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[DOUGS73E]

June 1972 - Astronaut Pete Conrad - Daytona Intl Speedway
DAYTONA BEACH, FL — Astronaut Pete Conrad with a Porsche 911 at Daytona International Speedway. Conrad ran a few sports car events when allowed to do so by NASA.
(Photo by ISC Images & Archives via Getty Images)

[DOUGS73E]

Water-pumper era Paul Newman publicity photos a few years before his passing.
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"September 2004 - Paul Newman Test Drives The New Porche 911 S
Actor Paul Newman drives the new Porsche 911 S around Mondello Race Track as part of his Barrettstown Gang "Fund Racer" Day for charity, Kildare, Ireland September 03 2004. All funds go to his Barrettstown Gang Charity."
(Photos by Tom O'Donnell/WireImage)

[DOUGS73E]

Paul Newman and the Hawaiian Tropic 1979 Porsche 935, at Le Mans and elsewhere.

[Biancaneve]

In 1998, the official Porsche 50 years press information was listing the following:



Nobility
Prince Albert of Monaco, Count zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg, King Hussein of Jordan, Princess Fürst zu Fürstenberg, King Carl Gustav of Sweden, King Juan Carlos of Spain, Prince Emanuel von Thurn und Taxis, Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach.

Show stars
Kai Böcking, Richard Chamberlain, Chubby Checker, Sascha Distel, Justus Frantz, Karel Gott, David Hasselhoff, Heino, Herbert von Karajan, Udo Lindenberg, Reinhard Mey, Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Cliff Richard, Eros Ramazzotti, Jerry Seinfeld, Karsten Speck.

Athletes
Giacomo Agostini, Gerhard Berger, Jean Behra, Wolfgang Graf Berghe von Trips, Andreas Brehme, Mary Joe Fernandez, Michael Gross, Anke Huber, Mika Häkkinen, Martina Hingis, Michael Jordan, Dr. Erhard Keller, Jürgen Klinsmann, Ivan Lendl, Conchita Martinez, Eva Majoli, Martina Navratilova, Jana Novotna, Lars Riedel, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, Walter Röhrl, Pete Sampras, Ralf Schumacher, Bernd Schuster, Hans-Joachim Stuck, Thomas Strunz, Helena Sukova.

Filmstars/TV presenters
Brigitte Bardot, Iris Berben, Pierce Brosnan, Juliette Greco, James Dean, Frank Elstner, Joachim Fuchsberger, Thomas Gottschalk, Raimund Hamstorf, Katarina Jakob, Don Johnson, Rock Hudson, Steve McQueen, Michel Piccoli, Elke Sommer, Ellen Schwiers, Georg Thomalla, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Peter Weck, Fritz Wepper.

[Unobtanium-inc]

In 1998, the official Porsche 50 years press information was listing the following:



Nobility
Prince Albert of Monaco, Count zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg, King Hussein of Jordan, Princess Fürst zu Fürstenberg, King Carl Gustav of Sweden, King Juan Carlos of Spain, Prince Emanuel von Thurn und Taxis, Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach.

King Hussein had two silver sister cars, his 904-008 and his 66 911, pictured here, with the Baron.

---Adam

[niall1]

June 1972 - Astronaut Pete Conrad - Daytona Intl Speedway
DAYTONA BEACH, FL — Astronaut Pete Conrad with a Porsche 911 at Daytona International Speedway. Conrad ran a few sports car events when allowed to do so by NASA.

Looks like the Ginther 911 ST Sloopy Jnr
http://www.finecars.cc/en/detail/car/29819/index.html

[majordad]

I was there at Mondello that day. Porsche sent over a number of 997 cars for guests to drive after they made a big donation to the Charity. To my knowledge the 997 was only officially launched the following week.

Paul Newman was made an Honorary Member of Porsche Club Ireland that night. A really remarkable and nice man , sadly missed.

[_gonbau]

this is 230344?


https://casavogue.globo.com/Interior...sao-paulo.html

[1969911T]

Met Pete after a SCCA race somewhere in Texas in probably early 73. My memory is that he had broken a thumb in an earlier race when the steering wheel spun. I got the impression that NASA did not know he was at this race!

Steve


QUOTE=DOUGS73E;1139756]June 1972 - Astronaut Pete Conrad - Daytona Intl Speedway
DAYTONA BEACH, FL — Astronaut Pete Conrad with a Porsche 911 at Daytona International Speedway. Conrad ran a few sports car events when allowed to do so by NASA.
(Photo by ISC Images & Archives via Getty Images)

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[LongRanger]

. . . Met Pete after a SCCA race somewhere in Texas in probably early 73. My memory is that he had broken a thumb in an earlier race when the steering wheel spun. I got the impression that NASA did not know he was at this race! . . .

'. . . The significance of the Ginther 911ST was that it was the first of what became a number of Porsches that were purchased by Americans prepared and then taken back to Europe to race, mostly at Le Mans. Richie Ginther Racing's All American was an entry at Le Mans in 1971 with Alan Johnson and Elliott Forbes-Robinson as their drivers. Ginther called his 911 ST Sloopy Jr. and Sloop ran with a 2.4 engine configuration in the 1971 Le Mans race. Ginther was a master at getting a little more out of production Porsches because he had been preparing 911s and 914s for SCCA racing here in the US for a few years before their 1971 Le Mans effort. As a result he had some tricks for the 911 that they hadn’t seen in production based race cars Europe before. Ginther replaced the rubber suspension bushings with Teflon suspension bushings of their own manufacture which offered more precise suspension alignment. They also used stiffer torsion bars which improved the cars handling. Harold Broughton who did the engines for Ginther prepared the engine for their Le Mans effort. Their efforts paid off for they were the fastest qualifier in the Group 4 GT class and the fastest of 20 GT Porsches entered. Unfortunately they had mechanical problems . . .'

http://www.finecars.cc/en/detail/car/29819/index.html


Previous appearance . . .
https://www.early911sregistry.org/fo...l=1#post309979





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