STUTTGART CLASSICA

Lateral thinking and a free spirit form the heart of Stuttgart Classica. Company founders, Will Chappell and Jason Eaton, entered the Porsche world as hands-on enthusiasts with a taste for the unusual, which the friends indulge by creating unique 911 accessories to their own designs. The hobby quickly evolved into a side hustle, selling small parts runs to offset development costs, but marque fans across the United Kingdom wouldn’t let the graduate automotive engineers stop there. A growing range of products and customer projects turned business full-time in 2018. The pair have been doing things differently ever since.

Their workshop in Gloucestershire is dominated by a white-and-blue 1968 911 shell when we arrive. It’s one of Will’s personal cars and midway through an epic resto-modification process set to turn it from genuine barn find into an updated racer with bodywork like nothing else. He intends to compete with the finished build in Porsche Club Great Britain’s exciting 911 Challenge race series. The first-gen 991 GT3 RS vents worked into the front wings are a world first for a classic 911 and, he