I finally just read the Spyder replica article in the September/October Porsche Registry magazine and I got the strong feeling after reading it that the engineer Smith who built it was trying very hard to keep from stepping on toes by making sure he let everybody know it was a ‘replica’ including adding no Porsche badging other than ‘Spyder’ & a 356 Registry badge on the back grill and a small PCA sticker on the windscreen, even though he had a Porsche 356 engine in it. As opposed to me, who has Porsche badging all over my FiberFab/CMC because I figure that, since I have a ‘66 Porsche 912 engine which, according to the official PCA magazine, is a leftover ‘65 356SC engine, so I don’t care if I step on someone’s toes with my Porsche badging.
And if people ask me if my car’s real, I just answer: “Do you think I would be driving a real $400,000 Porsche Speedster to Safeway and leaving it in the parking lot while while I grocery shop?😂
One more thing, my wife & I went to the Porsche Werks Reunion during 2018 Monterey Car Week and in the Porsche Corral, which is the non-judged part of the show, there were a couple of speedster replicas parked next to other real speedsters, and I wish I had gotten there early enough to park mine there instead of the way off on the golf course fairway!
