My white 1979 five-speed 928 is the second 928 I ever bought. It's rolling on 15-inch phone dials and it's got a pretty cool chocolate leather interior. This is what I would call a great entry-level 928. Sunroof delete, manual five-speed. The grand touring car, the thinking man's car.

—Magnus Walker

The first-ever production V-8 Porsche road car, the 928 was launched in Europe in 1977 and exported to the US the following year. The muscular, luxurious 928 was intended to replace the popular-yet-idiosyncratic 911, differentiating itself as a more mature and refined option. As if to underline the evolution of the marque, Porsche broke with its penchant for rear-engined, air-cooled engineering by endowing the 928 with a front-mounted, water-cooled 4.5-liter engine, capable of pulling the 928 to a top speed of 171 mph.

Magnus Walker’s Porsche 928 was completed 1 January 1979, finished from the factory in a very period-appropriate combination of Cashmere Beige over a brown leather interior. Now wearing a white exterior, brown hides still wrap the seats and dashboard inside the cabin. Riding on set of phone-dial wheels, it is a sunroof-delete “slicktop” example, lending the car a cleaner look. In fact, build information on file includes a power passenger mirror as the sole factory option. Though buyers seeing a more relaxed experience could order their 928 with an automatic transmission, this chassis sends its V-8 power to the rear wheels via a five-speed manual gearbox.

Acquired by Magnus Walker in 2018, this 928 showed 95,798 miles at time of cataloguing. As an attainable example of Porsche’s sophisticated V-8 tourer, this 928 is a great opportunity to acquaint oneself with, as Walker describes it, the thinking man’s Porsche.