Hot Wheels Premium 1:64 — Porsche 917K | Car Culture Vintage Racing | Die-Cast Collectible

The Hot Wheels Premium 1:64 — Porsche 917K — Car Culture Vintage Racing is a breathtaking die-cast tribute to the most dominant, celebrated, and historically significant Le Mans racing car ever produced — the Porsche 917K, the extraordinary Group 5 prototype that Porsche developed for the 1969 season and that went on to win the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1970 and 1971, ending Ferrari's dominance of the world's most celebrated endurance race and establishing Porsche as the greatest endurance racing manufacturer in the history of motorsport. The Porsche 917 — developed by Ferdinand Piech and his engineering team at Porsche in response to the FIA's new Group 5 regulations that required manufacturers to produce a minimum of 25 examples for homologation, powered by the extraordinary naturally aspirated 4.5-litre air-cooled flat-12 engine producing 520 hp in initial specification and subsequently developed to produce in excess of 600 hp in race trim, and featuring a spaceframe chassis constructed from welded aluminium tubes that weighed just 42 kg — was one of the most technically ambitious and aerodynamically sophisticated racing cars ever produced at the time of its creation. The 917K — the “Kurzheck” or short-tail variant of the 917, developed after the original long-tail 917L proved aerodynamically unstable at Le Mans, featuring a dramatically shortened and revised rear bodywork that gave the car the aerodynamic stability and handling balance required to exploit its extraordinary power on the Mulsanne Straight and through the demanding corners of the Circuit de la Sarthe — became the definitive and most successful variant of the 917, winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1970 driven by Hans Herrmann and Richard Attwood for Porsche Salzburg, and in 1971 driven by Helmut Marko and Gijs van Lennep for Martini Racing Porsche — setting a race distance record of 5,335.313 km that stood for 39 years until 2010. The 917's extraordinary cultural immortality — achieved through its starring role in Steve McQueen's legendary 1971 film Le Mans, in which McQueen drove the Gulf Oil-liveried Porsche 917K as the film's central vehicle, creating one of the most celebrated and emotionally powerful automotive film sequences in cinema history and making the Gulf-liveried 917K one of the most recognisable and beloved racing car liveries in the world — has made the Porsche 917K not merely one of the greatest racing cars ever built but one of the most culturally significant and emotionally powerful automotive icons in the history of the automobile. Presented as part of Hot Wheels' Car Culture Vintage Racing premium collector set.

A must-have for Porsche 917K enthusiasts, Le Mans 1970 and 1971 victory collectors, Ferdinand Piech engineering heritage admirers, Hans Herrmann and Richard Attwood race history fans, Helmut Marko and Gijs van Lennep record collectors, Steve McQueen Le Mans film devotees, Gulf Oil livery admirers, Martini Racing heritage collectors, and serious die-cast collectors seeking a premium Hot Wheels miniature of the most dominant and celebrated Le Mans racing car ever produced.