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Originally Posted by Tervuren
Perhaps you mean lower rather than smaller? If you where to move the camera to the center of the two cars, and raise it up it would look very different. Definitely smaller than most roads cars that a 12cyl behind the driver. The 917 pushed the cockpit so far forwards they could do this. In a road car it would make people very uncomfortable(safety)
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Not true. I wish that picture of a 914 and 917 cruising a track together were on my computer. Of course, the 917 had to be at least X-distance long. But that distance is simply the length of a 12-cylinder engine, transmission and prone driver. The lengths of the 917 and 914 are about equivalent. The 914 TOWERS over a 917. they are, as many have mentioned here, much smaller than we imagined from watching them race on TV. Back in the early '70's, of course. Yes, I am that old.