J.A.W.S.

right.

and despite there are lots of early 993s around here, i've
never seen these small sgs before. not even once...

JPP

Well, up until yesterday when Freeman graciously allowed a picture of his to be posted, I'd never seen any other 993 with small stoneguards either but that didn't mean they didn't exist, or that mine weren't factory applied. I couldn't imagine someone choosing to replace the large guards with the smaller ones for functionality or ascetic reasons so the logical assumption was they could be original and now I believe they are. Chances are the smaller versions were the first attempt by Porsche to 'get it right' and after driving a few early 993 testbeds around, they found that they didn't protect the rear fenders well enough and made them larger, but didn't purge stock and just mixed the sets up in the production inventory. How many actually left the factory? Who knows. Did any get delivered in and around Münich? Probably. How many still exist there today and/or what are the chances of the small ones being replaced by now after owners saw other 993's with the larger ones applied? So small a number that you actually have never, ever seen one. I'm definitely keeping my small, wimpy, rare and original guards now ...

"There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which can not fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation."
--HERBERT SPENCER

MarkD

Well, I, for one, refuse to acknowledge their existence.

Hmm... these are rare eh?
So when I make a set for you JP, they will have a "special" price

JPP

Smaller = less material = cheaper, right? And, you know their lighter than those HUGE overkill run-of-the-mill stonegaurds the rest of the world has, so, my car must be FASTER ...