I was standing to the right of the guy in the red shirt, near the fence in the foreground. Newman's driving style was clean, determined and always consistantly advancing.
There was another 914/6 that tried to get around Newman for the last third of the race. The other 914 took a waay too early apex entry into turn 2 lefthander, nearly clipping his nose and pressed Newman door to door to the outside and into the stalled 911 at the grass edge. Newman staggered a couple steps after exiting the car as he walked infield, a few yards away from the track. Then checked the damage to the front end.
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I blame the other driver for dicing into that corner with three other cars, his inexperience and disregard damaged two cars.
Bye the way, it was a beautiful day, sunny. Talked with Hurley Haywood, and Vic Elford, shook hands with Herr Singer when they brought out the blue 917/30.
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Still have the poster with everyones' signature.

Believe it or not, she actually drove an NA Miata up until a couple of years before she passed. She lived in the Cross Mountain subdivision off Boerne Stage. I met her once a few years back while at work, and she was quite friendly. Its really cool that she was a 914 fan.

I'll need to check in with my old POC pal Mike to see when he let his precious #40 go
Marty

Ok, very excited to add to this thread.

Went to Cars and Coffee here in La Canada this morning. Met Dallas Raines, local ABC7 meteorlogist. He sat in my car! I was too embarrassed to take a pic.

Turns out he's a super cool nice guy and....is building a race 914! He races a BMW 2002 at Willow Springs...showed me a video of him holding off a Ferrari Italia.

He has a black teener with a full cage, V8, 930 trans.....he's got some other cars too it seems.

Fun morning!

So the Lemans winning #40 (Sonauto) piloted to 6th overall and 1st in class June 6, 1970 , by Claude Ballot-Lena / Chasseuil, is still in private ownership in California. JayKay must have another gt that is in the same (but a tribute) livery
$300,000 or Euro 300,000 would not budge this car...the owner would not sell it to the museum either !
#40 at MSDS facilities for some Tube work
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Clearly different cars.

JK car is the Porsche factory GT#57 that raced at the 1971 Monte Carlo but was not actually the winning/finishing car of the 3 entered (#56 1st in class, 3rd overall)(914 143 0140), the 1970 Le Mans class winner was the Sonauto car, a Porsche built customer GT (Mike Hagen, 914 043 1020).

These cars do have an interesting racing history.

I was very skeptical of #40 being in new ownership when I read the Daily Mail.com article by reporter Dan Gennoe. I guess the JK is on him with his erroneous info
Marty

https://artofgears.com/2015/10/30/caitlyn-j...is-up-for-sale/

I guess this could be considered a "Conversion" 914

Maybe just the trans , not the engine.

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I too wanted to fine out. But not a lot of info. But, I was listening to Nicky (Motley Crew)six talk show last night and he was telling Jen about a party he was at. I guess he was at one of those parties only rock stars would have as they were all naked and doing drugs. so to make his story short he could not find his cloths and he said he got into his Porsche 914 Naked and was being chased by some girls and wrecked it into a tree. breaking his collarbone and some other injuries.

How about Seinfeld's writer, Spike Feresten, who has the show Car Matchmaker? He has a $150k original British racing green 914-6.

I met a long time Porsche race mechanic here who was very interested in my /6 conversion. He started showing me pictures of cars and drivers on his phone, and he showed me a 935 that he prepped and mentioned that Bruce Jenner was actually a hell of a driver. Very talented.

Bruce Jenner was a Pro Driver - he ran Trans-Am & IMSA

And like today's Ferraris, he has no stick.

Not a celebrity, but I was watching the 1st season of Gotham on DVD last night and there was a 914 in one scene.
So someone on that crew loves the 914.

I don't have the pic handy but was it Beyonce sitting her ____ a$$ on a derelict 914?

The roof of it looks ready to collapse.

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I suspect but have no proof that the Nicky Sixx car is my old /6 that andy now has.

https://www.google.com/amp/www.motortrend.c...radio-host/amp/

But maybe not based on this story

Nope, that doesn't sound like it, would have been cool though ...

Has this little gem already been shared? Didn't see it searching.

The parody backstory: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2017/feb/...nt-king-to-bey/

Looks like a bit of rust and corrosion damage.

Yes. Been posted too many times