PRIOR CONVICTION
Matt Prior
If you can’t take another Porsche 911 restomod, can I present you this instead? It’s a Porsche 912 restomod. I grant you that’s not 911 unadjacent.
To recap, Porsche introduced the 912 in 1965 as a cheaper, four-cylinder alternative to its recently launched 911, which was terrific but priced quite a long way above what Porsche buyers, coming out of 356s, considered to be Porsche territory.
The 912, which had a four-pot engine from the last of the 356s, bridged the gap until the 911 had comfortably established itself.
These days, the 911 is widely recognised as the greatest sports car lineage of all time, of course, but it wasn’t always so. In being not just cheaper than early 911s but also lighter and with better economy, the 912 actually outsold its morecylindered sibling at times.