As a teenager at Daytona, just after the 24 hours finish, I had a 5 litre Gulf Porsche 917 roll by me in the pits. The sound and vibration of that motor were like no other. My entire body resonated from the low frequency growl.

@drjimjam1112

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Bill! Was there too when I was a teenager. Such an exciting race!! At the time I didn’t realize the history I was watching. We’re you at Sebring too? I loved that track because I could get so close to the action.

@ianmangham4570

6 ай бұрын

​@drjimjam1112 Yes he was ,I seen him at Sebring with rudy voller

@billmoyer3254

3 ай бұрын

@@drjimjam1112 No, I was living in Winter Park, and passed on going to Sebring. I should have gone.

@ConeFlower-gx2qk

Ай бұрын

That’s the one thing clips don’t show you. I remember seeing a drag race with NHRA cars and the entire ground just vibrated

I swear... a single 917 is louder than an entire modern-day F1 starting grid. God I'm almost crying. That is the best sounding car that has ever existed, and will stay that way forever.

@CookProductions1

8 жыл бұрын

+Juan Alvarez I love how even on a video that has no relevence towards f1, you still find an excuse to bash the engine sound.

@RadToucan

8 жыл бұрын

+CookProductions1 dude... it's hard not to when I fell in love with f1 during the monstrous V10 era. Those were I'm my opinion the greatest ever. And hey, if you want I'll also bash on modern day LMP cars. The previous comments applies just as well to the LMP1 Category

@nickrichard8333

8 жыл бұрын

+CookProductions1: F1 crashed & burned a long time ago. It started when drivers got stupid behind the wheel & more changes to rules and circuits (chicanes and long time European venues dropped off the calendar for dictatorship countries). I'm glad in my day, the only stupid things were the Caesar's Palace GP, Detroit GP, Dallas GP and the Jones vs Piquet/Reutemann soap opera. Unlike all this 'handbags at dawn' stuff the media has hyped up like a bunch of Hollywood gossip columnists.

@nickrichard8333

8 жыл бұрын

+CookProductions1: F1 crashed & burned a long time ago. It started when drivers got stupid behind the wheel & more changes to rules and circuits (chicanes and long time European venues dropped off the calendar for dictatorship countries). I'm glad in my day, the only stupid things were the Caesar's Palace GP, Detroit GP, Dallas GP and the Jones vs Piquet/Reutemann soap opera. Unlike all this 'handbags at dawn' stuff the media has hyped up like a bunch of Hollywood gossip columnists.

@RadToucan

8 жыл бұрын

+Nick Richard I could not have put it better. I absolutely agree.

In 1971, she broke the distance record in at le Mans with 5,335.31 kilometers traveled (over 222 km / h on average), a record she held until 2010...

@SpandanChatterjee2904

7 жыл бұрын

what car broke the record?

@m.g.4569

7 жыл бұрын

+Spawndon Audi r15

@thethirdman225

5 жыл бұрын

KepleroGT No Porsche curves and no chicane on the old Dunlop curve...

@g60watercooled

4 жыл бұрын

Lemans record lap time: 3:13,6 porsche 917 through jackie oliver

@cezarb4047

4 жыл бұрын

It’s a car not a girl

Those downshifts send chills up my spine. The most amazing sound ever.

@charleswest6372

Жыл бұрын

Damn right-!! Racer X is driving. Remember that car sound in Speed Racer cartoon?

the downshifts of this car sounds like its hungry for someones soul.

@alakhazom

7 жыл бұрын

I literally begin my mornings with this clip...I don't know,kind of gives you energy for the entire day!

@SpandanChatterjee2904

7 жыл бұрын

Yup, I gonna try this too. Need to set it as my wake up alarm.

@burlatsdemontaigne6147

7 жыл бұрын

Beautiful, Sean Newton, exactly as you say!

@jacquesblaque7728

7 жыл бұрын

Can't figure why downshift so early, under heavy braking. Does no good, only beats on engine. Back when, with iffy brakes, common practice to "stretch rods" like that.

@team3383

7 жыл бұрын

Cars nowadays have automatic and sequential or semi-atumatic gear boxes etc etc. Back then gear boxes were pretty rustic. The revving helped speed up the cogs when down shifrting and save exploding the gear box and shredding the clutch. Cars aren't all about engines and noises like the marketing people would like to have you believe.

