GUNTHER WERKS 993 SPEEDSTER REMASTERED

American restomodder seeks to turn 993 cabriolet into the ultimate, money-no-object, air-cooled Porsche 911

- MATT PRIOR

TESTED 7.4.22, CALIFORNIA, US ON SALE NOW PRICE £650,000

Gunther Werks' headquarters is white and clean, spacious and cool. What adorns the walls depends on which area you're in: some car stuff, of course, but also expensive bottles where customers receive their cars and sci-fi models elsewhere - an apparent enthusiasm of Peter Nam, founder of both Gunther Werks and a company called Vorsteiner, which makes wheels and high-end carbon fibre components.

There's an element of cartoonish fantasy to Gunther Werks' cars, too - although technically they don't make cars. You buy a stock 993-series а Porsche 911 Carrera 2 (1994 to 1998) and they take it and remaster it, creating the 993 Speedster Remastered by Gunther Werks - the sort of naming convolution that keeps intellectual property people happy. But let's call it the Gunther Werks Speedster. And let's call it a resto-mod born from the idea of what would a money-no-object 993 look like?'

Nam and co think it would look like this; a bit like if Porsche had built a GT3 RS version of the 993, last of the air-cooled 911s.

There will be 25 Speedsters like this, following 25 coupés, whose production/modification run is now drawing to a close.

Gunther Werks can help you source the donor 993 coupé or cabriolet; ideally a car with a clean title with no accidents, probably costing £40,000 to £60,000, and there are enough in the US that they're not going to run out. Then the work starts.

The most obvious thing is a widening of the front track, for which the suspension already has mounts from racing homologation.