Another 917K used in the filming of Le Mans sold for over $14 million seven years ago. Chassis 917-022 retains its original flat-12 engine. Comedian and actor Jerry Seinfeld once owned this most ...

The Porsche 917K is one of the world’s most iconic endurance cars and in this video from RM Sotheby’s, we discover the process required to actually start its engine.

Like any 12-cylinder engine, the flat-12 of the Porsche 917K sounds great. In fact, it sounds so good, it’s hard not to crank that volume rocker up. The 917K featured is a 1970 model and was the ...

In 2000, a team of crack thieves absconded with a stock of NOS and rebuilt Porsche racing motors: four naturally-aspirated Porsche 917K race engines, a NOS 3.0L Porsche 908 mill, one 2.2L Porsche ...

Porsche 917K used by McQueen in film could top $20 million at auction. By David Undercoffler writer . ... Initially the 917s featured a 4.5-liter, flat 12-cylinder engine, ...

The Porsche 917 used two of the company's 2.25-liter flat-six engines to make one kick-ass flat-12 with dual overhead camshafts, twin spark plugs per cylinder and twin distributors.

Stephen Edelstein August 2, 2021 Comment Now! An original Porsche 917K is so valuable today that most owners won't risk driving them on a closed track, let alone on the street. Yet that's exactly ...

1969 Porsche 917K Gulf livery race car, for sale by Bruce Canepa. By Autoweek Published: Sep 23, 2014. Save Article. ... Frank Honsowetz, at Ed Pink Racing Engines, rebuilt the flat-12.

For most, a carbon fiber replica of a Porsche 917k race car is only a summer car. Some people, though, are slightly more daring. The sort of person who spends nearly a decade of their life ...

The Porsche 917K can rightly be considered the single most iconic Porsche of all time. It’s the car that gave Porsche its first Le Mans win and co-starred alongside Steve McQueen in the film Le ...

1970 Porsche 917K vs. 2014 Porsche 918 ... back then if you missed a shift—which happened quite a lot—they just put in a new engine," he offers, matter-of-factly. "We had plenty of 'em. Not ...

Porsche 917K examples not affiliated with Le Mans haven’t crossed the $5,000,000 mark in public auctions. This could be the one to surpass $20 million next year. Let the hype begin.