Racecars today don't have that small nuclear explosion on up shifts anymore

@MrSilverfish12

9 жыл бұрын

Tyler Russell They also don't drop the atomic bomb anymore when they downshift. So sad :'( ...........................RIP Golden Era

@klammi85

9 жыл бұрын

***** i really need a cum bucket when i listen this!

@wskinn

9 жыл бұрын

Ya also have to love the low/rising wailing noise it makes after he up shifts out of sight, around the corner, off in the distance.

@SALEENS7GTR5

8 жыл бұрын

+Im a Fox That's all manual, heal-toe shifting you're hearing. Unfortunately, manuals are much slower than paddles and now even automatics, and both do the rev-matching for you, so there is no need for heal-toe, therefore no amazing downshifts. It's slower, so that's why it is not used anymore. However, the most raw downshifts of modern racers hands down go to the Maserati Trofeo MCs.

@alleysabah6742

8 жыл бұрын

true

I want this played at my funeral!

@olivernagy3609

6 жыл бұрын

winchuni22 me too

@deepdiamond5045

6 жыл бұрын

creative comment xd

@SvenTviking

5 жыл бұрын

Nah. BRM V16. Engine comes from hell with a demon trapped in it. Sounds like nothing on Earth.

@cobeymyers8116

5 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂. 👏👏👏👏👏

@vanperkins1457

4 жыл бұрын

Me too!!

It has so many different notes, not to mention that it sounds like a thunder crack just from shifting down.

@monochromedout

6 жыл бұрын

he is rev matching, a little Senna heal/toe

@carlsaganlives5112

3 жыл бұрын

Spooling up the synchro's with a blip from the throttle, good old engine/trans communication, right? Something sorely missing to some extent today, obviously. - no comment needed for Formula E! -

No rev limiter , no paddle shifting , no computer onboard, just good engineering , with raw brutal hp. And a driver that knows how to make it all work.

Heard one last year going full throttle at a classic car show. The sound was just insane. You could feel it in your body and that thing accelerated like a rocket. Unbelievable

I hung on the front straight fence at Daytona and watched the likes of Pedro Rodriquez and Jo Siffert turn up out of the infield and take their Gulf Porsche 917s up through the gears, through the banking, and down the back stretch. The ground shook. Talk about being in the right place at the right time. I could listen to this sound all day.

@billmoyer3254

4 жыл бұрын

I did the same as a teenager at the turn coming out of the infield...the sound was visceral!!

@katmanluke7187

3 жыл бұрын

Lucky you Gil! Living nearby I practically grew up at Daytona, but sadly the 917(my absolute favorite) was before my time 6 or 7 yrs. But DID get to witness those glorious 935's making cool noises of their own & spitting flames like angry dragons! 962's as well. For so little noise God they were fast - zooming around Daytona like a Jetsons cartoon!

Those downshifts are brutal

@poucxs9246

9 жыл бұрын

Rev-matching zhe geabox :-D

@molnarjanos92

9 жыл бұрын

I love the UP shifts. God it sounds so agressive.

@I7435IC

Жыл бұрын

@@molnarjanos92 I just love everything about it !!

That engine makes the meanest, most evil roar I've ever heard. I mean, it's so bad it actually scares me. It's alive and it's pissed. What a fantastic machine, which only Porsche could build.

@edwardlepine

5 жыл бұрын

You should check out the BRM v16

@rebelforce4965

4 жыл бұрын

@@edwardlepine 1.5 litre 700 HP V16 is better than 5.0 litre 1100 HP flat-12?? Are you ok man? Or you just trolling?

@edwardlepine

4 жыл бұрын

Raiden HQ The original comment is about the sound, not the displacement, the horsepower figures, or number of cylinders. “Alive and pissed” definitely describes the BRM too. Who cares how you make the sound?! Also, you’re probably thinking of the Can/Am version horsepower figures, the NA version was probably half that.

@artmchugh5644

4 жыл бұрын

I see you have never been. Next to a nitro funny car engine !!!😄😄😄😄

@etiennedauphin

4 жыл бұрын

@@artmchugh5644 You got me there :)

This, to me, is the most eargasmic engine sound video ever. I come back here whenever I need to reignite my love of cars and it always delivers.

@I7435IC

Жыл бұрын

You got that right !

@Twobarpsi

11 ай бұрын

Ferrari.

Raw power,roar power,a fantastic aural delight,something electric motors will sadly never replicate.

The downshift in this car..... I can't explain with words ......

@zachogdahl210

8 жыл бұрын

+Edu Oliveira there is just something about 70's era racecars that have that wonderful noise

@deborahstruve2901

8 жыл бұрын

+Zach Ogdahl The hesitation and large gap and increase in volume due to carburetion and cable clutches! The good ol' days!

