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Recently, I unearthed my old Heller 908 only to find out that – apart from the missing rear wing – its livery was totally wrong for the 1000 kms Monza 1969 which it was supposed to be. Instead of scratchbuilding a wing, I decided to turn it into the 907 longtail which participated in Le Mans 1968: entered by the (private) Swiss Squadra Tartaruga, it was driven by Dieter Spoerry/Rico Steinemann to a surprising 2nd place behind the winning Gulf GT40. Although it was only equipped with the 2,2 ltr. engine, it beat the only surviving 908 longtail (3 ltr.) and was therefore the best placed Porsche that year (Here with the original box of my 1986 reissue) As I had also a second Heller 908 (gluebomb) at hand, I used both for this one: color was partially removed, after masking windshield and headlights, everything was oversprayed with Tamiya racing white which is not correct, but my strict rule was not to spend even a cent of money on this because it has that many faults and issues. So I used what I had on hand to turn my old ugly Heller 908 longtail into a – little less ugly - 907 longtail. Tail fins made from evergreen sheet, fine wire mesh for the grille, engine cover and side windows tinted Tamiya clear yellow, decals are from DMC, Colorado, Calle’graphe and others – the numbers have been cut into pieces and puzzled back together to come close to the real one, a few details were added using leftover parts from different kits. Before I glued everything shut, the seats were repainted dark red and the driver received seat belts. For those of you who are interested in the real car, here is a link to a French slotracing website which has 66 (!) pictures of the original car at Le Mans: https://lemans.slot-racing.fr/le-mans-1968/porsche-907-66-src.html I strongly recommend this site as a valuable source for reference reasons to all interested in Le Mans racecars (for exemple: the #7 Chaparral 2F – Phil Hill/Mike Spence from Le Mans 1967 65 pics online!): https://lemans.slot-racing.fr/marques.html text is in French, but don't let that scare you - just click on the model you are interested in and scroll down (skip the slotcar description) to the original photos !