Solved: Wendax 2299 - Formosa 120 GR

[Wendax]

For people having dreams in red.

For one point, please respond and identify this car.

[Wendax]

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[richard cuyler]

Is it a 1960s French kit car?

[Wendax]

No

[Wendax]

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[el_monty]

British?

[Wendax]

Yes

[nicanary]

It looks like a brand-new shell made from an old mould. Is it from Microplas?

[Wendax]

Not the name it is sold under now.

[Djetset]

Is it an SD 500 (later the Transformer 500), made by Stan Daniels using Alfa Romeo running gear?

[Wendax]

No

[Djetset]

A Maserati 450 S Barchetta recreation, made by the O.R.C. (The Old Racing Car Company)?

[oko94]

MG chassis ?

[nicanary]

It reminds me very much of a Tojeiro we had as a puzzle a few years ago - I have tried every variation possible using our search, but that puzzle will not surface.

It's also very similar to bodies made by Dawes & Offord for Buckler chassis. Having said all that, this is obviously a GRP creation. Is this a shell which was available in the 1950s/60s and is now being remade from the old moulds under another name?

[Wendax]

A Maserati 450 S Barchetta recreation, made by the O.R.C. (The Old Racing Car Company)?

No

MG chassis ?

No

It reminds me very much of a Tojeiro we had as a puzzle a few years ago - I have tried every variation possible using our search, but that puzzle will not surface.

It's also very similar to bodies made by Dawes & Offord for Buckler chassis. Having said all that, this is obviously a GRP creation. Is this a shell which was available in the 1950s/60s and is now being remade from the old moulds under another name?

It is a newly made GRP creation and as far as I understand not using old moulds.

[oko94]

Home-made or built by a company ?

[Wendax]

By a company

[nicanary]

It's made by Gary Janes' new company Mid Century Re-Creations. It's called a Formosa 120GR and it uses an unmodified (!) Herald or Vitesse chassis.

It was actually quite easy to find once I got my head past the fact it wasn't from the 1960s. I Googled Sammio Maserati, and there it was.

[Wendax]

Correct, of course.

[Carnut]

What the fihished product looks like:

[Carnut]

The Sormosa 120GR is due to be auctioned on 24 February by Iconic Auctions at this year's Race Retro, Stoneleigh.