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A swarm of FLYs.
by: Keith V of CA.
Despite a Certificate of Authenticity issued by Porsche Cars North America stating otherwise ... there is reason to believe that there were actually four FLY yellow RS Americas made! |
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One of three ... |
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When I first bought my FLY RS America I remember being told that the display car at the NY Auto Show on 10th-18th April 1993 was color-to-sample FLY yellow. I was assured that the one I had just bought was not that car - but a sister car. I immediately sent a request off to Porsche Cars North America to get a Certificate of Authenticity. I was very pleased to get my certificate, and very pleasantly surprised to see a statement on the certificate under the section entitled “Optional Equipment:” where it said “One Of Three 1993 RS Americas In Fly Yellow”. |
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Wow! One of only three in the world! I was stoked!! |
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Being full of enthusiasm for my “new” Porsche and wanting to learn more, I contacted Bob Schuster in FL who was at that time the Registrar for the Porsche Club of America RS America Registry and he told me that he had almost thirty members in the registry (as of Feb 2014 membership is 465 - and VERY SLOWLY climbing)! During our conversation, I suggested that he start a registry website - but he made it clear that he was not that way inclined. He said that he was tiring of running the registry as his priorities had changed somewhat and that he was finding less and less time to deal with registry issues. After giving it a little consideration, I volunteered to take over the registry, and after a few calls to PCA national it was all taken care of and I officially became the Registrar. |
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PCNA Certificate of Authenticity. |
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... and then there were four. |
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As registry membership grew, I gathered data on more and more RSAs and sure enough, I eventually found the other two owners of “FLY” cars. Imagine my surprise when one day I had an RSA owner contact me and tell me his car was special order “color to sample” from the factory in Fly yellow ...... making it the fourth one! |
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After some rapid calls to verify the color codes on the inside front LH fender of all four cars, there was nothing left to do but accept the fact that the factory Certificate of Authenticity ....... was flat wrong! |
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Why “FLY”? |
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An interesting tidbit is that it is not actually correct to call this color “Fly Yellow”. Why, you may ask? Well because the acronym FLY actually stands for Ferrari Light Yellow which is why the color is so much brighter than the standard Porsche speed yellow. Therefore it follows that saying “Ferrari Light Yellow Yellow” is redundant - and thus “Fly yellow” is actually a misnomer. |
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I have a very close friend who is a fan of “F Troop” ..... no, not the TV show ... the Italian car makers from Modena - actually I think “disciple” would be a better word to describe him. Anyway, he takes great delight in constantly reminding me that the only way to make a Porsche look REALLY sharp ..... is to paint it a Ferrari color!! |
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Four FLY RSAs on display. |
