Topic: Solved: DAR 116: Cognac Special 1925

[D-type]

Name this car for a point

[D-type]

A week without a flicker of interest so it's up to the experts

[Lavrakas]

This looks like a much modified Frazer Nash monoposto with alarmingly low ground clearance and, for some reason, a Hampton radiator grille. Possibly an AC engine.

[D-type]

Not a Frazer Nash chassis but it does have some common DNA
AC engine  - yes

[Lavrakas]

The 1925 Cognac Special, named after the owner Mr COhen, GN chassis and AC engine.

[D-type]

Spot on.

[nicanary]

I'm astonsihed that this hasn't been a puzzle in the last 18 years.

[Allan L]

I'm astonsihed that this hasn't been a puzzle in the last 18 years.

I'd agree with that but feel it lacks something if we don't name its long term owner/driver.
It's unusual, but can I offer a point to whoever can name that man and another if you can tell us his final connection with Freddie Giles.

[nicanary]

For your edification - Ron Footitt owned and raced this car for many years and after he died it was owned by Freddie Giles.  It is rumoured that Giles took Footitt's ashes with him when he raced at Oulton Park and spread the ashes behind him as a tribute to the long-term owner.

[Allan L]

Spot on!