‘PORSCHE’S OWN AIR-COOLED MAESTRO HANS MEZGER WAS INVOLVED WITH THE ENGINE; RACER MARINO FRANCHITTI HONED IT TO PERFECTION’
As a plain English kind of guy, I often struggle in the modern world. And in particular with its current obsession with elevating everything to concepts, taking workaday products that do a job and substituting practical utilitarianism for a status wrongly thought to be loftier, an ‘idea’ or ‘vision’. Aren’t actual tactile, working things the very opposite of ideas? Surely the practical realisation of a vision is more impressive than the vision itself.
I’ll admit that I struggled when Singer first burst onto the scene in 2009. There were just so many portentous words when ‘we’ve made a 911 much better’ would have done it for me, and so many strictures over what you could actually call the thing in print. Needless to say, the name issue remains convoluted; here’s the lowdown from Singer’s own website: ‘Singer Group, Inc. (Singer) restores and reimagines 1989 to 1994 Porsche 911s, based on the 964 chassis at the direction of its clients. Singer does not manufacture or sell automobiles… Out of respect for Porsche, and to respect Porsche’s trademark rights, this incredible machine should never under any circumstances be referred to or described as a “Singer”, “Singer 911”, “Singer Porsche 911” or a “Porsche Singer 911”, or in any other manner that suggests
