Sleek, powerful, and built to perfection in just 18 months—meet Theon Design's latest Porsche restomod, the ITA001. Porsche
While the roads—and yes, perhaps the pilot, too—may be lacking, the car is not. It really isn’t. Simply to look at, the ITA001 is exquisite, the 911’s familiar swooping silhouette enhanced with myriad tweaks that combine to form a profile that’s sleeker than a moonlit panther.
Hawley, a car designer by training who has worked with Jaguar, BMW, and Lotus, is blessed—or cursed, depending on your take—with an obsession for detail that might make aengineer blush. He points out the car’s rear fog lights, which have been integrated into the rear valance, whereas, other restomod houses might bolt one on as an afterthought. He’s even redesigned the support rod for the car’s “frunk” space. “The original was ugly,” he says.
And more handsome, too. This is the sixth car Theon has completed since Hawley and his co-founder—who is also his wife—Lucinda Argy set up shop in 2016. Hawley’s mantra is to work hand-in-hand with the owner to create a bespoke car that’s reflective of their tastes and driving style. As such, ITA001, Theon’s first restomod for an Italian client, has been designed as a Touring RS—“sporty, but not in your face,” says Hawley.
The interior is a sea of beautifully detailed tobacco-brown bridle leather, interrupted by only a handful of buttons.Earlier, while we’d been chatting in Theon’s deliberately nondescript, off-map barn, Hawley and Argy had talked me through their philosophy. “We wanted to build the car as if Porsche had built it now, with the technology we have today,” Hawley stated. Argy continued: “It’s not meant to be a track-day car. It’s completely drivable, a car that would make you drive home the long way.
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