PJ - Solved -PJ521- (Arne Lindberg's?) Kaiser Special from Sweden

[Paul Jaray]

Do you know this racer?
I only have a place and an engine for that.
1 point for you!

[Paul Jaray]

I'm going to move my puzzles 1 per day (more or less).
Experts?

[sixtee5cuda]

Does it say "Kaiser" on the front?

[Paul Jaray]

I left it there because I thought it was unreadable unless you knew it...but you prove me wrong!
Now for 1 point can you find the place where it was built?
Locked for you.

[Paul Jaray]

24 hours from now and it will be unlocked.

[sixtee5cuda]

Is it shown, racing in North America?

[Paul Jaray]

Not from there.

[sixtee5cuda]

Racing in Europe?

[Paul Jaray]

Yes!

[sixtee5cuda]

Feel free to unlock

[Paul Jaray]

OK, unlocked and moved!

[nicanary]

Scandinavia ?

[Paul Jaray]

Yes!

[nicanary]

I guessed Scandinavia because the second car looks like a Ford V8 Special of some sort, which were popular in that region.

Is this Denmark ? In which case, is that BMW power in the puzzle car?

[Wendax]

Gunnar Olsson at Gelleråsbanan, Karlskoga?

[Paul Jaray]

Gunnar Olsson at Gelleråsbanan, Karlskoga?

I compared this car with many specials I've got, but I can't find a matching one.
Unfortunately this is all I've got:
"The attentive observer guessed it correctly: this image shows a kaiser-rennwagen! A Swedish enthusiast has this not bad looking monoposto built from a normal kaiser sedan, about its successes however, we have no news"
Not from Denmark, but Wendax got the right nation and got the point
Is there anyone who knows more?

[Paul Jaray]

Point for Wendax.
Moved to the solved section.
I think it'll remain a mistery.

[nicanary]

Point for Wendax.
Moved to the solved section.
I think it'll remain a mistery.

Not quite. I can't believe there was more than one Kaiser-based single-seater in Sweden, and I've just come across the entry and results for the III Skarpnacksloppet run on 13.9.53, roughly to the then-current Formula 1 regulations (the WDC that year was for F2 cars).

There is an entry by Arne Lindberg of a Kaiser-powered special, amongst the usual local Ford V8 specials. His entry number was #21, which means it's not the race covered by the puzzle picture, and he finished 4th overall, behind 2 Ford specials and a Cooper-JAP. I believe that the puzzle photo would have been taken at a similar event around that time, since most major Scandinavian races were held to this formula.

So i reckon we've identified the driver, at least.

[Paul Jaray]

That's a great find indeed!
Is there a way to confirm it? I have a list of Swedish single seaters but as you wrote no one was Kaiser-powered...

[nicanary]

That's a great find indeed!
Is there a way to confirm it? I have a list of Swedish single seaters but as you wrote no one was Kaiser-powered...

It's in the Paul Sheldon "Black Book" for that year, amongst the details of F1 races. As I say, it's not absolute proof, but I feel that there's only a slender chance of another Kaiser Special at that time.

[Paul Jaray]

Your detective work deserves a point!

[nicanary]

Your detective work deserves a point!

I may have been awarded a point incorrectly. Indeed there may have been more than one Kaiser race car! I have found that a Kaiser was raced in Nordic events by a Gunnar Olsson, who was agent for Kaiser in Sweden.  He called the car Go-On, and it was later fitted with a Ford engine. He also built Go-On II which had a Lancia Astura engine, and later on an Alfa Romeo C2500 motor.

So maybe the car raced by Lindberg belonged to Olsson, or there was a second car.  It seems an unlikely choice for racing - it would have been a lot less powerful than a Ford V8.