Topic: Puzzle #923 - Solved! Formula Jr Rytune Scorpion

[Otto Puzzell]

Formula Jr Rytune Scorpion
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[Allan L]

Looks like the Elva Formula Junior car, DKW-powered.

[Otto Puzzell]

Similar, but no. Right engine, however.

[Allan L]

Hmmmm.
Wheels look like Elva wheels. Body sides don't look Elva, however.
The DKW motor was tuned by Gerhard Mitter, but his FJ had the engine forward of the front wheels.

[D-type]

Might it be a Scorpion?

[Allan L]

I think you've got it, D-Type.
If I understand it correctly, the Scorpion was a modified version of the front-engined Elva Formula Junior and  was also powered by an 1100cc DKW engine

 

[Otto Puzzell]

It's a 1960 Rytune-Scorpion Formula Junior.

Ray Heppenstall was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, USA, in 1931. Although he was a great-grandson of Sam Heppenstall, founder of Heppenstall Steel, the largest family-owned steel company in the United States, Ray’s future lay not in the steel industry, but in auto racing.

His lifetime with automobiles, mostly while a resident of Philadelphia, PA, covered a wide spectrum of US road racing, both open-wheel and sports cars, sometimes building, preparing and racing his own cars, more often building, preparing, and driving the cars of others

In 1960 Ray imported a modified version of the front-engined Elva Formula Junior cars built in England by Frank Nichols, known in the USA as the Scorpion. This was powered by an 1100cc Rytune DKW engine, Rytune being an associated company of Elva.