[Matt Monson]

I guess part of my failure to understand the stigma is because I have spent the last decade on the shop side of it. Pretty much every example I've ever seen come through has been a well tended example, including several 930s that were brought in during the years that Porsche was not importing them to North America.

Going back even further, I've also seen a number (and even owned one) of early European delivery vehicles from servicemen or vacationers who went over, picked up the car, and shipped it back after driving it for a while.

That's kind of where the disconnect occurs for me. European delivery cars don't seem to carry the stigma because even though they were federalized or potentially were built and delivered as US spec knowing where they would end up they were always American owned. But if the car got brought in used as a "grey market" import then they are questionable.

I understand if it is 1988 and a '79 SC is brought in with 50k mi on it and no records. But today how many SCs and 3.2 Carreras are out there running around with questionable records that were US cars when new? Lots of them. In that marketplace, I personally wouldn't discount a grey market car at all versus a US version if they were both 1984 Carreras with no records prior to the current owner and 150k mi on the ticker. Same car, same PPI, same gamble in buying.