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Preview of 1970 Le Mans 24 Hour Hippie Porsche by David Roberts
Preview of 1970 Le Mans 24 Hour Hippie Porsche by David Roberts
Preview of 1970 Le Mans 24 Hour Hippie Porsche by David Roberts
Preview of 1970 Le Mans 24 Hour Hippie Porsche by David Roberts
Preview of 1970 Le Mans 24 Hour Hippie Porsche by David Roberts
Preview of 1970 Le Mans 24 Hour Hippie Porsche by David Roberts

1970 Le Mans 24 Hour Hippie Porsche

Porsche 911 RSR by David RobertsDavid Roberts Pro

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Only just eclipsed by the marque’s first-ever victory at Le Mans, a sensation of the 1970 24-hour race was Martini Racing’s psychedelic long-tail Porsche 917. So popular was the purple/green/white car that other race organisers said: “Please bring us the hippie”... It was Martini Racing that offered 917-043 for Porsche’s recently appointed designer, Anatole Lapine, to decorate. Departing from the planned white-with-red ‘script’, Lapine penned the swirling ‘hippie’ design, first laying purple and then matt fluorescent green on factory-fresh white Porsche paintwork. The work was completed over the Le Mans week, using some 1,500 spray cans. “When it was finished, nobody could move their index fingers any more." Porsche’s Ferdinand Piëch, the man behind the 917 project, was less impressed. “You know, a race car just has to be white,” he remarked drily.

Posted 37 months ago
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