Steve McQueen's Le Mans monster becomes the most expensive Porsche in the world!

Iain Kelly
Contributing Journalist
23 Aug 2017
1 min read

A ferocious 1970 917K racing car formerly owned by Hollywood megastar Steve McQueen and F1 racing legend Jo Siffert has become the most expensive Porsche sold at the equivalent of AU$17,730,000.

The 12-cylinder short-tail 917K model is considered Porsche's ultimate sports racer and gave the German company their first outright win at Le Mans 24hour.

This car was used for testing initially, then sold to Swiss Formula One icon Jo Siffert, before it was acquired by McQueen's film company, Solar Productions, and used as the hero car in the iconic movie Le Mans.

Sold by Gooding & Company at their Pebble Beach auction during Monterey Car Week in California, it topped a massive sale that brought in over AU$114,600,000! 

A full list of results from Gooding & Co is available here.

Iain Kelly is the petrol-addicted car-obsessed fiend behind The Creators Online.

Would you pay $17 mill for a Porsche? Tell us in the comments.

Iain Kelly
Contributing Journalist
A love of classic American and European cars drove Iain Kelly to motoring journalism straight out of high school, via the ownership of a tired 1975 HJ Holden Monaro.  For nearly 20 years he has worked on magazines and websites catering to modified late model high-performance Japanese and European tuner cars, as well as traditional hot rods, muscle cars and street machines. Some of these titles include Auto Salon, LSX Tuner, MOTOR, Forged, Freestyle Rides, Roadkill, SPEED, and Street Machine. He counts his trip to the USA to help build Mighty Car Mods’ “Subarute” along with co-authoring their recent book, The Cars of Mighty Car Mods, among his career highlights.  Iain lends his expertise to CarsGuide for a variety of advice projects, along with legitimising his automotive obsession with regular OverSteer contributions. Although his practical skills working on cars is nearly all self-taught, he still loves nothing more than spending quality time in the shed working on his project car, a 1964 Pontiac. He also admits to also having an addiction to E30 BMWs and Subaru Liberty RS Turbos, both of which he has had multiple examples of. With car choices like that, at least his mum thinks he is cool.
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