Ha Ha ,
Not a lot of positive comments for a car that that means a lot to some people.
Some of these cars looks better than some real Porsches.
I own a real 911 and also owened and built a Covin Cabrio some time ago and will build one any day again.
Not everybody is so lucky to pick up a cheap car and then restore it at an affordable price.
Here in South Africa a Porsche is an expensive car with about 100% tax mark up on the price. Cars therefor dont get dumped at the end of their life cycle but get snapped up and reworked to return to the streets--- in a legal or ilegal way --- Prices for old worn down cars are probibly higher than what you Americans and Canadians pay for good well looked after cars.
In America Porsches are cheap and freely available and it is probibly easier to restore than building a kit car. It is actually a different experience and can be fun to produce something from nothing and make it look better than the real thing.
I lost my Covin kit car project in a run away fire a year ago after I pumped a lot of money into the project.
I dont see a problem with a replica car as long as you dont try and introduce it as a real Porsche.
By the way they some came out on purpose build frames others was mould to take either a shortened beetle or type 3 vw floor pan. Gearboxes are mainly aircooled vw or Porsche and engines are up to the builder with any air cooled vw,Porsche or Subaru the favourites.
So its horses for courses and it is just as much fun to build a covin --which by the way is a very high quality body -- than to rebuild an oldPorsche.
Here is an examle build out of nothing by a very proud owner and the car that inspired me to also build one
My car when it arrived at my house.
