Theon 911 driven | A supercharged Porsche? | Autocar
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
- If you want a Porsche 911 restomod these days, then you’re spoilt for choice. A huge number of firms - Singer, Paul Stevens and Tuthill, to name just a few - have found their niche restoring and modifying the German firm’s classic sports car.
However, there’s one that stands out from the crowd. This is a modified 964-generation 911 from Oxfordshire-based Theon Design, and it differs from most 911 restomods with its engine - it features a centrifugal supercharger to give it a bit of extra grunt.
Join Matt Prior as he tests this £500,000 restomod on the tight and twisty roads of Southern England.
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What an utterly fantastic sound coming from a truly sublime reimagining of a 911 👍🏻🏴
If money wasn't an issue and I could buy any car I wanted, it would be some of the many amazing restomods out there
For several years I had a specially built black-on-black-on-black 1989 supercharged 911 street-legal race car done up as a 964 RS. Very gorgeous indeed!
It made about 420 herssperrs, and it had a 5-puck race clutch about 3mm long. It weighed 1250 kilos with the roll cage in.
Frankly, it wasn't much fun unless I was at a track. The sound was so loud that road use required earplugs and I had to bolt the exhaust to take the top off it. It had no aircon - and it ran on black Cup-One alloys and Toyo RF888s. Very Sticky!
Would I ever own another supercharged 911? Um - No.
Because Superchargers are not much fun, require a shit-ton of power to run, and you don't get much from them unless you wring its neck - and then it can be very scary indeed.
A turbocharger is a much better thing, and I am now a convert to small capacity engines with small turbochargers, to eliminate lag.
In fact, I will never buy a normally aspirated car ever again. Turbos are awesome things, and an open-to-the-atmosphere BOV is a wonderful thing. Who knew? :D
A lot of power with damn all crash protection
+1.. Automotive journalist Matt Prior is Top Shelve. .. (subscribed) .. Walking to the garage as we speak to gaze once again at our "98 Carrera S, it has been a beauty since mile 11; delivery day. .. The 911 series deliberate evolution right up to the 993 production end .... Is something to behold. .. The coupe provides fond memories beginning with the 6-month-long order/spec process .... A great lifelong sports car .... Cheers, Colorado
I would imagine that Supercharger chatter would become annoying on the long drives a GT Car is designed for. It annoyed me after 9 minutes and 18 seconds.
why do so many number plates fall off expensive cars?
Half a million quid 😵😵😵😵
Singer money
If you say 500 hundred thousand, it doesn't sound as bad.
@@justsomeguy1141 For the poverty spec Singer 😀
@@MT-kx2uc is that a joke comment? You can't be serious about that. How about we nanny all your money so you don't get ripped off too?
@@justsomeguy1141 This is clearly a personal restoration that in cost terms seems to have gone bonkers. TD have done what this customer wants and we can respect TD for that.
Resale could well show that this has the depreciation trajectory of a diesel Mum Truck.
MT is right: GB has become a submerging economy with 30% of British children living in poverty (15 million of the total population) and in the G20 only Russia is running things more crazily.
Not all of this is the brexit fiasco of course, 12 years of bungling austerity to subsidise London's hedge fund managers will insider trading intelligence have helped. The folks who have 400K to let go on a car restoration are going to be paying up in due course.
I’m so glad you mentioned how much easier it is to be smooth in a cable throttled ‘analogue’ car with linear responses from throttle, brakes and steering. Since drive by wire came in, and latterly ePAS, and the continually increasing sensitivity of servo brakes, my enjoyment and love of driving has all but disappeared. 😢
…for current cars that is. If I jump in my MGB or any analogue car I always enjoy it!
Expensive yes but a beautiful car
Beautiful but that price. It’s as if 500k restomods are normal now. You can really have something similar for a fraction of the cost.
Great looking car. I really love the butterscotch leather interior. Would Theon put the KAEGE Ricaro seats in there covered in butterscotch leather. And I would request the seats have removeable inserts in leather. One basic, one with raised ribs and one with alcontera for racing.
