Porsche teases road-legal version of title-winning 963 hypercar

You might be able to get your hands o🍸n⛄ a Porsche 963 on soon.

Porsche 963
Porsche 963
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A road-going version of the Porsch🧸e 963 LMDh could be🌠 launched in June this year.

As Porsche celebrates 50 years of the street-legal version of the icoꦕnic 917, the German manufacturer has hinted at a potential successor to the ‘track-t🔴o-road’ project.

A vide🅰o shared on Porsche’s social handles shows the silhouette of the World Endurance Ch❀ampionship-winning 963, followed by the text ‘what if’.

The video has been accompanied by an article about the 917 on Porsche’s official website, w🥀hich again teases a version of the 963 that will particularly appeal to car collectors.

“Importantly, as its descendent enjoys success on the track today, the spirit and desire within Porsche that allowed the creation of a 917 for the road all that time ago remains very much alive fꦯive decades on – prompting the question: what if?,” it said.

Porsche scored its first overall victory at the Le Mans 24 Hours with the 917 in 1970. The car became an important pa🔴rt of Porsche’s history, winning Le Mans again in 1971 and helping the Stuttgart-based marque score back-to-back International Championship for Makes titles in the World SportsCar Championship.

One of the race-used Porsche 917s, chassis number 30, was subsequently🦹 modified for the road at the request of Italian businessman and Martini heir G𒈔regorio Rossi di Montelera.

Porsche equipped the road-going 917 with exhaust mufflers, addi▨tional mirrors, side indicators, a spare tyre and even a horn, while also modifying its interiors. It was painted in Martini Silver.

The car recently underwent restoration work and reside🔯s with its current owner in 𒁃France, albeit on a UK registration.

Porsche will have to pass more stringent regulations🥃 to make the 963 fit for use on public roads.

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