So in the March 2009 HCC Lost and Found, hitting newsstands and mailboxes right about now, we showed a few of Robert Werner’s photos of his latest find, a  Pontiac-engined, aluminum-bodied, tube-chassised two-seater that he can’t identify. We scoured our references on Pontiacs and show cars and came up with nothing, so it appears this was a homebuilt roadster of some sort and not a factory show car.
But homebuilt roadsters don’t usually have aluminum bodies, and if they do, they don’t usually have this level of craftsmanship lavished on them. Look at all those graceful curves, and hardly a hammer mark to be found.
It gets even better at the rear, where somebody was obviously influenced by Alfa Romeo’s B.A.T. show cars. But those were from the 1950s, and many of the styling cues and mechanical bits and pieces used here suggest that this car was built in the early to mid-1960s, so somebody was carrying the image of those B.A.T. cars in their noggin for quite some time before hammering one of their own.
The remarkable thing, though, is not the car itself, but how little anybody seems to know about it, so we’re going to post more photos here, hoping that something about this car attracts somebody’s attention. As always, if you know anything about it, leave a comment here and we’ll pass it on to Robert.
Appears to be a Volkswagen front axle and suspension?
Early 1960s Pontiac rear axle? Would fit with the early 1960s Pontiac V-8, four-speed and eight-lug wheels.
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