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The ex-Peter Gregg / Brumos Porsche

1964 Porsche 904 GTSChassis #904 068

Significant USA Race History

Multi-year restoration by Gunnar Racing

2009 Amelia Island Concours dElegance Best Race Car - Winner

2011 Tour Auto / Spa 6 Hours participant

Fully race prepared with current F.I.A. Historic Technical Passport

EU taxes paid and road registered

Documented history and restoration file

The Harrison Porsche Collection

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The 904 GTS was launched in 1964 as asuccessor to the 1957-introduced type 718model, which had been previously beencampaigned by both the factory andprivateers worldwide, essentially as analuminium-bodied open-cockpit sports-racing spyder, constructed on a tubularspace frame. The new 904 GTS - a mid-engined two-seater coupe - would haveneither a tubular space-frame nor analuminium body and represented acompletely new design phase. In an effort toreduce production costs and build aminimum of 100 cars in order to homologatethe 904 into the Grand Touring Class, the904 was constructed from a box-section steelchassis and a fibreglass body, realised by theHeinkel Fleugzeugbauaircraft company whohad spare capacity at the time. One hundredand sixteen cars were built, mostly powered

by a 180hp 2.0 litre 4-cylinder four-camengine originally designed by ErnstFuhmann in the 1950s. Towards the end of904 production, however, a small batch ofcars were also homologated and fitted with a6-cylinder (2.0 911-derived) engine withtwin triple-choke Weber carburettors andtwin-plug ignition, thus raising the poweroutput to nearer 210hp. The race prepared904 GTS weighed just 655 kgs and through1964-65 achieved considerable international

competition success at everything from hillclimbs and the Monte Carlo Rally right up tothe World Sporstcar Championship and longdistance 24-hour endurance races.

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Chassis 904 068

A well-known Porsche 904 which raced in the Americas during the mid-1960s. This beautifully re-built andwell-documented 904 GTS was supplied new in June 1964 via Brumos in Jacksonville/Florida, USA toBruce Jones Jr. of Macon, Georgia finished in Silbermetallic with Blau Velour interior. Bruce Jones Jr.covered just 5788kms before the car was returned to Brumos to be prepared for future, famed Porsche racerPeter Gregg to drive. Gregg would become the owner of Brumos Porsche in August 1965 and began to race068 extensively in the US and Bahamas between 1964-66. Latterly teaming up with co-driver GeorgeDrolsom in 1966, the pair finished 3rdin class with 068 in the 1966 Daytona 24 Hour race.

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904 068 - Competition history with Brumos Porsche:

Sep 1964 Daytona (National Race) Peter Gregg

Nov 1964 Nassau Tourist Trophy Peter Gregg 12th

Dec 1964 Nassau Governors Trophy Peter Gregg 12th

Feb 1965 Daytona Continental 2000 kms Peter Gregg / George Barber 8th(2ndin class)

Apr 1965 Pensacola USRRC Peter Gregg DNF

May 1965

Bridgehampton Vanderbilt Cup

Peter Gregg

DNFJun 1965 Osceola (Florida) SCCA Peter Gregg 1st

Sep 1965 Daytona SCCA National Peter Gregg 2nd

Sep 1965 Daytona - Paul Whiteman TrophyPeter Gregg DNF

Nov 1965 Nassau Tourist Trophy Peter Gregg 2nd(1stin class)Dec 1965 Nassau Trophy Peter Gregg 11th(2ndin class)

Feb 1966 Daytona 24 hrs Peter Gregg/ George Drolsom 10th(3rdin class)

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Following the 1966 Daytona 24hrs, Brumossold 068 to the father of a young, amateurracer from Jacksonville named Bill Hall.Soon after, however, Hall unfortunately hada tragic accident racing the 904 at an SCCArace in Savannah, Georgia and the car wassplit in half. The wreck was returned toBrumos where it remained un-repaired.

In 1971 the remains were sold on to fellowPorsche racer and US Porsche Distributor,Vasek Polak. In 1972, it is known that partsof the suspension were removed and usedby Dieter Inzenhofer, Polaks chiefmechanic, to rebuild 904-064, but the rest of068 was untouched and remained instorage in Polaks warehouse for the next 25years.

By the late nineties, Polak had started to

discuss rebuilding the car and sent it to USPorsche restoration specialist Kevin Jeanetteof Gunnar Racing, Florida but passed awayin 1997 just before the project started.However, through Jeanette in 2000, 068 wassold to Michael Robottom of Jersey whocommissioned Jeanette to completely rebuildthe car as Polak had intended.

A lengthy, multi-year restoration followedwith meticulous attention paid to every

detail before 068 was finally completed in2009 and fitted with a newly-built (2.0 litre 6-cylinder twin-plug) engine and type-901gearbox. Upon completion, the car wasexhibited at the 2009 Amelia Island

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Concours dElegance and won the trophy for Best Race Car

In 2010, 068 was shipped and imported into the UK by MichaelRobottom, whereupon it was UK road-registered and import duties paid.It was then acquired, via ourselves, by the Harrison collection and fullyprepared for historic competition use by our sister company, Maxted-Page& Prill Ltd.

The car was entered and raced by Gerald and Chloe Harrison in the

competition category of the 2011 Tour Auto and is also accepted to race inthe forthcoming 2011 Spa 6 hours race.

We are delighted to once again offer for sale this fabulously rebuilt,historic Porsche 904, which comes fully race-prepared, complete with a setof spare wheels, FIA HTP paperwork, Monaco road registration and acomprehensively documented history file.

Price POA