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Filming Le Mans, the movie

Filming Le Mans, the movie

August 237, 2022 · By Chris Bowen
The scaffolding afflicted Porsche 917 you see here was used in the filming of Le Mans in 1970. Similar contraptions were also strapped to the front, often with an intrepid cameraman as an integral part of the assembly.
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George Eyston

George Eyston

August 222, 2022 · By Chris Bowen
When George Eyston wound down his circuit racing activities in the early 1930s, to concentrate more fully on automotive record breaking, he was to become, very likely, the most prodigious breaker of said records that the world of individually contained, mechanised conveyances, has ever seen.
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