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All but a few of these cars were beat to hell by 1960. Multiple crashes, engine and trans swaps, missing tins, seats replaced, holes cut in them for air flow, etc.

Circa 1980 there were tons of restorations, and I'll bet more half of those were marginal. There just wasn't enough information available to the techs. This is how the CMI replica body was so obviously knackered straight from the molds—and how Chuck Beck's effort was so slightly off the mark, from a rear fenders perspective.

By the '90s the restorations were getting better and "better," owing to the tastes and wallets of the cars' caretakers.

Thankfully we now have Andrew & a handful of others putting the pictures together in one place where everyone can see what they really looked like then and now. And of course they were rougher than most modern restorations depict! These are Porsche guys, after all. Porsche guys hate wrinkles. Most of them wouldn't know a weld fillet from a keloid scar and all but a few would consider them aesthetically equivalent.

That said, fashions change.

Here's hoping the Road Scholars will usher in a new trend toward imperfectionism.

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