Reedy Racing

This is one of the best racing car museums in the world and a must see if the numbers 917 mean anything to you. The Porsche Museum is an automobile museum in the Zuffenhausen district of Stuttgart, Germany on the site of carmaker Porsche. After touring the factory, we visited it in 2019 which was the year that possibly the most prominent racing car in Porsche motor racing history was celebrating its 50th birthday: the Porsche 917. The Porsche Museum was honouring the 50th anniversary of the racing sport icon as part of a comprehensive special exhibition entitled “50 Years of the Porsche 917 – Colours of Speed”
The success story of the 917 is legendary. The car managed to secure an overall victory in its very first year of competing in the 1,000-kilometre race at Zeltweg, Austria in 1969. In 1970, Hans Herrmann and Richard Attwood achieved the coveted overall triumph at Le Mans – the greatest motorsport success Porsche had ever achieved until that point, and which would be repeated by Dr Helmut Marko and Gijs van Lennep in 1971. Following further development of the 917 to the 917/10 and 917/30 turbo versions with over 1,000 PS, George Follmer and Mark Donohue were able to dominate the North American CanAm Series in 1972 and 1973 respectively; these Porsche models also proved unbeatable in the event’s European counterpart, the Interserie. An altered version of the turbo technology was also reused a little later in a Porsche standard vehicle – when the 911 Turbo was born in 1974.

Some more pics this time from the Petersen Museum in LA