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Originally Posted by voitureltd
As far as I know from articles I have read the first few ealy ones, prior to the 505-506 option from Porsche Special Wishes, that started in 1987 ( some say 7 factory ones ) were built without vents. Alan Johnson racing built this one ( 1983) with what appears are NOS factory fenders left over from when Porsche supposedly switched over to the vented ones in 82-83. Hard to know how many NOS non vented fenders or completed at the factory were sold from Porsche that had access to these type of parts. Who / when built these cars in the previous posts? Here is a 79 930 built in 1983 - 84 by A J, still mostly original paint etc, as when it left AJ USA.
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Almost none of the first gen cars (with hammerhead look) had front vents (seen 2 with them). The second gen cars (like the first gen cars) were all built from the Special Wishes catalog and not from a dealer price list. So each car could be unique in some way. The second gen cars with popups were built from part way through 1983 to early 1987. I have tracked around a dozen cars that don't have the front vents from this period, and the latest car bought by the Porsche Museum (M506 Cab) is extremely rare in not having the front vents - it is a G50 car from 89 and obviously built to special order.
The AJR cars were originally built from factory-supplied kits (I have a copy of the M505 build-up manual for them). My understanding was those were M505 spec kits so the history of the AJR conversions prior to that is a bit of an unknown for me.