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In CA, my understanding of SB100 is that the car gets registered as what it is a replica of and then is held to those standards as far as title/emissions goes. I haven't kept up with SB100 though so things very well could have changed.

In the Cobra replica community many have registered theirs as a 1966 Ford because that is what it recreates even though it is incorrect but each states requirement is different. Mine was in CA before SB100 and is registered as a 1971 because at the time CA required replicas to be registered the same as the engine block for emissions purposes and transferred to WI as a 1994 based on the MSO. Go figure.

Gordon, I think your question is backwards. When is a kit/replica considered a Porsche (or any other brand).

Shelby recognizes their own replicas as real Shelby Cobras and Superformance (maybe) replicas as a Shelby but not Kirkham who builds the bodies for Shelby.