Gunther Werks Speedster
We begin with coffee in Starbucks off Highway I-10 at Desert Hills Premium Outlets, Palm Springs. It’s out of necessity rather than choice – I’m here for the wi-fi, not the burnt, bitter, black coffee. Like many others whose names are shouted out by the baristas, I’m killing time before ‘work’ starts, though unlike most of them, I can’t wait to get going. There’s a transporter heading this way, and in the back is Gunther Werks’ new Speedster. Not a bad day at the office, then.
A quick recap in the unlikely event that Gunther Werks has passed you by. Based in Huntington Beach, California, Peter Nam’s company takes 993s and applies current engineering methods, materials and expertise to them. Think of it as a continuation; the idea being to project the 993’s timeline to today, as if Porsche was still building air-cooled 911s and injecting them with some GT3 and RS DNA.
Total 911 has followed the company’s journey since its earliest days, finding a Facebook post on a 993 group back in 2017 showing a headlight design that piqued our interest. That eventually led to the world’s first drive in the 400R – the Gunther Werks 993 Coupe prototype – back in issue 162. More recently, in issue 213 we revisited the Gunther Werks Coupe, discovering what four years of obsessive development has
