RE: Behold the complete Fifteen Eleven Porsche 914

Looks really tidy....love it.

Restomod companies looking to justify thousands of hours of work in the price tag are surely gonna come unstuck at some point. Look at MST Escorts. Looks a cracking product and is sub £100k. It's a lot for an Escort but a good boggo restored car is a lot so the difference seems absolutely justifiable in my mind for a new car...

However, charging hundreds of thousands more for a rehashed and polarising take on what was a generally unloved model seems like lunacy to me when a good upgraded resto ticks so many boxes..

The £330k redux M3 is another one that springs to mind.. A nice thing but how good could you make an E30 for £100k?

I have to remind myself that for a surprising number of people these prices are peanuts but I still struggle to believe that when the super wealthy go car shopping they are gonna be looking at really expensive versions of what are essentially affordable saloons or sports cars.

Singer appear to be on another level and I could understand a millionaire petrol head buying an Alfaholics GTA for a pure analogue driving hit or a Prodrive Subaru etc but I do wonder about some of the less resolved products that are our there.. Of course there are no rules as to what should or shouldn't be successful and sometimes the recipe looks right, ( see Analogue Elise ), but I think the end product has to be exquisite if you are going to ask three or four times the price of a well built "bitsa" that an enthusiast might be able to build at home..

I wish all such companies the best of luck as I love the variety that resto modding brings but it's clear there's plenty of people jumping on the band wagon and I hope they appreciate that if they are starting with humdrum base cars there may be a few red cards being held up by some quarters if they asking crazy money for them..

PS. As for the FifteenEleven. The Etype and Maser etc all look great but the Escort Speedster......Jesus H..Even if it was a commission car there's no excuse. Just say no..

Restomodding one of Porsches mostly forgotten and comparisonly unloved cars and then making it look like a Smart car, does not equal success.

I'd happily be proved wrong. Give me a standard looking car any day of the week.

I always liked the Porsche 914. What I take from this is that the thing I liked most was the pop-up lights.

Will be great for overtaking, let's face it you aren't going to want to see that ugly front end in your mirror for long.

It's a no. Another uninspired retro mod beardy classic for people with more money than sense.

If I’m giving them £350k I am sure I can insist on pop ups and painted front and rear bumpers so it doesn’t look hideous

Have to agree on the design - the wheelarches don't look as good as the 916GT ones that grace many modded 914s and that front end is worse than the original. Not sure I like the fenders being offset from the doors either....
Maybe I'm biased though, having designed the 981 exteriors whilst at Porsche...