This 1974 Porsche 911S (chassis 9114102574) has been built into a long-hood R-Gruppe style hot rod, with earlier bumpers, fiberglass components, and a de-trimmed look. Back-dated cars tend to draw some critics, but the mega-bucks Singer cars do it, and draw pretty much universal praise. We’d want to get the rear license panel and front turn signals right on this car, and then it would be an entertaining driver or event car. Find it here on eBay in Florence, Alabama with reserve met at $46k, but also here on Rennlist for $55,900.

The ’74s were the first year of the short hood, large bumper body style and are not nearly as beloved by Porsche enthusiasts as the earlier models. Other work has been done to smooth the look, such as filling in the turn signal lamps and the gas filler door. The seller notes that carbon fiber doors have been installed for weight savings — a feature not found on the original cars, but a nice way to bring the overall mass down. These Fuchs fit nicely, but we’d install 15-inchers in the earlier S/T finish if they would clear the brakes. Best bed for front turn signals would be the bolt-on units sometimes seen in the stock location on 911Rs.

The interior is a greatest-hits of race-inspired Porsche bits with a few incongruous details. The Momo Prototipo steering wheel looks perfect against the basic stock dashboard, but the modern CD head unit looks out of place and the exposed door innards, showing the bare carbon fiber with leather pulls, detracts visually. Add RS door panels and a radio block-off plate, and this would be nice and clean. We wish we could see more of the seats in the photos, too.

Judging from the description, the car seems to have a basically stock, or near-stock, ’74 2.7 S engine. The seller notes a recent $10k rebuild, but no aftermarket performance bits are mentioned in the description and neither are dyno figures. PMO carbs atop a 3.2 would be one way to wake up this car’s performance, but even the 2.7 with some hot rod parts would make for good oversteer.

This last photo shows is that the rear wing is an articulated 964 unit that raises with speed. We’re not a fan of that on the Singer cars, and we’d lose it here too. Overall we like the effort put forth on this car and think that with a little tweaking, it could be quite a car.