Salzburg 917 K
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too bad you couldn't get any pictures of it....
Thanks fo rthe details shots - love em.
I was just watching CANAM Speed Odyssey last night and watched the 917 footage - love that 917.
Thanks fo rthe details shots - love em.
I was just watching CANAM Speed Odyssey last night and watched the 917 footage - love that 917.
Thanks for the great pictures. I saw and heard that car on the track at the Rennsport Reunion at Lime Rock a few years back. As I recall, it was then owned by a Dr. Julio Palmaz who I heard was instumental in developing the heart stent. He had 2 or three other significant Porsches as well. this car looks even better now
Thanks again!
Thanks again!
I have analyzed the anatomy of 917's like no other and something is weird here. this car at the museum is NOT the same as the car I saw at the rennsport reunion in 07 which supposedly was brought over from the factory along with 3 other 917s for the weekend. I took detailed photos of that car and have compared with this car. there are several detail variations, unless of course the factory has restored the car in the last year and a half. Either way this is not 917-023 lemans winner the factory likes to claim. Dr. Julio Palmaz owns the real 023 and he wont sell it to the factory. This car is probably the 917-001 test car converted to the Zuffenhausen "taxi" thats painted to look like the 70 lemans winner. Its too bad they they never kept any of the original 25 long tails as presented during the FIA inspection in 1969
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The chassis is 917-001 though it carries chassis number 917-009 (1st 917 race winner @ Osterriechring 1000kms 1969).
917historian
GB is correct.
The museum car isn´t the 1970 Le Mans winner, although the Porsche factory contributed a lot to this urban myth. The very museum car spent its years serving as a VIP Taxi on the Weissach test track under the capable hands of Hubert Mimler, by then "Werkstattmeister" of Weissach´s racing workshop.
On a sidenote, even as the factory admits, tracing back the history of many original 917 chassis is very difficult nowadays for a very simple reason: At the time between 1969 and 1971 Porsche only had five sets of customs documents with one Chassis Nr. in each set of documents for a fleet of about twenty 917´s coming to the factory for repairs, maintenance etc. So therefore, in order to avoid trouble at the borders, they simply changed the chassis Nr. plate on the cars leaving the workshop to keep the cars compliant with the customs documents accompanying them.
Best,
Marcus
The museum car isn´t the 1970 Le Mans winner, although the Porsche factory contributed a lot to this urban myth. The very museum car spent its years serving as a VIP Taxi on the Weissach test track under the capable hands of Hubert Mimler, by then "Werkstattmeister" of Weissach´s racing workshop.
On a sidenote, even as the factory admits, tracing back the history of many original 917 chassis is very difficult nowadays for a very simple reason: At the time between 1969 and 1971 Porsche only had five sets of customs documents with one Chassis Nr. in each set of documents for a fleet of about twenty 917´s coming to the factory for repairs, maintenance etc. So therefore, in order to avoid trouble at the borders, they simply changed the chassis Nr. plate on the cars leaving the workshop to keep the cars compliant with the customs documents accompanying them.
Best,
Marcus
The chassis that was used as the Weissach Taxi was the ex Gulf JWA Chassis 917-015 (035), which is shown on the other thread.
917historian
