{"id":89605,"date":"2014-01-23T07:52:46","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T14:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=89605"},"modified":"2014-01-23T07:54:39","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T14:54:39","slug":"dominance-1973-porsche-91730-can-am-spyder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=89605","title":{"rendered":"Dominance \u2013 1973 Porsche 917\/30 Can-Am Spyder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-89608\" alt=\"Porsche-917-30-Can-Am-Spyder\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2014\/01\/Porsche-917-30-Can-Am-Spyder1-600x240.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Porsche-917-30-Can-Am-Spyder1-600x240.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Porsche-917-30-Can-Am-Spyder1-150x60.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Porsche-917-30-Can-Am-Spyder1.jpg 920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>Perhaps no other race car claims the outright success that is boasted by Porsche\u2019s 917\/30, a purpose-built spyder that dominated its only season of competition and went on to set a still respectable closed-course speed record. Rooted in roughly four years of development of similar racing spyders, the 917\/30\u2019s beginnings initially arose from two goals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">With a new American retail relationship between Porsche and Audi forming in 1969, VW of America executive Josef Hoppen sought to publicise the development with a racing campaign. This suggestion nicely melded with Porsche\u2019s plans for entry into the Can-Am Challenge Cup, the unlimited regulation Canadian-American series that featured racing\u2019s most powerful cars\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportscardigest.com\/cars-for-sale\/dominance-1973-porsche-91730-can-am-spyder\/?awt_l=POqMg&amp;awt_m=JvZ8tfRl4es.C0\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps no other race car claims the outright success that is boasted by Porsche\u2019s 917\/30, a purpose-built spyder that dominated its only season of competition and went on to set a still respectable closed-course speed record. Rooted in roughly four years of development of similar racing spyders, the 917\/30\u2019s beginnings initially arose from two goals. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-sports-car","category-vintage-racing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89605"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89610,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89605\/revisions\/89610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}