Forget that the car turned out to be not quite a match for the 917 ... by the Gulf 917s was hobbled by a duff batch of wheel bearings causing further delays. The only Porsche to continue ...

the Porsche 917 is a movie star. A pair of short-tail 917s in Gulf Oil liveries took the win in a fictionalized running of the 1970 24 Hours of Le Mans, immortalized in the 1971 film Le Mans ...