Porsche 917

This car was a static exhibit at the Silverstone Historic Festival meeting at the Northamptonshire circuit in August 2001.

It's a 1969 Porsche 917 in the livery of John Wyer's Gulf Oil sponsored team and the car, which is chassis #013/034, was then owned by Mark Finburgh. During the filming of the Steve McQueen film 'Le Mans' the car was crashed and damaged to such an extent that the original chassis 013 had to be replaced by a new chassis 034. The 917 was powered by a flat-12 engine, originally of 4½ litres, later increased to 4.9 litres and then to 5 litres.