Nobody is arguing that the engine failed after being spun to 8,200 ... Racecars blow engines all the time, but a Porsche 917 isn't just a run-of-the-mill racecar. British automotive writer Mark ...

Porsche’s iconic flat-twelve-powered 917 protype won the 24 Hours of Le ... tearing out an oil feed pipe and damaging the 5-liter engine. The car made it back to the pits, but it was retired.

A Porsche 917 used for filming of “Le Mans” didn ... After its time in the film, the car—retaining its original 4.5-liter flat-12 engine rated at approximately 580 hp—was sold to Reinhold ...

Most people go their entire life never seeing a Porsche 917 K in the flesh, let alone hearing that flat-12 engine screaming. While we can’t give you that experience in person, this video gives ...

How Jerry Seinfeld Found Steve McQueen's 917 Jerry Seinfeld's Porsche sale: Complete results After six minutes on stage, bidding hit $25 million for what may be the greatest 917 on the planet.

Arguable one of the most successful race cars of all time, the 917 was the first Porsche designed to win endurance races outright. Wins at the 1970 24 Hours of Daytona and 24 Hours of Le Mans ...

Faced with this and an unfounded fear that Porsche was about to put a 16-cylinder engine in the 917 for 1971, he turned the 512M into a customer-only programme and focused on developing his 3 ...

The iconic 1969 Porsche 917K star car formerly owned by ... An air-cooled Type 12 V-12 engine sits behind the driver, producing 580 hp and 366 lb-ft in a vehicle that weighs under 1800 lbs.

Sparked by a change in regulations for Le Mans, the 917 debuted at the 1969 Geneva motor show with a space-frame chassis, 4.5-litre flat-12, composed of two 2.25-litre Porsche flat-six engines ...