The 917K serial number 022 was purchased new from the Porsche factory by McQueen himself, Mecum says, and from thence McQueen ...

Widely regarded as one of the greatest racing cars of all time, the Porsche 917 was the brand’s weapon of choice for conquering endurance racing—and conquer it did. With its help, Porsche snagged its ...

We’ll know next month. Mecum Presents: Steve McQueen’s Porsche 917K 917-022 passed through some pretty prominent racing hands, as McQueen sold the car to Reinhold Joest after production of the ...

‘Steve McQueen takes you for a drive in the ... And this was the car. The 1969 Porsche 917K, chassis 917-022, was bought new by McQueen’s company, Solar Productions, before it starred in ...

When you combine an iconic car with an iconic paint scheme and add in some movie history, you end up with something truly special.

Renowned historic Porsche collector Frank Gallogly purchased the 917K from a Monterey auction in 2000, but Seinfeld then ...

A huge deal, then. It is chassis 917-022, also known as the Porsche bought by Steve McQueen and which featured in the 1971 ...

Steve McQueen’s Iconic Race Car up for grabs. For those with a few dollars left after Xmas, a piece of cinematic and motorsport history is set to cross the ...

Steve McQueen driving the iconic car in Hollywood ... it entirely unique and worth over £200,000. Another similar Porsche, a 1981 917 K-81, went under the hammer back in March and fetched over ...

I’m not going to dwell on the Steve McQueen angle other than ... Faced with this and an unfounded fear that Porsche was about to put a 16-cylinder engine in the 917 for 1971, he turned the ...

P ossibly the most iconic and recognizable race car in the history of four-wheeled anything, the Gulf-liveried Porsche 917, owes a lot of its star power to the kind of terrible 1971 Steve McQueen ...