Love it or hate it, the Porsche 928 was a challenge to the status quo on many levels. It was Porsche's first completely in-house design. It had a water-cooled V8 in the front and it was a comparatively heavy luxury cruiser that could still make great haste.
Originally conceived as an eventual replacement for the then slow-selling 911, it was developed during the early 70's as the 1974 oil crisis unfolded and was introduced at the Geneva Motor Show in 1977 - just as the middle east erupted again and sales of larger, luxurious cars dropped off a cliff.
Through multiple iterations over 18 years of production it sold reasonably well, but certainly didn’t unseat the 911 as the Porsche standard bearer.
For quite some time it has been relegated to the background as a wrong turn of sorts but seems to be seeing a strong resurgence of interest as folks can judge its rightful place within the development history of Porsche's engineering and styling.
It was a real challenge to interpret the amazing (at the time) spaceship-like forms and proportions. The prototype shows some of the differences as I worked out the surfaces and proportions.
This Co-Hog Porsche 928 S Special Edition is the first of only four made. It was commissioned in 1983 by the owner who specified the factory Platinum Metallic color and a single rear fog light.
It was handmade from jelutong wood, turned maple tires, with an inset, formed copper-plate rear spoiler. As an interpretation of a 1983 928 S, it also has the more angular shark-nose front end and inset rear lights.
I drew up the slotted flat disc wheels and silkscreened them onto clear vinyl. They were then applied over body-colored vinyl and trimmed to fit.
The Porsche 928 is one of the few high performance cars I've actually driven and I found it to be intoxicating to drive to my limits and know that there was so much more to be had.
See a few more Co-Hog Special Editions here.