 George Follmer " American Wheel Man ", One of the Titans of the CanAm |
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| Maltese Falcon |
 Mar 6 2020, 07:45 PM
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Advanced Member  Group: Members Posts: 4,641 Joined: 14-September 04 From: Mulholland SoCal Member No.: 2,755 Region Association: None   |
George Follmer one of the Titans of the CanAm days piloted a 917 panzer, in a field of other Greats like McLaren, Donohue, Posey, Schekter. Author Tom Madigan, and published by Ed Justice, jr. it's a great read ! I have had it for a few months, and when I mentioned it to a good friend...he said to send along and he will have it signed for me.
Very grateful that it's now autographed and in my motorsports library...goes well with my Follmer / MoMo steering wheel on the flat-fan car (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif)  |
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| URY914 |
Mar 6 2020, 08:37 PM
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I built the lightest 914 in the history of mankind. Group: Members Posts: 120,466 Joined: 3-February 03 From: Jacksonville, FL Member No.: 222 Region Association: None |
I saw his 917-10 this morning at Amelia Island.........
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| Maltese Falcon |
Mar 6 2020, 09:28 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 4,641 Joined: 14-September 04 From: Mulholland SoCal Member No.: 2,755 Region Association: None |
QUOTE(URY914 @ Mar 6 2020, 06:37 PM)  I saw his 917-10 this morning at Amelia Island......... L & M's smokemm !! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/driving.gif) |
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| FlacaProductions |
Mar 6 2020, 09:33 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 1,570 Joined: 24-November 17 From: LA Member No.: 21,628 Region Association: Southern California 
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I had that slot car back in the day.
(and it's one of the reasons I'm a Porsche fan and a Follmer fan!) |
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| KELTY360 |
Mar 6 2020, 11:14 PM
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914 Neferati Group: Members Posts: 5,031 Joined: 31-December 05 From: Pt. Townsend, WA Member No.: 5,344 Region Association: Pacific Northwest
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Watched him driving one of the 911 RSRs at the inaugural IROC at Riverside Raceway. He was part of one of the greatest lineup of drivers in racing history.
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| sixnotfour |
Mar 7 2020, 01:03 AM
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914 Wizard Group: Members Posts: 10,423 Joined: 12-September 04 From: Life Elevated..planet UT. Member No.: 2,744 Region Association: Rocky Mountains
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Let George Do It...
bought 2 of these yrs ago Attached image(s) 
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| horizontally-opposed |
Mar 7 2020, 12:04 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 3,431 Joined: 12-May 04 From: San Francisco Member No.: 2,058 Region Association: None
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Have been fortunate to spend time with George Follmer, most recently on a series of phone calls for last year's "Blink" series, and feel exactly that: Fortunate. What a cool American, cool champion, and cool car guy.
My favorite time with him, however, came at Laguna Seca during an LSR event, when Jim Edwards put George and Johannes van Overbeek in a 934 and 935 for a story for Excellence. George was a delight to be around, but cracked all of us up when he was asked if he wanted to drive the 934 for a second time and he smiled, said "No thanks, how about I drive that instead?" (pointing to the old Joe Camel RSR). Edwards was cool with that, and George had a lot of fun in the RSR for the rest of the day. Just after a session where George had been out in "The Last 935," the old Akin car, a guy driving a (thin-air?) "RSR" came up, breathless and said "Hey George, I pas...uh, I was with you coming out of the Corkscrew." I was up there taking pics when they came down the hill, and while he passed George Follmer he failed to surpass George Follmer. I asked George about it later, and he said he had nothing to gain and everything to lose in an old 935, and was just happy to be out there. How cool is that? |
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