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Good thread. Below, a Marwyn (left) and a Trimax. Both are F3 cars at Brands in the early 1950s.

 

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A Marwyn-Scott at Silverstone.

 

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The Tarf...

 

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Rex McCandless again, Kevan.

 

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Adolf Kern's hillclimbing Albert at Rossfeld in 1964. Very much in contemporary vogue with the Lotus 23.

 

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A rarity among Spridgets, John Sprinzel's aero-fronted car.

 

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Not completely unheard of, this is the Diva coupe at the Nurburgring in the mid 1960s.

 

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The Swedish Bam-Bam was a modified Lotus 23 with a Volvo engine. Hmm...

 

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Giuseppe Parla with his Fiat-based 850cc Moretti.

 

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A one-off Ford-based Tavenor by Raymond Nash and Roger Stalwood. They drove it to the Nurburgring in 1968. Early in the race, the car broke and its owners returned to Britain - without their car. A sad tale of everyday racing enthusiasts.

 

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The Piper went to Le Mans, 1969, but, fitted with a Lotus 'twink' it wasn't fast enough to qualify. With a more powerful engine, it might have got somewhere.

 

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A one-off slot car without a name of which you've never heard. All suggestions gratefully received.

 

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Zink were well known builders of Formula Vee single-seaters, but here's a rare example of one of their sports cars in 1969. It's a Beetle with a GRP body.

 

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The French Renault-engined Barzoi on the 1969 Targa Florio.

 

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Chris Lawrence's Deep-Sanderson coupe making a nuisance of itself at the Nurburgring in 1964.

 

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Another contraption of which you've never heard, but quick, though. The spare wheels are especially good for swiping opponents awf The Mess, and keeping dragons at bay.

 

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EMWs (Eisenach Motoren Werke) were rarely seen outside East Germany, but this one 'escaped' to the Nurburgring. Superb cars largely forgotten today.

 

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The Triangle Special with its dainty little 27-litre Rolls-Royce Kestrel engine.

 

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The air-cooled flat-4 Aston-Butterworth at the 1952 Belgian GP. The engine was designed by Archie Butterworth, and not Prof Ferdinand Porsche.

 

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A F3 DB at Rouen in the early 1950s. The fuel tank appears to have been an afterthought.