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Victor Gómez from Puerto Rico has had his 20-year-old Carrera GT technically restored to new situation on the Porsche Sonderwunsch Manufaktur, then reimagined with a Salzburg design harking back to the legendary livery of the 1970 Le Mans profitable 917. The challenge, described as a novel Manufacturing unit Re-Fee and dated 18/12/2025, additionally individualized the inside with purple Alcantara and matt carbon, turning a 2005 mannequin yr Carrera GT right into a one-off that blends a complete overhaul with traditionally impressed paintwork.
The Salzburg look is carefully related to Porsche’s first general victory at Le Mans in 1970, when Hans Herrmann and Richard Attwood gained within the eye-catching purple and white 917 short-tail carrying beginning quantity 23. Motorsport followers know the putting look as Salzburg Design, and the “Porsche Alpenstraße” automobile dealership within the south of Salzburg ready two 917s for the endurance race on the Sarthe, together with the profitable automobile. Gómez’s Carrera GT follows that visible theme, though Porsche notes the geometry, dimensions, and gaps of the Carrera GT are utterly completely different from these of the 917, so the design needed to be elaborately tailored to the form.
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To execute the outside, the group started with sketches after which renderings, then checked the dynamic course of the traces by taping the Carrera GT earlier than producing templates for the paintwork. The hand-painted end in Guards purple and white, plus the well-known beginning quantity 23, is protected by a clear foil as a result of Gómez desires to drive the automobile on the roads of his Puerto Rican homeland. Porsche says the automobile was utterly disassembled, technical elements such because the V10 engine have been overhauled from the bottom up, and carbon elements have been recoated earlier than the automobile acquired its Salzburg colours. The person look additionally consists of matt black carbon to distinction with the purple and white paintwork, used for the roof halves, A and B pillars, exterior mirror caps, the air duct within the entrance part, and the rear diffuser. The grilles of the engine cowl are black matt anodized, the unique five-spoke light-alloy wheels are painted black, they usually carry a colored Porsche crest.
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Inside, the personalization continues with Alcantara Guards Crimson utilized throughout many surfaces, together with elements of the dashboard and door panels, the steering wheel rim, and the middle console, with the entrance baggage compartment trim and baggage set additionally completed in the identical suede-like materials in Guards purple. Matt carbon seems as a contrasting accent on items such because the seat shells, the air vent cowl within the dashboard, and the instrument cowl. For the middle panels, sidecars, and headrests of the seats, Porsche says its inside specialists used black FIA textile from the 918 Spyder, described as a non-flammable motorsport material, and notes that the 917 design mannequin already had two seats as a result of they have been necessary for endurance racing automobiles on the time. Gómez stated, “The Sonderwunsch specialists labored with nice ardour and a spotlight to element. Now I personal a Carrera GT in new situation, with zero kilometres on the odometer, and inside and outside based on my private concepts.”
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Porsche frames Manufacturing unit Re-Fee as an unique supply throughout the Sonderwunsch programme, the place specialists perform complete technical revisions for customer-owned autos, together with traditional fashions, and doc the work so the automobile is virtually put right into a “zero kilometer situation”. The corporate additionally positions it as a chance to revamp the outside and inside coloration idea and, if desired, retrofit particular person color and materials choices. Working in shut cooperation with Porsche designers and builders, Porsche says prospects can refine concepts via feasibility checks and technical approval, and that present automobile knowledge is transmitted to the corporate archive so adjustments may be traced transparently.