@oldschoolSlyfan

8 жыл бұрын

+Edu Oliveira I can explain the downshift with words: MERCY JESUS....

How many decades later and that thing is still a ferocious beast, it sounds absolutely magnificent...

Arguably the best racecar ever! It dominated it's era like no car before and after

@jon-paulcooper8336

7 жыл бұрын

DolleHengst Was Porsche 962 more successful? I'm not sure...

@RRVCrinale

7 жыл бұрын

jon-paul cooper Counting all versions of the car? The 917/30 makes it complicated.

@hertzwave8001

7 жыл бұрын

yes

@MDDeGrande1994

4 жыл бұрын

@DolleHengst *cough* Bugatti Type 35 *cough*

@daweedbekhemm8549

4 жыл бұрын

Sure in it's Era of course. Same the porsche 956 and 962c in their Era and the mighty C9 and C11 Sauber Benz in their Era late 80's til early 90's.

Real car, real engine. 917, flat 12. How I wish we could go back to those times or better still make cars like this the norm again. Orgasmic!!

This is the greatest sounding car I have ever heard in my life.

I've seen this video countless of times, an still to this day the sound of that awesome sexy flat 12 still makes the hair on my arms stand up. hands down the best sounding race car / engine ever built.

Bloody marvelous..... The 917 is THE iconic sports-prototype Racing Car of all time. And what a great sound from that air-cooled Flat 12! And of course: they looked beautiful too. The good old days.......

@deborahstruve2901

8 жыл бұрын

+Luckey McRacer It's a brilliant mechanical, boner-inducing symphony of sound!!!!

@luckey4980

8 жыл бұрын

Deborah Struve XXX

The sound, the downshifting is what gets me , Thank you for posting

DAT HOWLING AIR-COOLED FLAT-TWELVE SOUND DAT DOPPLER EFFECT DEM PERFECT HEEL-TOE CLUTCH REV-MATCHED DOWNSHIFTS Seriously it's good to see one that escaped the museums and is being displayed in its native habitat balls to the wall around a proper circuit.

0:12 best acceleration phase ever

As a non-fan of the modern F1 cars, I would like to say that the 917 is for me, the epitome of what a racing car should be.

This is one of the coolest race cars ever. I remember seeing the 917 in car magazines when it was introduced. It was like something from another planet.

I have heared this, coming from another dimension. The world cannot offer anything comparable. Now I can die in peace.

I just noticed i was watching this with my mouth open and my fingers on the volume button turning it louder. Then it turned a big smile on my face and gooesbumps al over. Now i'm playing this over and over. Thanks for uploading.

I have to say, hearing one of these things going around the track like this is one of the most glorious sounds ever.

Unmistakable flat 12 sound, beautiful looks - the legend that is the 917.

One of the best sounding cars I’ve ever heard, not to mention what a beautiful car. Rolling piece of art.

I close my eyes and I am at Watkins Glen in 1970 again.............ohhhh what a sound!

That is a great sounding engine, its up there with the BRM V16.

Damn. That is one of the best sounding race cars I have ever heard. I would love to see that car running on the track.

@fantasylinux

9 жыл бұрын

tscooter22 First time i heart it on 1972 live. What a Sound from that beast

@tscooter22

8 жыл бұрын

You are a lucky man! Sounds like I might be 10 years behind you. I first started going to races in around 1980, with the '84 USGP being my first F1 race. The turbo engines were amazing and the Can-AM support races were very cool too (BIG ol' V8s!).

As a Porsche owner for 45 years, and modest track-day driver... I must say quite simply the best Porsche video ever !!!

i cant believe i never liked this video before now, i must have watched it 100 times since bozzy published it. the sound is orgasmic. i love the pause on the gear changes then you get the continuation of the B12 roar.

At about 0:45 THE THING JUST KEEPS REVVING! Thanks for sharing this video, amazing to see at least someone dares to actually drive this car the way it was meant to be driven :)

@azynkron

6 жыл бұрын

They had long gears back then. Only 4 of them so they had to since this was designed e.g. LeMans.

@nvl2691

5 жыл бұрын

BadTrip I believe the 917 had 5 gears ?

@benlockhart8721

5 жыл бұрын

Yes the 917 had 5 gears depending which model though

@benlockhart8721

5 жыл бұрын

In terms of length of them anyways

@micahhicks88

Жыл бұрын

How high did these things rev up to?

I've been watching this video for years, one of the best videos on the internet.

When i search for a magnificint car/engine/machine/masterpiece sound in HD there allways i find a Bozzy video, love you Bozzy, thanks!

