As the storied German customiser heads to Monterey Car Week, we look back on a half-century of bespoke Porsches – and others
As we noted at the beginning of July, legendary Porsche customiser bb-Auto is coming to America with a new partnership with Galpin Motors, the Southern California auto dealer juggernaut. The collaboration will be first celebrated during Monterey Car week, with a new concept car debuting at the 2024 Porsche Restoration Challenge at the Werks Reunion.
Led by the husband-and-wife team of Rainer and Kathrin Buchmann (the b and b in the name), bb-Auto recently celebrated 50 years of transforming Porsches, Mercedes and others into bespoke creations. Porsches have been the majority of their transformations though, and despite some excellent work on other brands, it’s clear this is where the Buchmanns’ hearts lie.
“My fascination with…
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