Looking at it now, it’s easy to forget that the Porsche 917 is a production sports car. When the FIA decided that the Championship of Makes would be for 3.0-liter prototypes – ostensibly to slow the climbing speeds at places like Le Mans – it also allowed 5.0-liter sports cars, as long as at least 50 were built for homologation. That was an easy target for the Ford GT40 to hit; other manufacturers didn’t jump so quickly. But when the homologation threshold was lowered to 25, Porsche bit.
Thus the 917 was born. With a stunningly lightweight spaceframe chassis that used magnesium and titanium to  … More
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