By continuing to use this site, you agree to the use of cookies. FIND OUT MORE Singer Vehicle Design Restored. Reimagined. Reborn Home News/Press News Customizing a Porsche 911 into a work of art UPDATED ON JANUARY 8, 2021 NEWS PRESS Customizing a Porsche 911 into a work of art ISAAC MCBRIDE SHARE 19 “It’s crazy, isn’t it?” says Drew Coblitz with a laugh. The 31-year-old Philadelphia-based luxury expert and entrepreneur is the owner of Singer Vehicle Design’s latest work of art, a gloriously up-leveled and optimized 1990 Porsche 911. I’m laughing too, but mostly because of the visceral reactions his meticulously specced, inky-blue-black car is provoking in me. For a few high-speed moments I’m the lucky one in his driver’s seat, a work of woven-leather art in its own right. With the hand-carved ebony wood shifter knob in my right hand (pretty much every detail, from the car’s tuning down to literal nuts and bolts, is customized by Singer for each client) and my feet dancing across all three pedals in the footwell below, I’m in internal combustion heaven. Coblitz’s one-off is a formidable yet nimble sports car with a howling, high-revving soul, hellbent on devouring the curvaceous canyon road we’re on as though it might never see another. Singer Vehicle Design is a skunkworks hidden away in Sun Valley that optimizes Porsche 911s from 1989 to 1994, the era that purists consider the pinnacle of the German manufacturer’s air-cooled engineering. These are not merely restored sports cars, though, these are masterpieces of next-gen engineering, materials science and haute couture-level interiors. Think of them as the automotive equivalent of Faberge eggs on steroids. Or to personify it all, imagine Sean Connery’s 007 crossed with Charlize Theron and blended with a dash of Joaquin Phoenix’s Joker: sexy, strong, audacious — and ultimately brilliant. View full article at LATimes.com .ARLA{FILL:#999596;} PREVIOUS ARTICLE Singer Vehicle Design | PH Meets (Part II) NEXT ARTICLE.ARRA{FILL:#999596;} These Porsche 911 Customs are the Ultimate Automotive Upgrades Recommended Articles UPDATED ON JANUARY 8, 2021 LINK NEWS PRESS These Porsche 911 Customs are the Ultimate Automotive Upgrades UPDATED ON JANUARY 8, 2021 NEWS UNCATEGORIZED Singer Vehicle Design DLS dances on ice UPDATED ON JANUARY 8, 2021 LINK NEWS PRESS Singer Vehicle Design | PH Meets (Part II) RESTORED. REIMAGINED. REBORN. Home Specs News/Press Careers Contact Us RECENT NEWS NEWSUNCATEGORIZED Singer Vehicle Design DLS dances on ice JANUARY 29, 2020 LINKNEWSPRESS These Porsche 911 Customs are the Ultimate Automotive Upgrades JANUARY 24, 2020 NEWSPRESS Customizing a Porsche 911 into a work of art NOVEMBER 16, 2019 Copyright 2021 Singer Vehicle Design. Singer Vehicle Design (SVD or Singer) restores and modifies existing Porsche® automobiles for its customers. Singer does not manufacture or sell automobiles. SVD is not sponsored, associated, approved, endorsed nor, in any way, affiliated with Porsche Cars North America, Inc., or Dr. Ing. h.c.F. Porsche, AG (www.porsche.com). The Porsche® name and crest are trademarks of Dr. Ing. h.c.F. Porsche AG, and any other products mentioned are the trademarks of their respective holders. Any mention of trademarked names or other marks is for purpose of reference only. The product of Singer’s painstaking effort is a Porsche 911® restored and reimagined by Singer. Out of respect for Porsche, and to respect Porsche’s trademark rights, this incredible machine should never under any circumstances be referred to or described as a "Singer," "Singer 911," "Singer Porsche 911" or a "Porsche Singer 911," or in any other manner that suggests that it is anything but a Porsche® 911®. Privacy Policy