Author Topic: Solved: Wendax 2178 - Kieft Mk I streamliner Muckl (Read 540 times)

Wendax · « **on:** February 23, 2017, 02:33:06 AM »

I guess it rotted on the trailer.

For one point, please respond and identify this car.

Wendax · « **Reply #1 on:** March 02, 2017, 02:20:50 AM »

Allan L · « **Reply #2 on:** March 02, 2017, 03:59:21 AM »

Well they're Kieft wheels and I had a vague memory of Kieft formula 3 cars breaking records at Monthéry but they had normal bodywork. The scale of this one is about right as a development of those.

Wendax · « **Reply #3 on:** March 02, 2017, 06:28:41 AM »

Very good! It is a Kieft, it was driven at Montlhéry. Name the guy responsible for this streamline bodywork, and the point is yours.

Locked for you of course.

Allan L · « **Reply #4 on:** March 02, 2017, 07:38:37 AM »

I really don't know and can find nothing about it, so I'll try Gordon Bedson - he was an aeronautical engineer who designed for Kieft and did a streamliner for Cooper.
If it was driven at Montlhéry I cannot find reference to it, even in Bill Boddy's book about that track.

Wendax · « **Reply #5 on:** March 02, 2017, 01:03:53 PM »

It was not built by or for a British driver. Reluctantly unlocked.

tobytwirl · « **Reply #6 on:** March 04, 2017, 12:09:52 PM »

The car is an ex Montlhery Kieft Mk1 from 1950 bought by Oscar Frank to race in Germany. In 1952 he commissioned a streamlined body in the hope he could improve its performance, the car was getting a bit dated as a 500. Unfortunately it did not improve his results.

Even more unfortunate is my complete lack of knowledge as to who built that body.

tobytwirl · « **Reply #7 on:** March 04, 2017, 12:46:46 PM »

The car was known as the 'Muckl', which apparently means little fly, and it did win one race in the hands of its subsequent owner - but I still have no lead on the coachbuilder.