944Play

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">Originally posted by Luis de Prat:
Actually, the Euro cars originally designed by 944 designer Tony Lapine</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">Not too sure about this, but I thought that Harm Lagaay was the designer and Tony Lapine was the director of the styling department.

While we're on the subject of license plate relocation, I'd like to take this opportunity to remind everyone with a USA rear plate in the stock location of Danno's license plate alignment procedure:
<a href="http://members.rennlist.org/951_racerx/LicensePlate.html" target="_blank">http://members.rennlist.org/951_racerx/LicensePlate.html</a>

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Luis de Prat

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">Originally posted by 944Play:
<strong>Not too sure about this, but I thought that Harm Lagaay was the designer and Tony Lapine was the director of the styling department. </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana,Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,Geneva">I realize that LaGaay was the actual designer, but since Lapine was head of styling, he was ultimately responsible for design changes made for specific markets, like U.S. sidemarkers and 5 mph bumpers, etc. I doubt LaGaay would have made those changes to his original design had it not been for directives from Lapine.

Porsche 924 Design:

Anatole (Tony) Lapine

Tony Lapine was head of Porsche's styling and design and had responsibility for the 924's design. He was born in Latvia in 1930 and spent 17 years with General Motors before moving to GM's Opel in Germany where he was discovered by Porsche.

Harm Lagaay

The styling of the 924's body is credited to a 29 year old Dutch designer working under Tony Lapine named Harm Lagaay. He later went on to style the 968 which was the final evolution of the 924.

Rich Sandor

Well, I dont' know about you guys, but my car is in dire need of a paint job and new front bumper.

I'm going to order a Euro bumper, Euro REAR bumper (and rubber strip) and weld up the holds, sand, and paint the whole car.

That'll confuse EVERYONE!

and it'll look NICE.

SamGrant951

good call 944Play, When I first read that on Danno's site I was like, "Ive always hated that!" 20min later, not retarded looking anymore

Olli Snellman

I am also going to change my US spec rear bumper to euro spec.
This will make my car "The Ultimate Rice", since i will have eurospec rear bumper, US spec side markers, euro spec side repeters (side blinkers), clear front blinkers, clear rear blinker glass etc. etc.

goody944

Well, I sure got my money's worth here! Seriously, it's been a blast reading the posts.
I did notice mine (for those keeping score, I got my car!) has a bit of a warp in the center. I WILL be removing it. I actually like how Michelle's red car looks with one- but my silver (champagne?) would look better without. That's of course, IMHO!

Thanks for the input, and hope I didn't start something! <img border="0" alt="[ouch]" title="" src="graemlins/c.gif" />

I'll be joining Rennlist for sure, because I'll need more tips, since this is my first German car.

mike10562004

is it seriously rice? i think it takes up the dead place between the two but thats jmho

CurtP

WHY did you bring up a 6 year-old thread just to ask a question of which you already know the answer?

These old post resurrections are getting out of hand

Cole

Wow....old post.

I personally don't know why so many are agaist these. Every 911 of that generation had the same center reflector stock. So it's not like it is just something someone came up with out of the blue.

halik

Cole

1986 Porsche 911 Turbo. Factory tail light.

ritzblitz

someone get rid of this guy all he does is bring up old threads.

RockStar951

At least somebody knows how to use the search function.

Marcquito

What's wrong with bringing up old threads? Is this a new RL rule? ...Who cares.

PorscheDude1

If anyone wants, I have a brand new in the box center piece with licence plate mount and wiring. Never installed. Got it with a box of parts I bought a few years ago.

$85 shipped in the lower 48.