PORSCHE Emblems/logos Legal?

Hello

I am really interested in buying or building a Porsche Speedster Replica, so that is why I became a member of this website. One question came up because of another venture, can any one tell me how PORSCHE Emblems cam be manufactured and still be legal? Has Porsche given permission to manufacture these emblems?

I personally think it is the biggest form of flattery but what does Porsche think?

They are protected by copyright laws so producers are either licensed to make or are one step ahead of Porsche's lawyers. 10 or so years ago you could buy cheap "Made in Taiwan" chrome authentically crested nipple hub caps from J.C. Whitney. A year after buying some I purchased a replacement - it no longer had Stuttgart on crest. A year later you could no longer buy them at all. Don't believe the big current replica builders will sell a newly built car with them on it (could be wrong there) - although they will sell the scripts. I'm surprised Porsche hasn't gone after whomever pumps the cars out of the molds - guess not worth pursuing a car they dropped 50+ years ago. Remember the Ferrari Daytona/California in old original Miami Vice - for legal reasons it was destroyed in last episode. VW, Ferrari and Ford Cobra (Shelby too) seem to have huge staffs of copyright lawyers.

With Carlisle coming up, someone ought to just ask one of the manufacturers, "How are you getting away with this?" or maybe Carey could let us all in on it? Possibly eveyone's best friend at Kit Car has the inside scoop/

I'd LOVE to know the story behind how/why Speedster are copied and Ferraris aren't. Can't be just chalked up to more or less aggressive legal teams . . . too much at stake for that.

Tom at Thunder Ranch was the designer/builder of the Ferrari Daytona on Miami Vice that was destroyed. Ferrari went after him in court, he counter sued... things were settled more or less off the record. Tom no longer builds a Ferrari Replica. Ive never asked him about the why's and how's of the business... lets be honest, once you get behind the wheels of one of these who the hell cares.

Tom know we are wandering from your initial ? on the emblems to the entire vehicle. I did a search and came across the other side of the coin on replica vehicles.

On the Lambo (which Audi now owns) site, I found following posting:

"Petitioning against Lamborghini Kit Car /Replica companies" -

"I would like to see all members who are interested in signing on to this list who are fed up with these replica/kit car companies who are giving and degrading the value of Real Lamborghini vehicles and bringing the quality and image down, and possibly even effecting value and price in the long term with more replicas/kit cars on the road. I am also fed up with people approaching me and asking me if it

Paul-I believe the last "words" Porsche had re: this cloning issue was with the French PGO company's version of the Speedster. To the best of my knowledge it was all ironed-out. It isn't in Porsche's best interests to go out and bully people over their 50-year-old design; but the issue of script names and the model name Speedster per se, I wouldn't bet the house on Porsche not stepping on toes. (Bear in mind there have been several later iterations of 9xx-series factory Speedsters).
There-in lies the bratwurst...
http://www.pgo.fr/models/speedster/index-en.html

Tom, I have spoken to a couple of the manufacturers and none I spoke to will put a Porsche emblem on their product. They WILL tell you where you can buy them. The emblems are made as replacement parts for restorations of real 356s, so there are still plenty available.

For the life of me my commmon sense say's "Why discuss this herein ?
Have discussions in person say, at Carlisle....
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Because I am not going to Carlisle. Otherwise I would.