenient wooden box. Because if you’re going 959 Speedster, you should *really* go 959 Speedster. No point in half-assing it.

![959inline2.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/959inline2.jpg>)
**ADR Motorsport**

Dig it and have a million bucks to burn? The car’s currently [for sale here](<https://www.classicdriver.com/en/car/porsche/959/1987/387899>), through ADR Motorsport sas di A.Dazzan & C. in Italy.

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