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‘The greatest sports car of its generation’ up for auction: 1970 Porsche 917K driven by Steve McQueen in the film 'Le Mans' set to fetch $18.5M when sold by Sotheby’s in August
UK Daily Mail ^
| 07/15/2021
| Ronny Reyes
Posted on 07/15/2021 7:12:10 AM PDT by DFG
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To: DFG
Next to the Gurney Foyt GT40, that’s a grocery cart.
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posted on
07/15/2021 8:10:36 AM PDT
by
Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
To: DFG
Definitely remember the car. But I’d look funny driving that to work, I’d prefer a 911
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posted on
07/15/2021 8:11:44 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
(Let's make crime illegal again!)
To: DFG
When I was a kid half of one wall of my bedroom was covered in these gas station posters. The local Gulf station had so many that they would give me a dozen at a time.
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posted on
07/15/2021 8:18:34 AM PDT
by
Rebelbase
(Play with knives long enough and you will eventually bleed.)
To: Rebelbase
oops...
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posted on
07/15/2021 8:19:48 AM PDT
by
Rebelbase
(Play with knives long enough and you will eventually bleed.)
To: Rebelbase
Was he putting on a Fauci mask, back then?
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posted on
07/15/2021 8:22:12 AM PDT
by
1Old Pro
(Let's make crime illegal again!)
To: Hatteras
My vote for post of the year!
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posted on
07/15/2021 9:10:14 AM PDT
by
gr8eman
(A man who only talks business is a failure in all aspects of life- Camino Del Rio)
To: Rebelbase
Prolly worth a couple grand on Ebay today!
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posted on
07/15/2021 9:12:20 AM PDT
by
gr8eman
(A man who only talks business is a failure in all aspects of life- Camino Del Rio)
To: DFG
The last line of dialogue in the video is great...
"Steve McQueen stars. No one else could."
To: DFG
i remember my parents dropped me off at the movie theatre on ft. ord to see this when i was about 6or7 years old .
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posted on
07/15/2021 9:30:33 AM PDT
by
ßuddaßudd
((>> ☼ << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if s/he's white?")
To: Jimmy Valentine
The 917K won LeMans in 1970 & 71. The distance covered by the winning car in '71 set a record not broken until 2010.
Unlike Porsche's iconic flat-6 'boxer' family of engines, the 917 used a 180° V-12 engine, six crankshaft journals with the connecting rods from each pair of opposing cylinders sharing a common journal. Same arrangement as used in the engine in Ferrari's 512 Berlinetta Boxer which, despite its name, used a 180°-V design, not a "boxer" layout.
Crankshaft and jugs from a 917:
12 jugs, six journals
To: DFG
They gave us a cool poster when we first went to the first run.
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posted on
07/15/2021 9:34:50 AM PDT
by
NWFree
(Somebody has to say it)
To: LibertyWoman
More money than sense I don't know. If it's bought for $18.5M next month and sold for $40M ten years from now he/she will do pretty well, not to mention some income from various car shows in the meantime.
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posted on
07/15/2021 9:37:45 AM PDT
by
libertylover
(Our biggest problem by far: most of the news media is agenda driven, not truth driven.)
To: DFG
My freshman year of college, the guy across the hall had a long play vinyl record of the sounds of Le Mans.
No dialogue or music, just 40 minutes of actual race car sounds.
After a couple hours, the cars get a lot of separation, so you would be able distinctly hear just one car sound approaching and passing the microphone.
After a while, you could instantly identify the car just by its sound.
The record came out several years before the movie, so the passion for Le Mans was already very high when McQueen's film showed up.
LOL - picture this image...
Four stoned freshmen with no girlfriends, sitting around a candle lit dorm room, listening to a race car record!
To: Chode
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posted on
07/15/2021 9:57:31 AM PDT
by
mabarker1
((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !!!!)
To: Hatteras
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posted on
07/15/2021 11:26:28 AM PDT
by
StAnDeliver
(Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress.)
To: DFG
Greatest sports car my ass. That movie was boring. Here is the greatest sports car, and street legal.
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posted on
07/15/2021 12:32:25 PM PDT
by
The MAGA-Deplorian
(Democrats are lawless because Republicans are ball-less!)
To: Paal Gulli
I’ll need to check, but the Ford won by 32 miles/4 full laps over the second place finisher. 212 mph on Mulsanne. For its time nothing better.
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posted on
07/15/2021 1:39:07 PM PDT
by
Jimmy Valentine
(DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
To: Hatteras
To: mabarker1
racing is life... everything else is just waiting
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posted on
07/15/2021 4:19:56 PM PDT
by
Chode
(there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
To: Chode
LOL
The other night We finished replacing the blade engagement cable on Mama’s riding mower and I told Her to crank it up and check the function of the new cable.
She freaked out because it was 21:30 or so and She was worried about the noise. I told Her that the neighbors would survive a few seconds of the noise.
I played this video this morning and told.Her that that would get the neighbors attention at night.
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posted on
07/16/2021 3:24:37 AM PDT
by
mabarker1
((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !!!!)
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