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Old 02-17-2001, 07:02 AM
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In case no one has figured it out yet, the carrera GT IS the 980. The actual "980" was a distraction to make sure people weren't publishing carrera gt spy shots if there ever were any. Chances are, though, that the 980 in this picture is actually some modified 911 panels (headlights, carrera style fascia) over the real carrera gt chassis. Porsche has been playing around with the idea of using sheetmetal to hide their products in plain view. Autoweek published info over a carrera gt doing its road-testing wearing a stretched ferrari 348 costume! It makes perfect sense, you know? people do all sorts of crazy things to their cars, so whatever proportional modifications between a prototype and a completely separate production car can just be assumed to be owner related if the production sheetmetal is used to cover the prototype! Certainly more subtle than when an amorphous blob covered in black tape parksnext to you, eh?
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