EX-WORKS 904/6 ADDED TO GOODING & COMPANY AMELIA ISLAND AUCTION
Make no mistake, it was far and away his prized Porsche. “It was my favourite because I designed it alone and I wasn’t under pressure to change it or make it ‘newer’. It was simply designed and finished. Time was very short. I didn’t have a free hand, but it had to appear as such soon after the clay model was complete. There was really no time for interference.” So said Ferdinand Alexander ‘Butzi’ Porsche, author of the sensuous form of the 1964 Carrera GTS, better known to all the world as the Type 904, a Porsche born to battle heightened competition among two-litre production GT cars and arguably the most beautiful Porsche racing machine assembled to date.
The ground-breaking 904 was a state-of-the-art racing machine featuring a boxed steel chassis, lightweight fibreglass body, four-wheel disc brakes, five-speed transaxle and a racetuned Type 587/3 engine. This was the last of Porsche’s big two-litre four-cam flat-fours and was produced in a batch of one hundred specifically for the 904. It was officially rated at 180 net bhp at 7,200rpm with a racing exhaust, with which it also yielded 145lb-ft torque at 5,000rpm. The respective power and torque figures were 155 and 124 when the road-going exhaust was fitted. Deliveries of 904s were split more
