Porsche's Epic 935 Recreation is the start of something spectacular

The most surprising thing about Porsche's grand unveiling of the first series of entertainment series in the first series is that the company was not launched earlier. The decision to build 77 copies of 935 GT2 based on RS is, when you think about it, for a long time.

For years, Jaguar's Classic Works has laid the foundation and construction of special continuation elements, such as the breathtaking D-Type and the compact and seductive XKSS. The prices were tempting. Start at the 1 million pound mark and look up.

Lamborghini has been doing this for some time now, building completely redesigned special editions based on existing chassis and selling them at much higher prices. Centenario and Veneno, both based on the Aventador, appeared three and six years ago respectively.

Lately, this is becoming even more common. David Brown is doing his job to create the Speedback with a vaguely Aston Martin style and some ugly and modern Jaguar oily bits. The same guys will sell you a fully modernized and totally new Classic Mini for up to £ 70,000. Aston Martin builds himself a series of DB5 Bond-spec with work gadgets.

Even Ferrari has entered the game. Remember the 2016 J50, the special edition based on 488 sold only in Japan? Only 10 have been built, but it is still a serial model. Then come SP1 and SP2, the first in the Icone range of concrete concepts, which combine a retro-inspired style with the hottest subverses of Ferrari's boldest contemporary metal.

So, Porsche is late for the party. But what an entrance! The new 935 may be deliberately different from the original version, but it mixes the classic and the current, as our own memories tend to do, by modifying the details to fit current trends. As the starting points go, it will be difficult to

Yet, one can dream, is not it? Browse Porsche's rear catalog with a glimpse of the possibilities you are missing, for the moment, unimaginable. A 356 box on a Boxster Spyder chassis, perhaps? A 917-esque shell designed on a hybrid V8 configuration taken from the 918 Spyder? Maybe even a Carrera RS 2.7, all tight and resolute, but with more muscular panels and performance given by a manual GT3? I think I need a cushion.

Some purists will say, rightly, that the more modern builders of copies or reimaginations built, the more likely they are to devalue both the copy and the original. If the copy is so faithful that few things can make the difference, the reputation of the original could be tainted, as happens with the Ferrari 250 GTO, whose almost exact copies are perhaps almost as numerous as the real ones. .

On the other hand, the world is entering a period where it is no longer possible to build cars as before. Porsche knows it. Her decision to recall days of fame comes at a crucial moment, just as she prepares to shift to electrical energy.

You could almost see the 935 as the antithesis of Taycan, and for that we love it even more. Porsche may be late for the retro party, but she knows how to make an entry.