AS Réplicas was one of several Brazilian body shops that built replicas of the Porsche Spyder, based in São Paulo. It began producing its version of the Porsche 550 in 1992, always using Volkswagen mechanicals, at first mounted on original Volkswagen platforms and later on a tubular chassis of its own design. In 2003, working from an imported body, the company prepared molds for the Porsche 718 and began offering…