Solved: Wendax 2178 - Kieft Mk I streamliner Muckl

[Wendax]

I guess it rotted on the trailer.

For one point, please respond and identify this car.

[Wendax]

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[Allan L]

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.

[Wendax]

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.

[Allan L]

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.

[Wendax]

It was not built by or for a British driver. Reluctantly unlocked.

[tobytwirl]

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.

[tobytwirl]

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.

[Wendax]

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.