Not mine. A love it or hate it car. I'm under dog fan. I'd have to repaint it GULF livery colors right off and trash the single port for a T4. Add a few rear cameras and good-sized dash CRT. Has to be tuned loud snakey exhaust! (Most seem to be chopped off and not have the rear lower panel???)
TheSamba.com :: VW Classifieds - Porsche 917 Lazer
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My vision -
I just don't see any point to replicating a flat 12 mid-engine car as a rear engine, no matter what they power it with. It's just WRONG.
^^THAT^^
Says it all, without even once mentioning how incredibly ugly the “Laser 917” thing really was/is, or how impractically difficult they are to get in and out of what amounts to a poorly ventilated green house.
One of those things was languishing, unrecognized, in my town, but succumbed to a garage fire that converted it to a pile of ash. I can’t think of a better fate for such an abomination.
Was there also a "Phaser" sp? of similar design from the same time period?
Jason
not my cup of tea 
...and kinda an insult to my inner "steve mc queen" 
I just don't get it, screams kit car to me like a fake batmobile replica
Guess its just my Walter Mitty or wanna be Steve McQueen that makes me like them Sure my wife wouldn't be seen in one.
She wouldn't because you can barely see into it.
I realize I own and love a car that other people sometimes view in a manner not unlike how I look at the abominations @WOLFGANG apparently loves.
The difference (at least to me) are two:
1) My car is faster than the original, and better in every substantive way. The cars that Wolfgang loves are not. They're an order of magnitude slower and worse from a performance standpoint. A Superformance GT40 or Cobra is stupid-cool. I'm not a fan of the Fiero/Ferrari or the Chrysler Sebring/Bentley replicas because they are far worse than the originals. Putting this car in the same discussion with a Porsche 917 is so silly it shouldn't warrant a comment (and yet, here we are again - commenting).
2) The CMC "359" and this Laser "917" look like a Porsche 959 and a Porsche 917 in the same way that weak instant coffee tastes like espresso - which is to say, they don't. They look like blow-molded plastic versions or unlicensed Chinese knockoffs. They're bad in a way that's hard to overstate.
I know this is a replica website, and I know this is a big tent - but to say that I hate these cars is weak-sauce compared to how I really feel about them.
They're bad in every possible way.
Oh come on, Stan, be honest.
@edsnova posted:Oh come on, Stan, be honest.
I would not like them
here or there.
I would not like them anywhere.
I do not like green eggs and ham.
Stan. If you would just, just, sit in one. Try it on. I'm sure you would
^ I regret I can only like that once. ^
@edsnova has the proper goggled, leather "Snoopy Helmet" for you, too, I bet.
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When I see one of these things, I spend more time thinking about just who is buying them than about the pieces themselves.
And then I think about the people who created them, who knew that if they did someone would just have to have one.
And then I think about the whole parallel universe where those makers and those buyers exist.
And then I think that maybe this is what got Schrödinger thinking about that whole cat thing.
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@Sacto Mitch posted:And then I think about the whole parallel universe where those makers and those buyers exist.
And then I think that maybe this is what got Schrödinger thinking about that whole cat thing.
The cat in question:
