What category is 904GTS in? Here's the comment anyway

[HistoryBuff]

I'll ask my question in this category since it was built in the 356 era and four cylinder ones had 356 based engines, I'll ask the question anyway, maybe you would have to be a former GM auto designer in the Sixties to know the answer. I read somewhere that William L. Mitchell, then design chief of GM, bought a 904GTS and had it mildly customized. He was a large man, weight wise, so may have had different seats, or even fiddled with the roof somehow. I was wondering if he put in a Chevy engine, as he may have done to an ATS he had GM buy at the same time, that a mid-engined car developed by some rebels who left Ferrari en masse and tried to go up against Ferrari in both F1 and GT cars. If anyone knows what GM did with it once Mitchell had his fun, like to hear about it. I found out the ATS ended up on a used car lot in Royal Oak. GM also had a Mercedes gullwing, a D-type Jag, and a GT40. They liked to buy these competitor cars and take them apart for ideas.

[HistoryBuff]

sold to Stoddard, who sold it to Dr. Bill Stee, a Louisiana man who restored it.
I think he was the one who had it for 30 years. From Tripod website here's some mention of owners; " In 1968, the car passed to one or two private owners and finally came to rest at Stoddard Imported Car showrooms in 1974. Bill Stee, an eye surgeon from Shreveport Louisiana, bought the car from Stoddard’s in October 1974"
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Then it got sold to a guy in France named Ruis-Picasso (yes, that Picasso) who races it in the Tour Auto (twice now) and who owns a 906 and 910.

I'd love to hear what any of the private owners paid for it before Stoddard got 024 or how Monsieur Ruiz-Picasso got wind of it. He used to live in the U.S. so he wasn't a stranger here...