Re: Twin Six Racer

Posted by Matt snape On 2010/1/24 17:55:30

It's hard to say without more information, but this 'could' be a genuine car. If you accept that it was used in Europe during the 1930's, then ongoing development in that part of the world could have created a car of this style. You have to remember that GP rules of that era varied a great deal and that this was the period that cars such as the Alfa P2s and P3s were at the pointy end of European racing and other cars such as the early Merc W series racers and the legendary rear engined V16 Auto Unions were being developed. In fact the features that I see on this car would have been considered quite 'low tech' even in the mid 1930s.

So no - it is definitly not a car of the mid to late teens, but it could be one that started life in this period and evolved into what we see here.

Having said all this though, I thought that the quote credited to one of the cars restorers that read something like "we knew there was a race car under there somewhere" does make it sound like they were desperate to create something that they already had in mind. That is, of course, something that none of us can know for sure unless someone has the documentation to prove the provenance of this car or otherwise.

I would love to see it's full history, but none of my searches thus far have revealed anything other than the sales pitch we have already seen.