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> Steve McQueen's LeMans, 914 in opening segment?
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post Jul 18 2010, 04:59 PM
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Do you know any other details about the 86 hour race?
How many cars entered?
Number of drivers?
Number of miles driver?
Was it 86 hours all at once?
etc?
etc?
etc?

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post Jul 18 2010, 09:59 PM
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QUOTE(URY914 @ Jul 18 2010, 11:59 PM) *

Was it 86 hours all at once?


yupp - of course


do a search on google (or similar)

a couple of years back I found a page with lots of infos on this race (and the other years - IIRC it was 84 hrs in the earlier years)
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post Jul 22 2010, 09:07 AM
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QUOTE(Gustl @ Jul 19 2010, 05:59 AM) *

QUOTE(URY914 @ Jul 18 2010, 11:59 PM) *

Was it 86 hours all at once?


yupp - of course


do a search on google (or similar)

a couple of years back I found a page with lots of infos on this race (and the other years - IIRC it was 84 hrs in the earlier years)


Hello friends,

Here in Europe the race was also called "1000 Km of the Nürnburgring"..I bought this Belgian car magazine some years ago..It had a nice centerfold of the #1 winning car of Larrousse/Marko/Haldi..

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post Jul 22 2010, 09:16 AM
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..looks even better if I insert the pictures..Doohh.. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

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post Jul 22 2010, 09:18 AM
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..and the poster...

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post Jul 22 2010, 11:01 AM
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Also running at "Du" Mans..


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post Jul 22 2010, 01:21 PM
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post Jul 22 2010, 04:35 PM
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In that last pic the BP billboard is leaking oil.

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post Jul 22 2010, 10:37 PM
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Just incredible. I can't imagine a race that long. 24 hrs is wild enough and on The Ring of all places.
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post Jul 23 2010, 05:39 AM
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Just incredible. I can't imagine a race that long. 24 hrs is wild enough and on The Ring of all places.


Exactly,incredible..thats the reason why they nicknamed him
"Die curvenmeister"..! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/WTF.gif) = the bend master ! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_pokal.gif)

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post Jul 23 2010, 05:46 AM
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QUOTE(copersucar @ Jul 23 2010, 01:39 PM) *

QUOTE(Silverstreak @ Jul 23 2010, 06:37 AM) *

Just incredible. I can't imagine a race that long. 24 hrs is wild enough and on The Ring of all places.


Exactly,incredible..thats the reason why they nicknamed him
"Die curvenmeister"..! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/WTF.gif) = the bend master ! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smilie_pokal.gif)

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post Jul 23 2010, 08:38 AM
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The GT lid on that 2nd last pic is a bit different, built in rain hats?
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post Jul 23 2010, 11:32 AM
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The GT lid on that 2nd last pic is a bit different, built in rain hats?

yupp - that's it

same here

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(factory GT #983)

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post Aug 15 2010, 09:58 AM
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Very cool pictures!
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post Aug 15 2010, 01:38 PM
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For the movie LeMans, Solar Productions had a 914 built up as a stand-in for 914/6 GT No. 40. In the movie, when actual race footage was used, you will notice that the original #40 has a red surround on the perimeter of the windshield (red duct tape perhaps?), whereas the stand-in used for movie filming purposes does not have the red windshield surround. You will notice that some of the photos on this thread depict this discrepency. Archival color photos of the actual race also show the red band around the windshield.

The 914 "stand-in" used by Solar Productions was converted by Franco Sbarro's garage in the Swiss town of Yverdon.

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post Aug 15 2010, 04:29 PM
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Are you sure that Solar made a replica and not that Sbarro prepped the real car without the Red Duct Tape. It seems a little far-fetched that McQueen would use Real 917s & 512s and a 914-6GT Clone

The only cars that I know that were fakes is the the 917 in the crash sequence (it was a Lola with a 917 Body) and the 512 that went thru the billboard (a tube frame chassis with 512 body work)

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post Aug 15 2010, 04:56 PM
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QUOTE(carr914 @ Aug 15 2010, 02:29 PM) *

Are you sure that Solar made a replica and not that Sbarro prepped the real car without the Red Duct Tape. It seems a little far-fetched that McQueen would use Real 917s & 512s and a 914-6GT Clone

The only cars that I know that were fakes is the the 917 in the crash sequence (it was a Lola with a 917 Body) and the 512 that went thru the billboard (a tube frame chassis with 512 body work)




This is from the book A French Kiss with Death "In the next two weeks Jo (Siffert) and Paul (Blancpain, Seppi's Swiss business partner) bought four Porsche 911s, a Porsche 914, two Chevron B19 coupes, and a Corvette. As soon as they were purchased, the cars were delivered to Franco Sbarro's garage in the Swiss town of Yverdon, where fender flares were added, roll bars installed, and other modifications made to transform street cars into passable race cars."

a couple paragraphs later....
"On top of that (Siffert's rental fees), the fact that the cars had been used in the film gave them a certain cachet, allowing Jo to sell them for inflated prices after the (film) production was completed."

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post Oct 25 2016, 12:21 AM
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Glad I found this thread. Just finished watching the movie for the umpteenth time. A replica 917 is in my future.

BTW, anyone notice that it was almost always a 914 that was passed? My takeaway was that these cars are very durable.
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post Oct 25 2016, 01:36 PM
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Good read and photos, thanks!
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post Oct 27 2016, 09:40 AM
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Fun thread. I need to watch that movie again. Its been to long since the last viewing.
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