Stuttgart royalty
KING OF PORSCHES? It’s a bold claim, granted, when you look at the Stuttgart marque’s rich road and (especially) track career, but if you work on the basis that the more replicated a car is the more iconic it is, then this roadster is definitely in the top ten of the lot. Sure, like its 550 Spyder rep sibling, fuelled by legions of James Dean wannabes, this one’s popularity is aided somewhat by how easy those replicas are to build onto a cheap and readily available (21.5 million-odd) platform, but there is a little bit more to it than that. Think about what else is a shoo-in for the higher reaches of that desirable replica league table – Cobra, GT40, Jaguar C-type (though that is currently getting a bit more tricky,…