Theon Design is a British

restomod Conservation and restoration of road vehicles is the process of restoring a vehicle back to its original working condition. Vehicles, whether partially scrapped or completely totaled, are typically restored to maintain their roadworthiness or to ...

workshop in

Deddington Deddington is a town and civil parish in Oxfordshire, England, south of Banbury. The parish includes two hamlets, Clifton and Hempton. The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 2,146. It has been a market town since the 12th cent ...

which creates bespoke versions of

Porsche 911 The Porsche 911 model series (pronounced ''Nine Eleven'' or in ) is a family of German two-door, high performance Rear-engine design, rear-engine sports cars, introduced in September 1964 by Porsche, Porsche AG of Stuttgart, Germany. Now in it ...

cars from the 964 series. The company is owned by husband and wife Lucinda Argy and Adam Hawley and named after their son, Theo. They incorporated it in 2016 after Hawley, formerly a car designer, modified his own Porsche 911, which became the prototype; they sold the car for start-up financing. Theon works solely on

Porsche 964 The Porsche 964 is a model of the Porsche 911 sports car manufactured and sold between 1989 and 1994. Designed by Benjamin Dimson through January 1986, it featured significant styling revisions over previous 911 models, most prominently the more i ...

cars: the version of the 911 built from 1989 to 1994. A team of mechanics modify the cars to owners' specifications in a converted barn in

. Modifications can include design features from other 911 series as well as the owner's choice of engine and

gearbox A transmission (also called a gearbox) is a mechanical device invented by Louis Renault (who founded Renault) which uses a gear set—two or more gears working together—to change the speed, direction of rotation, or torque multiplication/r ...

, modern features such as reversing cameras, and on request, replacement of the body steel with

carbon fibre Carbon fiber-reinforced polymers (American English), carbon-fibre-reinforced polymers ( Commonwealth English), carbon-fiber-reinforced plastics, carbon-fiber reinforced-thermoplastic (CFRP, CRP, CFRTP), also known as carbon fiber, carbon comp ...

. Each car requires approximately 6,000 hours of labour over approximately 18 months; the workshop produces very few cars a year, three in 2023. , the company foresaw a total production of 25.

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* Conservation and restoration of vehicles Companies based in Oxfordshire British companies established in 2023 {{motorvehicle-company-stub

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