Veritas Rennwagen Eigenbau by Heinz Distel, Günter Distel and friends 1952
I've found an article about this car (Google translated from german)
The classic car museum Meßkirch was recently offered a chassis of a Veritas RS without engine for sale. As Meßkirch was, as we know, the main production site of Veritas GmbH, where it was produced around 20 Veritas-RS, there was no question of buying this rare piece for the museum.
Not only the technology used in this chassis is interesting, but also its history. This chassis was fitted with a BMW 6 cyl. Race engine without body to a customer in Pfohren (near Donaueschingen) - probably the Fa. Veritas were delivered because of financial difficulties no more bodies - sold. This customer had his own body built on it and drove it car racing. Later, this racer sold again only the chassis (without the racing engine) to a car workshop in Rottenburg aN In 1952, Mr. Distel, as a 17-year-old car mechanic for 500 DM acquired this chassis. In the same year he tinkered with his twin brother and other enthusiastic helpers a body on it, which was very similar to a Veritas RS and transplanted the self-built car an Opel engine with 37 hp from the junkyard. The TÜV inspection in the same year was not a problem at that time, said Mr. Distel and so had the 18-year-old twins at the time a car that managed 100km / h. Rides to dance to Tuttlingen (where his bride lived) or trips to the Black Forest were befitting until he was 21 years old to buy a VW Beetle. The homemade body made the brothers at the nearby scrap merchant back to money and the chassis they kept until today.
In Meßkirch, the birthplace of the Veritaswagen and in its classic car museum, this Veritas chassis of a racing car finds its due place.
