This Week on Hagerty Marketplace: The 1000-Horsepower Edition

Welcome to This Week on Hagerty Marketplace, a recurring recap of the previous week’s most noteworthy cars and significant sales from the Hagerty Marketplace online auctions.

We have a trio of very different and powerful cars for This Week on Hagerty Marketplace, with total horsepower adding up to over 1000—or 1017 minimum, to be precise. How these three vehicles make their horsepower varies substantially—one with turbocharging, another with massive cubic-inch displacement, and the third with a large engine and some up-to-date tuning tricks. We’ll look at that one first.

2002 Chevrolet Camaro SS 35th Anniversary Convertible

Sold for $21,400

The 2002 Chevrolet Camaro was the last year of the fourth-generation model, and as far as we knew at the time, possibly the last Camaro ever. Of course, the model ramped back up for a fifth generation for 2010, and now that the sixth generation has ended production with the 2024 model, we’re back to that “possibly the last Camaro ever” place.

That said, the 2002 went out with a bang, thanks to the Z4C Camaro SS 35th Anniversary model. Starting with the 5.7-liter aluminum LS1 V-8 that was used in the Corvette, SLP Automotive in Canada added a cold-air induction system which, along with a lower-restriction Performance Exhaust system, bumped the horsepower to 325 from the Z28’s 305. The transmission is the durable 4L60E four-speed automatic, and it has a Torsen limited-slip differential and the High-Performance Ride and Handling package.

The Camaro is painted Bright Rally Red, and has silver checkered-flag stripes, with 35th-anniversary exterior SS badges and the anniversary logo on the front bucket seats. Showing just 24,235 miles from new, we suspect there are plenty of enjoyable top-down miles left in this Camaro.

1987 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe

Sold for $240,750

Also with startlingly low miles—showing just 18,329—this mint 1987 Porsche 911 Turbo Coupe was originally delivered to Holbert Porsche in Warrington, Pennsylvania. One of the oldest Porsche stores in the country, it was started in 1954 by Bob Holbert, who competed under the Holbert Racing banner and who passed the legacy on to his son, Al. Beginning in 2018, this car took up residence in Southern California, joining a number of other Porsches in a collection. Under current ownership, it has lived in a climate-controlled storage facility, on a consistent start-up schedule.

It’s powered by a matching-numbers, 3.3-liter turbocharged six-cylinder, making 282 horsepower, mated to a four-speed manual transmission. It’s finished in rare Dark Blue, with Marine/Beige partial leather upholstery. Complete with the Turbo whale-tail, it’s one of the most iconic, desirable versions of the 930 era. We’re envious.

1970 Plymouth Superbird

Sold for $189,925

You likely know the story of the Dodge and Plymouth “winged” cars: With NASCAR rules much less restrictive in the late 1960s and early ‘70s, manufacturers homologated some wild-looking vehicles in order to gain an aerodynamic advantage for their race cars. For 1969, Dodge built and sold the Charger Daytona, while Plymouth arrived in 1970 with the Plymouth Superbird, which won that year’s Daytona 500.

Quite a few Mopar “winged” cars found new homes in 2024, and this is one of the nicer ones we’ve seen. It’s the 137th car in a single-year model run of 1969, and it was a legit “barn find,” after the original owner stored the car for years in a barn in rural Kansas. Due to those years of storage, the original 440 cubic-inch V-8 with a four-barrel carburetor was replaced by a 440 Six-Barrel engine, though the original engine was carefully retained and is included in the sale.

That 440 with the three two-barrel carbs was rated at 390 horsepower, and it’s backed up with a three-speed TorqueFlite automatic. The powertrain has been enhanced with the addition of Mopar electronic ignition, an MSD ignition box and coil, a new cross-flow aluminum radiator with an electric fan and full-length Hooker headers, so this car likely pumps out more than the rated 390 horses.