Ah yes... the French owned # 19 Gulf Liveried 917...... the car I witnessed at the Nurburgring in a vintage event in 2005 beating the living crap out of itself and the # 3 Martini-liveried 917.....both cars would not give an inch in the esses...absolutely destroyed themselves and tore their bodywork off.
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/showthread.php?t=239433&highlight=917+ring
So I ask the French guy in the pits..... "is this car configured as raced in 1970 or 1971 ?" Answer..."dunno". Well then , do you realize that this car and the other Sebring winner #3 ...were BOTH ( at one time) restored at the same Florida shop...Kevin Jennete's Gunnar racing shop?. Neat, huh, that these cars should find themselves here? Answer..."don't know the shop and didn't know it was restored there........
Perfect....lotsa "dunno's " from rich idiots who race these historically significant pieces as hard as a modern day race car......don't know squat about them or their history....and are not thinking that they are custodians for the next generation to see. Opinions about this will vary, some will say they are expensive enough that makes the rebuild cost cheap in comparison.
Me...I'd like to see these guys run the cars on tracks, but not as hard and with reckless abandon to allow them to be destroyed.... as today's race cars might be driven. IMHO, of course.