The Green/Corner 365 puts on a show before it broke, 1973.

Owner/racer Willie Green
“They were exhausting to drive at Le Mans,” says Willie Green, who drove the JCB car with Neil Corner in 1973. “Not just because they were heavy cars, but because of the brakes. Although you could outbrake people at the end of the Mulsanne straight, the pedal pressure was so high you had to stamp on the pedal so hard it hurt.

“They were big and heavy, but with none of the pendulum effect in corners of the GT40s. We had one problem though, as ours was incredibly unstable down the (Mulsanne) straight. A little lip spoiler on the boot would have fixed it, but the rules said you couldn’t have any aerodynamic aids above the wheel centreline. We only found out later that the Pozzi team had been running a spoiler under the back of the car. Our car was built in Modena by an ex-Ferrari guy called Diena. We were probably getting about 380bhp. We tested it at Monza, where I nearly killed myself. I’d managed to come round the very tight left-hander in a lovely four-wheel drift, and I came across an exhaust system lying in the middle of the road, and burst two tyres.”