Hampel VW monoposto built for Major Bob Hall, 1948

[grobmotorix]

Who knows this car?

[Allemano]

:thumbsup:

[grobmotorix]

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[D-type]

Gottfried Vollmer's VW-based car from 1950?

[grobmotorix]

No, my source tells me a different name...

[D-type]

Does the car have a name or is it simply named after its driver?

[grobmotorix]

It is simply named after its driver.

[D-type]

It could be any of the many VW-based specials: Krings?

[grobmotorix]

Not Krings. But you´re in the right half of the alphabet... ;)

[D-type]

A last guess then I'll leave it to someone with access to more detail of the early postwar German racing scene to finish it off.

Hans Finke, 1950

[grobmotorix]

Not him...

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[Wendax]

This is the first of Hans-Joachim Kranke's eigenbau racecars, built in 1950 based on a VW Kübelwagen. The same car in a later guise can be seen here: http://www.autopuzzles.com/forum/index.php?topic=20001

[grobmotorix]

I have a different name and need to be convinced, still.
The Kranke car from your link has a different front axle, with a rod that goes though a hole in the bonnet...

Here´s another version of this car, again with the other name:

[Allemano]

According to my book about Porsche specials it awfully looks like the Walter Hampel VW monoposto built for Major Bob Hall.

[grobmotorix]

It is!