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Illustrative imageReference car
A complete 1973 Carrera-style long-hood, a surviving panel, or a factory drawing. The truth we measure against.
Future workflow & capability roadmap
Digital precision.
Analog craft.
Traditional coachbuilding and modern metrology do not have to compete. We are working toward a workflow that combines both.
A surviving component, original body panel, reference vehicle, drawing, or existing geometry can potentially become the starting point for a digital reconstruction. From there, dimensional information can be transformed into CAD surfaces, tooling, bucks, templates, fixtures, machining instructions, or forming references.
The computer establishes geometry.
The craftsman makes it belong on the car.
Illustrative image1973 Carrera RS-style long-hood · the reference car for everything on this page
We are building the bridge between old-world coachbuilding and digital manufacturing.
Every capability on this page carries one of three labels. They are there so you never have to guess what exists today.
- Available today
- Existing, verified capabilities in the workshop and established specialist partners we already work with.
- Integrated as needed
- Processes performed through qualified outside manufacturing partners, specified and checked by us.
- In development
- Capabilities, equipment and workflows we are actively evaluating or working to bring into the restoration process.
Reference car → Finished Porsche
One sequence, nine stages
Digital technology does not replace craftsmanship. It gives the craftsman better information. Follow the Carrera from the reference car to the finished body.
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Concept imageMetrology
Metrology-grade scanning captures the geometry without touching it. The untouched scan is archived before anything else happens.
03Developing
Concept image3D digital model
Point cloud becomes a watertight mesh. Left and right sides can be compared; damage can be separated from design.
04Developing
Concept imageCAD / surface reconstruction
Clean engineering surfaces are rebuilt over the mesh. The panel is now measurable, reproducible information.
05Partner
Concept imageBuck / tooling
The surface drives station bucks, hammer forms, checking fixtures and templates, CNC-routed in tooling board or built by hand in wood.
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Illustrative imagePanel forming
Sheet becomes shape over the buck: English wheel, power hammer, shrinker and stretcher, hands and eyes.
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Illustrative imageHand finishing
Planishing, metal finishing and welding bring the panel to a surface that needs no filler to look right.
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Illustrative imageFitment
The panel meets the car. Gaps, flush, mounting points and the flow into neighbouring panels are corrected by hand.
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Illustrative imageFinished Porsche
When light moves across the body, nothing about how it was made should matter. Only the shape remains.
Conceptual workflow. Stages marked In development or Integrated as needed are not performed in-house today.
01—Capture
Capture
We are evaluating and integrating metrology-grade scanning technologies appropriate for automotive reverse engineering.
Capture is the foundation of everything downstream. The scanner's job is to record the geometry of what exists, whether that is a complete car, a single bracket, or a damaged panel, with enough accuracy that the rest of the workflow can trust it.
The untouched scan is treated as archival data. Every later step works on a copy.
Technologies being evaluated for integration into our workflow
- Creaform HandySCAN
- ZEISS / GOM ATOS
- FARO measurement systems
Named as examples of the category under evaluation. We do not claim ownership of a specific scanner unless verified and stated on this page.
Concept imagePotential applications
- Developing
Complete vehicle geometry
- Developing
Body panels
- Developing
Engine components
- Developing
Suspension components
- Developing
Interior components
- Developing
Brackets and mounting interfaces
- Developing
Damaged components
- Developing
Left / right component reconstruction
- Developing
Panel-gap analysis
- Developing
Reference-car documentation
In the workshop today
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Hand measurement, templates and profile gauges
- Today
Photographic documentation of reference cars
- Partner
Contract scanning through metrology partners
For projects that need it before in-house capture is proven.
02—Reconstruct
Reconstruct
Raw scan data is only the beginning.
The resulting mesh or point cloud can be transformed into usable engineering geometry using reverse-engineering and surfacing workflows. Noise is removed, damage is separated from design intent, and clean surfaces are rebuilt over the measured data.
This allows an existing component to become measurable, reproducible engineering information rather than merely a physical reference sitting on a workbench.
Reference technologies can include
- Geomagic Design X
- PolyWorks
- CATIA
- Autodesk Fusion
- Appropriate automotive surfacing / CAD systems
Listed as the class of tools the workflow is being built around, not as a statement of current licences.
- Scan
- Mesh
- Surface
- CAD
- Manufacturing data
Concept imageOutputs
- Developing
Watertight mesh
- Developing
Class-A style surfaces for body panels
- Developing
Solid models for brackets and machined parts
- Developing
Section drawings and station lines
- Developing
Left / right symmetry comparison
- Developing
Deviation reports against the original scan
- Partner
Engineering support through CAD partners
03—Tooling & bucks
Tooling & bucks
This is particularly important for Porsche bodywork.
