Solved - MJW #488 Redex Special Cooper-Bristol 1950s

[woodinsight]

What was this single-seater known as and where did it race?
A point awarded for the correct answer.

[woodinsight]

Single-seater Experts now have a chance to solve this one.

[Tackitt]

italian?

[woodinsight]

Not Italian.....

[D-type]

Australian?

[woodinsight]

Australian?

Yes it is

[D-type]

Let's start with the best of the Australian cars - The Maybach Special?

[woodinsight]

Let's start with the best of the Australian cars - The Maybach Special?

Not the Maybach

[woodinsight]

Pros?

[D-type]

Next Australian racing car: the Tornado?

[woodinsight]

Next Australian racing car: the Tornado?

Not a Tornado

[pnegyesi]

This is the Redex Special, a Cooper Bristol, tuned and raced by Jack Brabham in the early 1950s. The puzzle photograph was published in 1974.

woodinsight - I know you have computer problems, but I am so happy to find it

[woodinsight]

This is the Redex Special, a Cooper Bristol, tuned and raced by Jack Brabham in the early 1950s. The puzzle photograph was published in 1974.

woodinsight - I know you have computer problems, but I am so happy to find it

....and I'm happy to award you a point for the correct answer!

(I'm having to use my iPhone to access this site until next week when hopefully things will return to normal)

[Tackitt]

Oh my God! And I knew that one! But, I said to myself, "Noooo, they wouldn't use Brabham's car. It's too well known. This car just looks like Brabham's car." 

[D-type]

I went the other way.  As Brabham's modifications to the standard Cooper-Bristol were largely internal, I never thought of the Redex Special as being an Australian car so I never even considered it and went looking for an Australian-built special. 
Having said that, I should still have recognised it 

[Allan L]

I too should have recognised it, but the coil spring/wishbone suspension misled me - didn't know the RedEx hadn't the standard transverse leaf springs.