TYPE7 DOCUMENTS TWO 993S FROM HONG KONG TO LUFT TOKYO

Luft arrived in Tokyo for the first time in 2026, setting up on the former KK Line Expressway, a 2 kilometre stretch of elevated road connecting Kyobashi and Shimbashi that the city decommissioned in 2025. Two hundred and twenty cars. Eleven thousand six hundred visitors. The first Luft to run after dark, under the lights of Shinjuku and Ginza visible from the carriageway. Among the flat six 911s on that strip, two 993s arrived from the same geography and the same year of inspiration: Hong Kong, 2018. Both were documented by Type7. Neither was built for a show. The Porsche 993 ran from 1993 to 1998 and is the last generation to use the naturally aspirated air cooled flat six that defined every 911 before it. Approximately 4,583 Targa units were built across the production run, making it one of the rarer 993 body styles. The Targa glass roof was a complete redesign from earlier models: previous Targas used a removable panel and a wide B pillar functioning as a roll bar. The 993 Targa roof retracts electrically beneath the rear window. The silhouette from the side is identical to the coupe. That decision to hide the body variant inside the standard 911 profile is a design position, and the pastel blue car in this documentation belongs to someone who understood it before he bought the car. ## The KK Line Expressway, 2km, After Dark Luftgekühlt has held gatherings in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New Zealand before bringing the format to Asia for the first time. The Tokyo edition occupied the former KK Line, a 2 kilometre elevated expressway linking Kyobashi and Shimbashi that served the city for 66 years before its 2025 decommission. It ran after dark, also a first for the series, with 11,600 people walking a strip of road scheduled to become a public park. The configuration will not repeat. Two 993s were parked side by side on that strip. Pastel blue and pastel pink. Both came from Hong Kong. ## Hong Kong First. No Photos. The writer who documented both cars for Type7 first saw the pastel blue Targa in a basement garage in Hong Kong, in a room full of supercars and hypercars. The 993 drew attention from across the garage despite being the smallest car there. The owner had asked that nothing be shared. Nothing was, for months. [Eddie Chan built his cream 993 under a four month deadline for Air Water Japan, finishing the day before the show](/quick/eddie-chan-built-a-porsche-993-in-four-months-and-showed-it-at-air-water-the-next-day-mph8jdaz). The Hong Kong Targa had no show date, no deadline, no schedule. It surfaced publicly for the first time when it crossed to Tokyo and appeared at Luft. ## He Bought the Wrong Car The pastel blue Targa owner originally wanted a coupe. He bought a Targa and spent time convinced he had chosen incorrectly. The car changed his mind over time. Watch face gauges were drawn by the owner himself. The center console was redesigned. The ignition was relocated. Custom lenses throughout. The paint is pastel blue, chosen not to be loud or seasonal but to hold its value over decades. When 4,583 units of your body style were built in total, a timeless color is not an aesthetic preference. It is a brief. ## 2018. Nakai Shapes a 993. Two People Watch. Both builds share one origin point. In Hong Kong in 2018, both owners were present when Akira Nakai of RWB shaped a 993 in a local garage. That session planted the idea of owning an air cooled 911. [Nakai has since cut fenders on a 964 at Porsche Santa Clarita in front of an audience split between outlaw culture and restoration purists](/quick/rwb-nakai-san-porsche-964-restoration-challenge-santa-clarita-purist-outlaw-p5x8k1nq). The two cars documented here are not RWBs. They took the influence and built something else entirely. The pastel pink Carrera 2 started as a widebody plan. The owner grew attached to the original 993 shape and changed course. The build became: bare metal repaint, sunroof delete, retrimmed interior, custom wheels, center exit GT3 RS style exhaust, whale tail conversion, one off gauges fabricated by close friends. Pastel pink, distinct from the blue Targa and from any factory option Porsche has ever offered. ## 4,583 Targas Were Built. This Is What Two Became. Luft Tokyo drew 11,600 visitors to a decommissioned expressway and ran after dark for the first time. The blue Targa and the pink Carrera 2 were two of 220 cars on that strip. [Daniel Arsham and Akira Nakai built the first slantnose RWB together in Tokyo in 2023, a formal overlap between the art world and Porsche custom culture](/quick/daniel-arsham-and-akira-nakai-built-the-first-slantnose-rwb-heres-the-archive-mp21urwc). The two 993s from Hong Kong are something different: private builds from two separate owners who watched the same session in 2018 and spent years building different answers to the same question. They ended up two metres apart on a stretch of elevated expressway, for one evening, in front of a city that had no idea either car existed until Type7 pointed a camera at Luft Tokyo. Photographs by RPM Generation and Italian in Japan for Type7. Words by Italian in Japan for Type7.