{"id":5886,"date":"2020-04-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/veritas-sp90-spohn-2\/"},"modified":"2020-10-09T11:58:17","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T11:58:17","slug":"veritas-sp90-spohn-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/veritas-sp90-spohn-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Veritas SP90 Spohn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The German car brand Veritas is probably no longer known to many younger readers today. Ernst Loof, a former motorcycle racer and absolute engine specialist, who was employed as a race director at BMW before World War 2, began developing his own racing and sports cars from 1946. These sports cars used the chassis and technical components of the BMW 328, a sports car that debuted in 1937 in the two-liter class and soon achieved the status of the unbeatable vehicle for that category. A bit similar to the Grand Prix racecars from Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union of the time. In 1940 a 328 with special bodywork even managed the overall victory at the Mille Miglia in Italy. Due to the war, however, the once dominant cars were either destroyed, exported to other countries as spoils of war or dismantled for urgently needed spare parts. Once well-known race tracks in Europe were also damaged and only gradually rebuilt and cleaned by enthusiastic car club members.

The members of these clubs also procured components for their racing cars on the black markets. In exchange for cigarettes or food, they were lucky if they could get spark plugs, spare parts or petrol. The general shortage of raw materials in Germany also made the idea of new sports cars almost impossible. Nevertheless, Ernst Loof, together with Lorenz Dietrich (former commercial manager of the BMW plant in Allach\/Germany), Werner Miethe (former six-day cyclist) and Georg ‘Schorsch’ Meier (BMW employee and racing driver), organized themselves to found the ‘Veritas-Arbeitsgemeinschaft f\u00fcr Sport- und Rennwagenbau’ (Veritas working group for sports and racing car construction) in March 1947. Loof, Dietrich and Meier had met in the army when they were all stationed in Paris. As they were all associated with BMW in one way or another before the war, the technical basis for their first products was obvious. While the prototypes were realized with parts that had been brought together especially for this purpose by the team, later customers had to organize their engines and other components themselves and make them available to the Veritas team. Incidentally, one of the first customers was racing driver Karl Kling, who won the two-liter class of the sports car championship with a Veritas in 1947.<\/p>\n\n\n

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