The beautiful things of this world #Gablelicious. @type7 • “Porsche’s new Speedster?” - These very words were plastered across the front page of a 1988 issue of Motortrend. Other outlets touted it as the preview for Porsche’s upcoming Boxster. This is the Porsche that isn’t - well, it depends on how you look at it. At a casual glance, the Wingho Spexter looks as though it could be a mid 90s Porsche concept that you’d simply forgotten about, but the car was actually built by Wingho Automotive (@winghoauto) in the year, would you believe it, 1988. The Montreal-based shop cut their teeth restoring 356 variants as a father and son team for many years, often wondering aloud what a modern day speedster would look like. Porsche at the time would have been working on that very thing with the G-series, however that offering was very much planted in its time, with only loose references intended towards the past. The Spexter would have been much more retrospective. The bulk of the components came courtesy of Hugh Kwok, the younger of the father-son team; “The donor car was my 1981 SC Targa, he explains to us. “It was a real clean car. Putting a knife to it was difficult but we had to start with a good base. We loved the 356, by this point we’d restored close to 30 of them, 4 of which were speedsters. I guess we wanted to build a modern day version of those cars, something unique and different. We collaborated with automotive designer Paul Deutschman. I think the car’s simple lines and coke bottle shape truly captured the simplicity and functionality that Porsche aficionados flock Photos by @malekfayoumi for @type7 Words by @therealalfiemunkenbeck for @type7 https://www.instagram.com/p/CXBRU_UNAir/?utm_medium=tumblr
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