Building cars is hard, and sometimes even the best carmakers make mistakes, including Porsche. Fortunately, the automaker was able to quickly correct an error where two limited-edition 911 S/Ts were fitted with dashboard decals with the exact same serial number.1,724– and the mistake would have gone unnoticed if an owner hadn’t tried to buy an extra personalized badge for their car.
Somehow car 1,742 accidentally received the second 1,724 badge. But Porsche won’t miss an opportunity to capitalize on a mistake that inadvertently led to two new rare 911s. The automaker has documented the error as part of the company’s history, cataloging the incorrect badge and storing it in its archives.
Porsche is building just 1,963 911 S/Ts in honor of the 60th anniversary, and the company is currently delivering the last few examples. The car has a naturally aspirated 4.0-liter six-cylinder engine that produces 518 horsepower, a six-speed manual transmission and weighs 3,056 pounds.
Both owners had heavily customized their S/Ts, and despite the badging, the two couldn’t be more different. Pedro Solís Klussmann, chairman of Porsche Club Guatemala, specifically chose car number 1,724. He and his mother were born on the 17th of the month, while his father was born on the 24th.
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His 911 S/T features Shore Blue Metallic exterior paint, the Heritage Design package and a carbon fiber roll cage. Suzan Taher, whose car 1,742 had the wrong badge, had no sentimental connection with the number. Her car is painted rose red and has a leather-lined cabin in Guards Red.
“There is a lot of specialized manual work involved in production, and human involvement means that mistakes can happen,” says Karl-Heinz Volz, director of Sonderwunsch at Porsche. “The most important thing is how you deal with it,” adding that it was important that the company apologized to both owners and corrected the mistake.
Klussmann and Taher received an invitation to the company’s headquarters in Zuffenhausen, a photo of the two cars and a box containing samples of the interior and exterior colors of their respective vehicles. It’s not every day that a car manufacturer wants to keep track of their mistakes, but this small mistake shows the human side of car building, sometimes creating something truly unique.
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