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1969

Ford’s seven liter GT40’s won back to back World Championships in 1966 and 1967 prompting the FIA to realign its rules for 1968. Group 6 prototypes would have a three-liter limit and Group 5 five-liters with a 50-unit production requirement for the latter. Porsche’s answer was the Type 908 with its new three-liter, eight-cylinder motor.

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The 908’s initially used short tail and long tail coupe bodies similar to those of the 907’s with engines that were basically two-liter sixes with two more cylinders and bigger bore. Then came the various Spyders, including the coke bottle they colorfully named “Flounder”, the long tail LeMans Spyder and the ultimately nimble racer, the 908/3.

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All the 908 did was to win Porsche’s first World Championship in 1969 with five victories in a row.

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From 1968 to 1971 the 908’s won 11 World Championship races and one Can-Am race.

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This chassis is one of the first series and originally was a long tail coupe. It ran at LeMans with Stiffert and Herrmann driving in 1968. The factory rebodied it as a Spyder and it raced in that configuration several times and at least once with Larousse driving.

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