200 K EUR at least, if you can manage to fetch one. At only 2500 units they're unlikely to be sold at Porsche dealerships to non-Porsche customers.
As a funny anecdote a friend of mine managed to buy a Porsche Cayman GT4 RS (not just GT4 but GT4 RS) from an official Porsche dealership because he said he wanted one before Porsche even announced they would create that model. "I want to order a Porsche Cayman GT4 RS" / "But sir that car doesn't exist" / "I don't care, they'll certainly make one. If want to book it now".
> I'm not even a "car guy" but I sure would love to have one of those GT40's from Ford vs. Ferrari. (With a working door :))
Ah... I looked into that.
Good news: Ford sold the rights and the tooling for the GT40 (and hence lost the right to use the name "GT40", which is why their modern "GT40" is called simply "Ford GT") and a company called "Superformance" still creates new Fort GT40, which are nearly entirely compatible, parts for parts, with the original ones.
The Superformance cars are more than "replicas": they like to call their cars "continuation cars" (for they're made with the original tooling and they do own the rights to produce the GT40 and AC Cobras).
It's not the "real" thing in that they aren't from the 60s/70s, but then you can have one for 100 K (Superformance AC Cobra) or 200 K (Superformance GT40) instead of millions.
I've got a few cars and may buy a Superformance AC Cobra at some point. They even have the old Carroll Shelby chassis number starting with "CSX". The other AC Cobra replicas don't get to have a chassis starting with the elusive "CSX...".
Yup. Pretty outrageous. I don't think it is custom's place to decide if the owner is gong to drive it on the public roads or only on the track. That should be up to the state Motor Vehicle Departments whether to grant it roadworthiness certs and license plates, or not.
He should have been able to import it and at least sit it in his driveway, or take it to the track, even if he can't drive it to work. There are plenty of purpose-built racecars that are street-illegal; they get towed to the track and have fun.
Now, if he'd filled out the paperwork stating it was a road car, then likely US DOT rules came into play, but still, seems not the place of customs to enforce since there are legal options.
Oops lol for some reason I thought the person I was replying to was talking about a die-cast model or something! Of course the 959 is basically completely out of reach for a pleb like me.
As a funny anecdote a friend of mine managed to buy a Porsche Cayman GT4 RS (not just GT4 but GT4 RS) from an official Porsche dealership because he said he wanted one before Porsche even announced they would create that model. "I want to order a Porsche Cayman GT4 RS" / "But sir that car doesn't exist" / "I don't care, they'll certainly make one. If want to book it now".
And he got it a few months ago : )