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California is blessed with some of the world\u2019s finest driving roads. We explore them in Singer Vehicle Design\u2019s latest restoration service, the wildly desirable Classic Turbo<\/p>\n
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Words<\/b><\/span> Ben Miller [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”text-with-dropcap” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n Keys to some pretty special machines have been flung my way before; LaFerrari Aperta, 250cc Honda GP bike, my mate Andy\u2019s self-restored Triumph Herald when he was too hungover for the McDonald\u2019s breakfast run\u2026 But this is right up there. Without fanfare Singer Vehicle Design\u2019s Maz Fawaz hands me the key to the \u2018Fuji\u2019 Classic Turbo commission and we walk to the car \u2013 a car which, it should be noted, is beautiful like a desert dawn. Oddly, as we get closer to the car the Porsche refuses to get bigger, steadfastly remaining 964-era petite.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n I\u2019ve driven a \u2018re-imagined by Singer Vehicle Design\u2019 911 before, a naturally-aspirated Classic restoration that redefined my understanding of what an \u2018old\u2019 car can feel like, mostly because everything that matters \u2013 and with Singer everything is important; it\u2019s been the mantra since day one \u2013 had been lovingly restored or upgraded. Though the Classic services look older and curvier than their Type 964 source material, they drive like something more modern (they\u2019re far faster, grippier and well-braked than even a period RS, for example) while retaining the dinky size and timeless silhouette that makes pre-996 911s so special. <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/08\/2-5.jpg” title_text=”2″ align=”center” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=”car-img-caption” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”-15px||||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n Not a trick of the light. The road really is this steep. And the car really is this pretty<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n But the Classic order book is now closed, and, while much has stayed the same, at least in terms of the mission statement, Singer has gone supernova in recent years, shedding its boutique hot-rod shop vibe for a vast and modern new facility (complete with its own spray booths \u2013 not easy in air quality-obsessed California \u2013 and home to 450 employees), pushing the limits of what might reasonably be called a restoration with its outrageous DLS and DLS Turbo services, establishing an engineering facility in the UK\u2019s F1 belt (with another 200 employees) and pulling together a dazzling collection of top-tier collaborators, including Williams, Brembo, Bosch and Red Bull Advanced Technologies. It\u2019s also introduced this, the \u201970s 930 Turbo-inspired Classic Turbo \u2013 one of which we\u2019re driving today \u2013 as its main restoration offering. You turn up with a donor car and your life savings \u2013 Singer will do the rest.<\/p>\n \u2018They [the Classic and new Classic Turbo] share almost nothing beyond the 964 engine and monocoque,\u2019 confirms Fawaz. In part, this is Singer flexing its engineering ambition and capitalising on lessons it learned during the DLS projects. But the Classic Turbo service is also about making restoration timelines more consistent, reducing tolerances and boosting rigidity within what remains a labour-intensive process. <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/08\/3-4.jpg” title_text=”3″ align=”center” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n It\u2019s working. The lag between ordering and delivery is coming down as annual output rises, from less than a car a month in the old days to 27 restorations in 2021 to 140 in 2023 (Singer\u2019s intended output for the foreseeable) \u2013 and this together with a paradigm shift in technical ambition. \u2018The level of complexity is a different order of magnitude, not least modern traction control and stability control,\u2019 explains Fawaz. \u2018With Classic it was just ABS; it didn\u2019t really need any more than that. But with the Classic Turbo that\u2019s changed, and the systems required to support that meant we had to make a giant step forward.\u2019 <\/p>\n Fast forward a couple of hours and \u2013 heart fluttering, mouth parched \u2013 I pull off the road, kill the engine and climb from the 911\u2019s cosy cockpit with as much grace as my quivering limbs can manage. The quiet that follows is almost as beautiful as the flat-six racket that\u2019s soundtracked my last hour. A gentle ocean breeze hisses through the dry, scrubby undergrowth. Hot components cool with a frantic ticking. And hundreds of feet below the hypnotic Pacific pounds the Californian shoreline with a muffled roar like a distant storm.