I guess it rotted on the trailer.
For one point, please respond and identify this car.
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Well they're Kieft wheels and I had a vague memory of Kieft formula 3 cars breaking records at Monthéry but they had normal bodywork. The scale of this one is about right as a development of those.
Very good! It is a Kieft, it was driven at Montlhéry. Name the guy responsible for this streamline bodywork, and the point is yours.
Locked for you of course.
I really don't know and can find nothing about it, so I'll try Gordon Bedson - he was an aeronautical engineer who designed for Kieft and did a streamliner for Cooper.
If it was driven at Montlhéry I cannot find reference to it, even in Bill Boddy's book about that track.
It was not built by or for a British driver. Reluctantly unlocked.
The car is an ex Montlhery Kieft Mk1 from 1950 bought by Oscar Frank to race in Germany. In 1952 he commissioned a streamlined body in the hope he could improve its performance, the car was getting a bit dated as a 500. Unfortunately it did not improve his results.
Even more unfortunate is my complete lack of knowledge as to who built that body.
The car was known as the 'Muckl', which apparently means little fly, and it did win one race in the hands of its subsequent owner - but I still have no lead on the coachbuilder.
Muckl is the name I was after, as I understood that was the builder, but maybe I got something wrong.
One point for you anyway.