1964 was a defining year for Porsche, as the introduction of the 911 and 904 Carrera GTS ushered in a...
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The Porsche 904 Carrera GTS is one of the marque’s most compelling sports racers, born from Porsche’s early-1960s frustrations in...
Last year, the beautiful 1964 Porsche 904 Carrera GTS of Stefano Martinoli earned 1st in the “Excellences from Stuttgart” class...
Highlights The ex-Scuderia Filipinetti Porsche 904 GTS, Chassis 079 4th in class at Le Mans 1964 with Herbert Müller and...
Porsche 904 Carrera GTS Sales Brochure The Porsche 904 Carrera GTS, introduced in 1964, is an iconic mid-engine sports car...
The Porsche 904 is an automobile which was produced by Porsche in Germany in 1963 and 1965. It was officially...
The Elva Mk VII, the chassis of which was used as the basis for the Porsche-Keil Racing debut: SCCA South...
The Porsche 904 is widely regarded by many Porsche enthusiasts as the greatest road-going Porsche of all time. While it...
Organizers of the Chattanooga Motorcar Festival invited the Luftgekühlt’s celebration of Brian Redman, which resulted in a number of Porsches...
The Can-Am Porsche 917 The Can-Am Race Series, held from 1966 to 1974, helped propel professional sports car racing to...
The Porsche 904 is an automobile which was produced by Porsche in Germany in 1963 and 1965. It was officially...
1976 Porsche 935 The history of 935-001, the first Porsche 935 ever built, originates in a major revision to the...
Porsche’s Type 904 was officially called the Carrera GTS because Porsche and Peugeot were still in their bitter disagreement over...
Porsche 904 GTS LeMans Classic 2010 One qualifying lap inbaord Porsche 904GTS at LeMans Classic 2010, 2000ccm engine, build in...
Porsche 904 in car footage Iconic Goodwood circuit in a friends 904 in very chilly and tricky condition, start number...
Porsche 904 Carrera GTS Engine Sounds This time I have filmed an unique Porsche 906 Carrera GTS racing on circuit...
Porsche 904 GTS vs Cayman GT4 After completing an engine rebuild on a Porsche 904 Carrera GTS, we took it...
Porsche 904-085 Special Delivery We had the pleasure of making a special delivery. Chassis 904-085 makes a fine addition to an...
Porsche 904 GTS meets Walter Roehrl What happens when one of the best drivers in the world meets one of...
Porsche 904 Carrera GTS: 2.0L Flat-4 Engine Sound! Great to record and finally hear a Porsche Carrera GTS powered by...
Porsche 904 Carrera GTS Accelerations & Sound During the 2016 Vernasca Silver Flag historic hillclimb revival I recorded this 1964...
Porsche 904 v Mustang at Goodwood A stunning flat-six powered #Porsche 904 battled with the All-American might of a Ford...
Porsche’s Type 904, officially called the Carrera GTS because Porsche and Peugeot were in dispute over numeric designations with “0” in them, succeeded the RSK Type 718 as the last sports-racing iteration of the 356 series. Developed after Porsche left Formula One in 1962, the 904 (as it soon became popularly known) was also the last full-competition Porsche that could be readily driven on the street. This is the full story.
Those with sharp eyes may have picked up from our Calendar that the Le Mans Classic has been postponed yet...
There was talk of snow over the weekend of 15-17 March 2018 in the east of England, but either very...
F.A. ‘Butzi’ Porsche, the eldest son of Ferry and Dorothea Porsche, joined the family business in 1958 having shown great...
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Under normal circumstances, this year’s Rennsport Collective would have taken place at the beginning of August, when the weather was...
The introduction of the Porsche 904 Carrera GTS, to give it its full name, marked the beginning of an unprecedented...
It was with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Stirling Moss over the Easter weekend. He died...
This edition of Quentin Spurring’s fabulous series covering the Le Mans 24 Hours decade-by-decade, concerns the 1960s. Many will agree...
In 2018, we reviewed one of the other books in this series, Porsche Spyders 1956-1964, and this year we will...
In Part 1, Stories from Le Mans – with a Porsche flavour, our intrepid scribbler who hails from that beautiful...
Porsche has been represented at the Le Mans 24 Hours every year since 1951, in both an official factory capacity...
Porsche used its racing exploits around the globe not only to gain exposure and media coverage, but also to improve...
The Carrera Six, as Porsche officially called the 906, was a radically different car from its predecessor, the 904 GTS....
In a 34-year career at Porsche, the influence of Peter Falk – Porsche’s enduring engineer, can be found throughout the...
Rolf Stommelen was one of Germany’s leading racing drivers for over a decade and if as the title (above) of...
The Porsche Carrera GTS represented a watershed in the company’s march towards motorsport fulfilment. Gone was the space frame and...
For the underpinnings of the new 904 Bergspyder, the Porsche engineers recycled five chassis originally laid down for a production version of the six-cylinder 904/6 Coupes. The steel platform chassis of the 904 was reinforced with cross-braces to compensate for the rigidity that had originally been provided by the coupe body. The Bergspyders were tried with both the exotic twin-cam eight-cylinder engine and a highly tuned flat six.
Three factory race cars were fitted with a flat eight-cylinder power plant derived from the 1962 804 F1 car, the 225 hp (168 kW) 1,962 cc (119.7 cu in) Type 771, which used 42 mm (1.7 in)-throat downdraft Weber carburetors. The Type 771s, however, suffered a "disturbing habit" of making their flywheels explode. The 904/8 cars had a short and relatively unlucky racing career.
In 1965, the 904’s second and final production year, some examples received a version of the 911’s 2.0-liter flat-six. This version was dubbed the 904/6 and was focused on the factory works effort by Porsche. Six of these cars were so equipped and used a chassis number of 906-0xx. Porsche built a total of six similar 904/6 Works team cars with the following chassis number assignments: 906-001, 002, 005, 006, 011, and 012.
The Porsche 904 debuted late in 1963, for the 1964 racing season. Porsche designed the 1965 Porsche 904 Carrera GTS variant to compete in the FIA-GT class at various international racing events and a street-legal version debuted in 1964 in order to comply with FIA’s Group 3 homologation regulations. When the 904 Carrera GTS debuted, it represented Porsche’s first foray into fiberglass bodywork and the last hurrah for its four-cam, four-cylinder engine.
