Racing Rookie #302 '55 Peugeot Special / Bob Pinkerton / Phillip Island Classic

[Otto Puzzell]

For one point: Identify the blue car, the driver, and the venue

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[Otto Puzzell]

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[Craig Gillingham]

This is Bob Pinkerton in the 1955 Peugeot Special at Phillip Island this year.

[johnmedley]

Importantly it IS and it ISNT a "special".
Bob Pinkerton found at Sochaux the original drawings for a Peugeot factory racing car intended to race as a post WW2 Formula 2 car, but never built by Peugeot-- so he built it himself precisely to those factory drawings