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PANOPLY OF PORSCHES PAST; Stories and racing enthusiasm overflow at Rennsport Reunion III.(competitions of automobile racing)
Byline: KEVIN A. WILSON
In the garages at Daytona International Speedway during Rennsport Reunion III, Nov. 2-4, we were admiring a Porsche 908LH. The guy on the other side of the car looked vaguely familiar.
"Still one of the prettiest race cars ever, nearly 40 years later,'' we said.
His response was not what we expected.
"Yeah, pretty. But it broke on me at 3 a.m. at Le Mans when we had seven or eight laps on the whole field. Still one of the biggest disappointments of my career.''
The guy was Scooter Patrick, an accomplished Porsche racer from California, usually in cars owned by dealer Otto Zipper.
It was 11 hours into the 1968 race, which Patrick was co-driving with Joe Buzzetta, when the new 3.0-liter flat-eight engine ate its alternator, thanks to a harmonic vibration. "The factory knew about it, but they didn't tell us privateers,'' Patrick said. "It was a shock, y'know, because Porsches just didn't break. You got in it and expected to finish.''
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