N°047
1989 928 GTS — Bergrot
N°047 — 928 GTS — Wallis
We are not a body shop. We are not a tuner. We are an atelier — a small, slow workshop in the hills above Zürich where one car is finished at a time, and where every panel, switch and seam is judged against the question:
Would the original engineers be proud?
Every commission moves through our four pillars — taken individually for restoration projects, or as a sequence for full restomod builds.
From the first conversation to the moment a coupé leaves the workshop on its own wheels, every commission moves through six deliberate phases.
A weekend at the workshop. We talk about the car you remember, the road you drive, and what the finished object should feel like in five years.
Phase · 2 weeksWe locate, inspect and acquire a donor car worthy of the build — typically a low-mileage, single-owner example with documented history.
Phase · 4–8 weeksEvery panel, every loom, every fastener catalogued and stored. The shell is dipped, primed, and brought back to a known starting point.
Phase · 6 weeksMechanicals rebuilt, body re-skinned where required, paint laid down by hand, interior trimmed. Roughly a year of patient work.
Phase · 48–56 weeksEvery car is shaken down across alpine passes — Furka, Susten, Grimsel — until we trust it. Only then does it return to the workshop for final inspection.
Phase · 4 weeksHandover takes a full day. We drive together, we explain every change, and we hand over the build book — a hardbound record of the previous eighteen months.
Phase · 1 dayA commission begins with two decisions. The rest we figure out together over the next eighteen months — but for now, give us a starting point.
I grew up in a workshop. My father restored Mercedes 6.9s in a barn in Appenzell. The sound of a torque wrench was my lullaby.