We presently have on offer here at Beverly Hills Car Club a highly collectible 1969 Porsche 911E Targa featured with matching numbers and finished from the factory in Tangerine (6809) complemented with a Black interior.

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Equipped with a manual transmission, fuel-injected 2.0L flat-six engine, four-wheel disc brakes, single exhaust outlet, VDO instrumentation, Recaro-branded front seats, removable black Targa roof panel, Targa bar, wraparound rear glass window, rear rubber bumperettes, chrome trim, chrome headlight rings, Goodyear tires, Fuchs-style wheels, jack, roll, and a full-size spare tire fitted in the front trunk. Additional convenience features include manual-crank windows, driver-side rearview mirror, fender-mounted antenna, Blaupunkt radio, door pockets, glove box, and rear seat luggage strap belts. This rare example comes with an owner’s manual booklet, maintenance booklet with stamps, and service receipt copies dating from December 1992 through January 2019. This is an extremely desirable fuel-injected 911E that has just come out of the dry desert state of Nevada and is mechanically sound.

Incidentally, it was on the 1969 early edition 911 models – which our car is – that handling and braking were close to their best.

Yet despite that somewhat macho image, there remains something subtly super-cute and charming – almost feminine in their beauty – about all Porsche 911s.

Not that it is was immediately welcomed. ‘It’s not a real Porsche!’ came the response to the unveiling of the prototype 901 at the Frankfurt Motor Show on September 12 1963. The company’s reputation by then had been built up a solid reputation with the 356, a car that achieved its performance through fundamentally lightweight design and simplicity. By building a bigger, more powerful and more luxurious car, Porsche’s first entirely new model since the launch of the 356 in 1948, some original diehards believed the company had lost its direction. And that was even though the 356’s rear-engined layout had been retained.

Such was the 911’s success that within a few years Porsche was selling cars faster than it could build them; this led to a substantial proportion being manufactured by coachbuilder Karmann at its Osnabrück factory.

Porsche introduced the 911 Targa at the Frankfurt Motor Show in 1965. The 158-hp, flat-six, 5-speed manual engine was capable of hurtling the car to 60mph in 7 seconds, extremely impressive by the standards of the day.

The E reverted to the valve timing of the 901/05 engine and a compression ratio of 9.1:1.

In the manner of much German machinery the Porsche 911 was the consequence of the honing together of a myriad extremely efficient pieces of engineering.

The 911E’s designation derives from the German word for injection: einspritzung. The mechanical fuel injection ‘MFI’ system used on the 911E (and 911S) was jointly developed by Bosch and Porsche. It is similar to the injection system used in the Carrera 6 of 1966.

Intended as the luxury model, the 911E came standard in most markets with a ‘comfort’ package of features: these included ventilated brake discs with aluminum calipers, velour carpeting, a leather-covered steering wheel, heavy bumper rub strips and rubber guard inserts, chrome rocker-panel trim, and gold-colored script on the rear deck.

As I said, the 911E we have at Beverly Hills Car Club was built in 1969, the same year as Neil Armstrong’s first step on the moon.

Maybe not quite as huge, but the 911E was certainly a leap forward for mankind.

-Alex Manos, Owner