The Porsche 904 Carrera GTS is one of the marque’s most compelling sports racers, born from Porsche’s early-1960s frustrations in Formula One and a renewed focus on sports car competition. Development began in late 1962, with Butzi Porsche penning a lightweight fibreglass coupé mounted to a box-frame chassis, creating a...
Last year, the beautiful 1964 Porsche 904 Carrera GTS of Stefano Martinoli earned 1st in the “Excellences from Stuttgart” class at the prestigious Concorso d’Eleganza Varignana 1705 in Italy. Located in the heart of the Bolognese hills, the Palazzo di Varignana resort was created from the restoration of an 18th-century...
Highlights The ex-Scuderia Filipinetti Porsche 904 GTS, Chassis 079 4th in class at Le Mans 1964 with Herbert Müller and Claude Sage Fully documented history, including 25-year custodianship by Porsche Museum Proven historic racer, appearances at Goodwood, Le Mans Classic and Silverstone Classic Background While the 550 Spyder and 718...
Porsche 904 Carrera GTS Sales Brochure The Porsche 904 Carrera GTS, introduced in 1964, is an iconic mid-engine sports car that bridged the gap between Porsche’s road cars and its racing prototypes. Designed by Ferdinand “Butzi” Porsche, the 904 featured a sleek, lightweight fiberglass body over a steel frame—an innovative...
The Porsche 904 is widely regarded by many Porsche enthusiasts as the greatest road-going Porsche of all time. While it set the standard for a whole generation of racing Porsches, its aesthetic appeal overshadowed the fact that it lacked aerodynamic perfection and carried excess weight. Additionally, due to caution regarding...
The Porsche 904 is an automobile which was produced by Porsche in Germany in 1963 and 1965. It was officially called Porsche Carrera GTS due to the same naming rights problem that required renaming the Porsche 901 to Porsche 911. The 904 debuted late in 1963, for the 1964 racing...
Porsche’s Type 904 was officially called the Carrera GTS because Porsche and Peugeot were still in their bitter disagreement over numeric designations with “0” in them. The Porsche 904 succeeded the RSK Type 718 as the last sports-racing iteration of the 356 series. It was also the last full-competition Porsche...
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Porsche 904 Carrera GTS: 2.0L Flat-4 Engine Sound! Great to record and finally hear a Porsche Carrera GTS powered by the 2.0-liter N/A flat-4 engine (unfortunately, or luckily, I’ve always saw a couple of “904/6”, the ones with the 911’s flat-6)...
Those with sharp eyes may have picked up from our Calendar that the Le Mans Classic has been postponed yet again, until July 2022. We at Porsche Road & Race are as disappointed as the rest of you, and so we have decided to run a few of our photos...
There was talk of snow over the weekend of 15-17 March 2018 in the east of England, but either very few gave the warning much thought, or they didn’t care. After all, it was the 76th Members’ Meeting at Goodwood, and who would want to miss that! Arriving at Goodwood...
A Porsche 904 Carrera GTS Coupé in 1963 outside the factory in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen. The early version had a slatted air intake behind the doors, this being replaced by scoops which were more efficient The Porsche Carrera GTS represented a watershed in the company’s march towards motorsport fulfilment. Gone was the...
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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.