A reconstructed body surface can be used to produce the physical references a coachbuilder has always needed, but with geometry taken from the car rather than from the eye alone.
CNC routers can translate digital body geometry into physical bucks made from suitable tooling materials. This creates the bridge the whole workflow depends on.
- Original car
- Digital geometry
- Physical tooling
- New panel
Concept imageWhat a surface can become
- Today
Forming bucks
Built by hand today; CNC-routed from surface data in development.
- Developing
Checking fixtures
- Today
Panel templates
- Today
Hammer forms
- Today
Welding fixtures
- Today
Assembly jigs
- Developing
Trim templates
- Partner
Machining fixtures
Tooling materials
- Today
Wood and MDF station bucks
- Partner
Composite-skinned bucks
- Partner
CNC-routed tooling board
- Partner
Machined aluminium forms
Section 03 · Tooling & bucks
Peel the Carrera back to its data
Scroll to move from finished paint to the scan it started from. Rear quarter highlighted as the principal example.
Available today
The finished car. Where every decision is finally judged.
Technical visualisation · not a photograph · 1973 Carrera-style long-hood, rear quarter
04—Form
Form
We are evaluating both traditional and emerging approaches to low-volume sheet-metal manufacturing.
Traditional coachbuilding is not a fallback in this workflow. It is the core. A buck derived from a scan gives the craftsman better information; it does not change what the English wheel is for.
Digitally controlled sheet forming may eventually allow low-volume panels to be produced directly from CAD data without the enormous tooling investment associated with conventional automotive stamping. That is exactly the type of technology we are evaluating for historically significant, extremely low-volume automobiles.
Digital and advanced forming under study
- Digital sheet forming
- Incremental sheet forming
- Systems such as the Figur G15, as an example of the category
We do not own a digital sheet-forming system and do not build our manufacturing strategy around any single manufacturer. The category is being studied as the technology matures.
Illustrative imageTraditional coachbuilding
- Today
English wheel
- Today
Power hammer
- Today
Planishing hammer
- Today
Shrinker / stretcher
- Today
Hand forming
- Today
Hammer forms
- Today
Forming bucks
Digital / advanced forming
- Developing
Digital sheet forming
- Developing
Incremental forming
- Partner
Low-volume pressed blanks through partners
05—Cut
Cut
CAD information becomes blanks, structure and tooling.
Once geometry exists digitally, flat and machined components can be produced from it with far less interpretation. Blanks are cut to the developed shape, brackets are profiled, and fixtures are machined to the same model the panel was formed from.
Where the workshop does not run the equipment, the work is placed with qualified manufacturing partners against our drawings and checked on return.
Illustrative imageProcesses
- Partner
Fiber laser cutting
- Partner
Waterjet cutting
- Partner
CNC routing
In-house routing for tooling board is in development.
- Partner
CNC machining
- Partner
CNC press-brake forming
- Today
Manual shear, brake and plasma
What they produce
- Partner
Sheet-metal blanks
- Partner
Structural components
- Partner
Brackets and reinforcements
- Today
Fixtures, jigs and templates
- Partner
Tooling
06—Join
Join
The digital model eventually has to become a Porsche.
Joining is where the car's history matters most. Historical construction methodology, material compatibility, structural requirements and the intended use of the vehicle determine the correct process, not convenience.
A spot-welded factory seam is reproduced as a spot-welded seam. A hand-formed aluminium panel is gas- or TIG-welded and metal-finished. Structure is repaired to be structure.
Illustrative imageIn the workshop
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AC/DC TIG welding
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MIG where appropriate
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Resistance spot welding where appropriate
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Metal finishing
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Panel alignment
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Fixture welding
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Structural repair
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Hand finishing
07—Fit
The last millimeter is still human.
A scanner can capture geometry.CAD can reconstruct a surface.A CNC machine can manufacture tooling.A forming process can create a panel.None of those things can simply declare the restoration finished.
The panel still has to meet the Porsche.Its gaps have to work.Its surfaces have to flow.Its neighbouring panels have to agree.Its mounting points have to align.
And when the light moves across the finished body, nothing about the technology used to create it should matter.Only the shape should remain.
By hand
- Today
Trial fitting against the actual vehicle
- Today
Gap and flush adjustment
- Today
Surface continuity across panels
- Today
Mounting-point correction
- Developing
Scan-based gap verification
Conceptual workflow
Not a record of completed work. A description of how an unavailable long-hood component could be produced.
The 1973 Carrera use case
Imagine an unavailable long-hood body component.
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Step 1Locate an appropriate original or reference component or vehicle.
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Step 2Digitally capture the geometry.
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Step 3Preserve the untouched scan as archival reference data.
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Step 4Reconstruct clean engineering surfaces.
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Step 5Compare left/right geometry and surviving factory references.
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Step 6Develop a forming buck, fixture, or manufacturing strategy.
