RARE AIR: PORSCHE 911 - 1
PORSCHE 911 { 1 }. - IT'S LIKE ONE OF THOSE UNSETTLING DREAM WHERE everything seems familiar but nothing makes sense: The car is obviously a Porsche 911, instantly recognizable to serious students of the marque as a 964, manufactured from 1989 to 1994. But the details don't compute. Extra-wide black fenders have been crudely riveted to tatty dark-blue body work in order to clear deep-dish Fuchs-style center-lock wheels. Which exist only in the fevered imagination of Porsche fanatics. The white ducktail matches the roof's color, but it belongs on a 73 Carrera RS 2,7, not a 964. Pink zip ties serve as door pulls, and aluminum sound-deadening tape is slathered all over the unfinished interior. The car looks less like one of Magnus Walker's Out-law 911s than Dr. Frankenstein's personal hot rod. But things get really weird when the car is unleashed on a test track at a former R A F bomber-training base in South East England.