This is one of your best videos Bozzy. I never go a week without listening to this. It's pure mechanical beauty.

This car is truly truly an amazing piece of automotive racing history. The downshifts are absolutely beautiful and the performance from this Beaty is astonishing. 🤤

@I7435IC

Жыл бұрын

''Steller & timeless'' !!

I’m 64 and this thing makes things tingle down under…. without a doubt, the greatest race car ever created by humans, nothing even came close for the period that it was made, it was 20 years ahead of its time!!!! Porsche!!! by the way, it’s a two syllable word!!!!

The sound of the 917 has had me enthralled since 1969. The Ferrari's of the era had great sound too, but the 917 just hit a guttural, masculine note. It is a sound unique to the 917, regardless of motor (though the 12 cylinder motors were the epitome). I'm fortunate to have heard them all in the glory days.

i can't get enough of this car i just love the way it sounds i swear my dad was so lucky to live in the era of these magnificent cars

THIS IS THE MOST NICE SOUND I EVER LISTENED ! BEAST !

The barks of those downshifts is going to haunt my dreams!

Downshifts with volume up make you feel uneasy in the best way. Beautiful!

Beautiful! It’s a 12 cylinder symphony, that only Porsche could have created.

My God! What's not to like about this! The throttle and overrun on the downshifts....damn...beautiful!

@I7435IC

Жыл бұрын

The best !!

Those gear changes are glorious!

The most beautiful looking and sounding car ever made. Thank you for this music.

The 21 thumbs down were from people with broken speakers. Glorious, absolutely glorious. Wonder why those downshifts sound as great as they do. It's so melodious.

@I7435IC

Жыл бұрын

A concert on 4 wheels !!!! 😎😉

Brutal beast............................that engine sound! Incredible!

The sound that thing makes it is just raw power. I can't even describe how awesome this car is

Engine sounds from that era, especially these particular cars, envelope the soul. Props to the man driving this classic too. Its pretty obvious he isn’t holding anything back much like the cars were originally intended to be driven.

This is music!

Ferrari V-12's sing and Porsche 12's scream! What a magnificent car!

Great sound...I wish I was at an actual race where it was being run on the Ragged edge.... Tuning, RPM, Driver @ 100.01%... Must have been something to behold.

Definitely one of the best sounding and looking race cars.

Best sounding car of all time.

i get shivers when it downshifts. what a fantastic car, something about that 70s engine sound

sounds just as amazing 5 months ago when I first heard this engine. Unbelievable sound. I dream of this noise.

The 1960's and 70's was the best era in racing, never again will we see the cars and racing venues like that again.

the best racing car ever made. it must have been designed by the god of thunder. ifell in love with these when I first saw the film Le Mans.

Not many things make me smile but this gives me a big one :)

I'm not a Porsche fan but this car is unbelievable, engine has the perfect muscle sound but with some high rev tone to it as well. Props to the camera man

The way it changes the gear before taking into a curve is such BRUTALITY.SOUND

Those downshifts are amazing

This is like watching "Le Mans" with the volume turned up to 11! Absolutely spine-chilling sound!

@erikmaiershofer1251

7 ай бұрын

Hearing both a 917 and a 512 battle is just awesome.

Race cars today are machines, these old skool race cars are just wild beasts which demand respect

The sound of this car makes the hairs on my arms stand up every time I watch it.

OMG!!! those downshifts grrrrrrrr it's like porn

@muhdelyas-abgyas562

7 жыл бұрын

it is porn

@JohnDoe-gm5qr

7 жыл бұрын

When I hear an annoying Honda with a loud exhaust, I wish I had a 917 so I could humiliate that poor bastard in it and wake him up to what a car should sound like!! He would feel like he has a weed wacker engine complete with pull cord to start it with in his annoying POS!!

@KonigRollo

7 жыл бұрын

zasetko Kö

@Logan912

6 жыл бұрын

John Doe Me too. It's always some guy with aftermarket ricer parts who barely knows how to drive manual judging by how jerky his car moves when he stops and starts, and I'm thinking "Dude, no one is impressed that you know how to take the catalytic converter out."

@h2junkey

5 жыл бұрын

John Doe I like the sound of Porsche 917 as well but if the Honda powered Mclaren MP4/5 pulled up next to you, you might as well get a condiment to eat your words with!

Oh my freaking God. Amazing sound. I want more!!! Thanks to an owner that will push this car to close to the limit. Others won't even think of pushing it this hard.

The sound that flat 12 makes literally gives me chills.

