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Tutte le aste / Veicoli / ‘1947’ – Veritas 2000 RS (R), Chassis No. 48904 Belgian registration
‘A superb reconstruction of the Veritas – both beautiful and high-performing’ In the immediate post-war period, particularly in Germany, the shortage of raw materials and the scarcity of available racing cars led to the creation of numerous interesting ‘specials’, a category which includes the Veritas – strange concoctions combining pre-war BMW 328 mechanical components with post-war styling. As the Allied occupying forces prohibited German manufacturers from producing engines larger than 1,000 cm³, the BMW 328 – which had been one of the most prominent sports cars of the late 1930s with its powerful 2-litre 6-cylinder engine – proved to be an ideal candidate for many independent manufacturers, including Veritas, a company founded in West Germany by Ernst Loof, Georg Meier and Lorenz Dietrich, who had met in Paris during the war. Right from the start, Veritas proved highly competitive, winning the German 2-litre Sports Car Championship for three consecutive years, from 1947 to 1949, whilst the single-seater version, the Meteor – which bore a strong resemblance to the pre-war Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix cars – competed in Formula 2. When the restrictions forcing German drivers to confine themselves to domestic events were lifted in 1950, the Veritas cars began to win abroad; and when the Drivers’ and Constructors’ World Championships were contested in Formula 2 in 1952 and 1953, pending the arrival of the 2.5-litre Formula 1, Veritas had the opportunity to compete at the very highest level. Veritas production ceased shortly afterwards and today this short-lived marque is often reduced to a few footnotes in the history of BMW. It is estimated that more than 50 Veritas racing cars were built. The example illustrated on these pages is in fact a 1934 BMW Type 315 chassis, traces of which can be found in the early 1950s, when it was registered in the Netherlands and fitted with a handcrafted roadster body. In the early 2000s, the car was purchased by a Dutch collector, a well-known specialist restorer of BMWs and Veritas cars. It was he who undertook to rebuild the car to the specifications of a Veritas 2000 RS, using only BMW parts, including a 2-litre 327 engine, for which a test report attached to the file shows it delivered 125 ch. A modern Volvo gearbox has been fitted to make driving easier, whilst the original gearbox from the Type 315 is included in the sale. The restoration and bodywork have been documented with numerous photographs, and the result is exceptional. Indeed, in 2006, this reconstruction was the only Veritas selected to be featured in the special exhibition ‘Gemeinsam Gegeneinander’ (Together Against Each Other) at the Prototyp Museum in Hamburg, Germany. This exhibition highlighted the design, production and development of competition cars in post-war occupied Germany, in both the East and the West. This rare and attractive German sports car, in perfect condition both in appearance and operation, is sold with its FIVA papers (2015), its FIA historic regularity passport (2015), its former Dutch registration certificate (1953), and its current Belgian registration certificate (stating chassis number #489040…). It will enable its future owner to compete in the finest rallies and take part in historic races with a first-class car.
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