1962 Porsche 804

I photographed this car in the Donington Park Museum in March 1996.

It's a 1992 Porsche 904, chassis #2, that was driven in the first two races of 1962 by Dan Gurney, and by Jo Bonnier for the rest of that season. The car was designed by Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, grandson of the company's founder, Ferdinand Porsche, and has a flat 8-cylinder 1,494cc boxer engine. Dan Gurney won the French Grand Prix, finished third in the German Grand Prix and in fifth place in the USA Grand Prix to end the season in fifth place in the World Drivers' Championship. Jo Bonnier finished in fifth place in Monaco and sixth place at Monza for fifteenth place in that Championship, and Porsche finished in fifth place in the Manufacturers' Championship.

The car behind the Porsche is the 1948/49 Cisitalia 360 Grand Prix Car that was designed by Ferdinand Porsche.

Cisitalia 360 GP Car

This is one of the cars that was in the Donington Park museum when I visited in May 1989.

It's the Ferdinand Porsche designed Cisitalia 360 Grand Prix car of 1948-49 which was in the Donington Park museum for several years - the board in front of the car reads:

1949-49 - 1½ litre

supercharged

4 wheel drive

Cisitalia

Porsche 360

One of the Collection's most

prized

exhibits

Only two of the Cisitalia 360 cars were built and the Donington car was purchased about 6 years ago by Porsche who had already obtained the other car from Argentina where it had been taken by Piero Dusio, who had been the owner of Cisitalia. Both cars are now in the Porsche museum and this file by Martin Schroeder of Porsche details the history of the cars.