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/08\/4-4.jpg” title_text=”4″ align=”center” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n Too often complacency steals the really special moments before you get a chance to notice they\u2019re in your hands. Not this time. I am under no illusions. These hours \u2013 in this car, on this road \u2013 will be with me until the big sleep comes (and possibly even after that, who\u2019s to say?). And as I take a moment, the fact that this 911 and I find ourselves together feels like a miracle of good fortune on my part. <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”car-pullquote-notac” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|800|||||||” text_font_size=”22px” text_orientation=”center” custom_margin=”||5px||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n 964-era petite, this \u2018Fuji\u2019 Classic Turbo restoration is beautiful like a desert dawn<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n Talk to Singer Vehicle Design founder Rob Dickinson about origin stories and he smiles at the butterfly effect of one song: Black Metallic<\/i>. Over seven minutes long and big on mood shifts, it didn\u2019t look, smell or sound like a hit single when Dickinson wrote it, sitting on his bed at his parents\u2019 house, or when his band\u2019s label released it, in November 1991.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/08\/5-4.jpg” title_text=”5″ align=”center” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=”car-img-caption” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”-15px||||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n Detail is sublime, and unrivalled<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n But fate had other ideas. Out in the world, the tune was adopted by LA juggernaut KROQ. The station loved it, cut a radio edit and played it on heavy rotation. California found itself falling in love with Dickinson\u2019s band, Catherine Wheel. And Dickinson, who\u2019d studied car design and worked as a car designer before going all-out to make music work, found himself falling in love with California. Coincidentally, I studied the same course, and briefly met Rob when Catherine Wheel did a record signing in Coventry. Later, he\u2019d move to LA to pursue a solo career. Less exotically, I moved to Peterborough to pursue my dream of a job in journalism.<\/p>\n Again, fate had other ideas. Inspired by hot-rod culture, California\u2019s Porsche obsession and a mental scrapbook of lightweight 911s, Dickinson built his dream car. It became, in his own (only half-joking) words, the coolest car in the city. And the demand it unearthed (he could have sold it scores of times over) gave him the push he needed to establish Singer Vehicle Design. So now here he is, living in California, creating exquisite Porsche restorations. And here I am, accepting invitations to leave Peterborough (a wrench\u2026) and drive special 911s like this one, a smile on my face and Black Metallic<\/i> in my Spotify downloads. <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/08\/6-2.jpg” title_text=”6″ align=”center” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n Heading north on the Pacific Coast Highway earlier, the Classic Turbo restoration and I began to get to know each other. I worked to master its meaty clutch, re-adjusted to floor-hinged pedals and even reached gingerly across the bonnet to top up the tank (the central screw-off filler cap, labelled \u2018Fuel\u2019, is a tactile joy). And immediately it became clear this was no softly-softly GT; not in this specification at least. For while the Classic Turbo remit was always meant to include touring (plenty are being ordered with comfy seats and cruise control, and the nose lift is fast), just as Porsche\u2019s original 3.0-litre and 3.3-litre 930 Turbos bundled refinement and distance ability in with their boosted straight-line speed, every Singer restoration is a sandbox. Its makers may have lavished thousands of hours on reduced NVH, flawless midrange flexibility and Bosch electronics to spare you a whoopsie, but if you want your Classic Turbo restoration hard-edged and track-ready, that\u2019s cool too \u2013 this \u2018Fuji\u2019 commission is proof of that. <\/p>\n Finished in Turbo Racing White, it\u2019s firmly suspended, runs green tartan bucket seats together with very little carpet and, though it has seatbelts, harnesses dangle from a half-cage. So yes, you could tour in it. But you could also find a road worthy of the car and drive it like it wronged you in a previous life. A road like Deer Creek, perhaps.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/08\/7-2.jpg” title_text=”7″ align=”center” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=”car-img-caption” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”-15px||||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n Green tartan shouldn\u2019t work \u2013 and yet\u2026 Woof<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n Climbing from the ethereally spray-wreathed highway, Deer Creek is steep, sinuous in the extreme and sensational. A ruthless cross-examiner of a car\u2019s dynamics, not least its ability to change direction quickly but without instability and to stop hard without burning its brakes, it\u2019s also mostly deserted, its chunky cambers, wicked curves and gut-churning drops enough to discourage anyone looking for an easy life. <\/p>\n First impressions are all good. The seats are perfect; all-day comfortable but so supportive you\u2019re never distracted by having to hang onto the steering wheel mid-corner. Given the grip available (tyres are 18-inch 245\/35 Michelin Pilot Sports on the front, 295\/30 at the back), that\u2019s