People do different things in their leisure time, like play football or watch a movie. Its a different scenario with a group of designers and modelers who spent about two years structuring and designing a modern clarification of a 1969 908 LH that is called the 908-04 concept.
We wanted to manufacture a car that nobody makes anymore. A “back to basics” kind of feel,that mainly focus on generating a feeling for the love of racing. A car for real “Car guys” and “Piston heads” just like us,” the team said on their website.
Forget about sequential transmission with paddle shifters, there’s nothing like a good, old mechanical shifter. A purely manual car, like many Porsche guys miss nowadays. We wanted to give it an advanced look with a truly mechanical soul, the “form follows function” ideology of Porsche
Alan Derosier, Marcos Beltrao, Martin Peng, Guillermo Mignot, and Tom Wheatley are the brains and master-planners behind the new Porsche 908/04 concept.
The team worked on this project for two years after working all day on their different real jobs. They estimated that they spend 5,000 hours in all on building their dream car.
I, as a designer, made the choice to have the long-tail because Porsches with this feature have something unique. And until now nobody, as far as I know, has tried to manufacture a modern version of it,” said Alan Derosier, the project leader
In my own opinion, it is a little bit of a forgotten idea, so I thought it would really be a “renaissance of an icon” that would generate nostalgia in car and Porsche enthusiasts alike.
It definitely has our vote. But here’s the shocking part, they didn’t obtain the permission from Porsche to create their concept.
A year and half into their project they received an email from Porsche—and it wasn’t a stop and desist notice. Instead the piston heads received the company’s blessing. Too cool.
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