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A green Singer-reimagined Porsche 911, targa top up, parked in the shop

The Paddock Files · Entry 02

The Singer 964

A 1992 Porsche 911 that went to Singer Vehicle Design and came back with almost nothing left untouched. British Racing Green outside, Hermès orange in, an Ed Pink-built flat-six where the original engine used to be.

It was not mine. It sat on the same floor while I was running lot operations, a few spots down from an RWB build and an E36 M3 Lightweight, and this is what it looked like up close.

What a commission is

Not a restoration. A second car, from the first one

Singer takes a donor 911 from the 964 generation, built between 1989 and 1994, and rebuilds it down to the body panels: new carbon fibre skin over the original shape, a reworked engine, and an interior trimmed entirely to the buyer’s own spec. What comes back keeps the silhouette everyone recognizes and almost nothing else from the car that went in.

Front three-quarter view of the Singer 911, targa top up
A wider front three-quarter view, other cars visible in the shop behind it

“What comes back keeps the silhouette and almost nothing else from the car that went in.”

The numbers

What the commission actually specced

Figures for this build, drawn from the deck it was documented with. Where a figure was not stated to a precision worth repeating as fact, it is marked as an estimate rather than presented as certain.

Donor
1992 Porsche 911 (964 chassis)
Programme
Singer Classic Study
Engine
4.0L air-cooled flat-six, built by Ed Pink Racing Engines
Power (est.)
500 hp at 8,000 rpm
Transmission
6-speed manual
Brakes
Brembo carbon-ceramic
Suspension
Öhlins, adjustable
Dry weight (est.)
~2,400 lb
Body
Targa
Paint
British Racing Green
Built
California

Figures marked (est.) are estimates from the documentation this build was recorded with, not published specifications. This page is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Singer Vehicle Design or Porsche AG.

What makes it different

Three things a spec sheet undersells

The center-fill fuel cap, machined billet, set into the rear deck

Fuel filler

A center-fill cap, moved for a reason

Singer relocated the filler to the middle of the rear deck, a direct nod to the RSR endurance racers, where a center fill lets both sides of the pit crew work the car during a stop. Machined from billet, it does the same job here that it always did: getting fuel in faster, from either side.

Motorsport placement, on a car that will never see a pit lane.

The rear deck with spoiler raised, dual center-exit exhaust tips, and the Porsche script

The rear

A spoiler that moves, an exhaust that centers

The rear deck carries a grille lifted straight from the original 911, a spoiler that raises with speed, and dual center-exit exhaust tips set into a bespoke rear valance. Every element is reworked, not replaced outright: the shape stays recognizably a 911, refined rather than redrawn.

Recognizably a 911. Refined, not redrawn.

The full cabin, orange leather and burgundy houndstooth, steering wheel and gated shifter visible

The cabin

Leather, houndstooth, and a signature

Hermès-orange leather runs the dash, doors and seats, cut against a burgundy houndstooth check on the seat centers and floor mats. A commission like this is trimmed to the buyer's own spec, the same way the 812 Competizione's Atelier programme works: nobody else has this exact combination, and that is the point of paying for one.

Cut to one buyer's own spec. Nobody else has this exact car.

Up close

Three details worth stopping for

A door opened onto a cabin that matches the paint outside, brushed metal mirrors set against green with the depth of field doing the rest of the talking, and a front grille that still looks hand-fitted rather than stamped.

The driver's door open, steering wheel and dash visible against the green paint
A brushed side mirror against the green paint, shallow depth of field
The front grille and vent, close on the fit and the hardware

On the lot

It was not the only rare thing on the floor

An RWB-built 911 sat a few spots down, and an E36 M3 Lightweight was parked in the background of half these photos without ever being the subject of one. That is what the floor actually looked like most mornings: one car worth stopping for, then another one.

The Singer 911 in the foreground with an RWB-built 911 and other cars further back in the shop

The build sheet

A plate, screwed in and signed

Singer records every commission on a small plate riveted under the boot lid, signed rather than stamped. This one names the donor year and the shop it came out of. The exact build date and the buyer it was commissioned for are not this page’s to publish, the same way the 812 Competizione’s serial number was not.

The Singer commission plate, riveted under the boot lid

Singer’s own record of the commission. Signed, not stamped.

The trunk

Quilted leather where a spare tyre used to live

The front trunk carries a quilted leather liner in the same orange as the cabin, a fitted travel bag, and the car’s own documentation, laid in like a piece of luggage rather than bolted-down storage.

The front trunk, lined in quilted orange leather, with a travel bag and documents

Where it fits

Documented on the lot, not in the garage

Like the 812 Competizione before it, this car passed through lot operations while I ran it, before that role ended in September 2026. It was never mine, so it does not sit in the garage, the register of what I have actually owned. It sits here instead, in The Paddock Files, under PaddockGavin, then trading as GoTime Motorsports, which is who documented it.

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