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Spoiler alert: If you haven't seen the Steve McQueen's movie Le Mans and don't want to know how it ends, might we interest you in clicking to another Autoblog ...
The 1970 Porsche 917 K which starred alongside Steve McQueen in Le Mans is now up for auction over at RM Sotheby’s. Prior to its silver screen debut, the vintage racing car took to the tracks in ...
The incredible 1970 Porsche 917 K in the images here will look familiar to any fans of the film "Le Mans" as a car featured heavily in the race footage.
Following Le Mans, the chassis was repaired by the factory and restored as a Porsche 917 Spyder with lightweight open bodywork intended to race in the 1972 and 1973 European InterSerie ...
Factory driver Jo Siffert offered up his 1970 917 for film duties—chassis number 917-024—and his example was used as a test vehicle during the actual 1970 24 Hours of Le Mans.
The example at auction, chassis No. 917-024, was raced by Brian Redman and Mike Hailwood in the 1970 Le Mans Tests and recorded the fastest time of the sessions with Redman behind the wheel.
Porsche has won Le Mans a record 19 times since 1970. The most recent, with the all-wheel-drive hybrid 919 in 2017, couldn’t have been further removed from the first in the fearsome 917, a race ...
SANTA MONICA, Calif. (June 23, 2014) – Gooding & Company is thrilled to announce the addition of the 1969 Porsche 917K, chassis 917-024 (estimate upon request), featured in the film Le Mans ...
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The Porsche 917, seen here alongside the new RSP, was the core piece of inspiration for taking the current Le Mans entrant and making it drivable on the street, according to Porsche Cars North ...
A new gif is highlighting every single Porsche race car that's won the 24 Hours of Le Mans, from the 917 KH in 1970 to last year's 919 Hybrid. Among the automakers that have entered race cars at ...
Following Le Mans, the car was repaired by the Porsche factory, re-bodied as a 917 Spyder, and renumbered as chassis 031. It was then raced in the European InterSerie Championship from 1971 to ...
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