no mean feat. And because this is a 964 it\u2019s everything a 992.2 can\u2019t be, so light (circa 1280kg, depending on spec), compact on the road, big on glass rather than pillars and alive with feel through the hydraulically-assisted rack. (Singer rebuilds the system with faster gearing, lending the car a giddying agility. Wider front tyres bring additional heft, too.) <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”car-pullquote-notac” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|800|||||||” text_font_size=”22px” text_orientation=”center” custom_margin=”||5px||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n You could tour in it. But you could also find a road worthy of the car and drive it like it wronged you in a previous life<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n Tyres, brakes, engine oil, cabin\u2026 everything\u2019s warm now, so I click the air-con up a notch and quit the short-shifting. The alacrity with which the 911 punches out of corners should be startling. Like falling out of a plane, speed builds immediately and rapidly. And yet there\u2019s nothing startling about it, so smooth is the power delivery and so honest and open your dialogue with the car. The gearshift, like a good espresso, is short, sweet and powerful in its effect on your heart. Created by Ricardo for Singer, it\u2019s a bespoke six-speeder (the 993-derived \u2019box Singer uses in its Classic restorations couldn\u2019t handle the Classic Turbo\u2019s torque). You always get the shift you wanted, quickly and with such matter-of-factness you wonder why we ever thought to leave manuals behind. (Singer\u2019s dabbled with PDK \u2019boxes in CAD; too big, thankfully.)<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/08\/8-2.jpg” title_text=”8″ align=”center” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=”car-img-caption” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”-15px||||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n And there you were thinking you weren\u2019t really into big spoilers<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n With the first hairpin comes a reminder to adjust the stability control. It defaults to a very conservative setting, such that as the 911 and I arc into the corkscrewing second-gear left-hander and then go to explore the rear Michelins\u2019 limits on exit, wheelspin is massaged away so discreetly it just feels like the twin-turbo six has dozed off momentarily. It\u2019s an impressive display of delicacy, but I want to feel the full force of this money-no-object motor, a 3.8-litre evolution of the \u2018Mezger\u2019 flat-six with twin variable-vane turbochargers borrowed from the 992, complete with electronic wastegates and air-to-water intercoolers. Outputs start at 450bhp, though this example\u2019s dialled up to a little over 500bhp.<\/p>\n Playing with the stability control setting, Sport (dubbed \u2018lap times for dummies\u2019 by Fawaz) and Track (\u2018expert play time; it\u2019ll try to save you if you\u2019ve really fumbled things but it\u2019s not guaranteed\u2019) offer more scope to let the car move. And move this thing does. From the hairpin, Deer Creek climbs at a ferocious rate, weaving with every ridge and fold in the mountainside as it makes for the sky. <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”car-pullquote-notac” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|800|||||||” text_font_size=”22px” text_orientation=”center” custom_margin=”||5px||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n The gearshift, like a good espresso, is short, sweet and powerful in its effect on your heart<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n Acceleration is delivered in a single thick seam, and the sensation is entirely unlike that of a similarly quick modern car. Where so often the sense is of huge power moving a lot of weight, here it\u2019s of a healthy glut of grunt meeting with very little resistance, like a sailing dinghy in storm-force winds. The result is more satisfying somehow, and purer. And then there\u2019s the noise. Relatively unobtrusive at a cruise, the twin-turbo six\u2019s soundtrack \u2013 via a titanium sports exhaust \u2013 is hard-edged and multi-layered now, every shift in load, throttle position and revs bringing out more of its meaty musicality. <\/p>\n Earlier on, this example of the Classic Turbo service adhered to Fawaz\u2019s description of the project\u2019s character: \u2018We wanted something that gave you a tremendous amount of confidence; locked down, like you\u2019re driving a piece of granite,\u2019 he told me.\u2019 If you want to drive something that scares you, we\u2019ve got that. But here we wanted the car to feel like you could hammer it as hard as possible and it\u2019d never get out of line.