Model year 1982 916????, Is it a "real" 916 or replica Options

[Mueller]

For Christmas my little sister bought me a nice Porsche book (don't ask for the name of it, I cannot remember it)

It has in it what is claimed to be a 1982 916....a breif story:

In the late 70's a Porsche worker who owns an original /6 brings his car to the factory where for 6 years the car undergoes the transformation into the 12th 916 ever made.....it sounds like he did the work himself...

No hardtop, instead a full cage is installed.........

Now as far as I can tell, everything else has been "upgraded" or changed to "convert" it into a 916, but what is the general consences???

Real or replica???

I would call it a 916 replica and not the real deal unless Porsche had there hands on it more than just a worker moonlighting in his spare time to do the conversion.

[rick 918-S]

Copy.

The car was built, titled and sold in the 70's. Just because a car is customized at the factory in the 80's doesn't mean it's an original or a continuation of a model. There are several hundred copied done by shops and enthusists all around the world. If we were counting them up the car in question would be like # 10,000 copy or something by the time he finished his. And if it doesn't have the tin top it's not even a good copy.