Quite encouraging to know I'm not the only one in tears. Oh Lord A Symphony.

This is fantastic! Thank you.

Oh. Oh. Oh. Now look, lets get this straight. The 917 is the greatest car EVER. As a package, it just blows everything else away. The best looking, the best sounding, the most epic, most heroic car. Ever. 1,000php - no problem. All day - and all night. Electronics..? Pah, they can keep that for the modern gay-boys. This is a REAL car. Great video - and how fantastic to hear it again. It still sends a shiver up my spine like no other car. What an era - WHAT a car....!!!

@doowaditti

9 жыл бұрын

HeavensGremlin YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN IT IN CAN-AM TRIM....whoa

@thethirdman225

9 жыл бұрын

HeavensGremlin The 917K NEVER produced 1000 bhp. Total bullshit. Get your facts straight.

9 жыл бұрын

TheThirdMan It was 1100 actually.

@thethirdman225

9 жыл бұрын

Seán O'Nilbud The 917K never produced 1000 hp, much less 1100. Maximum was about 620.

@HeavensGremlin

9 жыл бұрын

I saw the engines running on the test rig dyno at 1,000hp. It was well-documented at the time.... :-/

Screams on downshifts, roars on straights and barks on upshifts. What more could you want? Sensational.

Racing and Porsche test drivers used to get out of this car and say their neck hurt for 2 days afterwards because the acceleration was so brutal and savage. Thanks again for posting this video of a classic racer. Great to see the rarely seen Porsche heritage on the track in all its glory.

Must be wonderful to be that rich and have toys like that!👏🏻👏🏻

never heard such a sweet sound echoing thru the trees

My 21 year old son asked "why is there that little pause on the upshift", bless him. I think he has a new found respect for the drivers of that era.

I was lucky enough to talk with David Piper at the Porsche OPC in Bristol UK and see his two 917's and " baby" Porsche with the 996 style headlights. Amazing man with some great stories

The world probably won't run out of fossile fuel anytime soon (or if it does, they will make petrol from crops or whatever) BUT if one day, the sad thing does happen, and our grandchildren run out of fuel to burn, I want them to do this: Use the last 100 liters in a 917K! Seriously, there is no better way to celebrate the internal combustion engine!

@zounds13

8 жыл бұрын

+4nuk8r but Dr. Porsche copied Hans Ledwinka's Tatra pretty shamelessly for the People's Car.

@Ola_Uteligger

8 жыл бұрын

+SimEnduranceRacers 787B.

@SimEnduranceRacers

8 жыл бұрын

Ola Uteligger That's a nice sound as well, but I still prefer the raw Boxer 12 sound of the 917 :-)

@xX_Gravity_Xx

8 жыл бұрын

Let's just agree to disagree and say that if we ran out of fuel, there would be chaos at local race tracks housing classic cars and airfields with vintage aircraft, because there is no one right vehicle to burn it in...

@woddow

8 жыл бұрын

Audi quattro s1 group b rally car would be the last car to use up all the fuel

I'd love to shake the hand of the "Real Man" who's driving this bad mother!

The Gulf 917 and Rothmans 956 Le Mans monsters...surely this was the best decade to be a race car driver in...

The 917 made the best sound to ever leave a tailpipe. It is my favorite Porsche. That is saying a lot since Porsche has all of my favorite cars...Porsche just magnificent!

Deceleration sounds glorious with the throttle blips. ngh...

O.O that fucking gear shift eargasm

This is just THE race car. Absolutely stunning. I love everything about it, the looks, the spectacular sound and the fact that it is from an era when the men driving the race cars were REAL hairy-chested men and not the playstation-playing teenagers we have today in most forms of racing. And now I will go watch the "Le Mans" movie again :-)

What a car. It was my favourite, more then 50 years ago.

Fantastic Car...Massive sound...can hear this every day. Thx for sharing!

My goodness gracious! This just does something to a man...ya know you feel it deep within your loins. It’s just a beautiful thing here, folks. Mans love affair with highly tuned internal combustion engines.

Wunderbar Eargasm this 917K with the 512 BB and the C11 Benz best Sound ever.

Absolutely AWESOME. Probably the greatest race car ever built. Thanks for posting.

Most fantastic sound for sure

Fabulous noise.

Down shifts sound like they’re gonna tear it apart, brutal and wonderful

I used to think low fly-bys by Merlin powered WW2 fighters were the best engine sound in the world. This might be a tie. Thanks for the wonderful amazing sound track Bozzy

@I7435IC

Жыл бұрын

Those Merlin's are awesome also,, but not as bruital sounding.