What is this on main street? [PIC]

[coredumped]

Hi all, riding on main street yesterday (great weather!) I saw this around 5th & main. Can anyone tell me what it is/was? Looks like a train stop or something, it didn't look big enough for a car. Thanks!

[Ocklawaha]

Never a train stop, but sure looks like one!! JTA please NOTE THE BUTTERFLY ROOF, THIS IS HOW YOU BUILD A TRANSIT PLATFORM COVER!! 

OCKLAWAHA

[coredumped]

And no advertisements on it I kid! I kid!

Here's the google street view of it:
http://tiny.cc/uz43n

[Hypocrite]

And no advertisements on it I kid! I kid!

Here's the google street view of it:
http://tiny.cc/uz43n

Well, they need money to maintain the 3,600 bus stops....oh wait, they were counting it everytime a different bus stopped by it as a different bus stop (meaning if 6 different busses stop by a single bus stop, they were counting it as 6 different physical bus stops instead of just the one physical bust stop that it is).  LOL, gotta love that math!

[CS Foltz]

Well JTA and their vaunted mathematical modeling are noted for coming up with whatever numbers that allow them to do whatever they plan to do............what the public wants is a moot point and not taken into consideration........taxpayers just get to pay for it's operation, no input in what it does!

[strider]

That is part of the corner building that was once new car dealerships...like the orginal Brumos Porsche dealership in I believe 1962, though I think the main building is much older.  I would quess the block walls were added later to that structure and it was orginally just an awning over new cars for sale. That particular shape was popular once and is evident in other buildings around town. It also reminds me of the old drive in hamburgers spots of the fifties.

[Dog Walker]

Strider, you are correct.  It was originally Brundage Motors (now contracted to Brumos) a Porsche dealership.  That was the display area for new cars.  If memory serves, Mr. Brundage was killed in a motorcycle accident.

A friend and I bought and removed a couple of high-powered Bosch driving lights from one of Peter Greg's Sebring race cars there for our cars.

[coredumped]

Thanks! Always interesting to find out what is right in front of us:)

[sheclown]

It is sort of a fun game, too.  "Name this thing!"

[PorchCats]

It is sort of a fun game, too.  "Name this thing!"

Not only that, but guess at what it might become....!

[billy]

Mr. Brundage may have been in a scooter accident.

[Dog Walker]

You are correct.  Talked to my older brother who knew Brundage and Peter Gregg and raced Formula Vees.  He says that Mr. Brundage was found in the trees beside State Road 13 off the scooter he was riding.  He either missed a turn or was run off the road by a car.  Cause unknown.

A tragedy in any case.  Brundage was a pioneer in racing and one of the originators of the Formula Vee class of inexpensive race cars.

Peter Gregg borrowed money from his wife, a J&J heiress, and bought controlling interest in Brumos.

[billy]

There was a great article on Mr. Brundage several years ago in Excellence, the Porsche magazine.
I think my mother knew Mrs. Brundage.

[thelakelander]

More information here: http://vintagejacksonville.net/2011/08/23/porsche-dealership/

[Sigma]

It is sort of a fun game, too.  "Name this thing!"

Not only that, but guess at what it might become....!

Considering who owns it - nothing anytime soon.