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Originally, the 917 was a pure race car. Porsche never intended for it to be used outside the track. But that changed thanks to one determined Italian aristocrat—Count Teofilo Guiscardo Rossi di ...
On Friday morning, Porsche USA posted a video to its YouTube channel briefly going over the history of the single 917 race car it built for the street ... to a road legal machine.
Commissioned by Italian aristocrat and businessman Count Rossi di Montelera—known for his ties to the Martini & Rossi brand—the street-legal 917K remains one of the rarest vehicles ever built ...
His famed support of the Porsche factory race squad was vigorous, so when he commissioned Porsche to build him a street-legal 917, the company wasn't going to say no. Once its life as a race car ...
The first exception to this rule hit European roads about 50 years ago, and Porsche very, very strongly hinted that another street-legal endurance car is around the corner. The car returned to ...
Instead, it left under its own power, via public roads. The conversion of an endurance-racing 917—chassis number 30—into a street-legal supercar was done at the request of Teofilo Guiscardo Rossi di ...
So when he knocked on Weissach’s door and asked them for a street-legal 917K, they kindly obliged. Only they didn’t build a new one but chose an ex-racer, chassis #30, that had competed in ...
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Porsche might be preparing to make another one of its race cars street-legal. On Friday, the German sports car maker celebrated the 50 th anniversary of an example of the storied 917 driving ...
It's still finished in Martini Silver and was recently restored, but most importantly, it's still street legal. Along with reminding fans of Count Rossi's 917, Porsche released a brief video ...
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