Behold The Greatest Porsche 911 Build You Were Never Meant To See

This is no ordinary classic Porsche 911. This is a 1980 911 SC stripped back to bare essentials, lightened with cutting-edge techniques (and some not-so-cutting-edge ones) and rebuilt to look like an older 911.

It’s also pretty much car guy heaven, and you were never meant to see it.

Expert 911 builder Willi Thom has no phone. He has no email address and no website. His street address is a secret. He works only through referrals among his ultra-rich customers. Finding him is like trying to knit fog: difficult. Filmmaker Chris Kippenberger took four years to track Thom down, and this is what he found when he finally did.

This stunning – and stunning-sounding – ‘backdated’ 911 was built for, and filmed with the consent of, Bugatti design boss Achim Anscheidt. He even gives Kippenberger some interview time as part of the paid-for film series on Vimeo.

It’s completely stripped out with a bare-metal interior, and that’s not the only area where fat has been cut. The bumpers, doors, engine lid, wings and bonnet are now kevlar, marking a serious weight loss. There’s no heater. The chassis was dismembered and skimmed of non-essential weight. The whole car now weighs a phenomenally light 820kg. Don’t park it in any stiff breezes, or it might blow away…

The depth of the changes and the deliberation involved are such that we can’t hope to do the build justice. Jalopnik has gained a lot of insight here. You can rent or buy the whole video series, and for the die-hards among you it looks like money well spent.

If there’s plenty more of that pure, unalduterated flat-six music from the glorious air-cooled engine, it’s a steal.

Source: Jalopnik