If, as they say, the devil’s in the details, then the fires must be burning pretty damn hot at Singer Vehicle Design. The company has built a fine reputation for itself by “reimagining” Porsche 911s, paying excruciatingly exact attention to every last nook and cranny of the classic German sports cars. And we could hardly imagine many better ways of starting your week off right than pouring through them.
Based in the heart of SoCal car culture in Los Angeles, Singer is the brainchild and fruit of exacting labor of one Rob Dickinson – that’s right, the Rob Dickinson (Christopher Walken having famously portrayed Rob’s cousin Bruce of Iron Maiden fame in the cult-classic SNL sketch).
Rob started the company after an earlier career as a singer/songwriter (most notably as frontman of the British alternative rock brand Catherine Wheel), and named the customizer after his former vocation. Dickinson and company have been resto-modding 911s since 2009, and to date have completed nearly a hundred of them – which is pretty impressive, considering how much work evidently goes into each one.
Each has been made to order, in consultation with its well-heeled clients. That’s why no two ever leave Singer’s workshop exactly the same, and likely never will. Most of the “Porsche 911s reimagined by Singer” (as the intellectual-property lawyers have worked out to call them) built to date have been commissioned by customers in the United States, their names assigned according to their owners’ home towns (or cities of residence at any rate). But more than a handful have found their way to far-flung locations abroad – from Toronto to Bahrain, the French town of Le Mans, and Hong Kong (which has accounted for a disproportionate number of them).
Owners have been known to bring their cars together here and there. Like several did for the Goodwood Festival of Speed this past weekend, where Singer unveiled its new Dynamics and Lightweighting Study, carried out in conjunction with Williams Advanced Engineering. But outside of those few-and-far-between gatherings, the prospect of ever seeing any quantity of Singer-modded Porsches in the same place at the same time seems rather remote. Your best chance to dive into their immaculate splendor, then, may very well be this massive, curated gallery we’ve assembled for your viewing pleasure. So enjoy, and have yourself a good week.