Topic: Solved NIC#791 - Formula Junior cars group puzzle

[nicanary]

A multiple-subject puzzle for you all. No point in misleading you,  they're all Formula Junior cars from the early days. One point for each correct answer.

(My apologies for the poor quality of some images - I had to increase or decrease the size of my source in some cases.)

[nicanary]

Experts?

[tobytwirl]

quick starter:

1- Facetti
2- Halton
3- Kondor
6- Rispal
9- Britannia/Tojeiro

[nicanary]

quick starter:

1- Facetti
2- Halton
3- Kondor
6- Rispal
9- Britannia/Tojeiro

1- NOT a Facetti
2- I think it should be Halson, but you get the point.
3- I think it should be Condor, but you get the point. Designed by Ted Whiteaway.
6- It is a Rispal-Renault.
9- It is the Britannia, designed by John Tojeiro.

I'll award the points when the puzzle has been fully solved.

NOTE to all members - puzzles #2, #3, #6 and #9 are now solved.

[tobytwirl]

Must improve my spelling ...... I think no.8 Is a Gemini.

[nicanary]

Must improve my spelling ...... I think no.8 Is a Gemini.

It is indeed. A 1959 Gemini MkII with BMC power, basically a Moorland.

#8 is now solved.

[tobytwirl]

and no.5 was a mk2 Caravelle ....and  I have just found no.1 which is 1961 JBC with Scaglietti body apparently, and presumably a Fiat engine

[tobytwirl]

And no.4 is the 58 Don Miller car, with a Crosley engine

[tobytwirl]

and no.7 is another I have never heard of - the Hillwood-Fiat.

[nicanary]

You're on a roll - 3 more correctly identified! Just #10 left if anyone else wants to stop a walkover.

[tobytwirl]

Is no.10 a BRW-DKW?

[nicanary]

Is no.10 a BRW-DKW?

Yes it is! A clean sweep!

Built in 1960 by the triumvirate Eberhard Rank, a Herr Wutherich and one Eugen Bohringer. I don't think the last named is the same Eugen Bohringer who was a works driver for Mercedes-Benz in rallying during the 1960s, but you never know.

I can now award the points and title the images.

Very well solved indeed. These are pretty obscure cars.

[tobytwirl]

Thank you kindly.

[nicanary]

Titled images.

[Allan L]

Yes well done Tobytwirl!

As I recall it Eugen Böhringer's day job was hotel-keeper so perhaps the BRW was cooked up round the Stammtisch one evening!
Rolf Wütherich was a motor engineer with Porsche who survived the crash that killed the actor James Dean. He co-drove a Porsche 904GTS with Eugen Böhringer in the 1965 Monte Carlo Rally where they finished second (to the Mini of Timo Makinen and Paul Easter) so I think we can safely say it was the same Eugen Böhringer.
Googling Eberhard Rank threw up some sex-shops, but it seems it was the same chap in later life!
Eugen Böhringer was entered to drive the BRW-DKW (entrant Rank) at Freiburg-Schauinsland 1960 but didn't appear.

[nicanary]

Yes well done Tobytwirl!

As I recall it Eugen Böhringer's day job was hotel-keeper so perhaps the BRW was cooked up round the Stammtisch one evening!
Rolf Wütherich was a motor engineer with Porsche who survived the crash that killed the actor James Dean. He co-drove a Porsche 904GTS with Eugen Böhringer in the 1965 Monte Carlo Rally where they finished second (to the Mini of Timo Makinen and Paul Easter) so I think we can safely say it was the same Eugen Böhringer.
Googling Eberhard Rank threw up some sex-shops, but it seems it was the same chap in later life!
Eugen Böhringer was entered to drive the BRW-DKW (entrant Rank) at Freiburg-Schauinsland 1960 but didn't appear.

Thanks for that Allan. Interesting stuff. The BRW is pictured at the 1960 Monaco Formula Junior race (as were some of the other cars) but it didn't qualify, driven by Rank. He seems to have had an err...err... interesting career.