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Southern California Cylinder Heads. Canibeat. Singer 911 offers vintage looks, modern appointments, exotic performance — Autoblog. Singer 911 -- Click above for high-res photo gallery Singer Vehicle Design rolled out its first prototype, plainly named the "Singer 911," at the Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance last month.

Based on an '80s-era long-wheelbase 911 donor vehicle, the company strips each chassis to its bare shell for "reinvention" into what Singer calls a "celebration of the golden air-cooled era of the world's most important sports car. " Incontestable is its vintage Porsche 911 look. However, the Singer 911 is far from antiquated. The complete reincarnation includes chassis stiffening, new active aerodynamics, and a lightweight integral backbone structure and roll cage to improve torsional rigidity. Under the rear decklid is an air-cooled 3.82-liter flat-six sporting six individual throttle bodies.

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