1964 Porsche 904 GTS

I took this photograph in the paddock at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 2000.

It's the 1964 Porsche 904 GTS with which Irvine Laidlaw and Andrew Kirkaldy competed in the 50 minutes long Coys of Kensington Pre 1964 GT Cars race. The Porsche 904 was introduced in 1964 with a 1,966cc flat-four engine and the 1965 car had a variant of the Porsche 911's flat-six engine of 1,991cc. A few cars were built with a flat-eight engine of 1,962cc based on the engine of the 1962 804 F1 car.

1965 Porsche 904 GTS

This car competed in the Visage Pre '72 Le Mans Car Race at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in August 1996.

It's the 1965 Porsche 904 GTS, chassis #904-096, of Martyn Konig which was originally owned by Robert Rhodes of Fresno, California. It later went to George Thwing of La Jolla who ran it in SCCA events and who eventually replaced the 2-litre flat-4 engine with a flat-6 one of the same capacity, as fitted in the Porsche 904/6. In 1968 it went to Harry Isaacs of Beverley Hills who sold the car in 1989 to Martyn Konig.