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"Lord Irvine Laidlaw can only properly be called a playboy. He likes cars, women, money and yachts, in approximately that order. And while he&amp;#039;s been in trouble over the money and the women\u2014oh, how&amp;#039;s he&amp;#039;s been in trouble\u2014you can&amp;#039;t fault his taste in cars. At 70, he isn&amp;#039;t exactly at the end of his life and with a reported \u00A3770 million in assets, he isn&amp;#039;t hurting for money, either (especially what with the not paying his taxes and everything), but he seems to have reached a reflective period in his life and is letting some of his magnificent stable of racecars go. RM will sell seven of them in London on September 8th, starting with his 1965 Porsche 904/6 Carrera GTS. These hot little numbers were built solely for edurance racing (although, famously, they were the last Porsche race cars that could be driven on the street) and use a high strung 1.9-liter aircooled flat-six, good for 190 hp. Because they&amp;#039;re endurance cars, they&amp;#039;re trimmed better inside than you&amp;#039;d think for a race car, and I could picture driving it on a public road, although I tend to think that about every car. In this case, however, I&amp;#039;m not alone, and the purple interior is the result of a Seventies owner converting it to a street car. As a race car, however, chassis 002 is far more signifigant. The factory team ran it at the N\u00FCrburgring and Le Mans in 1965 and it was later entered as a privateer at Sebring and elsewhere, which makes it all kinds of eligible for vintage racing. It&amp;#039;s since been in historic competition for about the last decade. RM is expecting somewhere north of $1.5 million for it, which is a lot for a little car, but not so much for one of the best-sounding race cars ever. Actually, this whole group of seven Laidlaw cars is one of the best-sounding I can remember, from this under 2-liter engine of this and a pair of Cosworth-powered Chevrons; to the big six in a Jaguar D-type. In fact, we&amp;#039;re going to post videos of all of these cars on the track\u2014no music, no narration, just engines, and I want to know which one you like best. It&amp;#039;s going to be tough to beat this one, although there&amp;#039;s something to be said for a Ferrari V12. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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