THE METAMORPH

BY MACK HOGAN

THE LAMBORGHINI-GREEN, six-wheeled Jeep TJ parked out front is something of a giveaway. Besides a few under-the-table auto shops and a door store, there’s little reason to end up in this industrial park outside Phoenix. Unless you know what’s behind Wesley Kagan’s garage door. There’s some distance between what it looks like and what it is. What the project looks like is an exoskeleton in the shape of a Sixties grand prix racer, a narrow-body open-wheeler inspired by Jim Clark’s Lotus 49. What it is, or once was, is a first-generation Porsche Boxster S. Continuing to call it a Boxster is either unsatisfactory or dishonest, given the scope of the transformation. The body, suspension, and interior all are unique, hand-built and designed by Kagan, 24. The powertrain was carried over to the…

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