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It may look completely crazy to see a 917 on the road, but after their racing career, two 917 were converted to road cars, making them the fastest road cars in the 70s until the arrival of the F40. 917-021 - The “Hippie Porsche” The first 917 I’m going to talk about is the 917-021. It started its life as a racing car for the Interseries team AAW Racing. It raced on different circuits all over Europe, as Spa and the Nürburgring. It even entered the 24H of Le Mans, were it crashed.

1976 Karmann ask Italdesign to create a new coupe concept, inspired by their first collaboration with the Audi-Karmann Asso di Piche 3 years before. This time, it was for BMW and it had to be realist for production. The concept in question had to be, like all Italdesign “As”-concepts, a 3-door coupe. Giugaro create this car; which is very interesting in term of design. We can clearly see some M1 in it; especially at the back. Also, Giugaro used this car to explore new lines which would lend some years later to the second generation Scirocco.

After some years of interess and research about peculiar old cars , especially from the 60s and 70s, I come up today with this list of 10 cars we may have forgotten; but were cool, very cool or even a little bit peculiar.