This guy accidentally bought a Beatle's classic Porsche to use for spare parts and it was full of mind-blowing surprises

This guy accidentally bought a Beatles classic Porsche thinking it was nothing more than a donor car.

On paper, it was just a 1980 928 S with a lot of miles and no obvious celebrity glow.

So the plan was to strip it for parts and move on.

Then someone checked the paperwork, and everything changed.

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How George Harrison’s Porsche 928 S nearly became spare parts

When George Harrison picked up his 1980 Porsche 928 S, he was getting one of the first of the upgraded S models. 

The new variant arrived for the 1980 model year with an extra 200cc of capacity, bumping power from 240 horsepower to 300 horsepower, along with black spoilers and subtle cosmetic tweaks.

Harrison went for a black-on-black spec and, importantly, he actually drove it. 

Over the first four years, he added around 11,000 miles rather than locking it away as a trophy.

After that, though, the Porsche 928 S slipped into normal life. 

More than 108,000 additional miles were clocked up in the years that followed, and those later miles were on a different engine block. 

By the early 2000s, it wasn’t being treated like a Beatles artifact. 

It was just an aging 928.

That’s how it ended up at auction in 2003, where Raj Sedha bought it with the intention of using it as a parts car.

The twist came thanks to Sedha’s wife, who checked the previous owner details and noticed the name George Harrison. 

Suddenly, the spare-parts plan felt almost sacrilegious.

Instead of dismantling it, Sedha commissioned a full restoration that reportedly cost around $125,000. 

The exterior was taken back to bare metal for a respray, while the interior was deliberately preserved. 

As the thinking went, if you replace everything, it stops being Harrison’s Porsche.

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A $100,000 comeback story

Without the Beatles connection, this Porsche 928 S would’ve been another used grand tourer with a complicated service history.

With it, the car rewrote its own value.

The restored 928 S later crossed the block at RM Sotheby’s 2022 Monterey auction, where it sold for $100,820. 

Interestingly, that’s less than the reported restoration cost, which says a lot about passion versus pure profit.

Celebrity-owned cars sit in a strange space. 

Some explode in value, like Kurt Cobain’s 1965 Dodge Dart, which sold for $375,000. 

Others carry a smaller premium, tied more to story than speculation.

Harrison’s own garage went far beyond this Porsche – he even owned a McLaren F1 that could rival some of the most expensive examples ever auctioned.

Still, there’s something fitting about this 928. 

It almost got stripped for spares, only to be saved by a name on a registration document and a forgotten cassette in the dash.

Not bad for a car that was seconds away from being dismantled.

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