The Porsche thread.

[LateFan]

^^ Imagine standing a couple of feet from a 908 at wide open throttle, spitting rocks!

This photo files says "John Benton's MEIN12" hot rod 912....

[LateFan]

I ran across a bunch of nice Rennsport pics, thought I'd put them here....









That's Bobby Rahal

[LateFan]

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What a completely badass thing the 917 was....
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Dan Gurney's F1 winning car
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Brumos 914/6GT
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[LateFan]

This 917 won Le Mans in 1971. The average speed record lasted for 39 years. it also won the index of efficiency. Air-cooled flat 12 produced 600 hp. It raced only one time, then went to the Porsche museum.
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Hans Mezger, born 1929
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Norbert Singer, born 1939
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[LateFan]

Hans Mezger 1966
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Hans Mezger with flat 16
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Factory - assembling a flat 12
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[beta14ok]

^ Really really NICE raft of images!!

[LateFan]

And check this out - just a pic I found of Hans Mezger in the engineering offices. I was trying to figure out why they had a 4 cyl head gasket drawing....a 924? Looked closer at that valve cover.....it's the V8 Indy engine.

[Joe G]

^ He started working on the formula engines 3 years out of college and never looked back. What a legend.

[LateFan]

This is a little bit great.....

A microphone directly above the tailpipes of Bruce Canepa's 917K at Laguna Seca...

https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/classic-cars/a25307300/porsche-917k-flat-12-sound/

The induction howl, the overrun popping, the low rpm growl.....nothing else sounds like this.

[LateFan]

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[LateFan]

Bjorn Waldegard's East African Safari car -

[LJ851]

This is a little bit great.....

A microphone directly above the tailpipes of Bruce Canepa's 917K at Laguna Seca...

https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/classic-cars/a25307300/porsche-917k-flat-12-sound/

The induction howl, the overrun popping, the low rpm growl.....nothing else sounds like this.

Oh my goodness.

[Joe G]

I just listened to that 3x. Not ashamed that I was pretending to heal toe while crushing some excel spreadsheets and listening to that at work.