\u2019 <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/08\/9-2.jpg” title_text=”9″ align=”center” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=”car-img-caption” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”-15px||||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n It\u2019s hard to watch the boost gauge and the road\u2026<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n Sure enough, the car\u2019s doing nothing to undermine my growing suspicion it might be some kind of Michelin-shod cheat code, so faithfully does it respond to my every input and so unstressed does it feel running the kind of corner speeds that reel in normal traffic like it\u2019s stalled. <\/p>\n Then, just as I\u2019m worried this new turbocharged era might be a little more mono-dimensional and less exciting somehow than Singer\u2019s first age, amazing things start to happen. I\u2019m pushing harder, the electronics are leaving me to it and the tactility this new\/old 911 begins to demonstrate is on a level I\u2019m not sure I\u2019ve experienced before, its mix of monumental mechanical grip and high-definition adjustability confusing at first. I tend to think of the two things as mutually exclusive, but Singer\u2019s inspired blueprinting of 40-year-old 911 dynamics begs to differ. <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”car-pullquote-notac” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|800|||||||” text_font_size=”22px” text_orientation=”center” custom_margin=”||5px||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n That old 911 interactivity is still there; filtered, massaged and made more predictable than it ever was in period<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n The grip on offer means you can drive quickly and neatly until the sun\u2019s dipped beneath the horizon and the surfers are towelling the sand from their toes, guiding that low nose with direct, almost kart-like steering. And yet every lift, modulation of the brake pedal and squeeze back on the throttle has a pronounced effect on the car\u2019s balance, trajectory and attitude, the unique 911-ness \u2013 trailing-arm rear suspension; rear-engined weight distribution \u2013 the ghost in the machine that keeps it from becoming in any way inert. That old 911 interactivity is still there; filtered, massaged and made more predictable than it ever was in period.<\/p>\n The only rough edge in this hypnotically cohesive driving experience is the first degree or two of brake pedal movement, in which not much happens. Such is the power and feel at your disposal thereafter that the impotence in that first millimetre or two of travel can be distracting, occasionally derailing your flow until your muscle memory gets a fix on exactly where the pads begin to work the discs in earnest. <\/p>\n Explains Fawaz: \u2018Where you\u2019re happy to have the carbon ceramics [steel brakes are an option too] is on a circuit, where the stopping power is off the chart. This car was one of the first, and some of the calibration and systems are still early versions. We\u2019ve since made changes to the clevis and the brake booster geometry to optimise the feel at the pedal.\u2019<\/p>\n California has a way of calling time too soon, the sun dropping into the sea fast and early. It\u2019s getting dark as the Fuji car and I work our way back to LA, the indigo sky backlit and luminous. And out there \u2013 omnipresent and brooding in the half-light \u2013 is the Pacific, a vast and shimmering expanse of black metallic. car<\/b> <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/08\/10-2.jpg” title_text=”10″ align=”center” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text module_class=”car-img-caption” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”-15px||||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n If you\u2019re even thinking about it, we\u2019d encourage you to make the call<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”subhead-mid” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_font=”|800|||||||” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_font_size=”40px” header_3_font=”|700||on|||||” header_3_text_align=”center” header_3_font_size=”28px” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row module_class=”facts-figures” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_orientation=”center” custom_margin=”0px||||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n Price<\/b> From \u00a3890,000 (typical specification, plus taxes and donor car) \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2025\/08\/11-2.jpg” title_text=”11″ align=”center” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ module_class=”boxout-wborder” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” border_width_all=”10px” border_color_all=”#C59720″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text module_class=”subhead-mid” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_font=”|800|||||||” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_font_size=”40px” header_3_font=”|700||on|||||” header_3_text_align=”center” header_3_font_size=”28px” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#6ABAFD” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n ANGELES CREST: <\/strong><\/span>Looping up into the hills north of LA, the Angeles Crest is famous and therefore plagued with far too much attention at weekends. 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<\/span>Photography<\/b><\/span> Olgun Kordal<\/span><\/p>\nPORSCHE 911 REIMAGINED BY SINGER, CLASSIC TURBO<\/h3>\n
Powertrain<\/b> 3746cc twin-turbo flat-six, six-speed manual, rear-wheel drive
Performance<\/b> 503bhp @ 6500rpm, 442lb ft @ 2500rpm, n\/a sec 0-62mph, n\/a mph
Weight<\/b> 1280kg
Efficiency<\/b> n\/a mpg, n\/a g\/km CO2
On sale<\/b> Now<\/span><\/p>\nTHE GOLDEN STATE’S BEST BLACKTOP<\/h3>\n