The drug-smuggler Porsche that won Le Mans.
Remember the excitement and worry, the sense of danger mixed with ecstasy I felt in the maternity ward when my first child was born. That feels like this. Only instead of nurses, there is a race-car transport driver in cargo shorts. Instead of beeping medical machines, a truck winch groans as the transporter squeezes out of its belly one of the most legendary Porsches of all time.The date: January 7, 2023. The place: Willow Springs International Raceway’s “Big Willow,” the 2.
The interior was all original. Every body panel was original. The car had never been in a crash—not yet, at least. “Be careful,” Meyer says to me. “You don’t want to be ‘that guy.’” Nope. I didn’t.I gripped the shifter and slipped it into first, the clutch pedal feeling stiff and jumpy as if the car were as nervous as I was. We started to roll on nearly ice-cold pavement. What could possibly go wrong?this Porsche is an icon, you must know the story of Bill and Don Whittington.
“No, no, no,” Manfred Kremer told Don Whittington. “Klaus Ludwig is going to start the race. It is our car.”“How much would it cost for this to be our car?”“So Don goes to his trailer,” Meyer explains, “and comes back with $200,000 in cash. It took all day for Manfred’s wife to count the money.” Big Willow doesn’t have the glamour of Laguna Seca, but it has legit Le Mans tie-ins. The Shelby American team tested Cobras and GT40s here before triumphing at Le Mans in the Sixties, and 20th Century Fox filmed here forTurn 3/4—affectionately known as “the Omega”—is an uphill left-right combo that makes you feel like you’re driving up the side of a skyscraper. Camber is tricky. You can see the black stripes all over the pavement leading offtrack where drivers made mistakes.
But today, there is no checkered flag, no stopwatch. The car is like an old champion pugilist who’s come out to spar because it brings back all those memories. And because, man, it feels good.the Whittingtons won Le Mans, they were indicted on cannabis-smuggling and tax-evasion charges. They joked with friends that they were “going to Yale.” In fact, they went to prison. They “lent” their 935 to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum to keep the feds from seizing it.
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