29/01/2023
917th Heaven
Some people’s dreams are bigger than others. Knut Markegaard of Hemsedal, Norway, always wanted a Porsche 917 Le Mans racing car, possibly for the road. A life-long obsession turned reality. 46-year-old Markegaard started building a glassfibre kit car from South African Bailey Cars, but the Norwegian wasn’t overly convinced by the shape, and kept changing and styling it in his own image. After three years the car was almost complete, when Markegaard heard of a possibility to purschase casts taken off a couple of original Porsche 917 racing cars. The kit car project was hastily dropped, in favour of a new-build in carbon fibre. The resulting Gulf-917cfk is the result of thousands of hours of dedicated craftsmanship, helped along by experts in the field of custom and racing builds. The 917 pictured here is still an "amateur" build, but its styling, stance, and visual clues, make it look like a real Porsche 917.
Unlike most 917 racers, this car is actually road registered. With new legislation brought about in 2013, enthusiasts throughout the country were for the first time allowed to build and register kit cars and, if thoroughly documented with detailed plans and costings, allowed to have their own designs registered on the road.
If You like to follow the project, You can do it here : https://Instagram.com/917cfk
