Gulf blue and orange gave the Porsche 917K an image almost impossible to separate from the era that produced it, bright enough for the circuit and somehow perfectly suited to the screen. In Le Mans, the number 20 car became bound to Steve McQueen’s Michael Delaney, its colors recurring through the film with the familiarity of a signature, until Porsche, Gulf blue, and McQueen seemed to occupy the same small corner of the imagination.
The 917 had already made speed look almost architectural, a machine conceived for the long punishment of endurance racing yet remembered as much for its silhouette and livery as for its victories. McQueen carried the image further, and number 20 slipped easily from pit lane to film poster, from magazine page to model cabinet, gathering the peculiar glamour that attaches itself to certain machines until they seem to belong everywhere at once.
AUTOart gives that famous car the fastidious treatment a good miniature deserves, with opening doors, a detailed cockpit, and the familiar sponsor graphics laid neatly across the body. Presented in its Steve McQueen Collection box, the number 20 returns in miniature, the Gulf colors still carrying their old allure.
Model porsche 917k no. 20
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Gulf blue and orange gave the Porsche 917K an image almost impossible to separate from the era that produced it, bright enough for the circuit and somehow perfectly suited to the screen. In Le Mans, the number 20 car became bound to Steve McQueen’s Michael Delaney, its colors recurring through the film with the familiarity of a signature, until Porsche, Gulf blue, and McQueen seemed to occupy the same small corner of the imagination.
The 917 had already made speed look almost architectural, a machine conceived for the long punishment of endurance racing yet remembered as much for its silhouette and livery as for its victories. McQueen carried the image further, and number 20 slipped easily from pit lane to film poster, from magazine page to model cabinet, gathering the peculiar glamour that attaches itself to certain machines until they seem to belong everywhere at once.
AUTOart gives that famous car the fastidious treatment a good miniature deserves, with opening doors, a detailed cockpit, and the familiar sponsor graphics laid neatly across the body. Presented in its Steve McQueen Collection box, the number 20 returns in miniature, the Gulf colors still carrying their old allure.
AUTOart 1:18-scale model of the Porsche 917K number 20 from Le Mans (1971), finished in Gulf blue and orange with racing numerals, sponsor graphics, opening doors, and detailed cockpit.
Each Reserve collectible is thoughtfully custom-packaged to Jacques Marie Mage standards, with tailored care to each artifact. Each collectible is accompanied by a JMM Certificate of Authenticity and ID card.
