350 HP GProgramm Resto-Mod 1979 Porsche 911 - One Take

Опубликовано 15 июня 2017, 11:00

This 1979 "G-Body" Porsche 911 has been stripped to bare metal and rebuilt from the ground up to not only a very high performance standard, but also a very high cosmetic standard. It was built by GProgramm of Oyster Bay, NY, with the goal of bringing out the very best of classic 911 styling and modern performance in an air-cooled package. It has been converted from torsion beam to coil-over suspension, with big brakes, modern Fuchs-look wheels, and a 350-horsepower 3.4L "Twin Plug" flat-six.

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They drove this car all the way here from New York, 3,500 miles for Luftgek¸hlt and this is a lovely looking little '79 911.

It's been media blasted right down to the body, repainted in a lovely slate gray.

It's got the business the suspension has been completely gone through it's now on coil overs Bilstein dampers, it has Boxster Pistons at all four corners so it should be pretty thorough stopping power there's roll bar vintage style roll bar these lovely comfortable vintage look seats and a tartan that I really just have to get my hands on.

The gearbox is still a 915 version 5-speed and this company only does G body cars so it's not the full back date it's not modern 911s but only G body cars so this car only weighs 2,300 pounds and with quite a riot so let's have a go.

Now, according to the guys at GProgramm, I gotta wind out so wind it out I will.

It's got slightly bigger and we're 255 rear tire, Bridgestone Potenza Very direct steering, not power assisted.

Well rather than sit behind cars in this lovely piece of hardware, we're gonna flippen ze bitchen right here and just make ourselves a new direction.

It's got a lot of front tire, seems like it's tramlining a little bit but it might also need some alignment settings after across the US but feels real good.

It's luxurious but also got really good bolstering, it's holding me in.

Making me happy! Just a little hint of understeer on power but the lift brings it right back.

Luftgek¸hlt! Man, it's got a really good power-to-weight ratio definitely enough power to get yourself in all kinds of trouble It's linear enough and it's not overwhelming to the chassis.

Lovely day for a drive in Malibu; cool, dense air, medium humidity It's got 46mm carbs and, to be perfectly honest, I don't know what that means in the grand scheme of things but they were awfully proud of it.

Really engaging, really rewarding and I've found construction.

It was an unofficial quote bu when I said "When you build a car just like this what's the price point?" They said $200,000.

Whoa, $200,000 is quite a lot now it's not to say that there isn't quite a lot of engineering in this car, these twin plug engines I hear are quite expensive and some might say worth it and this car feels mostly very sorted.

Having said that, do I personally feel $200,000 on a regular G body Carrera that just happens to be some wonky color that's super rare? No, and people pay that all the time so what do I know? There's the 'what do I know' example for sure.

So price is relative if you can afford it, I can just tell you that it drives beautifully I can tell you that Prefer not thinking about what it would cost to build one and I can tell you that it does drive beautifully and before you commenters say that's Singer money I do have to tell you that it is not Singer money.

A Singer starts at 400 and goes up to half Singer money.

This car is 10 years older than my Fox Body which I drove up here this morning and it makes my Fox Body feel, in terms of build quality, like an absolute steaming pile of crap.

I mean I'll be honest my Fox Body's great, I love it but compared to the build quality of something like this even the basic car, there's no comparison.

There's a Nash Metropolitan around here that runs like 8's. You know making a car fast is only impressive to a certain degree.

You can't un-shitbox something no matter how much money you spend so, by starting with this beautiful well-made Porsche, you're quite ahead of the game already.

I'll say it again do I know if it's worth $200,000? It depends on how much money you have.

If you don't have $200,000 to burn then no it's not if you have a lot more than $200,000 well there' other things you can spend $200,000 on that are far dumber than this but let's not harp on the price let's just harp on the fact that I'm going to end this video with two minutes of twin plug goodness and I'll fade out check out GProgramm in the description.

Thank you so much for watching, thank you to GProgramm for bringing this car out and I'll see you guys next time.