Restoration of the Porsche 917 from the movie "Le Mans"

[NickWood07]

Was that Hans Herrmann sitting next to Herbert? Awesome!

[89239dfkdk]

Legendary, Legendary, Legendary, Legendary, Legendary, Legendary, Legendary, nice vocabulary retard.

[Ishouldsk8more]

Ever since I was a kid and saw the movie I always thought the 917 was(is) the most bad ass car of all time.

[HorizonsUnlimited]

Both 022 and 024 were sold by the factory. No races were listed as being run by those cars. 034 was used for the filming of the LeMans. That info according to a listing of all 917s, what races they ran, how far and how long, etc.

I would love to see one of these in person. I just might this June as I'll be passing by Stuttgart...might as well stop and check out the new museum.

[Brettwp]

Jerry Seinfeld now owns the car

[Miles30]

Not this car but rather chassis 917-022.

[Brettwp]

Jerry Seinfeld, comedian now owns the car.

[TeamChapmanRacing]

My favourite race car of all time, probably due to the movie. Did anyone ever track down the rest of the restoration video?

[m12shooter]

@TeamChapmanRacing

It is a great car, pretty neat that they use the frame as an oil cooler to save weight.

[naturalyshocked]

wow, what a high quality restauration.

[redletterchurch]

If you like Steve McQueen...see the motorcycle movie 'On Any Sunday'. Steve did his own riding in that one! I saw this 917(Gulf 20) at a vintage race. It was roped-off...and had an armed-guard!

[gcmc2]

It wouldn't have been this car on display. It would be the Solar productions car. It is chassis NO. 22 ( currently owned and occasionally run by Jerry Seinfeld. This car is chassis 024 and has no race history. It shows as being delivered to Jo Siffert from Porsche. It's certainly among the lowest and maybe the lowest mile 917 anywhere. It might have been used in the film because Siffert was involved. It certainly didn't ever race proper as far as 917 race history is concerned.

[llllbserkllll]

die ham echt das öl mit dem rahmen gekühlt? hahaha das ist mal n geiler einfall!

[vtecmini1]

I saw the tail section off the body of this car at a companys workshop in germany, whilst I was there collecting a tail they had made for us, it was in awfull condition the fiberglass had rotten, you could just poke your fingers through it!!

[cassiequail987]

I want the rest of this story SOOOOO bad...

[gcmc2]

Can anyone help with complete story ?

[gcmc2]

This car was sold after filming and never raced again which lines up with this story that it was out of sight for 30 years and is in such good shape. These are the most amazing of racing cars as most here agree so their histories are just fascinating. Chassis 022 raced quite a bit in various colours but is now painted back in Gulf/Wyer colours. It is described as a Gulf/Wyer car in many articles about Seinfeld but it is definitely the car Mcqueen bought from Porsche and was never a Gulf car.

[gcmc2]

It may be the race car as both 022 & 024 are from the first 1969 run of 25 long tail cars. Neither were gulf cars but both were painted & numbered to match so they could blend their own '71 footage with the '70 race footage. Siffert definitely shows as the first owner direct from Prosche AG but neither car ran at all in '69. Siffert drove for Gulf/Wyer in 1970 so It's possible that Mcqueen bought the car from Siffert virtually unused. Chassis 022was sold & raced after filming but 024 wasn't

[gcmc2]

Don't think there's any doubt that this was a Mcqueen car but I don't think it was the car they ran in the race with Linghe. This is Chassis 024 and is the Jo Siffert car from 1970. The chassis that was sold to Mcqueen's company new was 022 He planned to drive it himself in the race with then current F1 champ Jackie Stewart. That car is now owned by Jerry Seinfeld. I believe this car was the one bought after season's end 1970, used for filming the movie scenes in 1971 and never raced since.

[epiovani]

It is one of a very few of my favourites race car. I read somewhere that the famous zig-zag crash was performed by McQueeen himself; in a specially "self-destroying" car, the director asked him to hit the fences at 80 kph, but he did it at over 180. When the car came to a halt, he jumped over and asked 'was it any good'?

[gcmc2]

HI, no Mcqueen did not drive a 917 during filming. He did drive Porsche 908s in races though. As the narrator says, insurers who were underwriting his production company, (solar productions) wouldn't have it.  The film nearly bankrupt Mcqueen anyway. There were some crashes during filming though and englishman David Piper, a well known racer and collector actually lost a foot in a crash while filming some of the sequences that were shot later after the Le mans race.

[monzonn]

amazingggggggggg great videooooooooo

[p47br]

hope you upload a movie when this beauty is finished and ready to run again!!!!

thanks

marco - Brazil

[debaucheryBotched]

The 'Old school' space age technology

[pakkinen]

yes!!!

[ottocars]

exellent