On Feb 28, 8:56 am, tetraethylleadREMOVET...@yahoo.com (Brent P)
wrote:

Oh heck yeah.  I remember admiring what appeared to be a clean
mid-70's or 80's 911 outside a restaurant once and the owner caught me
looking.  He proudly informed me that it was actually a '71 or '72 and
he'd just finished having it "updated" with the newer style bumpers
and associated body modifications.  This was a decade or more ago, so
at the time it made it look like a "new" car.  Fortunately, I couldn't
decide whether to cry or strangle him, so I just kind of stood there
expressionless for a second and then mumbled something like "well, it
looks good."  If you look at Porsche-specific catalogs of the time
(and it may still be true today, but back then I was getting a lot of
them because I was working on a 914 and stuff was not as readily
available online as it is today) there were lots of "update kits"
available.

Personally, I don't understand the point of trying to make a car look
like something it's not, especially when the original design was so
pretty to begin with.  And just before someone picks nits, I should
have said "Pre-1974" in my original post; they still used the early,
metal-bumper body style with the turn signals in the front fenders in
1973.  Brain/finger interface failure.

nate