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Agreed. That's a lot of Spyder for the asking price. I'd also move the battery to the nose and the oil tank to the firewall on the passenger side, where it belongs.

The stickers are cool, I think, but would be way cooler if the body were a closer match to the earliest prototypes. The first two (the actual Carrara Panamericana cars) had very swept tails with two tail lights per side, arranged horizontally. The clam was not hinged, there was a lift lid over the engine. And of course they had those gorgeous detachable hard tops.

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The next dozen or so Spyders looked very different.

If or when I do another Spyder, I'm considering what it would take to make one like the second prototypes. The "too high" rear fender arches on the early Beck cars are pretty close to what the second few Spyders were. Those cars had two tail lights per side, stacked up. As with numbers 1 and 2, the nose was more upright too. 

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The more I get into my project the more of these subtle and not-so-subtle differences I see, and I wonder why the Spyder replicas are so fixated on the last few 550s and those louvered carb doors found on the 550A (which was also notably different in shape from the 550 model). 

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