page_title: Porsche 904
section_title: Body
hierarchical_section_title: Porsche 904 / History / 904 Bergspyder (1965) / Body
caption_attribution_description: 1965 Porsche 904/6 Bergspyder (chassis nr: 906-004)1965 Porsche 904/6 Bergspyder
context_page_description: The Porsche 904 is an automobile which was produced by Porsche in Germany in 1964 and 1965. It was officially called Porsche Carrera GTS due to the same naming rights problem that required renaming the Porsche 901 to Porsche 911.
context_section_description: For the European Hill Climb Championship in 1965, Porsche developed a successor to the 1964 Porsche 718 RS 61 Spyder. The 904 Bergspyder, based on the Coupé 904/8, was given chassis numbers that began with the 906. Therefore, the car is also sometimes called the 906/8 Bergspyder, Although the race car was most commonly known as the 904 Bergspyder and was technically based on the 904 coupe.
  From the coupe, the developers carried over the steel box frame and put on a light open plastic body. The Bergspyder was not a beauty and visually showed no relationship to the aerodynamic coupe. The car was flat especially shorter at the front and because of the missing roof and the shorter windshield as the series 904. However, this made the car around 120 kg lighter than the coupe, with a weight of 570 kg.
  During the European Championship season 1965, the body was changed several times. For example, the windshield on model number 906 004 was shortened and flattened. Later, the Bergspyder received again a lighter and rounded at the front and aerodynamically improved car body.
  A total of five copies were produced, of which three were destroyed in accidents. In the European Hill Climb Championship, Gerhard Mitter piloted the Bergspyder to an overall victory at the hill climb Rossfeld in 1965. The 904 Bergspyder was replaced at the end of 1965 at the hill climb Ollon-Villars by the Porsche 906 Spyder Mountain.
caption: Porsche 904 Bergspyder (1965)
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