any Porsche 917 pics out there?

love the body lines of the old girl, anyone have any good shots?

See http://www.2ta.co.uk/p​etrolhead/917K/index.h​tml

Not the best conversions (cheap and dirty web page building software), but I have the originals if you are interested.

some Here from the Porsche Festival at Brands Hatch in 2005.

Whether they're any godd though, remains to be seen

great shots thanks all

This is a film shot from a few years ago. Sort of a family portrait.

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If you enjoy these cars go buy the DVD Le Mans with Steve McQueen, pretty calming and relaxing movie. I think there are only 100 words spoken in the movie.

That looks like the pit entrance at Laguna Seca. Where was it taken?

TooTall wrote in post #3025868
This is a film shot from a few years ago. Sort of a family portrait.

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Cheers,
Kurt Oblinger

If you like Porsches, then the world's biggest Porsche event is this year, November 1-4th I believe, at Daytona International Speedway, in Florida. I'm definitley going, since its an hour away! Its called the Rennsport reunion, and this is the 3rd time they've done it, its an event held every 3 years (first time it was at Limerock Park, in Conneticut, but 2nd time in 2004 was at Daytona...)

belmondo wrote in post #3026490
That looks like the pit entrance at Laguna Seca. Where was it taken?

You're right. The short chute before the last turn at Laguna. I always want to call it turn 9 but I thinks it's 11 now. Pit entrance is to the right in the photo. Taken the Thursday before the Historics 1998.

Cheers,
Kurt Oblinger

TooTall wrote in post #3026976
You're right. The short chute before the last turn at Laguna. I always want to call it turn 9 but I thinks it's 11 now. Pit entrance is to the right in the photo. Taken the Thursday before the Historics 1998.

Cheers,
Kurt Oblinger

I thought so. That's a great shot, by the way. Anyone who was paying attention to what Porsche was doing back in those days has to be a fan. They were unstoppable.

The red one reminds me of Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo - Bruno Von Stickle (played by current Soap Star Eric Braeden) drove that same 917 GT Coupe. Dunno if it's the exact same year though since I don't know one from the other.

Best racing movie ever made! I wish they'd let him finish it.

belmondo wrote in post #3027090
I thought so. That's a great shot, by the way. Anyone who was paying attention to what Porsche was doing back in those days has to be a fan. They were unstoppable.

Thanks. The 917 is one of my favorite racing cars of all time. The first race I ever went to was the Can-Am at Riverside in 1972. The 917-10K turbo cars were phenominal. The 917 was actually a fairly primitive car, it had a tubular space frame when most other cars had aluminum monocoques. When they first were raced they had major problems with the frames cracking. I read a story where, before practice for a race, the Porsche team manager told the driver that they had filled the frame with pressurized nitrogen and fitted a pressure gauge in the cockpit. He told the driver, "If ze dial goez to zero, pleez bring ze car to ze pitz" (Excuse the cheesy attempt at a German accent). The driver's (I think it was Frank Gardner) reply was along the lines of "If the bloody gauge goes to zero I'm parking the car and taking the bloody bus home!"

I got to sit in a 917K once. It was one of the movie cars from Le Mans that was owned by Otis Chandler at the time. It was quite roomy, and I am not small! One little detail I noticed that always stuck with me, the car had an ignition key switch. You'd turn the key to power on the ignition system then hit a button to engage the starter. Well the head of the key, the part you grabbed with your fingers, had lightening holes drilled in it!

That was a kit car called the Laser 917. A fiberglass body you could put on a VW. The old Herbie movies are fun. There are actually some rare and famous race cars in some of the staged racing sequences.

"Le Mans" is the best racing movie ever with "Grand Prix" a very close second. There is a book out called "A French Kiss With Death" by Michael Keyser that tells the story of making the movie. McQueen was almost out of control, drinking, drugs, you name it. I wonder what it would have been like if he had his head on straight. The movie McQueen actually wanted to make was called "Day of the Champion" and was about grand prix racing. He had a script, he had financing lined up, he had cooperation from some Grand Prix teams. It was about an American driver in a pivotal race at the Nurburgring. It was cancelled because John Frankenheimer made "Grand Prix'. McQueen was actually at Monaco when Frankenheimer was filming and when he saw what he was doing and how he was doing it he and his partner decided to shelve "Day of the Champion". It was ressurected a couple years later and rewritten and became Le Mans. Another side note, Frankenheimer wanted Steve McQueen to play the Pete Aron character in "Grand Prix". When they went to pitch the movie to McQueen, Frankenheimer was unavailable and someone else got the meeting. Well McQueen and that guy did not get along and McQuenn said screw you and walked out. That's how they ended up with James Garner. There are tons of great stories about "Grand Prix", but I've rattled on far too much here.

Cheers,
Kurt

TooTall wrote in post #3028981
I got to sit in a 917K once.

That would be fun. The most exotic Porsche I ever sat in was one of the 959s that was making the rounds of Porsche dealerships some years ago. The most exotic Porshce I ever rode in (and the loudest) was a 904 a friend restored several years ago.

belmondo wrote in post #3029033
That would be fun. The most exotic Porsche I ever sat in was one of the 959s that was making the rounds of Porsche dealerships some years ago. The most exotic Porshce I ever rode in (and the loudest) was a 904 a friend restored several years ago.

959 my dream car, was it dark grey, silver or red?