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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
9th most popular August 24, 2021

1970 Le Mans 24 Hour Hippie Porsche

[Legacy] Porsche 911 GT3 R by David RobertsDavid Roberts

About this paint

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.
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