The world’s slowest Porsche 911 is up for sale.

No, it’s not broken or anything, but this particular 1984 Carrera 3.2 example did belong to a certain James May A.K.A. Captain Slow. In fact, the 3.2-litre 930 Carrera has proven to be a handful and quite frisky, but I doubt that James actually drove it near its limits, aggressive, or even fast for that matter.

Don’t forget, its 3.2-litre air cooled, naturally aspirated flat-six develops 231 horses, 25 less than the 1975 Turbo variant. Granted, it doesn’t have a turbo to spool up at the wrong time, but still.

Anyway, James specifically states that the car was used only in good weather as a “Sunday driver”, or a “hobby”. With emphasis on “only”

That means you won’t have to worry about its reliability, because the old girl wasn’t driven hard at all. That’s what you get if you consider buying a car from a pensioner. Yeah, it’s the same old car-salesman story with the Porsche that belonged to a senior citizen, only this time, the story is accurate.

No, we’re not poking your funny bone, because we’re not referring to James May (this time). In fact, according to the former Top Gear star, the Carrera was donated to his dad to use for the past four years because “he never owned a proper sports car”.

James also stated that “recently he (James’s dad) decided that he was getting on a bit to be seen in a retro stockbroker’s car, and my mother hated it”.

So there you go, if you’re a stockbroker stuck in the 80’s, a man stuck in the 50’s is willing to sell you his Porsche.

According to Bonhams – the auction house in charge for the sale – the car was bought by May in 2007 during recording of the “Speed, Greed and the M25” documentary. It has only 55,000 Miles (88,513 Km) on it, but knowing James’s habits, there is bound to be a little brush for cleaning the air-vents in the glove box. The car does look spotless, though – inside and out.

OK, but it has to have something out of its place – no car is perfect. Actually, the Porsche comes with a CD-Player, but James will gladly offer a classic, period-correct radio cassette player to go with it.

Bonhams also states that included in the sale is a “Haynes workshop manual; Porsche GB correspondence; service booklet; sundry service invoices; old and current V5 documents (the latter in James May’s name); and quantity of expired tax discs and MoTs dating back to 1984”.

The car is set to go under the Hammer at the Goodwood Festival of Speed Sale and it’s estimated to fetch between £28,000 – 34,000 ($43,675 – $53,018).

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