Click the fob and the Canford Classics GT unlocks as its alarm system disarms and the interior bathes in light. Pull the aluminiumskinned door and a puddle lamp twinkles across the ground, illuminating your safe passage to tailored wool carpets, Alcantara and boundless tan leather. Your phone starts charging the instant it hits the door pocket. The slats behind the sport seats hold your luggage. LED headlights flood the road. One squeeze of the thick-rimmed, shrunk-down steering wheel confirms it: up-to-the-minute sophistication oozes from every surface. Well, until the engine bursts to life with its original air-cooled clamour.
Yet this is no backdate. The flat-six growling through a bespoke equallength exhaust system doesn’t hail from a G-series, 964 or 993 generation 911. Canford Classics founder, Alan Drayson, wanted a challenge showcasing the vast in-house capabilities and individuality of his Dorset-based Porsche restoration company, which meant starting with an Italian-market 1972 911 T 2.4 and building toward the future. Enter ‘forward-dating’. “We had to do something different.
