904 Carrera GTS

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Christian Poirot again in 1967 for his 2nd win

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6 904 GTS entered the 1966 rallye de Lorraine edition amongst them :





race number 64 Rey
race number 65 Gaban/Gietz

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race number 66 Yves Martin with 904 047

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Unfortunately for Yves Martin he crash his 904 who take fire immediately

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Daniel Dechaumel French Porsche specialist bought what was left of 904 047 and the papers
904 047 was rebuilt better than new over a 10 years period

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So real or fake ?

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Great photos Gerard! Using my original definition applied to production cars I would say fake but hanging around Andrew and Steve these past years has caused me to rethink that position as it pertains to race cars. All their stories and background info clearly shows these cars were reconfigured, crashed, and rebuilt as needed. A lot of reincarnated chassis #'s even back then.

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The 28th edition of the MonteCarlo Historical rallye started yesterday January 28th from 5 European cities / Reims, Torino, Barcelona, Copenhagen and Glasgow to finish next Sonday February 2nd in Monte Carlo
Many Porsches (of course mainly 911s but still a few 356) amongst the 320 entered cars
I will try to post some pics soon

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All the above to introduce the following history :
Exactly 50 years ago Porsche factory enter a 904 GTS into the 1965 edition of the Monte Carlo rallye
This car w

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Sorry wrong post please delete
So I was saying that exactly 50 years ago Porsche factory enter a 904GTS in the 1965 ediiton of the Monte Carlo rallye
The pilots were Eugen Bohringer a former Mercedes Benz factory pilot and Rolf Wutherlich James Dean mecanic who survived from James Dean 550 crash

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Indeed Rolf Wutherich after the accident never recover the totality of its integrity
He started to drink was sacked by Von Neumann, started his own business in the US with no success, and finally came back to Germany were Porsche offered him a job in its Stuttgart plant
He continued to drink and was finally again sack by Porsche in 1968
He died in 1981 in a car crash (probably drunck)
On one of the pics I am going to post you will see Eugen Bohringer drinking Cognac directly from the bottle
The story don't say if Rolf ended the bottle

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Anyway drunck or not Eugen and

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Anyway drunck or not Eugen and Rolf did a very good job, as they ended the rallye at the 2nd overall place, the best result ever of a Porsche before Vic Elford victory in 1970 with a 911
The following pics will reveal that 1965 was a very tough year with a