[Showdown]

I've told Chris my feelings via text but here's a longer take:

For Chris' car my initial reaction was yes to the red tail but as I've spent more time thinking about it and looking at the car I have deepened my thinking, gad zooks!

So herein I'll make a few arguments, for, against and maybe one that makes no sense at all.


PRO
Ducks are cool and they harken back to a home brew garage effort Porsche made to fix a problem and add performance. They were mostly engineer-driven and fit oddly, were crudely made but served a purpose; plant that ass. And plant it they did; the numbers didn't lie and that matters.

So, on any car the addition of a duck yields performance improvements and Chris has been chasing improvements everywhere he can find them.

But it's about more than just performance as I don't think Chris is chasing records on the track or hitting 150mph that I know of so the performance improvements, while not lost aren't really what this is about. This is about style.

And in its red punk rock loud AF appearance it totally fits with the build and offers a bit of color on an otherwise completely gray car. A color that could be pulled into the interior to start to create a really interesting palate.

It's an IDGAF on a car that doesn't work for free and is barely giving a f#@k away.


CON
Ducks are overused and formulaic, just like slapping an "outlaw" badge on one's car; it lacks creativity and follows a well worn path of safety and convention. Don't get me wrong, sometimes that's totally ok; if the car is an RS clone, or a period recreation of a privateer racer, etc... but not if the entire ethos of the car is breaking with convention and being a custom, idiosyncratic expression of the owner. Dropped, chopped, drilled and tucked; all of these are part of Chris' car and the duck feels too easy, too normal, too mail order-Porsche.

Don't be that guy. as 50 Cent so eloquently put it;

You say you a gangsta, but you never pop nothin'
We say you a wanksta and you need to stop frontin'

CONCLUSION
So, my final thoughts are both yes and no to the duck. That said, I'd offer that if the duck is to stay it should be, nay, must be modified, drilled out, tucked or otherwise bent to the will of the car in Chris' style. Nary has a stock part made it on to the car without being worked over. That's just how Chris rolls and so to merely bolt on a stock duck is too conventional for this car and feels like phoning it in and that's not Chris' style at all.