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The Porsche 904 was officially called Porsche Carrera GTS due to the same naming rights problem that required renaming the Porsche 901. A 1973 Porsche 911 Carrera RS The Carrera is a famous and distinctive sportscar automobile, internally known as the Type 911 (1963-1988), Type 964 (1989-1992), Type 993 (1993-1997), Type 996 (1998-2004) and Type 997 (2004-?), made by Porsche AG of Stuttgart, Germany. ...
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After having retired from F1 at the end of the 1962 season, Porsche focused again on sportscars. The 904 debuted in 1964 as a successor to the Porsche 718 which had been introduced in 1957. It was the first Porsche to use a fibreglass body which was white. While many German race cars had used unpainted aluminium bodies since the famous 1934 Silver Arrows, Most 904s were painted silver which is the German racing color. (British-Green, Belgium- white,Italy-red,France- blue, USA-blue and white, South Africa-green and gold, Nerderland-orange) The 904 marks also the beginning of a series of sportscars that culminated in the mighty Porsche 917. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1358x889, 368 KB) Bildbeschreibung: Porsche 904-6 Quelle: Spurzem Fotograf: Lothar Spurzem Datum: 1986 beim Oldtimer-Grand-Prix auf dem Nürburgring File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not...
Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1358x889, 368 KB) Bildbeschreibung: Porsche 904-6 Quelle: Spurzem Fotograf: Lothar Spurzem Datum: 1986 beim Oldtimer-Grand-Prix auf dem Nürburgring File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not...
1958 Porsche 718 RSK Spyder at the Porsche museum in Gmünd Porsche 718 RSK Spyder in the foreground as well as a Porsche 718 F1 behind it The Porsche 718 was an automobile from Porsche released in 1958 and built until 1962. ...
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Silver Arrow – 1939 Grossglockner hillclimb Silver Arrows was the name given by the press to Germanys dominant Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union Grand Prix motor racing cars between 1934 and 1939, and also later applied to the Mercedes-Benz Formula One and sports cars in 1954/55. ...
The Porsche 917 gave Porsche its first overall wins at the 24 hours of Le Mans in 1970 and 1971. ...
Porsche designed the GTS variant first to compete in the FIA-GT class at various international racing events. The street-legal version debuted in 1964 in order to comply with GT-class homologation regulations requiring that a certain number of road-going variants be sold by the factory. Both versions featured a fibreglass body which was bonded to its steel chassis for extra rigidity. The 904's mid-engine layout was inherited from the Porsche 718, also known as the RSK, which was the factory's leading race car (the RS referring to the German term for racing, Rennsport). The Fédération Internationale de lAutomobile, commonly referred to as the FIA, is a non-profit association established in 1904 to represent the interest of motoring organisations and motor car users. ...
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1964 models, of which one-hundred were built, featured an aggressively tuned 180 hp (134 kW) version of the four-cam, flat four-cylinder "Fuhrmann" engine originally designed for race use in the 550 Spyder, and later featured in the 356 Carrera with 130 hp (97 kW). To satisfy demand, twenty 1965 models were produced, some featuring a variant of the 911's flat six-cylinder engine. Very few cars that were raced by the factory featured a flat eight-cylinder power plant derived from the 1962 F1 car Porsche 804. The six-cylinder and eight-cylinder units were varyingly identified as either 904/6 or 904/8. Porsche 550 Spyder Porsche 550 RS Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Porsche 550 Spyder The Porsche 550 was a sports car automobile produced by Porsche during the 1950s. ...
The Porsche 356 was a sports car produced from 1948 through 1965. ...
Porsche 911 in hillclimb The Porsche 912 (pronounced as nine eleven) is a sports car made by Porsche AG of Stuttgart, Germany. ...
The Porsche 804 was a Formula 1 racing car from 1962. ...
Race-prepped four-cylinder 904s weighed in at approximately 1,443 pounds (655 kg), giving them the ability to accelerate to sixty miles per hour from a standstill in under six seconds and to reach one hundred and sixty miles per hour as top speed. However, the 904's fibreglass body was made by spraying chopped fibreglass into a mold, the amount sprayed often varied in thickness over the shape of the car and as a result the weight of the various cars was somewhat inconsistent; some were heavier than others. One half of a bronze mould for casting a socketed spear head dated to the period 1400-1000 BC. There are no known parallels for this mould. ...
Due to the less weight issues of the first generation plastic body, the 904's successor, the 1966 Porsche 906 or "Carrera 6", was developed with a tubular space frame covered with an unstressed, lighter fiberglass body. Porsche 906 at the Nürburgring 1966, Driver: Joseph Siffert The Porsche 906 or Carrera 6 was the last street-legal racing car from Porsche. ...
Racing During its debut race season in 1964, the 904 won outright at the Targa Florio race in Italy, one of Porsche's many wins at the event. Another event during that season included the winning of first place in P3.0 at Sebring 12 Hours by Briggs Cunningham and Lake Underwood. The Targa Florio was an open road endurance automobile race held near Palermo, Sicily. ...
The 12 Hours of Sebring is an annual motorsport endurance race held at Sebring Raceway, a former Air Force base in Sebring, Florida. ...
Briggs Swift Cunningham II was a victorious Americas Cup sailor and inventor, as well as, being a racecar enthusiast, driver, team owner, racecar owner, and racecar builder. ...
Lake Underwood (born 1926) is an American entrepreneur who competed in the racing of prototype automobiles and motorcycles. ...
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