I enjoyed watching the Video 😊
Stunning! ❤️👍
The B3351 a truly awesome road.. nice Porsche ❤
Beautiful car
Very nice but feel it will become tiring on the French or Spanish N-roads with that whine and not much fun on the primary roads. A standard car with AC (if summer) will do. I’ve done same in both water and Aircooled in both countries and nice as this is, that noise will drive me nuts, having covered French/ Spanish primary and secondly roads(north to south and back to north) in both my watercooled 911 and my Aircooled car.
Where are you driving ?? The road's and the scenery looks beautiful.
No number plates? Is it for King Charles?
I think the original 964 looks much better than that kitsch first generation 911 lookalike style they gave it.
Agree 👍😊❤️💋💯🔥🙏
Isn’t that quarter light in the way of the Door Mirror?
what coilovers are on the suspension ? springs and bushings ?
Restomods are always welcome!
Rotrex is a odd choice considering Jags all had positive displacement blowers.
Corfe Castle to Studland??
Love it, thanks
Hmmm! That is quite a lot of money and the supercharger "dustbin lid noise" is not my cup of tea.
Do some sums and you could acquire the new F296 for willy waving in Knightsbridge, some thing sensible from Ford for sitting in jams on English roads and an LHD Alpine for a decent tour in Europe, Wales or Scotland and still have change to by a WAG hand bag for 'er indoors.
It`s pretty sad to see classic Porsches destroyed to make these restomods. Take a 996 and restomod it, that`s ugly to start with, no harm done reinterpreting it. A clean 964 with turbo s or cup rims, a V3 KW coilover kit, RWD (conversion if needed) and a manual box, tune & exhaust and some newer GT3 seats (+ a half cage) should be a fun enough car to drive for anybody.
Can I just bolt the super charger on my 986 boxster?
500k no chance.nice though
“What is dead may never die”
Saw a Gunther Werks 911 for sale at the Beverly Hills Pagani showroom and it was just stunning and this looks very similar in quality and general fit and finish. I'd be over the room to have/drive any of these high dollar 911 restomods, they take the already beautiful 964 platform to the next level.
964 for modifying, 993 for keeping stock.
The air cooled 911s were perfect sized. The body and packaging remained roughly the same for 30 years and by the end of the run any imperfections had been exercised.
Make mine a 3.8 turbo 964 in GT Silver!
Like number 992. 😊
so no turbo lag? How about you talk about that...
Special car 👍😎
Why are so many restomodded? Maybe it's because porsche gave instructions on how to seam weld it and they fitted mounting points for this and that, but most probably because it can command a ridiculous price due to it being an icon for the rich
The original is always better 😊👍❤️💋💯🔥🙏
seats and doorcards are mistake
Sometimes I wonder what kind of drugs the people buying these things for half a million quid are using or are selling.
Honestly these 911 restos are not Worth the hype...500 to a Million can get you a lot of cars that are Special, not Resto...
Such a shame that all those beautyfull "resto-mods" are costing ten kidneys and a liver...
They are the ultimate cars for people in their late 30's, early 40's , cause those were the cars we grew up with...
Our generation of sportscars , but with modern tech!
But each and everyone of them ranges from 450k to over a million €'s ...
Alfaholics , singer , theon , legacy , eagle , gateway, Automobili Amos, rtech... etc...
Amazing cars , but way overpriced ...
At least in the case of Alfaholics you can bolt on parts like suspension to upgrade on a budget (although still a fairly sizeable one). If I had a 80s 911, I'd just get the suspension upgrade kits (like the front subframe assembly) from someone like Elephant racing, and focus on saving weight. Fairly easy to get 90% of the Singer driving experience for a fraction of the price.
Very bored with everyone's relentless 911 videos now; new and resto. So much great stuff out there and all there seems to be is Porsche back to back content. Used to like them but now I can't stand the sight of them.
wow, that's a tasty Porker.
I just wish they’d tae it to a Rack or an Airfield and give it some beans, just to see what it can do, describing what it feels like doesn’t help some readers to understand the Car.
You would have to be an absolute mug to buy one at 500k what a joke
You can buy 6-8 964 & 993 in your garage for that sort of £ 😎
Supercharged Porker 😁
Supercharged Porker.. 🤦🏻♂️