Porsche does not build many cars like the Porsche 804 with gasoline engine, built from 1962 in the decade that gave the world the pony car and the mid-engined supercar. Its designer of record is Ferdinand Alexander Porsche.
How it came about
The Porsche 804 is a single-seat, open-wheeled racing car produced by Porsche to compete in Formula One (F1). It raced for a single season in 1962 in the 1½ litre formula.
The hardware
Under the skin sits gasoline engine. Kerb weight is 452 kg. The wheelbase is 2300 mm. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
Where it sits in Porsche's history is not in doubt: the Porsche 787 came before it. On a showroom list of its day it stood against the Alfa Romeo Giulia, the Ferrari 250 GTO, the Maserati Quattroporte. Its Porsche stablemates include the Porsche P1 and the Porsche Type 12.
The money
There is no federal ownership record for the Porsche 804 — it predates the complaint database or was never sold in the United States — so MotorJury publishes no running-cost figure for it. For a car of this age the price is set by the collector market and the condition of the individual example, not by a formula.