EDDIE CHAN BUILT A PORSCHE 993 IN FOUR MONTHS AND SHOWED IT AT AIR WATER THE NEXT DAY

The car was done literally the day before the show. That is from Eddie Chan himself, in the Type7 caption for a build that took four months from start to show. The show was Air Water, the Japanese car culture event held in April 2026. The car is a Porsche 993, the last of the air-cooled 911 generations, produced from 1993 to 1998. Eddie's handle is @myfinancialmistakes. Four months for a full custom build is fast. Paint jobs on custom cars can run six to eight months by themselves. The constraint was the Air Water invitation, which created a fixed deadline that Eddie could not negotiate. That constraint produced the decisions: work backward from the show date, identify what had to be done in sequence, and adapt when pieces arrived wrong or fits were off. ## The Color Is the Starting Point The color is a unique cream finish developed with a friend in Asia. It is not in the Porsche Sonderwunsch option list. Sonderwunsch, German for special wish, is the Porsche custom program that allows buyers to specify paint from approximately 50,000 color references at the factory in Stuttgart. The 993 generation was produced during the era when Sonderwunsch was a factory program for individual commissions, not the configured online experience it became with later generations. Eddie's cream is not a factory reference. It is a custom development that took ten or more color iterations to find. The 993 front end was always in the shadow of the 964 in Eddie's view, a legitimate design debate within the 911 community. The 964, produced from 1989 to 1994, has a more aggressive front bumper treatment and a cleaner line from hood to nose. The 993 softened that. Eddie's kit choice addresses the front end directly: a bodykit that he describes as the one that finally worked, after going through options that broke the flow of a C2S variant. With a 993 C2S, the constraints are tight. The car's architecture is specific and most aftermarket options visually compete with rather than extend the original design. ## Japanese Monobloc Wheels on a European Car The wheel choice is a cultural statement. Eddie runs Japanese monobloc wheels, which refers to single-piece cast or forged wheels produced by Japanese manufacturers, on a German car from the 1990s. His framing: a culture and design language that he really respects, and they work surprisingly well with European cars. This is not a novel idea in car culture, the combination of Japanese wheel aesthetics and European platform hardware has a documented history in both the JDM tuner scene and the track preparation world, but it is an unusual choice for a 993 that is otherwise referencing period-correct custom car aesthetics. [Type7 previously documented Dominik's restoration of a 1966 Porsche 911S in Solothurn, Switzerland, a father-son story that became a business](/quick/type7-dominik-1966-porsche-911s-solothurn-restoration-shop-b7p2nk4q). Eddie's 993 is a different register: full custom build, no restoration brief, deadline-driven. Both are examples of what Type7 documents: people who make considered decisions about 911s under real constraints. ## Air Water and the Finish "Realistically, we were finishing the car up until the last minute." That quote carries the physics of the build timeline. Air Water is a curated automotive event with entry by invitation. Being offered a display spot and then accepting it created the accountability. The car arriving at the event with a complete paint job, correct bodykit, and final wheel fitment in that window is the functional definition of the build being done. Type7 is a UK-based automotive media brand founded in 2010 that publishes long-form documentation of enthusiast car builds, restoration projects, and driver profiles. Their coverage of the 993 is consistent with how they approach any subject: photograph the result, interview the builder about the decision logic, and let the constraint narrative carry the piece. Words in this feature by Alfie Munkenbeck. Photography by JBH1126. ## One Cohesive Package [The Rare Shades event in May 2026 put 100 Porsches in Robert De Niro's Wildflower Studios in Astoria, Queens, and documented the color psychology behind each one](/quick/rare-shades-7-000-magazine-wildflower-studios-porsche-nyc-2026-r9k4m7nx). Eddie Chan's cream 993 would have belonged there. The car is a cohesive package: bodykit that works with the 993 architecture, cream paint that no factory list offers, Japanese monobloc wheels that bring a different cultural lineage to the fitment. Four months, one show, one day of margin. That is the build. Part 2 is presumably where Type7 documents what comes next.