As an answer: about respect, in the order of appearance:
Chris : I know very few about 908, I have only rear lights and mounts for the « K ».
Re-created firstly for myself but finally sold to famous Porsche Workshops, collectors, and respectful users from their asking. About value: I will not argue: money is not my dream, I have some, that’s all.
Graham : So kind of you to be interested about my brain. Hopefully, perhaps, you will soon accept that my common sense is not so « absurd ». You are perfectly in your right to doubt about my ability to drive or to create. The facts, my dear, are against you:
13 799 miles today on racing (FIA historic competition) with it from Daytona to Malta, from Le Mans to Corsica, from Tunis to Baleares…About « work » : some thousand hours of search about race results, bibliography, original parts and about the ability to create, bad luck: I am a well none professional artist since 1980.
Terry :I really appreciate your comment and agree totally. Surely, if I had begun with this preamble, the reactions would have been, say, more peaceful. This is my error.
Michel: “Sans liberté de blâmer, il n’est pas d’éloge flatteur”. Beaumarchais had the talent to resume the critical sense. It’s not always destructive and that was not my intention. But I have the ability to say if the parts and design in your car are ok or not as I know all that quite accurately. Magnesium upright casting and titanium ball joint housing are perfectly made today by a self made freelance in his garage with titanium when needed, respecting the Porsche/Lotus specifications. So it could be done. What I reject is the subliminal “I don’t care” or “Nobody will see it” or the worst: “I have to finish it quickly”. That is the spiritual “fake” I do not accept. Make your own car really from the drawings to the frame design, from suspension to windshield and you’ll have my definitive admiration but please if you copy, do it respectfully. You say it’s an evocation. That is a nice euphemism but it will not protect you from Porsche lawyers and I know them very well as I am surely the only guy in the world who had made Porsche sentenced for forgery.
Jimmy: “tout ce qui est excessif est insignificant”. As an American, try to have some sense of shades, that could help for a good understanding of surroundings…It is always very easy to make an intention trial but when you do it, in fact you judge only yourself by projection…Speaking about “art”…Please could you definite the word before employing it ?
Fred and Marcus: I forgive you and more I present you my other cheek. In fact: I love you. Provenance, Porsche museum: Hans Herrmann, Rolf Stommelen, Jochen Neerpasch, Udo Schütz…Is that sounding to you ?
Re-Michel: My former post was too short to be understood without the idea to be outrageous: I am sorry for that.
For the moment I saw that car on a website before buying it, and for ten years, it as not been a day without working on it: new race result, old new original part, bibliography, original invoices, ads of sale, vintage photos. I race it very hardly but respecting its integrity (always Post Historic diagonal mounted tyres to preserve the frame) . I am not a collector or an investor, only a user but a respectful one. To do with cars is my goal and as you I love sharing passion with others. Sorry but your work doesn’t respect 907 and sorry Walter, cars do not need love but they sure need great respect.
The biggest problem with clones is 1/ time: I sold to a gentleman some years ago a pair of rear lights for his 906 and he told me he was doing a GTO for…30 years: pity he couldn’t finish it because of his search of perfection..2/ is the budget: 200 000 to 300 000 € minimum for an “as real” 907 with original parts… The original revs for instance cost 20 000 € and good luck to find one…Same difficulty for injection pump or 8 cylinder engine.
So my question is: why do you absolutely want to recreate, for the best an “evocation” and for the worst a fake and not to create your own car ? For the myth ? But the myth, If exist, is only in the real one...But don’t tell me: because it’s easy.
Anyway and to finish constructive: pay attention for this advice: take off the Porsche emblem and name on your car. Showing the car with those expose you to have it destructed by Porsche as they did it several time in the past. I have some friends artist who have been sued for the inclusion in their drawings of this kind of trademarks.
