Believe it or not that was already happening long before Miami Vice. One noted shop which specialised in such conversions actually kept the roofs because they were certain that in a few years’ time some would come back to be retrofitted with their tin top.

And if it is their esteemed clientele who are the unsophisticated ones...? Mr Canepa is a businessman, after all.

Because that’s where old racing/rallying Porsches, not just the 911, used to have the filler for their (sometimes optional) long-range fuel tank.

I see what you are aiming at, but please note that “atentado a la integridad moral” as explained in the link given by Ad Absurdum per Aspera (http://www.palladinopellonabogados.com/specialist-lawyers-in-torture-and-other-felonies-against-moral-integrity/) has nothing to do with the “moral crimes” or “morals” you are…

Sorry to say, but you are wrong.

Dear Kristen,

Start reading about industrial design and keep at it for a few years. By then you may have changed your opinion (or maybe not).

Seconded.

As you surely know, Flavien, that is not quite a Porsche 962 but a Schuppan 962CR; one of a handful developed by former race driver Vern Schuppan into “962" roadgoing cars, precisely for the Japanese market. I seem to remember its chassis (carbon fibre-panels monocoque) is not exactly the same as the one in the 962…

Exactly. Unfortunately, as you yourself said, they were just pseudo-street-legal.

Rossi’s car was silver. The one in your picture is the other road-legal 917, owned by a German gent, Mr Joachim Grossmann

Relax, just pointing out to readers overseas that the civilian version of the Chevette did not quite look like that, let alone have a sophisticated engine.

Black Magic was actually the name of the company car of Wayne Cherry – then Vauxhall’s head of design, later of Opel – who drove a tastefully customised Chevette.

Well, that’s an HS... with a 16-valve Lotus head, among other things.

Allegedly, after watching 2001 Alexey Leonov said “it was like being there again”.

Indeed. One imagines that for all her faults, Ms Kristen’s somewhat brash alter ego would know far more about all the history behind the Superleggera construction method.

A fine posting only marred by some misspelling. You deserve your star, nonetheless.

Ecco!

Torch, if I remember correctly, Giugiaro’s first sketches for the Golf had square or maybe rectangular headlights, albeit more or less in the same position as the definitive production version with round ones. Note that was also how he envisioned some of his (admittedly later) very successful designs, such as the…

The 924 Carrera GT came first.