With Le Mans just around the corner, it’s probably a bit late to start looking for the ultimate set of wheels to join the PistonHeads pilgrimage to Sarthe.
But if you’ve got a spare £400,000 burning a hole why not pop along to the COYS auction at Brands Hatch on May 24
and see if you can snap up this little beauty – it’s a 1966 Porsche 906 that won its class at Le Mans in the year of its birth.
The 906 was a theoretically street-legal racing car designed for homologation in the FIA’s Group 4 Sports Car category, although modified versions also competed in Group 6 Sports Prototype class.
With a tubular steel spaceframe and unstressed glass fibre body, the 2.0 litre 906 was Porsche’s first racing car to be wind tunnel tested, resulting in a 170mph top speed at Le Mans.
In case you need extra convincing, the red and white version up for grabs this month even has a ready-made space on its nose for this year’s PistonHeads Le Mans sticker…
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