One million dollar 911....and its not who you think

[skinnerd]

Saw this today.
Wow!
The car does have "RS thin plate bodywork."
OK...how'd they do that.
Certainly, a very nice car no doubt.
How does the accounting work on a car like this?



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTSL...ature=youtu.be

https://workshop5001.com/projects/no/

[patrick911]

I think it goes like this: "what, you're telling me that Singer is asking over $1M for one of their cars and struggling to make 'm fast enough?"
"Lets build something resembling it - remotely - and ask $1M too".

[steve shea]

They "like to think of it as a tailored race car". The question is what will the target customer think? Is it worth a million USD or just another poseur wagen trying to find a niche?

[GeorgeK]

I'd like to know *where* lies the 1mil.
They are not Davinci or Koons, or Haring, so I don't see the artisitic value, so it must be in the tech surely?

[Hellhathnofury]

1:30...
"feels like you're crawling into some lady's... or... uhhh… man's bag." Huh?
Certainly glad he corrected himself so as not to gender-offend.

Why would some schmuck pay 1M for a car that costs no more than $400k to build? Can someone tell me that?

[911MRP]

My friend and I went for a private tour of where Singers are being built but didn't light my fire prefer the 73 RSR that lives nearby. These sort of 964 rehashed by throwing money at it things don't light my fire and if they did I'd rather put something together myself. Some rock musician or hairy jeans sellers tinkering stealing or aping heritage touches to evoke and cash on the fashion for Rennsport and sporting purpose history is a bit odd if not slightly sad. Rather like overpaying for a glitzy rock tribute act.

[steve shea]

What Steve said! edit:MRP Steve

[TheBen]

$1 million? I don't see anything (on the surface) that makes this any more valuable than any number of Porsche specialist tuners that are making amazing cars in the $250k-400k range. Nice profit for 5001 if they get anywhere near that number. This car is for someone with more $ than sense IMO...

[LongRanger]

Are these kinds of vehicles really that surprising?

There 're obviously lots of people/money for things like this. And when 'hot rods' show up at Pebble in their own special class --- and >half the cars at Luft are 're-imagined' in some fashion . . . why the surprise?

I remember seeing a custom-bodied Alfa at the All-Italian Show, some years back, thinking . . . that's pretty smart. Build the car that you want --- totally custom/one-of-kind . . . AND still cheaper than any Real Thing

Think about it

An AC Cobra is a seven-figure car all day long. Have you ever seen an Cobra --- in bits? Coupla tubes welded together, draped in alu panels, with a truck motor stuffed into the front. You could build the thing in Zimbabwe, fercyinoutloud. (Kirkham does it --- in Utah) Makes me wonder what people really think they're getting for all that money

History, schmistory. After reading some of the self-serving appraisals of what makes anything valuable --- limited production, light-weight, storied, special-special, etc . . . how long will it be before people with the skills and resources build a thing that's just as special . . . and for a LOT less than what's on offer at the Auctions . . .


. . . oooooooooooooooor --- maybe not



Dickinson/Singer has shown how it can be done, so . . .



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[dr914]

they are going crazy, too much easily made money around. We just sold a million dollar 914 in Paris in february