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Step 7Create the initial metal component.
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Step 8Hand-form and finish where required.
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Step 9Trial-fit against the actual vehicle.
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Step 10Correct gaps, interfaces, mounting points, and surface continuity.
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Step 11Finish and document the component.
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Step 12Retain the manufacturing data for future restoration work where legally and contractually appropriate.
Then
- Reference
- Data
- Tooling
- Metal
- Porsche
What can be transformed
The 930
The same process applies to an increasingly valuable 930, where the problem is rarely a whole body and more often the hundred small things a restoration cannot buy.
- Damaged Turbo bodywork
- Difficult-to-source brackets
- Ducting
- Mounting structures
- Interior hardware
- Obsolete mechanical interfaces
- Restoration fixtures
- Body alignment references
How difficult the problem can become
The 959
The 959 remains the technological ceiling. The same fundamental methodology becomes particularly valuable when dealing with a car produced in extremely limited quantities with specialised, model-specific components.
For a 959, digital preservation of an existing component can be nearly as important as manufacturing its replacement. Capture is non-destructive, the archive comes first, and the repair or reproduction strategy is decided only after engineering analysis. We do not casually modify or rebody cars of this kind.
We do not casually modify or rebody 959s. Preservation of the original component comes first.
- Original component
- Non-destructive capture
- Digital archive
- Engineering analysis
- Repair or reproduction strategy
Manufacturing philosophy
We don't want to manufacture everything.We want the ability to manufacture what matters.
Porsche restoration already benefits from an extraordinary international network of manufacturers, restoration suppliers, machine shops, craftspeople, and specialists. If the correct component already exists, manufacturing another one makes little sense.
Our long-term objective is different: build the digital and physical capability necessary to solve the problems the existing supply chain cannot.
That could mean
One bracket.
One body panel.
One obsolete mechanical component.
One fixture.
Or eventually an entire set of replacement bodywork for a restoration where no practical supply exists.
The digital archive
Scan once.
Preserve forever.
In development
Where ownership, intellectual-property rights, customer agreements, and applicable law permit, project geometry can become part of a controlled internal technical archive. The aim is a serious restoration knowledge base, not a folder full of CAD files.
Potential records
- REC-001Raw scan data
- REC-002Processed meshes
- REC-003CAD surfaces
- REC-004Engineering drawings
- REC-005Dimensions
- REC-006Materials
- REC-007Manufacturing notes
- REC-008Tooling geometry
- REC-009Fixtures
- REC-010Finish specifications
- REC-011Installation notes
- REC-012Photographic documentation
Access, retention and reuse are governed by the owner's agreement and applicable law for every project.
Intellectual property and authenticity
Accuracy and authenticity are separate concepts.
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Scanning an original Porsche component does not automatically grant the right to commercially reproduce protected intellectual property.
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We do not reproduce Porsche trademarks, logos, protected designs, supplier IP, or proprietary components without appropriate rights.
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Preservation and restoration work is distinct from unauthorised commercial reproduction, and our language and our contracts keep it that way.
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Reproduction components are never used to create false provenance. A recreated Carrera RS-style component does not transform another 911 chassis into an authentic Carrera RS.
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A reconstructed 930 component does not acquire the identity or provenance of the reference vehicle.
Concept · intended physical environment
From point cloud to painted Carrera, in one building
The workflow laid out as a floor: the car moves left to right, and the material gets more physical at every bay.
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Metrology lab
Point cloud
DevelopingClean, temperature-stable room for scanning complete cars and components.
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CAD / engineering
Surface
DevelopingSurfacing, drawings, symmetry comparison and the archive.
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CNC / tooling
Wood and tooling board
PartnerRouted bucks, fixtures and templates from the model.
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Metal forming
Raw aluminium and steel
TodayEnglish wheels, power hammer, shrinkers and hammer forms.
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Fabrication
Welded structure
TodayTIG, spot welding, fixtures and structural repair.
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Body shop
Fitted metal
TodayTrial fitting, gaps, flush and metal finishing.
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Paint
Primer and colour
PartnerDowndraft booth through our paint partner until an in-house booth is justified.
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Assembly
Finished panels
TodayGlass, trim, mechanicals and interior.
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Final inspection
Finished Carrera
TodayLight moved across every panel, documented, signed off.
Concept imageConcept layout. Bays marked In development do not exist yet.
The 1973 Carrera is the icon.
The 930 demonstrates what can be transformed.
The 959 demonstrates how difficult the problem can become.
The digital workflow explains how we intend to solve it.
This is not another shop installing commercially available fiberglass panels onto old 911s. The ambition is to combine restoration, coachbuilding, metrology, CAD, digital manufacturing, machining and human metalwork into a modern Porsche restoration workflow capable of supporting cars for decades after their original parts supply disappears.
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