Topic: Puzzle #350 - Solved! Hummingbird

[Otto Puzzell]

Know what it is?

Please, respond below and let us know the make and model designation of the car posted here.

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[grobmotorix]

Whatever it is - I love it!

If Kellison ever built a convertible racer it might have been looking like this one.

[Otto Puzzell]

I does look like a Kellison, but this car was a purpose-built car. This car features an unusual type of construction I haven't seen used elsewhere.   

[Tuckeroo]

Devin-bodied??

[Otto Puzzell]

No - the owner of this car designed and built it from scratch.

[Paul Jaray]

Hi...is that the Joe Kane's Hummingbird corvette-based?I found only this pic and it is very similar...the only differences are in the windshield and in the airscope on the bonnet...but even the bonnet itself has the same shape!

[Otto Puzzell]

Correct! 

[grobmotorix]

This car features an unusual type of construction I haven't seen used elsewhere

Finally this is solved, too, but:

what is so special about it?

[Otto Puzzell]

Though the sight where I found this car is no more...

http://personal.riverusers.com/~birdworks/Joe's%20Garage/Homepage/Joe's%20Garage.htm

...if I recall correctly, the car's structure was fiberglass over aluminum honeycomb. That type of structure was not unknown in light aircraft, it was quite unusual for Bonneville speed record home-built's.