Monday 27 April 2020

A vintage Apple-themed racecar is listed for sale at $499,999

DuPont Registry

If you really want an Apple car and have half a million bucks to spend, there’s a 1979 Porsche 935 K3 Apple-themed racecar up for sale, according to Apple Insider. Apple sponsored the car — which is now listed for sale on the DuPont Registry — during the 1980 racing season. Along with the “Apple Computer” name, the car also bears the retro rainbow logo and a sticker on its rear bumper that reads “Don’t upset the Apple Car.”

According to a 2016 profile of its brief racing career on The Drive, Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was a fan of the idea of the company sponsoring a racecar:

It ran only the 1980 season, finishing seventh at Sebring, second at Riverside and Sears Point, and third at Road America, peppered in between with DNFs. But the...

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