Not at Your Local Pick’N'Pull: Porsche 917 Throttle Bodies

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This hatter-mad seller on eBay is offering up a pair of throttle bodies for the legendary Porsche 917. If you've never heard of this particular beast before, then allow me to pull your head out from under that rock. In various forms (including the super-bad-ass Long Tail 917 pictured above, in equally bad-ass Gulf Oil Livery), the 917 dominated the 24 Hours of LeMans in 1970 and 1971, as well as delivering insane punishment unto the 1973 CanAm Series, where its pancake 12 cylinder engine was twin-turbocharged up to a modest 1,580 bhp. Not too bad.

If you share the seller's insanity, you can take this pair of throttle bodies for the Buy It Now price of $3,995. Of course, with no indication as to whether or not these babies ever lapped the Circuit de la Sarthe, you'll have to be a real Porschephile in order to justify dropping that kind of coin. Unless you're cobbling together bits for your garage-rebuilt 917. In which case, shine on you crazy diamond.

Via Hooniverse, naturally.