just came back from the yesterday set-up on the Classic-event EIFEL RENNEN -race- at the nürburgring.

Over 40 very rare Porsche race cars from the 50 ties antill the 70 ties , 908 from steve and of course le mans winners 917 where their too.

David piper ( born 1930 )was on the track with his own green porsche 917 , still racing ,even after losing a leg on the film set le mans in a accident!!

As we where immediate neighbours standing next to each other with our campers on the drivers campsite, last week in goodwood , we met him again and talked about the fatastic event!

Between the quallifing he had a break and he and his nice Wife sat down with iris and me for a half a hour to talk about those days in the 70 ties,
she told me about the wonderfull and very kind jo siffert who gave her in 1965 a heuer stoppwatch as a birthday present! she still has this watch at home.

David had alot of heuers in the 70 ties mostly carreras but he looses them allways and they are all gone now.
Steve Mc Queen was a great man for him, friend and very good driver too, he was so kind at the le mans set and took care of david even later after the bad race car accident what david had at the set( david lost a part of his leg!). He knows steve allready from the le mans 1969 race and adored him too for his fantastic drivers skills.
onece on the le mans set, david and derek bell had a break/ having a tea and suddently steve jumped out of the nothing in 3 metres hight with his motorcross bike over them. STEVE WAS a CRAXY GUY but a very good mate too.

I ll post same pics next week of david and me in front of his 917 .

so long, take care & happy weekend,
jasper
www.classicheuer.de