He should have covered the tires before spraying the wheels.
For one point, please respond and identify this car.
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Melkus?
No
Looks very much like a Cooper copy. Is it German?
Yes
I can't find this in the usual places. Is it one of Gottfried Vollmer's modified Cooper cars, which he called Atlas?
No
Willy Krenkel's eigenbau?
No
I'm sorry to be boring, but I'm going to have to try to solve this by a process of elimination. I'm fairly sure it's an eigenbau, and probably from the second half of the '50s, so I'll start offering names for which I have no photo.
Gerhard Brembach?
It is an Eigenbau, but not by Gerhard Brembach.
How long have you got? :D
Siegfried Seifert?
Just keep asking... I had puzzles with almost 150 replies before. ;D
Not Seifert.
Frieder Radlein ?
No
Willi Stiehler ?
No
Hans Senf?
No
Is this car from 1955 or after?
Before
Günter Hildebrandt's Hildebrandt-Norton from 1952?
Quote from: Paul Jaray on May 14, 2015, 08:54:46 AM
Günter Hildebrandt's Hildebrandt-Norton from 1952?
Almost correct. It is Günter Hildebrandt's Eigenbau racer from 1952, but I have a different engine.
Locked for you.
Congratulations PJ! That name was on my next list of 6 builders, but only third behind 2 others ;).
The car looks like it should come from about 1956/57, so for an eigenbau it's better than most.
(The race number suggests that the car is pictured at the 1952 Grenzlandring races. I have two sources of information about the engine fitted to the car and they both say something different! Good hunting.)
Quote from: nicanary on May 14, 2015, 09:25:57 AM
Congratulations PJ! That name was on my next list of 6 builders, but only third behind 2 others ;).
The car looks like it should come from about 1956/57, so for an eigenbau it's better than most.
(The race number suggests that the car is pictured at the 1952 Grenzlandring races. I have two sources of information about the engine fitted to the car and they both say something different! Good hunting.)
Thank you, I think it's a 'BMW Eigenbau' then, according to all the sources I found but the one where I saw a pic of it ;D
That's what I have, too. One more point for you.
One site has an entry list for that race which states BMW, another site has the results which claims Norton. Maybe he stopped in the middle of the race and changed the engine ;D.
in fact this is almost certainly Heinz Grimm trying out Günter Hildebrandt's eigenbau car out towards the end of the 1952 season, pending driving the car the following year.
this particular picture revealed the unusual position of the 500cc BMW boxer engine as side on, with one barrel facing forwards and one backwards.
As Günter Hildebrandt owned a Manx Norton it was thought that was the engine until this picture came light.
Thank you very much for this additional information.