And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Can Am and sports car racing rules generally require a second seat or ability to fit one. McLaren F1 that won Le Mans was a three seat layout, with the driver front and center and passenger seats behind.
I’m not sure that’s a 917- maybe a late 910. Flat 8 ( not the 12 of the 917s) but with turbos. I think they were NA when first released, like the 908s.
Nice crumple zone in front of the engine. Surrounded by high octane fuel, flimsy frame tubes, sitting in front of a big ass motor, one has to have a serious lack of imagination to get in and drive.
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P.S. "Pete, do you sometimes get tired, tired of the driving?" Jean Pierre Sarte.
air cooled 5.4-liter twin-turbocharged flat-12 engine with a prominent horizontal cooling fan, capable of producing over 1,100 to 1,500 horsepower depending on boost settings. very cool
Porsche 917-30 I think. A 1,000hp monster made for the Canam championship.
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Porsche 917-30 I believe 1973. Took a picture from similar vantage point at Elkhart Lakes WI, Cam AM Yea I'm OLD
ReplyDeleteAttended my first of several CanAm races in ‘67 at Riverside Intl Raceway. Fun times.
DeleteI did my paper on their turbochargers for my Thermodynamics of Internal Combustion Engines course in engineering school. Got an A too!
ReplyDeleteWhy isn't the driver centered? Are there plans to add a passenger seat or does it have to do with weight distribution to counteract torque??
ReplyDeleteCan Am and sports car racing rules generally require a second seat or ability to fit one. McLaren F1 that won Le Mans was a three seat layout, with the driver front and center and passenger seats behind.
DeleteWhat a car. Just fantastic. Never see its like again.
ReplyDeleteI’m not sure that’s a 917- maybe a late 910. Flat 8 ( not the 12 of the 917s) but with turbos. I think they were NA when first released, like the 908s.
ReplyDeleteNice crumple zone in front of the engine. Surrounded by high octane fuel, flimsy frame tubes, sitting in front of a big ass motor, one has to have a serious lack of imagination to get in and drive.
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P.S. "Pete, do you sometimes get tired, tired of the driving?" Jean Pierre Sarte.
I believe that’s the 917-30 that Penske & Donohue ended the series with…it also set an as yet unbroken speed record at Talladega…
ReplyDeleteair cooled 5.4-liter twin-turbocharged flat-12 engine with a prominent horizontal cooling fan, capable of producing over 1,100 to 1,500 horsepower depending on boost settings. very cool
ReplyDeletewhoops think it is the 8
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