Porsche 904 GTS - Maxted-Page

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Porsche 904 GTS - Maxted-Page
The Harrison Porsche Collection
The ex-Peter Gregg / Brumos Porsche
1964 Porsche 904 GTS
Chassis #904 068
• Significant USA Race History
• Multi-year restoration by Gunnar Racing
• 2009 Amelia Island Concours d’Elegance 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
1964 Porsche 904 GTS - Chassis #904 068
The 904 GTS was launched in 1964 as a
successor to the 1957-introduced type 718
model, which had been previously been
campaigned by both the factory and
privateers worldwide, essentially as an
aluminium-bodied open-cockpit sportsracing spyder, constructed on a tubular
space frame. The new 904 GTS - a midengined two-seater coupe - would have
neither a tubular space-frame nor an
aluminium body and represented a
completely new design phase. In an effort to
reduce production costs and build a
minimum of 100 cars in order to homologate
the 904 into the Grand Touring Class, the
904 was constructed from a box-section steel
chassis and a fibreglass body, realised by the
Heinkel Fleugzeugbau aircraft company who
had spare capacity at the time. One hundred
and sixteen cars were built, mostly powered
by a 180hp 2.0 litre 4-cylinder four-cam
engine originally designed by Ernst
Fuhmann in the 1950s. Towards the end of
904 production, however, a small batch of
cars were also homologated and fitted with a
6-cylinder (2.0 911-derived) engine with
twin triple-choke Weber carburettors and
twin-plug ignition, thus raising the power
output to nearer 210hp. The race prepared
904 GTS weighed just 655 kgs and through
1964-65 achieved considerable international
competition success at everything from hill
climbs and the Monte Carlo Rally right up to
the World Sporstcar Championship and long
distance 24-hour endurance races.
1964 Porsche 904 GTS - Chassis #904 068
Chassis 904 068
A well-known Porsche 904 which raced in the Americas during the mid-1960s. This beautifully re-built and
well-documented 904 GTS was supplied new in June 1964 via Brumos in Jacksonville/Florida, USA to
Bruce 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 racer
Peter Gregg to drive. Gregg would become the owner of Brumos Porsche in August 1965 and began to race
‘068’ extensively in the US and Bahamas between 1964-66. Latterly teaming up with co-driver George
Drolsom in 1966, the pair finished 3rd in class with ‘068’ in the 1966 Daytona 24 Hour race.
1964 Porsche 904 GTS - Chassis #904 068
904 068 - Competition history with Brumos Porsche:
Sep 1964!
Nov 1964!
Dec 1964!
Daytona (National Race)! !
Nassau Tourist Trophy!
!
Nassau Governors Trophy!!
Feb 1965!
Apr 1965!
May 1965!
Jun 1965!
Sep 1965!
Sep 1965!
Nov 1965!
Dec 1965!
Daytona Continental 2000 kms! Peter Gregg / George Barber!
Pensacola USRRC! !
!
Peter Gregg! !
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Bridgehampton Vanderbilt Cup! Peter Gregg! !
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Osceola (Florida) SCCA! !
Peter Gregg! !
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Daytona SCCA National! !
Peter Gregg! !
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Daytona - Paul Whiteman Trophy!Peter Gregg! !
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Nassau Tourist Trophy!
!
Peter Gregg! !
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Nassau Trophy!
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Peter Gregg! !
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8th (2nd in class)
DNF
DNF
1st
2nd
DNF
2nd (1st in class)
11th (2nd in class)
Feb 1966!
Daytona 24 hrs!
10th (3rd in class)
!
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Peter Gregg
Peter Gregg! !
Peter Gregg! !
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Peter Gregg/ George Drolsom !
12th
12th
1964 Porsche 904 GTS - Chassis #904 068
Following the 1966 Daytona 24hrs, Brumos
sold ‘068’ to the father of a young, amateur
racer from Jacksonville named Bill Hall.
Soon after, however, Hall unfortunately had
a tragic accident racing the 904 at an SCCA
race in Savannah, Georgia and the car was
split in half. The wreck was returned to
Brumos where it remained un-repaired.
In 1971 the remains were sold on to fellow
Porsche racer and US Porsche Distributor,
Vasek Polak. In 1972, it is known that parts
of the suspension were removed and used
by Dieter Inzenhofer, Polak’s chief
mechanic, to rebuild 904-064, but the rest of
‘068’ was untouched and remained in
storage in Polak’s warehouse for the next 25
years.
By the late nineties, Polak had started to
discuss rebuilding the car and sent it to US
Porsche restoration specialist Kevin Jeanette
of Gunnar Racing, Florida but passed away
in 1997 just before the project started.
However, through Jeanette in 2000, ‘068’ was
sold to Michael Robottom of Jersey who
commissioned Jeanette to completely rebuild
the car as Polak had intended.
A lengthy, multi-year restoration followed
with meticulous attention paid to every
detail before ‘068’ was finally completed in
2009 and fitted with a newly-built (2.0 litre 6cylinder twin-plug) engine and type-901
gearbox. Upon completion, the car was
exhibited at the 2009 Amelia Island
1964 Porsche 904 GTS - Chassis #904 068
Concours d’Elegance and won the trophy for ‘Best Race Car’
In 2010, ‘068’ was shipped and imported into the UK by Michael
Robottom, whereupon it was UK road-registered and import duties paid.
It was then acquired, via ourselves, by the Harrison collection and fully
prepared 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 in
the 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 set
of spare wheels, FIA HTP paperwork, Monaco road registration and a
comprehensively documented history file.
Price £ POA