RE: Sharkwerks 964 Carrera 2 Canyon Bomber: Driven
Discussion
I love 911s, old and new, and I’m sure this drives well but it looks absolutely appalling. The chrome headlight surrounds, gold wheels which at the same time manage to look too old and too new, tan interior is all a mish mash of standard / contemporarily tuned and resto-mod/ standard. It looks like something from Max Power et al 20 years ago, those magazines did feature the occasional modified-at-random 911.The final insult is that after all the mods they could not even be bothered to remove the black US spec tiny bumper thing in the front sidelight cluster. It looks dreadful. If this is their demonstrator, they need to realise that although us lot on this site read the details, everyone, even enthusiasts, make a pretty immediate decision about whether a car looks good or not, and this is honestly one of the worst looking 964s I have ever seen.
Edited by myhandle on Saturday 2nd March 21:15
Looks a nice little car. Like most 911’s the 964 is a blank canvas - the attraction being that it has modern under pinnings so it’s easy to tune with bolt on upgrades that offer a very modern handling performance.
The real joy of building air cooled (and early water cooled) 911 hot rods is that every car can be built with its own individual personality. It all depends on your own interpretation and preferences
Long may it continue
The real joy of building air cooled (and early water cooled) 911 hot rods is that every car can be built with its own individual personality. It all depends on your own interpretation and preferences
Long may it continue
GranCab said:
It's a "No" from me ... - firstly the 964 was the worst looking air-cooled 911 and some of the mods/upgrades here are a little crass to say the least !
Around 12 years ago I looked at a white 964 a Porsche Indy had, it was around £10-12k I think. Sure it would make a lot more now, but that wouldn't have made up for having to look at it's ugly back end for years.Morning all!
Cheers for the comments on the story; based on the commentary I should probably hammer home the point there's no Sharkwerks 'look' and they're not trying to do a Gunther Werks or a Singer or anything like that. They're a tuning shop at heart and mechanical upgrades are their thing - worth considering that this particular car is Alex's personal ride and has been used to develop the 964 bits so the visual tweaks are just little things he fancied doing. The wheels obviously through his friendship with Walker, the seats were a chance find in a breakers and the colour matched the stock tan interior so he thought 'why not' and the other stuff is just what he's done along the way.
So what I'm trying to say is don't judge it on the way it looks because that's by the by, judge it on the way it goes. Alex's pal who developed the ECU programming joined us for the shoot and his 964 had the mods but was totally stock looking - each to his own on that.
Personally I like the look but maybe that was the Californian sunshine going to my head! Key point is that the work here is in making stock 964s drive harder, faster and better and work as an old-school (but competitive) alternative to 997/991 era equivalents to test the theory it's actually more fun for 'fast road' use.
Cheers!
Dan
Cheers for the comments on the story; based on the commentary I should probably hammer home the point there's no Sharkwerks 'look' and they're not trying to do a Gunther Werks or a Singer or anything like that. They're a tuning shop at heart and mechanical upgrades are their thing - worth considering that this particular car is Alex's personal ride and has been used to develop the 964 bits so the visual tweaks are just little things he fancied doing. The wheels obviously through his friendship with Walker, the seats were a chance find in a breakers and the colour matched the stock tan interior so he thought 'why not' and the other stuff is just what he's done along the way.
So what I'm trying to say is don't judge it on the way it looks because that's by the by, judge it on the way it goes. Alex's pal who developed the ECU programming joined us for the shoot and his 964 had the mods but was totally stock looking - each to his own on that.
Personally I like the look but maybe that was the Californian sunshine going to my head! Key point is that the work here is in making stock 964s drive harder, faster and better and work as an old-school (but competitive) alternative to 997/991 era equivalents to test the theory it's actually more fun for 'fast road' use.
Cheers!
Dan
Dan Trent said:
Morning all!
Cheers for the comments on the story; based on the commentary I should probably hammer home the point there's no Sharkwerks 'look' and they're not trying to do a Gunther Werks or a Singer or anything like that. They're a tuning shop at heart and mechanical upgrades are their thing - worth considering that this particular car is Alex's personal ride and has been used to develop the 964 bits so the visual tweaks are just little things he fancied doing. The wheels obviously through his friendship with Walker, the seats were a chance find in a breakers and the colour matched the stock tan interior so he thought 'why not' and the other stuff is just what he's done along the way.
So what I'm trying to say is don't judge it on the way it looks because that's by the by, judge it on the way it goes. Alex's pal who developed the ECU programming joined us for the shoot and his 964 had the mods but was totally stock looking - each to his own on that.
Personally I like the look but maybe that was the Californian sunshine going to my head! Key point is that the work here is in making stock 964s drive harder, faster and better and work as an old-school (but competitive) alternative to 997/991 era equivalents to test the theory it's actually more fun for 'fast road' use.
Cheers!
Dan
Spot-on! I love the car, actually think it looks pretty good and obviously displays the owner's personal tastes rather than just being a 'built to fit in' style. It definitely has a Cali-look to it. I bet it goes like a bugger too, there's some great videos online of their 4.1 litre GT3/RS builds, they seem to be held in high esteem as a tuner / builder.Cheers for the comments on the story; based on the commentary I should probably hammer home the point there's no Sharkwerks 'look' and they're not trying to do a Gunther Werks or a Singer or anything like that. They're a tuning shop at heart and mechanical upgrades are their thing - worth considering that this particular car is Alex's personal ride and has been used to develop the 964 bits so the visual tweaks are just little things he fancied doing. The wheels obviously through his friendship with Walker, the seats were a chance find in a breakers and the colour matched the stock tan interior so he thought 'why not' and the other stuff is just what he's done along the way.
So what I'm trying to say is don't judge it on the way it looks because that's by the by, judge it on the way it goes. Alex's pal who developed the ECU programming joined us for the shoot and his 964 had the mods but was totally stock looking - each to his own on that.
Personally I like the look but maybe that was the Californian sunshine going to my head! Key point is that the work here is in making stock 964s drive harder, faster and better and work as an old-school (but competitive) alternative to 997/991 era equivalents to test the theory it's actually more fun for 'fast road' use.
Cheers!
Dan
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