This wild 1960s-inspired supercar has been designed by Jason Castriota. The car looks like a modern interpretation of the iconic Porsche 917. The Carrera GT’s 5.7-liter V10 and six-speed manual have been retained. The Porsche Carrera GT is an automotive great, but despite the car’s legendary status, Miller Motorcars, based in Connecticut, has used it as the basis of a one-off, coachbuilt supercar known as the JC9. While the world now has one fewer Carrera GT, it does have one seriously cool retro-inspired supercar. The JC9 was unveiled this past weekend and was designed by Jason Castriota. The American has previously designed models including the Ferrari P4/5 by Pininfarina, Ferrari 599, Maserati GranTurismo, Bertone Mantide, and the SSC Tuatara, and the JC9 takes inspiration from sports prototypes that raced between the 1960s and 1980s. Read: Reimagined Carrera GT SC Gives Porsche’s Analog Legend A Second Life Adorned with a blue-and-orange paint scheme, the JC9 sports a sultry front end with large headlights, a low nose, a small grille, and pronounced quarter panels and wheel arches, complete with louvers. Unlike the Carrera GT, the JC9 has a fixed roof and includes a pair of gullwing doors. The rear half of the JC9 is just as radical as the front. The Carrera GT’s iconic 5.7-liter, naturally aspirated, race-derived V10 is on full display and rocks a new exhaust system. The rear quarter panels and clamshell run seamlessly through to a twin-plane rear wing, unlike any current production car. It appears part of the Carrera GT’s rear bumper has been retained, but it’s now adorned with new fins on either side. Retro Meets Modern Like a new Lamborghini Temerario, the rear tires are almost fully exposed when viewed from the rear. Obviously, there will be people deriding the fact that a Carrera GT had to be sacrificed to make this car, but it is cool to see what can be described as the best interpretation of a modern Porsche 917. The interior is mostly standard Porsche, though it has been retrimmed with a combination of blue Alcantara and baby-blue-painted accents. There’s no word on who owns this car, nor how much it cost to commission, but they now own a true one-off that’ll never be replicated.
