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Hugo 356 wrote: Seems counter-intuitive that they would use the early type on a later car but then nothing went to waste at Porsche

letsrollbabe wrote: A point that I forgot to post is from a note Pete Stout sent me last year about those little 356 reflectors. Here are his comments:

The reason for those reflectors came up in an interview with Bernd Kahnau about “F22,” a car most people now refer to as the “Club Sport prototype” even though that is not what Bernd set out to build. In any event, those reflectors appeared on certain special 911s with flares of a certain size—and are there because there is a regulation in Europe that stated red reflectors on the back of the cars had to be X centimeters or millimeters from the outer edge of either side of the car. This is why RoW 930s had those reflectors in the rear bumper trim strips where the narrower 911s did not. You see little red reflectors used again on certain special 911s with rear flares past a certain point: Carrera RS 3.0, SC/RS, Ruf CTR, etc.—but this time they’re borrowed from the 356 era rather than molded in because there is no rubber molding. As they were on the 930, they’re there to meet that regulation, which I suspect has to do with the very narrow streets in many European villages and towns—to help people avoid hitting parked cars at night. Another measure alongside the left or right parking lights than can be engaged by pressing the turn signal stalk up or down before locking the car up.

Darren65 wrote: are there 'perfect' reproductions available