South Florida is not an ideal place to push any car to its limit, let alone a custom-built Porsche that has been remastered by Gunther Werks. Nevertheless, when someone hands you the hand-milled aluminum key to a $1 million rolling work of engineering art, you need to make the location work. For those who are unfamiliar, Gunther Werks is a car builder out of California that exclusively produces Porsche cars.
Unlike Singer, which reimagines the Porsche 911 from the 964 generation (1989 to 1994), Gunther Werks remasters the 993 generation car (1994 to 1998). On the surface, it might sound like the two companies are pretty similar; they both build Porsche restomods, they both cost a small fortune, and even the words “reimagined” and “remastered” seem to mean the same thing on the surface. The reality is that they represent stark opposites of the Porsche restomod scene.
Reimagining something involves “rethinking an event or work of art,” while remastering involves “improving quality.” In other words, Singer’s philosophy is to perfect the original 911 formula; Gunther Werks’ is to take the 911 and push it far beyond what Porsche would have been able to make in period. The result is one of the greatest experiential vehicles we have ever driven.