I do not remember every being told it was cut in half or the whole front end replaced, but who knows. When I first viewed the car with Jim, it seemed to have pretty original looking chassis rails and inner wings, none of it looked to have been replaced, or fresh paint in there, although, it looked like body repairs had been done but not completed. I seem to remember the front and rear bumpers had not been fitted, along with the badge panel, these parts might have been hung, but not bolted up, and possibly one front wing had been replaced.. I just remember some of these panels being white for some reason, but it was a long time ago. I checked the chassis numbers and the engine numbers to see if it was original, and the engine came back as a M44.52, but also visually it did not have a turbo cup intake manifold or sump either. It did have its original bucket seats, matters cage, cut outs in the centre console etc, but seemed more of a comfort spec, as it had carpets, full door cards but manual window winders. But for the life of me, I do not remember seeing any evidence of the car being chopped, even just the front chassis legs. The interesting thing is where it was found... There were no other Porsche there, the guy generally had the horn for british unusual cars, such as mini coopers, rileys and mostly 70's and earlier cars, including a couple of interesting prototype cars for sports versions of cars, such as (from memory) a Hillman Avenger Tiger (or something like that) prototype, which I remember googling when I got home and it matched up with photos on forums where everyone seemed to be wondering where the hell it was. But the 944 Turbo Cup in there stood out like a sore thumb and not the kind of car he would have gone looking for. Indeed I even think the person that bought it from the horder traded him an MGB to get it. So it makes you wonder why and how he got it.. He said it was a bodyshop who had stored it since the owner went AWOL, but it must have been a local one for him to come across it, and it must have been cheap for him to buy it when it did not match his collection which it sat in for years... I even thought this was odd at the time. I would say that I would get in touch with the guy who bought it, but there seems to be some odd stories knocking about regarding things he has said to other people, so I suspect that some of what he might say about its history that he found may well not be gospel. I also seem to remember it was not on its original wheels either.
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