Jalopnik: 917

These amazing car paintings were done without photoshop

Raphael Orlove — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 16:00:00 EDT

Prints and paint, but no photoshop. The founder of the excellent formfreu.de, Markus Haub, transforms vintage racing pictures into the coolest car art we've seen all year. More »

If you missed Le Mans in 1969 this excellent vintage movie is the next best thing

Tom Joslin — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 14:00:00 EDT

Even if you can't go back in time to 1969, you can watch this excellent "Found on Youtube" 4 part movie highlighting Le Mans that year. Hearing the sounds, entertaining the prospect of Ford GT40s battling with Porsche 917s and dreaming about hitting 240+ MPH on the Mulsanne straight—what more could you ask for from vintage Le Mans footage? More »

Le Porsche

Tom Joslin — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 16:30:00 EST

Everything about this Porsche 917 seems right. Painted in classic Gulf livery, the car is shown on the race track, where it belongs. These flat 12 equipped beasts brought Porsche back to back overall wins at the 24 hours of Le Mans in 1970 and 1971. 40 years later, the 917 looks (and sounds) even better with age. More »

The Porsche 917 Was Scary Fast

Matt Hardigree — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 10:30:00 EST

The Porsche 917 is what happens when Ze Germans focus all their energy on global domination... in a good way. More »

Mama, Don't Take My Einspritzer Away

Sam Smith — Fri, 07 May 2010 10:15:00 EDT

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The BRE Datsun 240Z a few weeks ago reminded me how much I love old-school slide film. This is a 1972 Porsche 917/10 that I shot on Kodachrome in 2006. Could anyone else stare at this all day? More »

Cool Porsche Ad Does Its Job, Makes Us Wish We Owned A Porsche

Sam Smith — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:20:00 EST

Rallying, Le Mans, a Le Mans start, skinny-tired spins, a Rothmans 959, mud, French police, Daytona, hairy-chested flat sixes, the Nürburgring, and more, all crammed into ninety-five seconds. If you don't want a P-car after this, your brain is broken. More »

Old Porsches, No Engines

Peter Orosz — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:15:00 EDT

Get your fix of 1:32 wind-up Porsches at A Time To Get, where Nick Maggio has even dug up an old 917. In Gulf livery, of course. [A Time To Get] More »

Porsche 917 Chair: Feel Like You're Going 250 MPH While Sitting Still

Peter Orosz — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 16:30:00 EDT

Fantasies of beating Ferrari at Le Mans without leaving your dining room shall now be addressed by Torgny Fjeldskaar’s Ch.air Motorsports carbon fiber chair, based on the Gulf-liveried Porsche 917 race car. More »

Porsche 917: Happy Birthday, Turbopanzer!

Peter Orosz — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:30:00 EDT

The biggest, baddest, meanest Porsche ever made turns 40 today. Happy birthday, Porsche 917. More »

Porsche 917

Jonny Lieberman — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 12:00:00 EDT

Photo: Lothar Spurzem. More »

Thar She Blows! Twin-Turbo Moby Dick Porsche 935

Mike Bumbeck — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 15:30:00 EST

With 750+ horsepower cracking from a flat-six thanks to creative use of turbocharging and Bosch mechanical injection, the Porsche 935 represents the apex of crazed eighties IMSA Group 5 twin-turbo gas huffing mayhem. The Porsche brain trust produced many variants of the 935 six-banger in answer to the ever changing race series rules regarding use of hair dryers. Some of these engines overtook the output of the twelve-cylinder 917 engine with more than 800 horsepower. This particular 935 is going up on the block at the Amelia Island RM Auction March 10, and is expected to fetch the princely sum 950 thousand clams or so. Our morning trip to Coinstar netted $7.53, an arcade token, and a stripped bolt, so we're unfortunately out of the running. – Mike Bumbeck More »

Downforce in the Den: Porsche 917 Couch

Mike Spinelli — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 12:59:40 EDT

Loveseat, indeed. It's one thing to watch your DVDs of LeMans or CanAm race footage while sitting in a Barcalounger or some other glorified tree stump. It's entrely another to curl up in your own Porsche 917. Sure this model is lacking around 1,100 horsepower or so (from CanAm setup), but the company that makes it will paint it in your choice of livery. We'd of course stick with the Gulf-Wyer trimming. Just 3995.00 (~$7500) takes one home. Click through to see (and hear) a less living-room-friendly version. – Mike Spinelli More »

Vasek Polak's Porsche Engines Recovered, Auctioned For Charity

Davey G. Johnson — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 15:00:00 EDT

How did we not know about this? Famed motor-racing driver, car collector and Porsche dealer Vasek Polak died in a wreck on the autobahn in 1997, leaving his estate to the Vasek and Anna Maria Polak Foundation. In 2000, a team of crack thieves absconded with a stock of NOS and rebuilt Porsche racing motors: four naturally-aspirated Porsche 917K race engines, a NOS 3.0L Porsche 908 mill, one 2.2L Porsche 907 Hillclimb engine, and one 3.4L Porsche 911 race engine. This seems rather dumb to us, as the market for these engines is necessarily a small one. And wha' happen'? They were finally nabbed and the collection returned to the Polak foundation. More »