Car Photo of the Day: Mystery Bonnet?

Mystery Bonnet

OK, so after all those bonnets we have a mystery car photo that starts with a bonnet view. Do you know this car?

Here’s a hint from the other end of the car in question:

Mystery Taillight

8 thoughts on “Car Photo of the Day: Mystery Bonnet?”

  3. A clue…let me help chuck out here….

    The car was in limited production, in the early 60s. The bodies were made on standard sedan chassis.

    See if that helps… 🙂

  6. DING! DING! DING!

    We have a winnah, Houston! Hadja guys going, chuck and I did! That’s my car, awaiting its turn as the center of my next restoration project. Perhaps this year will only see me install its 1000 cc, 2-stroke, three-cylinder engine and make it mobile.

    A DKW auto exec, upon seeing a ’55 T-bird, wanted DKW to make their version of it. The factory made ~4500 1000 SPs, based on standard “Sonderklasses” DKW 1000 sedans. They ‘hotted’ up the engine to FIFTY FIVE horesepower from the sedan’s 42..wooHOO! A very few cabrios were made but IMHO, they were not as pretty as the coupe, having “Federalized” (in a manner of speaking, since they were WAY earlier than FMVSS)) rounded-off fins.

    And, yes…those tail lights are genuine ‘unobtainium,’ the lenses being cast as a part of the chrome housing. Last time I picked up a spare (over 10 years ago) I paid $250 for it!

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