KAEGED BEAUTY

Well, this is confusing. As we cruise along the L386 south of Frankfurt in mid-west Germany, all we see is yellow and green rolling hills punctuated by quaint little settlements, the occasional distant church spire marking them from afar. Whilst we’re enjoying our jaunt through this glorious countryside, we were expecting to happen upon a large town. More specifically, we’re on the hunt for a busy workshop on the outskirts of an industrial estate near the Ortsgemeinde of Flamborn, where a lesser known purveyor of that oh-so-popular 911 recipe, the restomod, resides. Rest assured, dear reader, our sat-nav isn’t on the blink.

The Alzey-Worms district of Rhineland-Palatinate isn’t the most obvious place to go looking for one of the most intriguing and interesting of personalised Porsches, but after a few turns through the quiet, narrow streets of Stetten, which look like something lifted directly from a vintage book of fairly tales, we find the home of Kaege Automobile. This is far from the typical premises of an air-cooled Porsche specialist — the company’s home is a combination of converted old barns and modern offices, which blend into their surroundings surprisingly well. It’s an interesting mix, and sets the tone of what we’ll