Original vintage racing-focused 1975 Champion spark plugs advertisement, featuring a Porsche Brumos 911 sports car - "Two thousand six hundred miles to victory."
Dimensions: Approx. 8 inches wide by 11 inches high.
Brumos Racing Team
Brumos was an automobile racing team based in Jacksonville, Florida, and the team has won the 24 Hours of Daytona race an incredible four times:
- In 1973, Peter Greg and Hurley Haywood won with a Porsche Carrera RSR; they repeated this feat in 1975;
- In 1978 Peter Greg won a third time with a Porsche 935/77, together with Rolf Stommelen and Toine Hezemans;
- In 2009, thirtyone years later, David Donohue, Antonio Garcia, Darren Law, and Buddy Rice won the race in a Riley Mk XI with a Porsche engine.
The Brumos Collection of racing automobiles can be found in Jacksonville, in a space dedicated to automotive and racing history, memorabilia and even digital kiosks for a more interactive experience. The Collection is 35,000 square feet dedicated to the technology, innovation and historical significance behind some of the world's finest automobiles.
The Porsche 911 Sports Car
The Porsche 911 is a two-door 2+2 high performance rear-engine sports car introduced in September 1964 by Porsche AG of Stuttgart, Germany. It has a rear-mounted flat-six engine and originally a torsion bar suspension.
Porsche's first production automobile, the Porsche 356, was first produced by Austrian company Porsche Konstruktionen GesmbH (1948–1949), and then by German company Dr. Ing. h. c. F. Porsche GmbH (1950–1965). Production started in 1948 in Austria, where Porsche built approximately 50 cars.
On 8 June 1948, the first car to bear the Porsche name was road-certified: the Porsche 356/1 Roadster produced in Gmünd (in Carinthia, Austria). The "Gmünd Roadster" was powered by a 1.1-liter air-cooled flat-four engine from Volkswagen. The engine's power was increased to 35 hp for the 356. The roadster weighed a mere 585 kilograms and reached speeds of up to 135 km/h (83 mph).
General production of the 356 continued until April 1965, well after the replacement model 911 made its September 1964 debut. The original price in 1948 for the 356 coupe was $3,750 (equivalent to $47,600 in 2023), and of the 76,000 originally produced, approximately half survive.
The 911 has been continuously enhanced through the years but the basic concept has remained unchanged. The engines were air-cooled until the introduction of the 996 series in 1998.
The 911 has been raced extensively by private and factory teams, in a variety of classes, and is among the most successful competition cars. In the mid-1970s, the naturally aspirated 911 Carrera RSR won world championship races including Targa Florio and the 24 Hours of Daytona.
The 911-derived 935 turbo won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1979 - Porsche also won the World Championship for Makes in 1976, 1977, 1978, and 1979 with 911-derived models.
In a 1999 poll to determine the Car of the Century, the 911 was fifth. It is one of two in the top five that had remained continuously in production (the original Beetle remained in production until 2003). The one millionth example was manufactured in May 2017 and is in the company's permanent collection.
