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> BREAKING NEWS: Quick Vic Comes to 914World.com!, Don't miss this one!
Eric_Shea
post Apr 9 2007, 07:48 PM
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BREAKING NEWS: QUICK VIC COMES TO 914World.com!!

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Same teener time, same teener channel:

What Day? - Sunday May 6th
What Time? - 8:00PM EST - 5:00PM PST
What Site? - www.914World.com of course!

Join us for a live chat with racing legend Vic Elford. Sit back and enjoy from the comfort of your own living room as Vic logs on and answers "your" questions!

For those not "in the know" here's a little tic about Vic:

Born on June 10th 1935 in London, England is perhaps the greatest all-round driver ever. By 1967 Quick Vic was "the man" for the Porsche Factory Team. Victories in the Geneva, Stuttgart-Lyon-Charbonnières and Tulip rallies coupled with podium finishes on Monte Carlo and the Tour de Corse, all in a 911, assured Vic Elford the European GT Rally Championship.

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Podium finishes continued to abound in this, his first season of circuit racing, winning the British championship and his international debuts in Porsche 911R, 906 and 910 at Le Mans, Mugello, Reims and Nurburgring.

Vic finished the season on a high note with "Le Marathon de la Route" at the Nurburgring. Driving a 911R Sportomatic, he drove an amazing four consecutive 7 1/2 hour rain and fog filled nights around the Sud/NordSchleife track, to win this mind-boggling 84 hour event.

1968 saw victory in the Monte Carlo Rally in a 911, followed a week later by victory in the 24 hours of Daytona in a 907, Porsche's first ever outright win in a 24 hours race.

At the Targa Florio, despite starting the second lap of the ten lap, 720 km race more than 18 minutes behind the leading car, Vic and co-driver Umberto Maglioli came back to win by more than a minute. Porsche, in recognition of his efforts, dedicated their traditional victory poster not to the car, but to the driver. The only time a Porsche poster ever featured only the driver - not the car.

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Drawing on the experience of all those hours at night on the Nurburgring the year before, Vic followed up with victory, the first of three, in the 1000kms of Nurburgring, associated with Jo Siffert in a 908 Coupe.

By 1971 Vic had become one of the very few drivers to have won both the American Crown Jewels of endurance racing, the 24 hours of Daytona and the 12 hours of Sebring.

Lap records included:

• Targa Florio
• Nurburgring
• Daytona
• Sebring
• Norisring
• Monza
• Buenos Aires
• Road Atlanta
• Laguna Seca
• Riverside and
• Le Mans - where he was the first driver to lap at over 150mph in the Porsche long-tail 917 in 1970!

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Vic was one of the select few Porsche 917 and Ferrari 512 drivers hired by Steve McQueen to do the high speed close-up action driving for Steve's film "Le Mans". During the 24 hours of Le Mans, when a Ferrari crashed in front of him, Vic stopped in mid-race to extricate the driver from his burning car. T.V. cameras caught the action and Vic was named Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Mérite by French President Georges Pompidou for his act of courage and heroism.

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Who wrote the book on Porsche High-Performance Driving? Why, Vic Elford of course. The Porsche High-Performance Driving Handbook was and still is the "Bible" for many wanting to improve their times at the autocross track, the rally course or the road course.

Add to that Vic's latest literary achievement Reflections on a Golden Era of Motorsport You "must" get an autographed copy of this book before the event! Get both! Vic mentioned in one of his emails that there are no ghost writers... you get the real Vic Elford in these books.

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post Apr 9 2007, 08:08 PM
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post Apr 9 2007, 08:09 PM
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post Apr 9 2007, 08:28 PM
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AWESOME!!!

...and timely...great article in Excellence as a prelude (IMG:style_emoticons/default/thumb3d.gif)
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post Apr 9 2007, 08:32 PM
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willie b signing our decklids from cyber-space? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

This will be vet-t-t-ty interesting to hear his rememberance of those glory days of Porsche's evolution from spear carrier to front runner. His recall of the 914 from that era should prove interesting as well.

Kudos to the admins for arranging this (IMG:style_emoticons/default/clap56.gif)
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post Apr 9 2007, 08:33 PM
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Here is a picture of him after winning the 1968 Monte Carlo rally.

He is on the far right in this team picture.

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post Apr 9 2007, 08:39 PM
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QUOTE(URY914 @ Apr 9 2007, 06:33 PM) *

He is on the far right in this team picture.


i'm just glad no one fired that cannon ...
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post Apr 9 2007, 09:27 PM
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How the heck do you get great folks like this to chat with us? This is just freaking amazing!!

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post Apr 9 2007, 09:35 PM
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Z does a good reach around.
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post Apr 9 2007, 10:34 PM
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Kowabunga!

He's my idol! I got signed shit, posters, models, saw him at Rennsport II. This guy is more real than than the rest of us. I'm going to be on the road on the 6th, but I can at least watch via smartphone.

Great work! Who do we thank for this?
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post Apr 9 2007, 10:35 PM
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This World is great, if it were a Club I'd probably join right now.
Eric, this one's for you (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beer3.gif)
Soooooo, uuhhhmmmmm, did he ever race a 914? Not that it reeeaaalllly matters.
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post Apr 9 2007, 10:38 PM
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Yes, and I believe the 914 lost. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/w00t.gif)

Thanks Chris (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)
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post Apr 10 2007, 01:01 AM
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post Apr 10 2007, 07:34 AM
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This is awesome! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_pokal.gif)

I checked out the link for the Driving Handbook... if you get one at his site, he'll dedicate and sign it for you. Count me in... I'm going to get one today.

Damn, this is cool. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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post Apr 10 2007, 08:19 AM
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post Apr 10 2007, 10:39 AM
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Glad you called him back. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) He has a lot of great stories to tell and tells them well.
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post Apr 10 2007, 10:52 AM
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Amazing. The master of the 917 to speak with us. Guys who drove cars of that era were incredibly brave, the cars were insanely fast yet lacked nearly any safety features. Add in that the courses like Spa and Le Mans were complete death traps, too.
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post Apr 10 2007, 11:02 AM
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post Apr 10 2007, 01:58 PM
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Peeps...

Please log on and grab one of Vic's books, DVD's, prints or posters. As mentioned by Uncle Rusty, he'll personally sign them for you! You simply can’t beat that.

The most celebrated Porsche driver in history is coming to 914World to chat with you “gratis”. Please, please, please show him your gratitude by purchasing one of his books.

I'm getting the new book as I already have Porsche High-Performance Driving Handbook. I can tell you this; the lessons gleaned from just one paragraph in that book are worth the price of admission.

Again, please support Vic on this and, let him know where the best group of Porschephiles resides.

Click Here for Vic's Store
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post Apr 10 2007, 04:56 PM
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I just purchased 3 books (and mentioned the 914world chat, too (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) )

1. Reflections on a Golden Era of Motorsport
2. Porsche High-Performance Driving Handbook
3. KINGS OF THE NURBURGRING DER NURBURG-RING: A HISTORY 1925 - 1983
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