Solved: PN #780 -- Hey Mk I, cca 1960

[pnegyesi]

Please identify this race car for a point

[pnegyesi]

Experts?

[pnegyesi]

Professionals?

[Djetset]

Falcon related?

[pnegyesi]

no

[nicanary]

So is it an Ashley?

[pnegyesi]

no

[nicanary]

British-built special?

[Paul Jaray]

From Down Under?

[Carnut]

Gemini?

[pnegyesi]

neither British, nor Australian and not a Gemini

[nicanary]

It looks like a period photo, and the car has a roll bar, which would be quite unusual in Europe. Is this North America?

[pnegyesi]

let's go back to Europe

[oko94]

From Scandinavia ?

[pnegyesi]

no

[Carnut]

Is it a Falcon shell?

[oko94]

Made in Benelux ?

[pnegyesi]

not a Falcon shell, not from Benelux

[oko94]

Made in Germany ?

[pnegyesi]

yes, this one was built in Germany

[oko94]

DKW/Auto Union underpinnings ?

[pnegyesi]

yes

[oko94]

Home-made one-off or built by a company ?

[pnegyesi]

self-built

[nicanary]

Was Albrecht Mantzel involved?

Please ignore the above question. Whilst investigating further into the world of DKW tuners, I found the answer. It's the Hey Mk.1, built by Dr. Theophil Hey using what he called an Elva body/chassis (so it's probably an Elva frame with an Ashley shell), and a self-tuned DKW F12 engine. The year is a bit vague - he built it during his days as a medical student, in the early 1960s.