American restomodder Gunther Werks has transformed a 993 cabriolet into the ultimate, money-no-object, air-cooled Porsche 911 - but is it up to scratch?
That the two ends of the car do different things and operate at such different rates and frequencies can confound some chassis engineers, who love old 911s but still don’t make easy sense of them.
The luggage compartments and engine bay get equally clean-looking overhauls. When the flat six returns, it’s a 4.0-litre engine making 435bhp for a healthy 352bhp per tonne.But crucially, Nam says, it’s a car that’s more engaging than current supercars in which “you have to be doing 120mph to feel anything”. In this, “we’ve taken an analogue car and used technology to enhance the driving experience”. Let’s see.
It’s a driving position from where you can do some good work, so it feels. The only things to worry about, Nam tells me, are the appalling turning circle and that the 30mm nose lift won’t automatically fall again at speed, although the ride is so terrible with it raised that you probably won’t forget.
Throttle response is wickedly sharp. This is a world-class engine with a single-plate flywheel that revs and revs, so Nam suggests to take it to high revs and leave it there. But it’s absolutely a sports car. Turn-in is wickedly sharp and you don’t have to moderate the front and then worry about the tail afterwards;
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