Le Mans Winner Porsche. There are few pleasures greater in my working life than sitting down and talking cars with Richard Attwood. In the first outing of a Porsche in Le Mans Auguste Veuillet and Edmond Mouche achieved victory in the class up to 1100 cc with the Porsche 356 SL.
Le Mans - 2324 June 1951. Le Mans 1976 winners Gijs van Lennep left and Jacky Ickx right in Porsche 936. With the ban for over 30 litre engine displacements.
Porsche had nothing else to prove in 1971.
The other two Gmünd aluminum coupes that Max Hoffman imported still exist. Le Mans - 2324 June 1951. Its the grainy footage of 053 on the grid at La Sarthe flanked by both the famous 91720. If its racing achievements alone were not enough the car would go on to be immortalized on the big screen by Steve McQueen in the film Le Mans.
