I hope I'm not repeating myself here, if I am I'll put it down to age and being to lazy to reread the entire thread.
My love of the 917 began in 1973 when I got the Airfix kit followed by some of the other kits I have already shown. Then during the first, Autumn, tern of racing at my school club I needed a faster car and while down at Wonderland I asked Sid what he had in the way of fast 1/32nd scale cars and he showed me a Parma Womp car. I can't remember what the body was but I obviously didn't like it because I bought a 917K vac body for it. When I gave up slot racing after leaving school this was the only car I keep and it finally disappeared sometime in the 90's. This one of the cars that I have since duplicated in my current collection although the original was plain Airfix Post Office red brush applied and just the #7 and Porsche decals added.
My current Womp 917, now fitted with urethane tyres.
Then following another discovery at Wonderland I bought a WinnWagon 917/10 for use on our open night at the school club, you needed a tough car as you could get knocked off at anytime.
When I got back in to slot cars it was 1/43rd scale and so a few Jouef 917s. I believe this car is based on the original Le Mans car.
The Jouef car came in three colours, as well as the light blue and white above there is a hard to find, read expensive, dark blue. There are also three different body moulds, the difference being the shape of the front winglets, I only have two of these shapes.
Whilst still only running 1/40th and 1/43rd scale I get a couple of D-Slot 43 917Ks
These also came with a new spear Martini body.
Just to complete the small scale slot cars a coupe of Artin 917(10?) Can-Am cars
Also a couple of die-cast cars for the scenery by Brumm and Corgi.
To be continued......