Solved: Wendax 1575 - BMW Eigenbau by Günter Hildebrandt

[nicanary]

Congratulations PJ!  That name was on my next list of 6 builders, but only third behind 2 others .

The car looks like it should come from about 1956/57, so for an eigenbau it's better than most.

(The race number suggests that the car is pictured at the 1952 Grenzlandring races. I have two sources of information about the engine fitted to the car and they both say something different! Good hunting.)

[Paul Jaray]

Congratulations PJ!  That name was on my next list of 6 builders, but only third behind 2 others .

The car looks like it should come from about 1956/57, so for an eigenbau it's better than most.

(The race number suggests that the car is pictured at the 1952 Grenzlandring races. I have two sources of information about the engine fitted to the car and they both say something different! Good hunting.)

Thank you, I think it's a 'BMW Eigenbau' then, according to all the sources I found but the one where I saw a pic of it 

[Wendax]

That's what I have, too. One more point for you.

[nicanary]

One site has an entry list for that race which states BMW, another site has the results which claims Norton. Maybe he stopped in the middle of the race and changed the engine  .

[g5yes]

in fact this is almost certainly Heinz Grimm trying out Günter Hildebrandt's eigenbau car out towards the end of the 1952 season, pending driving the car the following year.

this particular picture revealed the unusual position of the 500cc BMW boxer engine as side on, with one barrel facing forwards and one backwards.

As Günter Hildebrandt owned a Manx Norton it was thought that was the engine until this picture came light.

[Wendax]

Thank you very much for this additional information.