904 Carrera GTS

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Hi Dick Barbour also used Chasis Enginering (spun Aluminum) wheels on the 904. i think they were lighter than Fuchs
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This car chassis number 104

fitted with a 2.7 911 6 cylinders engine




was sold with a large volume of spares parts including a short ratio gearbox an a Fuhrman 4 cams 4 cylinders

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This Fuhrmann engine is not the original engine who has desapeared the actual ex- wner having bought this car in 1994 fitted with a 2.0 L 6 cylinders engine
The 4 cams Fuhrmann was sold by the Porsche factory in 1997 in order to allow the ex-owner to race it in historical competition races
For those interestede the Fuhrmann engine is a 987/3 serie number P 99057 and comes from 904-059
As many of the 550 spyders and abarth carrera GT, the majority of the 904 GTS has had a very complicated life
Several car known as having been totally destroyed are to day proudly displayed as the original car when in fact the only original part on these car is the VIN papers that have always been kept and resold to a not too concern owner after a total destruction
In that respect 904-104 was quite unique ha

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In that respect 904-104 is quite unique as known to have had only 4 owners during its all life
Sold new by May 14th 1964 to d'Ieteren brothers the official Porsche distributor for Belgium, the car wa

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This car was bought some days later by Edouard (Eddie) Meert a famous Belgium pilot and was registred with the plate number 52 B 80
Eddie Meert raced extensively this car from June 1964 to the end of 1966 where he sold it to Robert Dutoit a French pilot who has had already several Porsches including the strange 550 spyder he entred in the 1960 Alpenralllye




Robert Dutoit live in Lille in the North of France only a

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Not strange that Robert Dutoit was intersted by this 904 knowing that he live"d in Lille very close to the Belgium border
This car was registred 7491 DW 59
Robert Dutoit also continued to race it from January 1967 until October 1969 when he sold it to Bernard Consten
Bernard Consten born in 1932 and died in 2017 was the son of one of the largest Renault car distributor
In addition of running the family business he became a reknown rallye driver over a quite long period (1957 to 1975)

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Bernard Consten won 5 Tour Auto (3 for Jaguar and 2 for Alfa Romeo) in the tourim class and the Coupe des Alpes 1965 for Alfa Romeo




In 1975 he won the Bandana ra

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In 1975 he won the Bandana rallye for Peugeot
From 1968 to 1980 he was elected President of the FFSA (Federationn Francaise du Sport Automobile)
After having retired from rallying he started an important car collection
He kept 904-104 from 1969 to 1994 where he had the opportunity to buy 904-025 the ex-Robert Buchet 904 (with a far more important race palmeres than 104) and not willing to keep 2 904 sold 904-104 to Jean Claude Miloe who became the 4th owner
Bernard Consten never raced 904-104 but Jean Claude Miloe personnal friend of Bernard Consten and also an impoertant Porsche car collector (in addition to
904-104 he also owe 2 off 356 Carrera, a 911 2.7 RS, a 906 a 910 and a 917 and many others, raced it extensively in Historical races such as the Historical Tour Auto and the Le Mans Classic as well as in the regularity cla

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regularity class with the 2.7 6 cylinders than in the FIA Historical race with the Fuhrmann 4 cylinders
The last apparition of this car was for the 2015 Magny Cours Porsche days

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With Edddie Meert

Tour Auto 1964 Reims Tillois curve

Limousin rallye 1965


Lorraine rallye 1965

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With Robert Dutoit

Routes du Nord 1969

Cassel 1968
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Lyon Charbonnieres 1967


Rallye de Picardie 1969


Solitude race tack (Germany) 1967


Routes du Nord 69



Tour auto 1969

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Some more pics not posted at their right place
904-105 2015 Porsche days


Eddie Meert accident at the Spa 500 Km 1964 (the car has left the track into the ditch)

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